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THE HIDDEN WEALTH OF THE TIER. The Archeological Treasures Found in the Tiber. Legends aid Facts—The Golden Table, the Silver Trumpets, the Seven-Branebed Candlestick---Where Are They ? LETTER FROM SIGNOR LANCIANI. Rome, March 10, 1875. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: The question of improving the hydrographic system of the Tiber and of excavating its bed for the discovery of treasures—the existence of whic 48 More or less problematic—was raised in the first @ays of the occupation of Rome by the national | government—that 1s to say, from the beginning of | 1871. Discussed at first with extreme eagerness, especially by persons who knew ilttle about it, it Ylelded gradually its prominent place to other | questions of political and administrative charac- | ter, until at last 1t seemed to be entirely forgotten | Jor the space of more than three years. The a@frival of Garibaldi at Rome has again brougné the problem on the carpet. The powerful voice of the veteran ha3 roused again the enthusiasm of the public; but, uniortunately, the ‘“aifairistes” have placed themselves in the first rank, while the men of science—in whose hands !s the true solution of the problem—-are waiting patiently for | their hour to come, The necessity will shortiy compel the General to refer to them, as he should have done trom the first moment, and, happily, he will thus be delivered trom that legion of useless people who crowd datly the ante-chamber of the Villa Casalini, But as long as this state of things lasts we be eve it to be @ meritorious work to throw a little coid water over the excitement of the moment, Garibaidi himself seems now to hesitate in face of | the enormous-difficulties of the problem which he attacked so bravely at first; and tie names of Sella, Giordano and other eminent men to whom he has lately addressed himsel!, prove that be is beginning to follow the right track. Taking ad. vantage of this sudden caim, we propose to con- | Bider at our ease all the facts which can throw | light upon the aiscussion, We begin by examin- Ing whetuer the chance of the discovery of TREASURES IN THE BED OF THE TIBER is real or imaginary. The epithet of “flavus,” the yellow, which the poets have given to the Tiber, is perfectly justified by the exceptionally muddy quality of its waters. fhe proportion or the solid matter to liquid—which Under the most favorable circumstances may be considered to be four per cent—olten during the | Inundatious reaches an average of fifteen and | Cybeles and Fortuna Viriils, she ship of £60) eighteen percent. This signifies that excavating | the bed o1 the Tiber in order to increase its depth and improve the navigation would be throwing money into the stream witnout any result, be- tause the excavation of to-day would be flied up | lo-morrow with the mud carried down by the cur. tent. Tt remains now to be known if the digging | >ut of the bed would lead to the discovery of treas- ares ofart or antiquity important enough torepay the expense of tue work, This question may bo looked at in two different way; scientifically— thatis to say, analyzing @ priort what treasures may be hidden under its waters; and practicaly— that is to say, searching or inquiring into tie dis- coveries which have been made up to the present time in the river. Let us commence with the , second. M. Le Commandeur de Rossi has shown in a ; recent pamphlet (*‘Bullettimo dell, Instituto Arche | eologico, 1871”) that Colade Rienzi was the first to turn his attention to the study and to the dis- eovery of antiquities in the city of Rome. From the time of Rienzi—that 1s to say, from the miadie of the fourteenth century—until the present time mot year, not a month, not a week, bas passed without bringing discoveries of greater or less im- portance. Everything has been disturbed in the city, whether in the part actually inhabited or in | shat occupied by villas and gardens, Itis sumi- sient to say that in the 36,000,009 cubic feet, | Which have been excavated in tue period trom 1871 to 1874 jor the buliding of the new quarters of the Viminal, the Coellan, the Esquiline and of the Castro Pretorio, only two deposits were found wmtact, the first by the railroad station, where | were found three rooms entirely filled with works of art in bronze, of the value of 400,000 tranca, and the second in the Villa Palombara, on the Esqut- line, where, in the space of a fow feet, seven | superb statues of marble, and a quantity of other | \ragments of importance were found, THE BURIED TREASURES OF MARBLE. This shows that in this fever of lively research he bed of the Tiber has certainly not been spared, Which supposition, moreover, can oo clearly proved by the memoranda scattered in the differ- ent works of topography. Uniortunateiy almost ali the known discoveries are oniy in marbies and stomes of different value, for which it appears there were two warehouses or wharves on the banks of the Tiber; the first in the Campus Mar- thus, near the Piazza Clementino; the second be- | neath Monte Testaccio. Ficozoni says that in the year 1690, in digging the foundations for the Coliege Clementino (Piazza Nicosia), gigantic blocks of | African marble were found, which had been taken to Rome in the reign of Domitian. ‘This landing \ point was probably chosen as being tne | @earest to the large marbie workshops discovered ander Pope Julius Il, at St. Maria dell? Anima, ander Pope Viement X. near La Uniesa Nuova, and | successively in uil thas part of the Campo Marzio Compliised between Ponte St. Angelo and Piazza Narrona, (Corsi; Pietre Antiche, ch. 12) The quantity of colored marbles discovered oa the banks of the river under Monte Testaccio 1s traly | surprising. Viaminius Vacca says that in the cond half of the sixteenth century were jound in this place several blocks of Airican marble, of Porta Santa (lassenae), of Cipollino (Carystium) , two statues of Fannius and @ colossal head seven feet long. In the year 1593 several culumns of Giallo Antico (numidicum) were discoy- ‘ed in the ‘Tiber, beneath the vineyard | Cesarini (Vacca; mem. 94, 95), bougat afterward by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. Under ope Clem: ent XI. an alabaster column of twenty feet, which is now In the Capitol; another fluted pillar of the same precious macerial, four basins of tnat kind of alabaster calied “porito,” now in the Villa Albant, and the bas-reliei representing the Ship of Cybeles, now in the Capitoline Museum, were dug up in the same place. (ficoronl; mem. 25, 24.) The altar of Raphaei’s chapel, in toe Pantheon, ig ornamented witn slabs of alabaster