The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1875, Page 5

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1875.--TRIPLE SHEET, © ANCIENT AMERICANS. French favans Discussing Amer- | Ms ican Ethnography. WHO DISCOVERED THE CONTINENT ? ——— The Norse, Phoenician and Chi- nese Theories, | knees, Nancy, Lorraine, July 19, 1675. | This beautiful Lorraine city, set down so caarm- ingly im the midst of ferjtle plains and diled with Bhost of quaint and curious souvenirs of a ro- Mantte past, ts gay with decorations aud banners, and the streets are throngea with wise, solemn | looking men clad in black, waikimg two by two, and earnestly discussing some important subject, Agtranger arriving suddenly in tne richly orna- mented Place Stanisiaus, and seeing the crowds thronging it this evening, might fora moment imagine tuat the people of the proud section, of | which Nancy 1s the chie! town, were celebrating | some national fete, or planning some new vengeance against the hardy imvaders | who, four years ago, took Nancy nnd levied formidable contributions upon her im- | mense wealti, ‘Those were dreary days when Prussian patrols rode up and down the streets and under the huge sicient gateways: when Prussian banas played in the pretty squares and Prussian dragoons lolled about the basins of the splashing fountains; when the oid dueal palace, One of the finest monuments of its Kind in Eo- | Tope, was the headquarters of an invading stat; and when tie vineyards round about were tram- pled down to make room for camps and military Btores, the stranger might weil imagine the peo- ple of Nancy united in sorrowlal commemoration of their misfortunes; but his error would svon be corrocted by the numerous placards whicn he | would see, each bearing at 1ts head the words | ‘Amerivanist Coagress.’? Tne fact is that people of the eity and the thousands o! strangers who have come to visit them are interested in discuss- ing the history aud wacitions of @ country more than three thousand miles away from them and of another continent. They are assemoicd in response to the following INVITATION, An international reunion of persons interested in the lisiory of America previous ts discovery by Christopher Coinmous; im the interpretation Of inscriptions 0 Mmounments. and In the echnog- Taphy o: the imdigenons ra oi the New Worid, | wil take place at Nancy, lasting trom the 19th to the 22d of July (inclusive), 1875, An exposition of Aniert archwology Wil be opeued during this saine period, Thus rups the invitation originally tssued, fol- lowed by # statement of the terms upon Which persons are admitted as members of | the Congress—viz., the payment of a small sub- scription, The tral Committee of Organiza- tion contented tiseif, when the enterprise was Orst staried, With paseing the following subjects for debate as a general guide for conduct of the sessions :—First, tie relations of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceanica with America before Ciris- sopher Columous’ time; second, the interpretation of tue documents written concerning American an- | Mqnities (Mexican didactic paintings, caiculitorm | writing, maya and palienquéen inscriptions, the | Peruvian Quippon aad the writings of the Indian | populations of North America; third, the ethno- | gtaphical and iinguistical classification of the Indtan races of the New Worid. The secretary of | this Central Committee, which nas ina few months | Becured moro than fiiteea hundred members for the Congress, und paved the way for tne pubit- | tation of an elavorate series of reports on the | subjects above enumerated, is M. Lucten Adam, | for a long time one of the most conspicuous mem | bers of | THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF FRANCE. | This latter organization counts among its adher- ents the most lliustrious savans of Europe, and | as published reports o! the most exhaustive clfar- acter on America and its strange history. The American Society we Jounded in 1857, Aubin, Malte-Brup, Maury, Appert, Rénan, Cortambert, Labartna and others of note being among tne signers of the original statutes, Buc most of these were amateurs rather than practical workers in | the science, to which the Fiemch have now defiaitely given the name. of Americanism, and, although a good deal gf excellent work was done, they leit the immense Bela comparatively unoccupied. M. Adam was | Jomewhat dissatisied with tnis, and at last, en- | rouraged by the briliiant success which the Inter- national Congress of Orientalista obtained, ne de- termined to invoke a reunion of ail the savans who have occupied themselves with the nisiory of the New World previous to the arrival there of Columbus. In order to avoid any feelings of tlvalry or jealousy in taking this step he invited nis native city aney—to take the new Interna- tional Congress unde puironage, and it has done so with the most COMPLETE SUCCESS. The number of persons who have subscribed tn Md of the Congress Is, of course, vastly in excess of that directly interested in the subjects under consideration; but the present Conuress certainly compreiiends a greater number of speciatists than the American Society ever succeeded in gathering together, and its incetings promise to be of sohd value to science. The efforts of M. Lucien Adam | have been ably seconded vy M. Madier de Mont- jau, President of what may well be called the parent society; by M. Leon de Kosny, professor in the Paris Scsool of Living Oiiental Languages and yue o: the brightest meu of bis class in the world, ota of tiese men nave taken au active part in ali the p Hons, and the latter is especially couspieuous the discussion Of bois Watgural Aldericanist Cone press. itis uauerstood that tae Germans made vigorous efforts to secure the lovation of tms Vonuress in Germany; but the Frencn, baving succeeded in LxXing i¢at Nancy, careiuily reiramed rom invidug apy (russian savans, tous carrying she war spirit out im (iis as tacy have Ia every- Wing else reliting to Northern Germeny since she Close of Wosiilities in is7l. The Uuitea States mem ol the present Congress are ail good Men, as will be seen by 4 glauce ut the foliowleg Bames :—lubert H. Bancrolt, Charies B. Brigham and Charies W. brooks, of San Francisco; Maurice Bium, of st. Lous, ve only United States dele- gate thus far present; Professor Henry, of the Dmithsoulan Institute a6 Washington; Francis | Packman and Kobert Wintirop, of Boston; Geveral Mereditn Kead, our «present Minis ter @t Athens; Edward B, Salisoury, Secre- tary Of the American Orieatai ieby; BG. | Squlers, New York; W. D. Watney, of New | Tiaven, and President irumbatl, of the American Philuiogical society. Phere was already een some | Wention OF (he PUSsIDLLIY Of & Second session Of the Cong at Palladeipnia during the Centen- ial year, Gud 1 the euthusiasm with regard to the jascuimting stody remains as high as 1c 8 now bven the siay-ab-nome Fre savans may dSuide | to cross tha Ocean im pursuit of new hight upon | Weir lavoiite theme. | f1Lki OPENING SESSION | of the Congress was beim tus morning ina bean- | Mul hallot the sla Duvet jace=—4 hall subse- quently to become tho restored Lorraine Mu- geum, and aireddy landsvimery decorated with pasmtings, staiuary ana ova WOrks of art. the Lorraine Me biguly opriave that tho Congress sit d iu these mast, stuce it Was oe Luke he (ihe ilustrivns IL) that Amer v dedicated the th LOTy Of his vo. to Amertea. In fms vediers lion Vespucins reminded tae Pure vi theirdiiena- Bhip as chitren and thelr felowsalp at scauol, Witen they (ook tlie same less in grammar at Florence “from Gee s Anuine Vespucius, tue Bncle of the celovrvated Navigator Whose Hame bie Western Continent dears. Keng Was ab enilgit- ene: prince, Gitte Maperest tn tae iin portant aince vere in progress dure Ing wis Fein. rilcuariy ond vi serenes and leviors, and tbo bak stuuy OL tiem With the ‘same Mm estiess Wilt Which he thre Le Temeraire waea that wareike prince took by assault, aud at tempted to hold by ‘orce, the town of » it 1416-7, Kewe Was ou Much tnteresied im geography vhat he pers ¢ phued tie preparauioa Gi a map generany vee wl tributed 10 LORPAING, wisO, La 1603, that th Ing olllce OM Saint Me droay nt fo cosmograpay (of waica ihe La ) s fortunate enouga to possess a copy i irom tis. Coss MO"TwpAy Was t On Whiell, itis believed, THE NAME “AMRRICA? wes tor the tf ime io bistory imseribed, These bre facts of waicu the Lorrames are proud; and it | Hhoticenve that every citizen of the good city HNavey hwows t Mranuers, vis und repeats them (0 THK DUCAL PALACE, which 80 narrowly escoped total destraetion by Ave ia July of 171, 18 cersaimuy ome Of the most ; Workimen three | Jeading to the Gute te des Cerfs, | duguary of 1477. | Leon de Kosny, of Parts | treme caution, | uoited in a Vigorous LaVvestigation of many of the | Way, Koumania, & | ai charming afd interesting old monuments tn Europe, It was begun in 1829 by Duke Kaoul, But istic of the original building except a tine cornice, one or two rich balconies and a splen- Gidly sculptured portal atillexist. Rene Ll, vegan anew on the base of the old palace in 1502, and his s Antoine aiterward adiea the mighty and massive Galefie des Ceris, which stands to-day a fine testimonial to whe solidity and venus 0 the centuries age. ‘The prinel al €utrance wo the palace 18 surmounied by a ine } equestrian statue ot the Duke Antotue, toe work «1 a contemporary arust, The Duke is presented | in dull armor, bold in his upitited arw a naked sword, asi to strike an enemy, Migher up are the busts o! René IL, ana of Antoine, Beside this main eutrance is another and smater door, tarovgh Wh.ch the members of the Cougress defiled this morning into the great court yatd, ander the vauised cerhug and among tae gl ganic pillars, Ob licir Way to the stone staircase uver wns little Goor there is & Wicked scu plored fgure of a mon- key clad i a gown anu homing