discovered in 1705 near the Mouth of the Cloaca Maxima. (1d, mem. 105.) The courtyard of the Church of St | Teodoro and the upper piatiorm of the quay at | Ripetta are paved with blocks of green and red porphyry discovered i 1700 near La Marmorata, ‘The excavations carried on in the same place by PIUS IX., BETWEEN 1806 axD 1870, have brought to light @ still greater agiount of | colored marbles, many of Which were given to tho Catnecral of Cologne and to several diferent | churches in Rome, The great food of December, | 1870, buried again those left on the bank, which | Must be considered as a yeritablo thoxnaustible quarry of decorative matertala, The discoveries | wiready described gave beon made on tho banks | Of tho Fiver or within a litte distance from them, | One vingle record exists of a discovery made in | the central bed or tie river and ia described by | Flaminius Vacca, a8 tollowe:—“l remomber that & | sortain man, Named Paoio Bianohini, Who used lo | plunge into tho river When saat boats an Lt sargoes were lost, plunged onve wader the water n that portiod of the river which oxionds ve- (Ween tue Porta del Popolo and Kipetta, and found a sitting but headiosa statue of a consul, | holding in the band A roll, of oxoeliont workman: | whip. Jie assured me that he had discovered Many other marolos in the same piace, yur that ihe jear of the government hdd provonted hin from govting them out of tho rivera bed, ‘Gis statue ls at present preserved im the house «Gf «the Notary §=Palombo, = venind | | served in the Capitoline Museum. | Rigacei, St. Maris in Via (Vace mem. 92). The writer then goes om to say that save this | Statue of @ consul no discovery'ol {mportance nas been made in the river. But must we, then, con- clude that there is nothing concealed under the waters of the Tiber, problem proves the contrary; tt can be assumed in all conscience that many works of art mast have failen into it from the monuments which stood on the river’s banks, and others were cast into tne water with the express purpose of saving them from destruction by the hands of the barbarians. THE QUAYS OF THE TIER were ornamented with celebrated edifices, espe- cialiy on that portion comprised between Ponte Sisto and Ripa Grande. Sisto there was only the mausoleum of Adrian, the foos of which was wasued by the waters of the ‘Tiber, “This tomb,” says Procoptus Partan marble, and its height exveeds that of the Walls of the city, men and horses of admirable workmanship in Parian marble.” He goes on to state thas tt had been converted into a fortress considerably before his time (probabiy by Honoris, A, D. 423). This waa done without injury to the decorations, bat in the subsequent wars against the Goths, the Statues were torn from their pedestals by tae be- sleged and hurled down upon the assailants, ‘ine accuracy of Procoptus’ uccount 1s shown by the discovery of the celebrated statue of u recumbent Faun, made under Urban the ViIL, in excavating for the ditch which surrounds the moderu castle. (Winkeiltoaun 11, 420.) It is easy to state that sculptures must have been hurled down from the mausoleum of Hadrian, also on the river's side, a3 itis welt kuown that the barbarians combined thelr attack together from jand and water, The theatres of 3 and Marcellus, the temples of a Japius in the istand of St. Bartolomeo, the bridges, the<porticoes on the quay and other monuments destroyed by time and men must bave sent part Of their spoils into the bed of the river, THE ANCIENT SEWERS. Besides we must not forget that the sewers have carried down in their currents a surprising quan- tity of smaller objects reluting to the usages of private lie, and even objects of value. The pro- Jessional excavators always rejotce when an an- cient sewer ts discovered, since they are almost sure to be rewarded with ap ample discovery of curiosities. A few weeks ago small sewer was discovered between the churches of St. Antonio and St. Eusebio, on the Esquiline, which drained ot part of the great market called Marcellum Liviae. In the space of afew minates there were found a porteieuille (pugiWare) in carved ivory, inscribed with the name of Gallienus Concessus, a | Senator of the third century; a bracelet, cut out | of that kind of jet which Pliny calls gagates lapis, trom the Lycian river Gagis, near which the stone was found; three small amphore ot glass, one of which had the mark of the Sidonian glass- works; 4 gold earring, and seventeen coins of the largest size, It is not difficult to imagine that quantities of similar objects must have been carried into the river, considering the hilly Nature of the surface of Kome and the conse- quent steepness of the sewers, washed out dally by more than half a million cubic yards of water. But will the works projected for the excavation of the river bring to light the smaller objects as wel, as the larger works of art? In other words, is the fact that notiing has as yet been recovered in the river to be attributed to the fact that nothing has been attempted, or rather to the difiiculty or tne impossibility of the labor? We are of the upinion that the second reason is the better one, because, as we have said before, taere is no doubt that many attempts have already been made in the ‘Tiber, ag well ag in other streams in the vicinity of the city. FORMER DISCOVERIES AROUND ROME. Under the pontificate of Benedict XIII, in the porto! Antium was extracted irom the bottom of the sea the large fluted and exquisitely worked bronze vase, sent asa gift by Mithridates, King of Pontus, to a college of gymnasts, aud now pre- The sphinxes with which Valadier ornamented the Piazza de) Popolo are carved out of blocks of marble ex: tracted from the same waters. “Vincenzo de Rossi, my master,” says Flaminius Vacca “told me that the group of a lion attacking a horse, which 18 now in the Palazzo de Vonser- vatorl, was found in the time of Paul Ill. by Latino Giovenale, master of the roads, and very curious in matters of antiquity, in thatstream Outside the gate of St. Paolo, where now stands a mill, hal! way to the Church of the Saint.” Aco lossal arm, probably from a statue of Trajan, was dug up Not many years ago trom the bottom of the inner dock in the harbor of Civita Vecchia. The jour siiver vases, with the itineraries from ; Cadiz to Rome, now tn tho Kircherian Museum, Were found 1n the reservoirs of the mineral springs | at Vicareilo (Aqu@ Apollinares), along with an immense quantity of cuins, weighing upward of a | ton and embracing from tho remotest period of pohisned Mint to the fall of the Roman Empire. Why bas not been or could not be the same with | ing tne past week received