Lhegibie On is 1b Was tlended when placed tuere aa & sulire upon the Proctestunts, fur tuey Were usually sented in teat manner in the carica' ues Of Ut Hr 1790 the as es Jaucred (hat the re Was Meaut a8 an indication Of mouk- hypocrisy, and tuey had it painted in lively colors, Laus acceating their coutewpt tor the Churen, Probably, nine out of ten visilors to tae Ducal Palace nowadays do not nouce tne tiny, comicai iigure Walch bas suck A queer history PLEASING SCENES. The admirably graded stone stairoase leading to the Galerte des Ceris was crowded with pretty and Inodestly dressed ladies, Wao came and Went jrom the sessions in large nuaibers Vt all hours during tue duy. Yue galery gets its name from the fact taat former princes there hvug up the stags which they vad Killed in the chase, Under the Dukes of Lorraine ihe gallery was Iestivais ana funerals, and as te assembling vo! tue Mtuis Généraux, There hangs ihe ajegtry found in ioe tentof Charies Le VYeméraive aiter toe famous battle of Nanoy in This tapestry was one of the miraculously saved from the jew effects alimo fire tu isil. THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGH went in a body tun Mass In aw ceut to the ducal palace this morning, and then the following officers jor the ensning yeat:—President, Baron Guerrer de Damast, of Nancy, 4 Venerable arcawologist; Vice Presidents, 3 | M. Lucien \dam, of Nancy; M. Madier de Moni- jau, of Paris; General Didiov, of Nancy, and M, and, as Secretary Gen- eral, M. Raavaua, of cae At the aitermoun sex- sion there Was a Very 1Ull uttencauce. tne Majority of tae people looked jor all the world lis@ Au auuieuce at a May anniversary in New Hngland, except that the army and the priest- hood Were liberally represented uvon tae plat- form. ‘There was & pientiiul sprinkling of strong- iniuded looking ladies in s)ectacies and straw oon- nets; & charming array of pretty girls, the daugn- ters Of the legion of “professors” aud savans, 4 host Of antiquated men Clad in sieek bli and with white chokers wouad round and round tneir Wicnered throats ; and many young and active mien, every one of whom iooked as ithe were trom Massachusetis una Conuecticat, flutter New England too much, It was a higniy jutelivctual-ooking assembly, so lar as the Frenen notivn of it was concerned, Then the Joreign delesutes, although maturaliy differing much in iype, Were ali O/ more than ihe ordinary t) pes of | their races. ‘rueve were yellow and billous-looking members from the Canary Isiands, and there vas a dapper and interesting lite diplomat fron, Sau Salvauor, Senor Torres Caicedo, the present representative of bis goverainent at Paris. Baron Dumast veing very old and feebie, Setior Cuicedu presided dur- in, the afiersoon and did it with infinite grace and dexterity, Bot even making any blunders in a language sjoreign to him, There were subdued gud melancholy-lookivg Canadian missionaries preseut—mea Who had spent scores ol years among the tribes in the Polar cirele—men Who vrought dictionaries Of ludian dialects in their robe pockets, #nd wno spuke learnedly on the reseimbiances aNd points of difference in the languages spoken on either side of Benring’s trais—men Whose mouths were filled With talk of Thchonk aed Algonquin, of Malay aud Novajos, ‘There were men from the Nortaern seas, irom Denmark, from Iceland, euch weary to ciaim the original discovery of the “strange new world that yet was never young’—~for his countrymen, and each supporting his claims by au elaporaie Reries vi tacts. As One Of the aims Ol the present Congress 18 mercilessly to desiroy all romance connected with American discovery that has pot a direct jouudailon in fach, Lt 18 neediess to state that all new revelations are received with ex- All the prominent members have MoS: Sensational accouLts of early Voyages, aud juucy tat tuey Can Completely explode the theories thas tue Phoouiclaus once overran the New Worla or that the BUDDHIST MONKS OF SAMARCAND had a mission lu America ln toe fitn century. jmere were present also fateliigent and even ) highly cultivated artisaus from Aisace, grand rab- bis irom Aigera, a host of consuls and vice-con- suls irom the principal South American countries, Su AUSiTIan Jleutenant in resplendent unuorm, but wiih Grape upon Lis arm and his sword biit Some OL the most noved OL the Danish arcnwoio- gists, Sicoug Velegatious frem Holland, Italy, Nor- iA and Switzerland, Paris, altwougn inv great city, 18 perhaps a little piqued that the Congress was bot held withia ner duruers, has seus some very able men, among Wuom is Dr, Dally, tue taiented Presiaent of the Paris Society of Authropology, & remorseless Man Who ruins a | hundred romances lor the sake Ol one hara iact, aud woose Imp itience ol wheorizers 1s one of the amusing feacares o1 the Cougress, M. Lucien Adam las (he sawe vigorous imtolerance of shains, and if such men #s Dr. Dally, ve Rosny aou Adaut do not get at the trushia due time there wil