flity labor tickets, and the Tiber? Why antiquities or ovjects of valine bave not been or could net be found in its shallow | bed; when they were easily gathered (rom waters varying in depth from eight to twenty feet? THE GEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS | of the bed of the Tiber enables us to explain the exceptional difficulty, may be the impossibility, of | the word, The bed is entirely composed of lignt mud, through which heavy objects sink with great rapidity to a great depth, The central pier of the tubular bridge of the Civita Vecchia Railroad, bunt in 1864, not far from St, Paolo, was sunk to adepth of sixty feet through the mud before reacning the solid strata of marine maris, Stoncs of common size, thrown by accident ito the water, were met at a level of twenty and twenty- five feet, whither they had sunk om account of their specific weight, twelve cars, loaded with stone, nad crossed the bridge and Was stopped on the otner side of the river, where the ratis have an inclination of about one per cent. Tho engine having | been careleasiy detached, the wagons slipped | buck on the sloping line and teil into the river, choking 1t up so as to render navi- gation impossible, he government immediately ordered its engineers to clear’ away the déoris Irom the river; bat before the necessary mu- | chinery was brought to the spot and a montu had | elapsed all the cars tad disappeared through the mud. Not @ fragment of the wagons, not a Solitary scone was recovered: ail had veen swal- lowed up by the mire. In the year 1865 a large vessel iaden with pozzciant, belonging to M. of Rome, sunk at @ distance of about three miles down the river. A week alterward it had entirely disappeared. Recently the govern- Ment adixed a notice on the banks of the river, at Waruing bathers of the Uanger they incurred in crossing the viver at tuis piace, on account of tho treacherous mire which Was sure to bury any one 80 iniprudent as to Ventare upon it, ana who must inevitably be swallowed up unless a boat came to his rescue, itis, therefore, very easy to conceive why the re- covery Of anvuiquities {rom the river Is almost im- posw#bdle, Ovjocts ol art certaiuly fell from the mouumMents in the Vicinity; others were trans- ported thither by the yowers; others were thrown into the ryer wish tke express purpose of saving | them fvom the nands of the barbariang; but they bave all sunk toa depth through the mud whence ib is Almost Impossivie to extract them Besides, we beileve It to be @ duty to warn against believing ali tie exaggerations which the Unkuown alwaya produces on the tieaginatoa of tae ignorant, THR MYTHOLOGICAL THRASTRAS, On tho 7th of January, 1510, the advocate Carlo Foo, Vommissionaire des Antiquitéos, read helore the Archmological Academy & paper on the faisity Of popular belied om the subject of tue troasures | sWollowed up by the Tibor—a paper, indeed, wuich it Woulu be Well to republish now in view of the Modern projects. One Of the stories, so frequently repeated, is that Gregory the Great, in order that the Gevouons of the pions who made the Pilgrimage '0 Rome should not be distracted, daihered together a@il the imarblo seulptures ot Kume aud caused them to be cost into tho iver, It in not necessary to prove tho absurdity Of such # suppoRition, amainat which Speak ali the Chrovicies and MemMOIrs Of those timoa ANOWOL GiOTy VOT esd ROOWA relates to tue defend A scientitic analysis of the | in the section near Ponte | “is built of | On its summit are statues of | | after bis conquest of Jerusaiem, In October, 1865, a train of | | the Pavite Works. VAivero Lelio, opposite the Yorta de! Popolo, | | hed bis Lead laid epen, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 2), 1875.—TRIPLE | THE WAR IN SPAIN. of the army of Maxentius on the plain of Torre dl Quinto, four miles trom Kome, on the Via Flaminia. We are told that not only severai thousands Of soldiers, with all their armor, sparkling wita gold and precious stones, were driven into the ‘Tiber by the victorious army, but that Maxennus himself, with Dis crown of gold and his stat, found bis deatn in the river, This isio part true, It | is also true that the body of the tyrant and the bodies of some of bis generals were again from the river. In proof of need only to quote the Sextus Aurelius Victor, because tious distinctly the quicksands of “Ma: 1 up which we ty of men- au he the Tiver. entius,” he says, “in the course of the battie Whicn ie gave to Constantine a little below Ponta Molle, endeavoring to cross the bridge of boats which bad been constructed forthe uze of nis army, Was thrown by ius frightened horse into the river and ‘eaten up’ by the quicksands, on ac- count of tae weight of his cuirass, Constantine had great diffeulty in fading ats corpse.” VHB SEVEN-ERANCHED CANDLESTICK. Now we come to the famous Jewish seven- branched candlestick, the form of which is so per- fectly designed in the bas-reliefs of the arch of Titus, Tbe tradition of its naying been thrown into the river to save it from the haads of the barbarians is very old, and the writers of the Talmud, to make it lay im a& more de- cent place, state that the bead of the river, between Rome and Ostia, is but one mass of solid metal, stolen ‘rom Judea by the Roman emperors. President Charies de Brosses, in his “Lettres suri’ Italie” relates that under Benedict X1¥. the Jews of Rome asked the govern- ment permission to drain the river at their own expense, provided they could get undisturbed possession of all the treasures which the carrying on of their project would bring to !ight. Accord. ing to the same writer the Pope did not give his consent, fearing that the exposure of the mud to the sun would have produced a placue. Dignum paiela operculum! The answer would be worth the demand, and the simple-minded president did not perceive that his cicerone was making {un of his good taith, No doubt the golden table, the silver trumpets, the candclabrum were carried to Rome by Titus and Joseph Flavius asserts that they were deposited by the young conqueror and his.father, Vespasian, in the newly built Temple of Peace, which stood behind the Church of Sts, Cosma and Damiani, Accurd- ing to some writers the treasures of the temp were destroyed in the great conflagration A. D. 192, under Commodus, but Relandus, tn his de- scription of the Arch of Titus, proves by irretutable documents, that tne Jewish spolis were saved from the fire. Procopius, in his history of the “Wars of the Goths,” says that he had heard j that the candlestick mad been car- ried away by King Alaric, and then we are told on the testimony of Jornafides | and Paul