be no Virtue In painstasing research, TL ABTBRNOON SESSION to-day was opened by an address of welcome, ae- jivered vy M, Le Page, Presideut of the Lorraine Arcaeological Society, Why aliuded to the wanuer in whicy the names of Lorraine ana of the auxes and dueat pwiace are ailicd with tne earuest detinife sud substantial records of American dis- covery. He alsv Look occasivuu to speag of coe re- establishing ot tue Lorraine Museum (burned in ls7l), #ud mentioued grateuily the su tae Kmperor of Austria, 100,000f tor the pur- pose of revuildiog tie museum, Baron Damast abu the President pro lenu, Senor Caicedo, having made theie imtsoauctory speeches, the first paper, essay by Dr. Beneuics Urénuail, professor ab tie heykpavick University, in leeluud, was read, Claiming tat the icelauie:s Were tue original dis+ coverers of Aimer: The {celandic doctor was present, buv preierred baving tis paper read by in short, not to | frequently used tor | nureh adja- — | magic lantern AF | to give an a | Fusang, supp | century. He found the zoology and botany | of {tae Cninese monk asimost entirely at | jault, if an deserbing the country of | cial character. | meantime at the World’s Exhibition in America, ro gilt of | One of the secretaries. Dr, Grdudall places une | earliest discovery 0: Greenland as cariy as 982. ‘bue secona paper, by m. Gravier, of Kouen, Was ub elavorave ‘preseacation of the caied Paanician remains ou the Ameri- can Continent, citing the most curious of the scriptions oF Imprints supposed to be Phos Rician, as jound ta certain localities 1n Connectl- Cul ana the Mississippi Valley: M, Gravier spectaly instances YS KOCK FOUND NEAL ST. LOUIS, on which tlere Were inprints stimiar la character to those found in the Fewple of Karmax ta Kygypt While reading this paper the secrecary paren- theticaily temarked that the work of tis Congress must be mustened, as civilization In America was just destroyiug the very provis neeved to com- plete the mistury Of the past and to estabiish dei. nitely tus precise Character ol the early relauons between the ot and new continents, Cousider- avle attention Was given in M. Gravier’s paper to The Disuton Meck, IN Massacullsetis, Whose curi- suriace has provoked sacha tu- mul (ering students of antiquitnes, and alter citing Lhe NUMerONs AUuihoOrities Who Delieve that tae Digston Kock 18 a Phoeuiclan momument, gave the statement of Francis Parkman support- ing the theory that ine Characters on tne rock merely Contained an aceount ef a batcle between two iidian trives. As for M, Vier himsel), his COLCiUSiONS, a8 the secretary who read Lis paper Said, “Are shronded in a sage reserve,’ bub it lOOKS Very Much asi the Pho. so: | nician illusion Woud get pretiy thoroughly des | Wmulished Lewre the Congress Lrewks up. THE NEXT KVENT was along and spirited address by the Ddrilifant | M. Leon de Kusny, Who basea the real question before the Congress, “Was tuere or not anything like serious discovery Oi America bere vie ad. | vent of Columous?? fhe Norsemen came and went lke shadows, Making ho impression on the new continen', ‘they wad bad jie or Dotlag todo with ihe iptuuate History of America, He ridiculed the belief tuat the Budanist® haw ever had any fooiaolu on the Western Continent, re- Jusea to consider anytning wich was not entirely Kistorical xa quoied Voitaive’s remark that when God Was muking fies in America he might Just as well Rave mace men there, too. In short, {. de Kosmy repudiates the theory of an Orteatal, OVerrunuing Lito America at some remore period and believes Wat the real retavions of the oid cons tinenis With the new, so lar as anything hike changing Lype Of race, &C., Was conceraed, began with Coliinous. He cited and analyzed the opinion of M. Fouceaux, I'rolessur of tie Vollege de France, that everyting leads toa belief tn tie early ind of Oriental ASL upon the Western Coniment ws," aGded M, de Rosny rataer pottisniy, nt s hat everything seeins to jead to tae moo.” For hamseil ne coud not Mud the siigatest possibillty of tracing a conn tion between Buddhism and the religion of ancient Mexiev, and gave numerous tnsianees of the compete difference between the two. tis cons clusions Were entirely lu favor of the theory tuat fhe AMEFICAN PrUMuive WAN velonged essen tally to the Western Continent and that he was not the ATUL, OF CMB CATON ITO Asta OF any WheRe G88, Tih ALBE PYTILOT OF CANA & missiouary Ww ws LY joug among the Northera fualaus, spoxe earnestly im support of the teury that tuere ha y cuilgrattous vom Aaa to tie Amerie tHe traced contin Hunterous poluts OF resembiance vetween the Ine gians On voth sides of Beariug Strait. The rend JAtker's testimony, Uthogh lnveresting endoorute, Wits NOt jaVotMbly reebtved Ly tie jortiy of the savans In (ue Congress, who hold Tub (he lauguages or bhe Alericun savaged wre Isolated auG Ol a special system of their own, aituougu there May Ve OCcAsIONM! siNguiar resem biance bo (uose vi Other conrinenis, Lieulenane Frederick Heliwold, of tne Ausirian army, fol luwed With numerous facts, Whicn led him tO bee lieve that the people on either side o; Behring strait had always vee@o bWo distinct races, Some furbier Mseussion on This point followed, atter which Mr. Lucien Adam proceede. to demoiish tue WONDROUS TALE OF “YUSANG." Mr. Adam gave @ Very clear and able analysis of the reciiai O. the Chinese mouk, wWhica preteuda | inception of the Congress are so firmly convinced, Fusang, he had tovended to depict any portion of the American continent. Inshort, M. Adam left tne merry monks of Sawarcand, who are supposed to have been our earliest expiorers, not | a@ rag to stand in, Ho joliowed with an able analysis of those architectural teatures in Mexico | Which have by Soule been su) posed to indicate te former presence Of Buiduism, and adduced | great numbers of proofs (hat there was notaing Ol a Buddhist character in them, and nothing but | SUppositions on Which bo base a si | they were other than entirely indigenous. | Banke” might, he thought, safely be set down as @ | favie, Otner reports Were read on the Phoenician | remains; snd M, Levy Kieu, Paris banker, and | member of the Ethnological Society, read a paper, | in which he endeavored to prove that an tuserip- tioa near “Grave Creek.’ Indiana, commoniy called Phonielan, was nothing more or less than Hebrew, Jo-morrom’s session will be devoted exclusively lo eLbnography. THB FRENCH ATTENDANCE DURING THE MEET- INGS OF THE SAVANS—CITIZEN CAUTION GIVES PLACE TO THE LOVE FOR SOCIKTY— GossIP ON AMERICAN NATIONAL POLITICS— A SERIES OF BRILLIANT AND LEARNED PA- PERS, “Nancy, Lorraine, July 22, 1875. The narrowness and pettiness of the spirit of the masses in French provincial towns finds, per- haps, Jess ilustration in Nancy taan elsewhere, | yetis noticeable even here, Tne ‘people’ did hot begin to manifest any interest in the Con- gress untt! they learned that quite a number of English and Spanish speaking Ame:ioans were present. Then they flocked into the old Ducal Palace in large numbers, apd yesterday, having heard with great attention from end to end the speecn o1 Professor Haynes, of boston—speech of which they did not understand a word—tney applauded vehemently. The comments on the Congress and the delegates to it which we some- times heard 1u the streets were very amusing, “ZA, dlen/? said one workman to another, ‘UVolumbus 18 unfasted now, ley? They can take him down out of the now, can’t they? Five hun- dred savang ought to be enough to flatten out any ordinary discoverer, hey? At the Cables @hote in the excellent noteis which Nancy possesses the commercial travellers, who just now act as a species of political missionaries in France, stopped their wonted wrangles over republicanism versus Bonapbartism and indulged in the most learned comments on Americanism, building theories be- side which those of the Chinese monk Hoi-Cnin and of Brasseur de Beaufonez, the imaginative decipherer of the sacred language of Yucatan, sink {nto the merest insignificance. By the close of the second day the Congress was a success in every sense, even the half-incredulous Parisians, who had, perhaps, not desired very ardently tnat it should succeed, finding it likely to ripen into & permanent institution, A LITTLE GOSSIP ABOUT AMHRIOA’S ROLE IN THE CONGRESS shows that the country, quite as much con- cerned as any of the southern republics in the interesting discussions tn progress here, | did nothing to encourage the growth of | the enterprise, M. Lucien Adam, who formerly Tesided in America, and who seems to have kept alive a veritable worship for the United States, wrote long ago to President Grant, asking him to subscribe and become a patron of the association, as Most of the sovereigns of Hurope, the Emperor of Brazil and other American dignitaries have done. The President refused to subscribe, how- ever, the letter declining the request being for- { warded from the French Legation at Washing- ton, and aunouncing that the President couid not | patronize a private society. Minister Washourne was also appealed to to give the Congress some moral support, but feit constrained to decline, as he did not consider that the meetings had any om- Protessor Henry, of the Smitn- sonian institute, was written to some months ago, | the letter asking him to state whether or not the next Congress could be held in America, but no answer has been received. M. Adam and many others who are most intimately associated in the however, that some effort 10 have the next Con- gress at Philadelphia willbe successful, that they have decided to appoint the “approaching ses- sion” for a period two years hence in Luxem- bourg, leaving a chance for a meeting tn the THE CLERGY appeared to regard the Congress at first with some little apprenension, fearing that in the dis- cussion as to the origin of the original American the daring investigators mizit stumble upon some remarks on the ‘Origin of the Species,” or might otherwise render it awkward for a true son of the Church to sit ‘on the platform. Mgr. Dupan- loup, the indefatigavle, who interests himself | were ably luterpreted by 4 in everything, and who writes the most charming | letters on all conceivable subjects, with an airy | disdain of what may Le said about him by otners— | Dupanioup wrote letter sdme time ago to the | Congress, complimenting them on their efforts, | which he believed would in time settle many vexed | questions, AS soon as the local clergy saw that | there was likely to be no danger of damnable her- | esies they came in wilingly, H Bisnop, tt 1s said, felt bound to de- | cline the invitation to the public dinner | which follows tue Congress, simply because Voi- taire had been quoted by a Olppant member in one of the sesstona, Siace tie Rev. Father Pelltot, Who has spent so many years wandering among the Indian trioes in the trezen regions of British North America, has given the Congress his remarkable ethnological and lingutstic Studies, and obtained such genuine applause, the enthusiasm of the fathers has been unbounded, and they have come in large numbers trom aii the | monasteries and iMstitutions of learning round about, to hear and to applaud, The clergy aoes not | happen at the present moment to bein very good odor among the Freach loving ana patriotic re- | publicans of Lorraine, because of a singuiar inct- | dent whica happened gecentiy, and which Is al- | together so extraordinary cat L may peruaps be | aliowed to introduce ir here. | THE NEW CHURCH of St. Epore, at Nancy, ts unquestionably one of | | | although the vke finest reigious monumenis in Europe. — its beantiiul of & recent church /estivat adorned) with a fag which the inhabitants of Nancy were at first puzzied to comprehend, but whica fnatiy reveuled itself bo their startied eyes as whe yellow flag of wid Lorraine. Now, as Lorraine has been annexed to France for more than one hun- | dred yeurs, tue people fatied to understand way The ti-colur was Nol hoisted instead of rhe yelow | flag; and the Mayor, aver some inought, sent to the cuarch to recommend suca a line of Conduct. His admonitions were totally disregarded, ana it Was Not uatl Jour o'clock In the avernovn that the Mayor, tukiag uy tis mina taat tee muntecipal autnoriiy had been purposely disobeyed, Had | tne yellow Hug removed and the republican colors | run up in its place, The cleri uriy oiferea no EXplanation Ol tts conanel, merely pleading Ig | HUTAnCe AVOUL tue Mag Ousimess wien Lhe Mayor compiamed, ‘The imutter was freey discussed, aud vue Univers of Paris, taking up the cadces jor the clergy, ADNOUnCeS Chat the parish priest- hood bad to raise tie irecolo 1 that conduct Was ale tated by meusnreso} p pruden “Whas,? ward the Grin thought of M. tho curd, Lhe shoutd, witpin a few steps of the Ger- man froutier, solsmualy accumplisi ® surt ol co Secration to God ol oilicial France, and with tits fresu assertion Of the superiority of Chnren to State the Univers ciosed the ing dents without | furnishing uny explanation of the presence ot tae Lorraine banner on the cauren spire. A PRIEST DEVOTED TU SCIBLCE. I have spoken of Fatner Pelitot’s ethnological and ituguistic scuates as remarkable, ‘tuey were certaimy among the most Valuable contributions | preseuied before the Congress, and will (ake ragk Jor (ho TOUgNNess Of Fesearch aud tao interesting nature of their detalis with the Viyla analysis given by Professor Leon de Rosny, o/ Paris, oF the or sucred writing, foand in Yui Tae re 4 ADbE Pelitol has prepared and is shorciy | 1O pubiish a uietionary which will give the world aw bet er Knowledge than it has ever iad belore of the K-quimaux diwects, ‘The dicuionary bas been presented to the Congress, aud Wii probably ap- pear under its auspice hough tue funds for its PUVUCATON ure ‘urnisned bY M. Pinurd, & wealthy | fud weusrous Frenchman, Who has dweit long in vhe Aeurian [siands, and who, like Father reli, Is Uru venever in ab eariy emigrauon from | Asia to Alerica. VUE TRSIIMONY OF THE MISSIONARY is ail the more valuable from this fact, that he | Was for sowie years thoroughly sceptical as to any such euigration, and that he was convinced agwinst His will by te gradual accumulation of | strikiow facts, Abné Peettol claims toa. the Bs- quimaax, aithougn perhaps vltener within a, bout than any of tHe Ocher tribes inhabiting the polar regions, 18 im reality less known. Le suy# they call tue Ocelaent their country, and always assert that they came irom there, He spire Was on bhe occasion systematically reta#ed tier | Institutions for the @ | ber of musical and | the | The Opera House Was nex olfered under tore- | | Did Was not acceprod, Dut was soon succeeded by | bids of $20,000, | When price the mortuaxe of $30,000 increas | $105,000, learaedly pointed out t! betweeu toeir language and the Polynesian, and alleged that their dances are very like those ofthe Malays; he