Diaconus, that Alaric was buried in the River Vasentus, near Cosenza, and there it is sup- posed we must look for the treasures. But Proco- plus himself, in his histury of the Vandal wars, assures us, on the best testimony, that the Jewish trophies were carried by Genseric to Carthage in the year 455, These are the facts of the murve! lous stories related to us about tie treasures of the Tiber, and we will hope that the men who are now occupied with Garibaldi in studying the ques- tion of excavating the bed of that river will be cautious about repeating and believing these jegends, which lack entirely the character of possibility. RODOLFO A, LANCIANI, Commissione Areneologica. ; THE POLITICAL PATRONAGE. THE TAMMANY POLITICIANS WORRYING OVER THE PATRONAGE BUSINESS—THE WORKING- MEN'S CLAMORS AND HOW THEY ARE TO BE MET. The patronage question Is still a disturving one for the local politicians, and the indications are that if something that will lead to more beneficial results for the rank and ille of Tammauy than the patronage in the Department of Public Works nas afforded the laboring classes thus jar ls not done speedily the Aldermen and the Assembiymen will have @ hard road to travel next election day. There is no denytng that the patronage plan adopted by Tammany Hall 1s aa equitable a one as could have been devised lor the purpose of giving every district a fair portion of the places at the isposal of the Commissioner of Public Works, looking at the matter simply on a money basis. Yet, though the grumbling which some of the ward jeaders indulged in so freely when the rule ‘was first aonouaced bas ina great measure sub- sided since the General Committee of tue districts have, with an ingenuity worthy of the best in- stincts of the genus politician, come to the con- clusion that none but committeemen deserve THE LION'S SHARE of the best positions, tue laboring men are by no means satisfied. Each democratic Alderman dur. about 600 tickets were received by the various district general committees, ‘Tnis makes, all told, 1,200 1n ull; yet iC 1s stated on good authority that notwitnstanuing this help there are at least 2,000 men Who mast be leit out im the cold ior a long wile to come. What can be done for them 1s, therelore, tue question Which 1s now agitating tie Alvermanic miud. ‘The men are in want, most of them, 4nd as each one expects that he has a bet- ter right to a labor ticket than anybody elise it needs Do argument to show that the outlook (or GRACE, MEROY AND PEACE in the local pouticul fein is not of the most prom. ising character. It stiould be understood, too, that although 1,200 tickets have been given out to the geueral committees and tae Aldermen only @bout one-nall of the lucky meu have been pat to work, jor theu tne ticket holder has a guarantee when hoe receives a ticket under the hew system that lic will got work it 19 rather ap uncertainty When he Will getit. still the holding of @ ticket 1s considered by tho iaborer as placing him on the road to whero work is to be obtained anyhow, sooner er later, and so the scramble for the guarantees 13 just as great as if the holders were sure of) etting empluyment the very day they got them. it can be readily perceived, in view of all theso circumstances, that the Aldcrmen and otners are OXlous to yet out of the fix they are in, and to guard against the danger that will ve theirs NeXt vieciion day if by that time, through any sus- pected supineness on their part, alarge humber of their constituents should have been leit out of work during the suminer, 1t 1s confidently be- lieved thas by the middie of May next tne de- mangs of the Department of Public Works will be guch as to require very lurve force, | and that py that time ail the men now unempiosed will have work, Yet this is Only a provabillty, ana tue poiiuicians have depended so long Upon hopes that tiave been de- serred very, very long, oily to be blasted in ine end, that they do not seem willing to take much stock in mere chaucos, especially Woen hundreds vi votes are at stake ior Noveniver They know that the only Way out of thei ditlcuitles 1s Jor the party to get control of some other depart. ment, So that they may not depend solely upon llow this can be accomplished 13 the poser, Although a democrat is to be pat in Mr, Budd's plave in the Dock Department on the Ist of May, the ward leaders are not very contident us to Mr, Westerveit’s democracy in the matter of aistributing patronage. 1t13 rumored that during tho present wees there wiil ve lively times in the Police Departinest aud that the upsnot by the 1st | Vese (vi wll otuersi) uve just deserted aud joined | tie army of Don Aliongo, and be bumorousiy adds Ol May wii be that the uemocrats will GBY CONTROL OF 1H BOARD, and consequently of all the street Cleaning patron. age, Tue workingmen meanwhto will have to hove for the best wud pray that Governor fildeO | teased to learn that on uccount of tno nutnber of Carlists who were coming in aud tendering their | will Wake up some aay not lar distant and opea the way which he now bivcks to & toocough domo- Taue control Of the deparunents woicn have the most patronage, MAN'S INHUMANITY, Elizabeth Stearn wos found 11 im the streets lost Tuesday and was removed to Bellevue Hos- pital nm an ambulance; but, instend of taking ber in and caring for hor at this institution, she was removed to the steamer Beilovae, to be taken over to thé Isiaud, but belore (he boat could reach that “charming Apow ihe ublorsanate woman Nad given vith to an inivot and had cied irom | OxusustiON, Jt is powsivie tust tue Move of pro. cedure Ja Luis Case Was prompted by buuManienaa prineipios, Coroner Croker wil ipvesugate tae Cause next LNurwday. A BOARDING HOUSE Michaci Comimekoy keeps a boarding house at No, 06 Allen street, Nowark. is aman vomed Patrick McGill, Yesterday, walle Qt ditnor, an aitercation tuok place, arising out of sume truling Act OF clumsiness OA the part oF McGill, The upshot was ® fleveo row, in which the crockery Hew ia every direcuion, VominsKey #0 bot Le required an hour's attention vA Lhe pare OF (ho police surgeon, THO Letipis groceries We'd Kevered, DOE Gio, ous be 18 severely Injured, “ROW. | 1t, and it is evidently the place | genius. | wrong. | and ge o ny of there things | ‘Among iis boarders | cSt in ianoitig aby hings on the coast Pe in@o Wil | Telegraphic Eeeentricities in Reporting the News or Lies by Elcetrieity. How Baron Reuter Victuals or Demolishes Armies. THE LIGHTNING AIBS OF THE ALPONSISTS. Pertinent Contradictions of Amusing State- ments from the Field, EsTsLLa, March 10, 1875. This Spanisn war is amusing and peculiar in | more ways than one, and the most amusing and | curious part of it, perhaps, is what may be termea the news department, as managed by Reuter’s agent in Madrid. { have before me a despatch sent by him, that has appeared in all the papers, and which wodestly announces that Genera: Loma, in command of the liveral forces At St. Sebastian, had succeeded in getting a con- voy of provisions into Andoaim. should be observed, is situated on the road leading from St, Sebastian to Tolosa, and it ts apd has been for months in the possession of the Cari- ists, Loma, theref we are led to infer, had, with @ great deal of ditticuity and danger, at last succeeded in relieving a Varlist town. TUE BLECTRICITY OF IiA¢ TON. Lhave never ueard that Andoain, Tolosa or any other of the Carlist towns of Guipuzcoa were short of provisioas, but | have no doubt they will, hevertneless, be very thankful for all the convoys their enemies may kindly choose to send them. it must not be supposed that in this case there 14 a mistake ina name, caused by the blandering of some telegraph clerk. Lom has been before Andoain for months, and all his eforts nave been concentrated on {ts capture, because its posses+ sion would open the road to Tolosa and put the whole province of Guipuzcoa at his mercy. or three battles have already been tought before meant tn the de- spatch; but why Loma should send a convoy of provisions into the place, unless, indeed, he is secretly working for the Carlists, only Reuter’s ageat in Madrid can tell ASTONISHING AND AMU my oF . The trath is, the latitude or margin this gentle- man allows himself in telling the trutn is some- tumes astonishing, as weil as amusing. From con- Uinually reading his despatches during the last six months, and comparing them wita what I know to N THE OREDUL- | De the facts, I have concluded that he either has a lamentable 1ndiiference jor truth or that he con- ceais, beneato the cloak of asimple news agent, | journalist, or whacever tc is, a rare turn for humor which ought to be encouraged aud cuivivated, Of the two suppositions | am rather inclined to the Jatier, because it seems to me the most probable. For instance, 10 the despatcn to whic I have just referred ie really cannot be in earnest when he informs us that Loma would so tar forget his duty as to send @ convoy of provisions into a Carlist town. He evidently meant it ior a joke. So when he gravely informed us, in the most positive terms, that a convenio woulda be made With the Cariist chiefs and Don Carlos pensioued off, he humorously leit out of | consideration the old axiom that it “takes two to | make @ bargain.” it was as thougu he had in- formed us that he was going to give Mr, A. T. Stewart a five-doilar greenback for his house on | Fifth avenue, We would not feel quite sure of his giving it until we shouid learn that Mr. Stew- art had accepted the offer, Hut he gets out ol a dificuity into which this exuberanco of fancy sometimes leads him with an ingenuity worthy of | | Balstaf himself. CARLIST CLAIMS OF D¥NASTIO RIGHT. Although to my certain knowledge the Carlist | chiets refused to treat upon any other basis than the recognition of Don Carlos as King of Spain, which was equivalent to a refusal to treat at all, be gravely informed Carlist officers their rank in the liberal army. He besides possesses a faculty for curious and ab- aurd exaggeration which 1s very amusing. For instantly elecirifles Europe with the announce- insubordination. When a Carlist partida or scout goes out all alone and ores a shot into the enemy’s camp, @ habit to woich the partidas are very much addicted, our jocular friend rushes to the telegraph eMlce aud announces that the Carlists have made a desperate attack and been repulsed ali along the line with enormous losses, Should the outposts, to while away the wearying hours amuse themselves by fring a few tnnoceat rounds upon each other without hurting anybouy he ine stantly announces @ great battic, in wuich tho Carlists have been, of course, completely routed, leaving the ground covered with their blood. I have passed daya and weeks at Rstella reading these sanguinary telegrams in the French papers Without being able to ever hear so much as a single shot fired. FICTION PURE AND SIMPLE. But it is only when we come to works of pure fiction that we begin to perceive the real bent of this geutieman’s mind and tue peculiarity of bis It isin effects of the imagination pure that he chiefly excels, and it would seem that it 1s only When he trees hunseif from the restraint of | prosaic jact that he ts really great. 1t was he who reported the shooting of twenty Carlist olice! ashort time since ior mutiny, and the passage through Bayonne of forty more on weir Way to Madrid to make their supmission to Don Alfonso, He invented the pleasant fiction about two Cariist battahons in Durango, whose names ana uum- bers he gave, wad Which he said were negotiating | to go over to the enemy, and the story seems to | have pieased the public so Well that be keptit up in instalments through 4 period of several days. ‘Laere Was # Certain local coloring about this story and au air of probability wach seens to have made tt uncouimoniy — popular. Ii is @ Woil known fact that when soldiers propose | deserting they uegotiate with the enemy several | days beturenaud and auoounce their intention to tne world along time in advauce, so that their chiels may NOL be tuke by surprise. Tho story Was received with tie greatest Javor by oom press and public and was thus continued with emendations aod additions fur severai days, Then there Were THE STORRS OF THS UPRISINGS and revoits in Guipuzcoa and Biscay, of discontent @od e@Xaausuon trougnout toe provinces, the treason of Dorregaray, tue deiection 0} Menair, tue desertion of o—atll of Which stories origin. ated in tue ferule ovaim of our hero, ile seems to be doing @ good deal now in the way of Carliat deser tious, and [O-day’s papers Contaiu a de in which we are giavely iniormed that 400 Navar- tdat Ove oi them were instuntly shot, probably oy Way 0 cucouraging more desertions, Alter the Aisousist deicat at Lacar we were very much submission Lou Aiiouso Nad deciaed, betore re- commencing hostilities, 10 give the Carlists an- other mouth, kveryoody was greatly relieved oy iis ALuOUNnCeMent, Lecuuse certain evil minded ersons lad hinted that the real reaxous wuy nostilities Were 10> continued aod why they have Hot beeu since renewed, was that the whole iberal army wad been turown oto a padic by the bayonet charge Of tue ternmole Navarrese at Lacar, Bat our ro jg not @ man tu be disconcerted by mere scoters. ihe croation, however, in waich he really SUpassed lumsel, In