thougnt there would be no diMculty, in time, in proving that they are a race trum Asia. The Abbé devoted an hour of ‘Tuesday’s Sermon to a clear auuiyeis of einno- logical proofs of the Astatic origin, not only of the Esquimaux, put of the greav number of ; small indian tribes which he comp:ehends uncer the name of Denédinjés, On Wednesday be showed tne resembance of language which eXists on both sides of Behring Strait and also the prevaience among the Indians of buna- dreus of customs woicn are indisputadly Oriental in thelr origin. When tae Avbé's reaearches are pub.isded, 10 Conneerion with the regular reports Of the Conyress, they will certainly excite a vast deal of curious atten tio: PROFESSOR HAYNES, OF BOSTON, presided wei! on the secona day, and tis addresses | Madier de Montjau, M. Luciep Adam and otners. As tne question of the condition of the ladians in the United States Was vroughs up in convection witn some reler- ence to their origin. Professor Haynes gave a suc- ely count of the jocation Oo: the tribes, their general Ssiaius, aud outlined the Biack Hilis didicuity, Most of the savans are pirtsans of the indians, aud au enthusiastic individual, wno Fead @ lengthy paper on vur Indians, discovered | that tuey still have an indispatabie right to lorcy- three white scalps, to Dalace up the little. “un. Pleasautwess” of iastyear, This provoked a roa: Of iaughter and turnea the grave body of savans | for ® fine Ito something very like # tneutrical | audience, | Amoug the papers read on Tuesday was one by | Du. GODRON, Dean of the Facuity of Sciences of Nancy, con- cermiug the names and customs of the ancient Americans, and one irom the Haytion Minister of Pubic Instiuction in repiy to some Gemands of members O1 tue congress as to the origin of the Maytien peoples. ihe Minister responds that there are but .ew remains on whica to base any hypothesis with regarg to Hayten origin. ‘Loe first oues knewn Ol were Indians, and so-called by Coiuubas, and were allied ov a'gieat number ol characteristics to the Ludiabs Oi Mexico, In the beds of tue rivers or under mountalns of sand | alovg the sSiores May perhaps yet ve jound sowe | Jew Memorials O: a Vanished race in the shape of | Statuettes of tne malicious deities or rudely carved | altar pleces, but uotaing new has been jound to throw aby more int on the prehistoric period | thun may be found in tae recitals of Las | Casas and Charlevoix, There existed, it is paid, among the trives im Haytl before the arrival of the first Kuropeans recorded in history a tradition that one day a whtte man woud come with fire and with strange weapons and garimesits of metal to subjugate and desuroy, On this point M. Luciea Adam Inade a powerlul | and iuteresting spercn, alluding to tne fact that | tuls curious tradition had been jound to travel | usually irom eust to west among the tribes and PEOPLES OF ANTE-COLUMBIAN AMERICA, and that it was douptiess due to the occasional shipwreck of Huropeans, whose unlortuuate barks Rad dried fur to the westward aud veel cast upou nukhown shores, Notning was moro natural than that the savages, once seeing Europeans, and toe evidences of their power 1a their weapons, their armor anc tugir ships, snouid Bave suid, “seme day these people will dis- cover our shores, instead of being cast heipiessiy by malicious curreuts apon tuem, and Waren that day comes We sfali ail be enslaved, because they are so Much lere powerful than we.” Nothing, also, Was More natural than that such a legend might pave ween tausporied trem — one end of Atnerica to the osher, and handed down from generation to generation as @ aim aud terrible loreboding of an unhappy future, If tue Meaus O1 Interaal Communication irom the coast Of South America to tie Rorimern regions, jor commercial purposes, were as great beiwre the time of Columbus as bistory had represented them, Why should not traditions as wellas precious Levi have been carried swiltly irom pulnt to point remarkable similarity | PROFESSOR JOLY, OF TOULOUS! read an eXiaustive treatise on “I'he Mound Builders of the United States,” mainly embody- ing facts pretty well known to the American gei eral reader, Baron de Bretonne, of Denmark, pre- sented a Communication supporting tue theory of Asiitic immizravionto Norim America, He gvea Deueved that some of the lost tribes of Israe: aad | strayed across the Straits, and was quite willing to grant that the Phoeniciaus, if trey could be summoned out of their graves, could perhaps tell | us ore about primitive America than could any other people. Baron de Beetonne aiso elavorated tne hiscory of the Icelandic discovertes in America, and recalied the fact tuatin tue twellth century Bishop Eric irom some point in America | preacued in favor of the crusudes, sand tat is colouy sent skins and — other trophies of the chase to be sold in ald of the ex- penses of the crusading expeditions, He also re- counted the story of Auor, the lcelanaer catla, vorn, either