Whicl he svowed us to Wha’ heights he 1s realy capadie oO rising Wien he servis uusiy puts his tind to it, Was the tra@gical story of TUB ASSASSINATION UF DON O4kLOS by hia own soldiers, it is on tuis story, Tt Weve, that be rests lig reputation jor jame, Si bis bamer aud love o} ith jin there runs through | Gi OF Dis telograts ah elev. ted sentiment of jus. flee, # wertain Ven OF Haovality, Which suow that ho has evidently very positive lucas ot He disapproves strongly, for instance, of toe Cariieta receiving canuon, guna, cartridges ther munitions of war, and wien they suo. ol ikeuy he simpy DANIKE TAB Regularly, About once cood im rusniog the blockade Aad landing a Dum ber Of CADHOL, fuls, CATiridges OY other Munle (ona in tue teats oF Lhe Spans feet, aud rewus jariy OOF imaginative (read cenisa tue fact with al Gif Gf ConviOLiOn Which is quite coovinoing, 4 MySGil DAVE SOdu al feast KaVenLy-vA steel Can- Hon (hat Have Veen brought lito “fie Cotutry in thin Ways bai he doaias it Wika aa Asnurance 4O FACT, FLATLY, | | plen | goverument, uke | sion of the Carl | does not seew to mind it. ‘This town, it | | clan, Galvan, greatly overestimated the impo Two | the | | World that the negotiations had been broken © off, because Don Alionso could not accord the | | ored memory 43 the favorer aud imstance, whenever a Carlist battalion changes | rters m one town to , he | GRALEEEA On ao enya pence Lenn bg contribute not only to resiore to Spain the biessing | of domestic peace, but also to impart to ber sucn | inent that the change has been made because ot pater | gucial lie, baving right aad | § lAvGtA, (he Cariista sud. | OF aha bh SHEET. overpowering that I begin to dount of my own senses. Such ts the ascendancy of giant intellects over the ordinary mina, HIS MIGHTY PEN, Our hero evidently believes in the good old pro- verb that the is mighuer and he uses bis with an eiect wu Wohen tt 13 remembered that he Ulaled Spain about twice ov it which belongs to tl some idea may be formed this instrument of death, It ant and uncalled for proceedin of the Carhsts to Keep com they have been couoriably buried away Sight, and shuoting at people When they ought be lying quaeuy im their graves. piain, with Mact that a a time when, U the evidence st five umes, yoness of again alter 1 disa- Rrecavie Way ugaiust the re f. ‘These Carists, however, hg aon of velng unple: pie, and our itiend treats their unsee On contempt, Which must be eX. ling to them, ALFONSO'S NBED OF THE UNRELIABL wred, however, that Don hat of Marshai ch upon Reuter t insurrection. se ol Bilbao, ernment has done nothing tow: War to a& Close, except to reliev In the meantime ali tue o RT, Alonso's rrano, r or the suppr nce the rellef somewhat too I or raisiug the si the Maurid go Upon the shoulders of Reuter, and all | the progress made toward the suppr nor the rebellion during tne past year may ve said to have been maue by nim, abor 1s certwinly very hard 3 unequal division of pon Keuter; but he He continues wita good wil, with uurelenting severit: dduity that never Ures, to mow the Carlists down by the hundred, to take them pris- ouers by Whole co. 1es and b to rout tter them lke chair belore courage and during whica are re THE SPANISIC GOV 18, L believe, tne lirst to ty adopted this formi- gable aunt st her srmy and navy; the first to have ed and utilized Unis fein, devoted, ou ntand poweriui ally. One is only astouisued that Spay, so backward ia many other things, suoud tave Leen the first to make a di covery tuat 1s evidently destined to revolution tue Whole of war. France only thouguy ol tus darimg ner 1 uggle with Germany, What might she not have done, and how the whoie result of the War wlgit na L all great tventious and ideas, this one Is remark- able Jor Its extreme, Its very extreme, simplicit THE AMIABLE WEAK gS OF GKEAL DISCOVE All great discoverers und inventors generally ha 1 invention or discov: trivute to 1t more power haps, really possesses. hy admurabie, MENT and ure nu enicacy than it, pe The great French pny tance of those phenomena in natural sc; ence which he discovered aud which produced such & Sensation in tie selentific world | of that day Toe French during their | late war piaced too mucn contidence in | the newly iuvented Chassepot; the famous Mr, Stunes undouvtediy put an overweening faith in Mis new tying machine, So the Spanish govern. nent, captivated by a new and brilliant concep. Uoh, 18 perhaps “disposed to aturibute more ellicacy to it than it realiy possesses. if 1 might presume to eXpress an opinion on the subject, it Would be that the new goverument, lke tie old, relies someWuat too mucu on Reuter tor bringing We war to a successful termination. if the Carlists were not such unpieasant and dtsugreeable people the pian would work very well, ‘Tbe whoie conduct or the war might be Given into Reuler’s hands, with every assurance Of its being brought to a Speedy aud happy con. clusion, Unuer the existing circumstances, how- ever, 1 think the government ougnt to belp Lim a lutte now anu thea, Wu it Were only tor the moral effect o1 the thing, THE UNITED § AND SPAIN. MINISTER CUSHING'S ADDRESS TO KING ALFONSO ON PRESENTING HIS CREDENTIALS. MAbRID, Maren 12, 1875. The followlogis an oficial copy of the speech Which was delivered by the lion, Caleb Cushing, Minister of the United States at the Court or Spain, to His Majesty King Alonso on the occa- sion of presenting his credentials, on the 11th of March, at Court, in vhts capital :— ERAL HING?S ADD! TO THE KING. Siku—Ihe President of tue United States of | America has been pleased tv commit to me tae | grateiul duty ot representing that government uear the government of Your Majesty. He charges me in communicuting ts fact to signily to Your Majesty his sincere desire to culti- vate and strengthen the iriendsuip and good cor- respondence which bave so loug sudsisted be- tween Spain and the United States, and to give Ce Ve of bis Wishes for the prosperity of pain. It adords me satisfaction to be the bearer of the Message and to have the opportunity at the same Ulue to Maniiest my own solicitude Lo be instra- mental in the promotion of continual cordial rela- tion between the two goveraments. Permit me, sire, to add an expression of the hope that Your Majesty, Wno beurs a name reao- dered illustrious oy princes ansurpassed in wis- dom, learning, courage and virtue; Who 18 of the viocod of that iamous Queen alone oi her times possessed of intelligence und forecast to appre- ciate the discoverer of the New World, and thus to introduce reiigion and civilization into the vast and rich regions of America; who 1s descended of that Emperor Charies, the great soldier states- manu of lis age, and of that Jater Charles of hon- iriend of my country; to express the hope, 1 say, that Your Majesty may, in emulation of these icity examples, institutions of elevation and enlightenment as shall enabie her to rise purified and renovated from the fires of misfortune and to reassume ber | Appropriate station among the nations oi Europe, 1 have the Lonor, then, to place in the hanas of Your Majesty the letters which accre ‘it me as Eaovoy Extraordinary and Mjnister Pienipoten- tary of the United States of America. THAT WEARISOME TRIAL. | WILL IT LAST TILL MIDSUMMER ? —THE SCANDAL 4S YET BUT THINLY PENETRATED BY THE | Resident, und Her Majesty the Queen. EVIDENCE. The week opening to-day will probably bring out the long expected personal statement of the pastor of Piymouth. His friends say he will take the anxious bench on or about Wednesday, alter H. B. Claflin and others have testified to ceriain matters which'tend to substantiate the evidenco | of Jackson S. Sheultz. It is also thought that some evidence will be given to skow Mr. Tilton’s unre- liability in bis monetary dealings, As has becn previously stated, one of the witnesses on this score may be Demorest, tne fashion publisher, who claims to have paid Mr. Tilton $260 for five poems and then jound that only one of them was original. Such evidence would nardly be apt to injure @ poet, the pubiisher genorauly getting the best of every encounter with the Aiuse, ‘WHAT IS SAID. The partisans of the defence say that Mr. Beecher has enough, and more tnan enough, evi- agence to break down Moulton utterly. He pro- poses to prove Moulton’s sharp practices with the government and with merchants as a warehouse- map, and his subsequent condonation py the cele- brated revenue detective Jayne. Mr. Beecher {vis said willmot endeavor to impeach Mrs, Moul- tom, except through her busband, unless Mrs. Woodhull takes the stand jor the plaintiff, when he will endeavor to suow by her that Mrs, Moul- ton had other busivess with Mrs. Weodhull toan relieving the Tilton family trom her throttle. It 19 not beileved that the plaintur will cite Mrs. Wood- hull. Her recent card in favor of Tilton would ap- pear to show that she iad moditied er spirit of Vengeance toward him; but she is askea tho plump question as to why Tilton solicited ler courpany she may rebut bis original = proposition that he sougnt her out to conciliate her, and dropped tue ac: | quainutance when te had failed in that attempt | and had aiso tarnished bis own reputation, Tie doubts aud surimises on all thia subject matter only show 08 Low thinly the great scandai has | been penetrated by thé evidence. The public yet at sea, and the great average verdict is unce: tainty as to Mr. Beecher’s innocence but quite ui cided as tu Tilton’s waut of herowm, It has been reported that Mr, Boecher’s own son-in-law, Who is a clergyman in the eastern part Of Connecticut, has recently expressed nimeelf to | Unis effect;—"1 veieve Mr. Beecher to be ipnocent | sae I cannot blame people who think him | guuty. HOW THE PLALNTLYY STANDS, The extent of thin triai goes hard with tue plain- tum, He has very little support in the press or in lost Nis gewspaper ailliation: 18 Wile, Children and domestic iriends, his incom and his commercial goud will. St tuis were not civil suit where the plaintit’s character can vo Shown in mingation of damages, Tilton could not be put in the defensive OO such sual issues as hanging pictures in his uixitgown, dispute jog the quality of the coflee and waik- ing in @ procession, ‘ihe pudlic are com. pletely mystided by Mra, Woodhuli’s card Sliegiig that ho did not sleep in ier bedohamber, | hor carry &@ Danner Mi the VOMmMunist celebration, sl ol j ve | She COUd HOt have Sworn this except oo persvaal | Wistauoe to & aveamy inuistinotue kaowiedge, a4 sie has soured on Tilton, There- foro Lwe Wiineaa, Cooke, the negro man, aid Reyes Tal others go to the ground, and the defence is PUbIN Lhe sirange attitude of spending a great deal of time in proving tings they had not reckoned on the principal character 10 offset. Tiere must still be an enormous Ume spent in rex vuttog tis inctdentar testimony aguiast Tilton Bud Moulton. Mr, Cooke is to be chailenged, Kate carey 8 60 De apOthiated, And Btu tue days go reat lnguent pokos its way wwowal Masten cme r. an une | on toe part | out of | * to | Our ipend naught | hough there | kitied there | nes to } nearly a year ago, | ind With a | miable Weakness ior their pet | inclined to ate | | which, in colored letters, blazed the word ‘Kala- | sip, | birds | luvor and pauence to compicte one of bh | majority of the dancers. g KING KALAKATA. His Hawaiian Majesty at Home Among His People. TATE BALL IN HONOLULU. As Aristocracy, Fashion, Music and Flowers. HoNoLvLv, March 10, 1875. Tue winter in Honolulu bas deena very quiet, owe | tng to the absence of the King, whose visit to the United States has aided so much to the excite- ment of the seasoa there, His return has beer eagerly looked Jor aud as joyously celebrated, Noiging that processions, speecues, illuminations, &c., could express of welcome was lacking on the occasion, THE STATE BALL. But the grandest of the festivities attending his arrival was the State ball, ten days alter—au ace count of which will show that Honolulu ts not tar behing other capitals in the matter of party-giv- ing. Invitations to the number of 1,200 necessie tated preparation upon an extended scale, and to Say that nothing was jacking to tne comfort, Cone Venlence or picasure of the 1,000 who were pres- ent, issufiicient to prove that the Committee of Arrangements understood their duties. It igy, however, hot enough to say respecting the Skulk aud taste displayed in every detail. WHERE THE @ TOOK PLACE. ‘rhe Parliament buliding, trom its size and eles gance, was sciected as most suitable lor so extene sive an allair, aud maguidcent as is the structure Or itself the beautiiul decorations added tenfold to tts original imposing appearance. The exterior Was brilliantly tiluminated, not only by the glow Of lights from within, but by festoons of Cilueso lanterns hung irom window to window and arvop- ing from the lofly clock tower, on the trout of kaua,” surmounted by a crown, Still more cla- | borate ilumination was cootemplated, but ou account of the strong trade winds the idea was abandoned. A double row of torches led fro. the wide gates to the stlil wider portal, to enter Which was like stepping into some of tue ene chanted castles of a fairy tale. Ranged along tie wide corriders Were stands of flowers, whose Irage Tauce periumed the air and whose delicate buds or bursting blossoms iurnished a great deal of sentiment to the thronging promenaders of a cere tain as well as uncertata age. THE RECEPTION ROOM. The Legislative tall, an apartment of noble proportions, 120 feet long and 40 wide, was most tastefully decorated with evergreens, ferus and flowers—flags being used only vo drape the gale lery erected jor tie musicians. On the wall iung | ane collection of portraits, lucluding tuose of | Hawailan sovereigns irom the days oi Kumee hameha L, the conqueror, to the present ume, and also many of European rulers and statesmen. ‘The portrait of the present King is a muguili specimen of photography, it ts iuil ot excellent keness. 10 Was executed by Kulodson, 0: San Fra , and pres Majesty by Mr. W. ©, {8tOn, Of LUC si tue cust cud of tie plauiorn, were tho i tue ts wud royaliaunly. Over those jor tae King Queen Wore draped some remarkable red aud yele low leather cioaks—tue ancient badge ol culel- and exceedingly rare boWadays trom tact) that tie bizn chieis were away buried in them, apd as the particular irom Wuose plumage aloue they are made have become “nearly extincs they cannot be replaced. lt was a Werk Of great se ClOUKS. UL the tWo Kings of ieuulers used ihe rea were pleuty enougo, but the tiny yeliow ones could be JounG only under the Wing ol a species Oi vlacke bird inhabiting the nignest mMoantaims. It took | ioriy years to compieve tae great cloak of Kamee hameia 1, Waich of course perisued at the ume Of Dis uysterious taterment. ARRIVAL OF THE ROYAL PARTY. At nine v’ciock precisely tue royal party entered the rouim, preceded uy the seven Culeis uext im Tauk aiter His Majesty, each Wearing is small leather Cape and carryiog a “kab,” the Lawanaa embiem of Toyuily, ‘These “kadiis” arc realy nothing wore Luau Dice large ieather fy brusnes, Which attained their present distiucticn in those barvaric uuys, Wheu CO perform the Wost trivial oF Mmeulal olllve jor the soverelgn coulerred rank upon the servant. For mstauce, when the orsa Missionaries came to these islands they found the “gpiitoon bearer” one of the Lighest Robics—1 am NOs certain UL Tue Highest The baud played tue national hymn—something like “God save the Queen,” only finer—whiie they acvanced and took seats in the following ORDER: The King and Queen in the centre, the Pri cesses Liu and Likelike on tue rignt, His Roy Highness Priece Leleiohoku, wita Her Koyak Hugtness Ruta Keelikvianl, sister of his late Ma jesty Katnehumena V., on the jeft, and ihe Kebilt bearers ranged 1n w semi-circle at tue rear. THE COMPANY SALUTES THE SOVEREIGN. The company then advanced apd saiutea their Majesties, a cercMouy wich tasted more than an hour, Individual preseniation Was not possible under the circumstances. AU ten O'clock dancing commenced. The ball openea With ® royal quadrilie, iu Which particle Pated the following disudxuished personages i— His Mujesty the King aud Mme. Ballicu, Wile of the Frencu Commissioner, Adumiral Almy, United States Navy, and Hon. Mrs, Bishop. His Exceliency H. A. Peirce, Americano Minister Mons. Bailieu, Frencu Commissioner, and whe Princess Liiiu pominis, y His Koyal Highness Prince Leleionoku and Mrs W. L. Green. Major Wouehouse, Her Britannic Majesty's Com misstoucr, aud the Princess Likelike Cleghorn. Captain Gherardi, United Staces Navy, aud drs, Coionei W. fF. Alien. Captain Anson, R. N., and Mrs. P. C. Jones. Captain Vau Der Meulen, kK. N., aud Miss Emily Boyd, ‘Captain Skerrett, United States Navy, and Miss Emily Harris. Captain Eroen, United States Navy, and Mrs. We. 0 Th . Pa His ixcellency W. L. Mochonua and Mrs. Govere nor Kapena. A JOYOUS TIME. The festivities thus inaugurated were kept ap till alate hour, At two o’cluck toe King, with his 1étinue, Witharew, loliowed within an vour by & A large number, how. ever, Mtoxicuied with the beauty of the scene, @nd, above ail the delictous music, did not so early Tejinquish their opportunity, out swung on in merry circles wil the morning dawned and day- light creeplug over the sky and looking coldly in at the Windo ss eciipsed the lestal lamps und dise persed Verpsiciore’s iired devotees, THE INTERNATIONAL KEPRESKNTATION. The most curious feature of the cntertainment Was vbe diversity of race and naitun represented. Honoiuiu of itself 18 most cosmupolitan—jpossesx Ing residents irom all parts of tne civiuzed world. On this occasion the invitauons were o/ necessity very geueral and also very generally accepied. Engiiso, reach, Italians, Russiuns, Piussiang Poles, Norwegians, swedes—svu much tor kurope, and when we come to Asia we find one darke skinacd Indiaman, numerous Japanese and a stil larger number of celestiais, with their ovliqué eyes and loug queues. Africa had, perhaps, 10 representative, but there 1s 80 striking a re blance between the negro and vative Hawaiian that at frst glance it seemed as if the third quare ter of the glube could c.aim a large spare ol tue assembly, A SPLENDID SCENE, There were four meu-oi-wur in the harbor, three American and one English, ‘Lae gola laced unilorms Of the officers, With those of diplomatlie and mibtary oficial, made @ fine show aud added greatly to the briliiaucy of the scene by relieving vuat sombre element—a gentietaan’s modera cos- tume, ‘I'he toilets of tue ladies would be too exe @ subject to enter upon individuaily,, nis 1s too far from tasmionadiec cones to ive any chance of startling or even interest+ hg @ jady reader by detaila o1 cut or garuitur puiice it to say Luere Was the; usuai rustling ot suk and soit Noating Of tarleton aua tu the evident sativiaction and indisputable becominge hess of weir iair woarers, Tho Queen and princesses Were distinguished in addition to the vi@gance Of their attire by broad sashes of scariet Worn trausversely across the breast. COMPORTING THE INNER MAN. The sone room was thrown open at twelve O'elook, The King and other mombers of thé Toyal quadrijie led the way, followed by a large umber of distinguished guests, Hee eve: tiing which could p! vae eye or tempt tue moss jastidivus paste displayed in proiusion, ‘Kho dowere and iruice, which iu our cold climate Are so costly and hard to be obtained, were heuped ib miaksy pyrauids, any Oue oF White Would eatadiish the fortune o1 & New ht Jectioner, Delicious stewing Ol ai forvened uy over ai), adding & refmement of relia to the deioarely vemptiog viauds, THR MUSIC on this occasion waa furnished by the Royal an@, “Pousacoia" bands playing alternately, aud Doths ing could Lave been more eojoyabie than thell exe collent selections and admirable execution, TO BH REMMMDKRED, On the whole no such an ir could have Paasett oF uisre Agreendiy OF leit & plonsanier re memorence, >