In Connecticut or Massacuusetts, in 1107—the child from whoin the great sculptor ‘Thorwaidseu was descended. ‘fo this charmingly written paper succeeded # rather duii treatige on the Iroquois, read by the librarian of tne city of Metz, On Wednesday PROFSSSOR WALDEMAR SCHMIDT, of the University of Copenhagen, presiaed. Sefior Pacheco, oi Peru, read an interesting paper in Spanish on Peravian antiquities ana the ancient | Janguages O! his country. A portion of the arucie | ‘Was translated for the general edification, M. | Lucien Atiam followed im an address reflecting | the general opinion of the Congress—viz., buat | there bad been, at one or at various times, an | extensive and varied immigration irom Asia into | America, vat denying expressiy that tiese io- | jerior peoples were the originators of thut grand | and mystical civilization of Wich there are sucn | numerous and diverse records on the West- ern Continent, ‘that civilization is, in MM, Adam’s opinion, the work of races created on Ainerican soil. Toward ihe close of his ad- aress M. Auum:, in aliudiug to America in geueral, paid, in the name wf the Congress, a sapero com- piiment to the NEW YORK H#RaLD ‘or its enter. | prise in sending its Own ageuts to Central africa | and to the North Pole and for its zeal in the | cause Of science, A PAPER FROM MISSOURI. Among the curious documents presented to the Congress yesterday was one from Mexico, Au- | draim county, Mo., viving @ detuiled account of a Swede who had dis -uvered an Ineian tribein Kan- sas, whose language Was so intimately allied to | the Swedish tuat ie cogld converse with them. ‘the Congress received this wih the national shrug of tue shoulder, M. Adam, alluding to tae projessor who fancied that he nad iraced a marked resemblance between the Bas-Greton and some American dislects, but who finally discov- ered that the similarity existed only Ik lis laucy, M. LEON DE ROsNY’S PAPER on the Maya iuscriptions was a fine effort, and afforded ® marked instance of the tactity on- joyed by this lively peopie of investigating even the direst subject witn interest. His whole ad- dress, extending over pernaus an hour and a half, and bringing much controversy and many details of linguistic character into play, Was as interest- Ing a8 # romance. The goideu rays of suniigns that wandered In tarough the windows and played | graceiuly about the antique painted heads of the | old dukes and monks und chateaux of lorraine distracted the attention of the andience no whit. M. de Rosny gave an account of the three noted | manuscripts in the anclent Maya language—tuat | owned by the Royal Library of Dresden, that at | present im tne National Library of Paris, and that found in spain oy Brasseur ae beau. | vourg. De Kosny also devoted consideravie | time to demoiisming tie pretensioas of Beaubourg | as to nis transiations from Maya Inscriptwns, He | clied the opinions of Bancroit, of San Francisco, | Who Says tat the translation must ve called a | failure of Francois Normand, who calls tt fantas- tie. He finished by an elsborate description of | the progress of his OWn studies in Maya, and sub- mitted fo the Congress a table of the language, which he believes wil yet be the means of un- veiling the Most ancient ‘history of the American Continent, | Whieh ts transported on the hundreds of miles, loses ail or the greater portion ofits profits. Money tx 50 very Scarce in this coun- try that the little there is 18 never carried out and rareiy tucreased, $0 that the same unre- A SEAT OF LEARNING, Nancy 1s the seat of a jarge number of institu. | tious of learning, prominent among which are | the academy, which comprises the faculties of law and inedicine, Of s-1ence and belles-letires; the only dcole forestiere, or schvol for the teaching | Oi engineering and the preservation of forests in France; a fue lyceum, a primary normal school; , dumb and blind; a host of very got irge and pay sehoois for ebudren of ‘all ages; an arcnwological society, | the Central Society of Agriculture, a Jarge num- literary secietics, and many Catholic and Protestant benevolent Institutions. Chie among the lasti¢utions worthy a visit 15 the Academy of Stauisias, 1ounaed in 1750 by the King of Poland, Tae old University, whose butid- ings were (uisned tn 1788, Is Very eich in manu- scripts, In priniet books of 1600-15, Im globes, in Meads, 1h cemeos and tn portratts. The little cliy may, With some reason, boast that itis “the | Athens of France,” 20d may xalely count on hav. ing a session of (ne Ameticanist Congress in its MIiskagain some day Tala evening the city is to be Hiuminated, and a grand dinner given at the Hotel de Vitie will con- cimie tne season. In a succeeding lester L wilt trace the events of to-day, and will add (o an ac. | count Of toem some idea of the presen’ Condition | of Lorraine. scsi idan | | SALE OF THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE, The attendance yesterday at tie Exchange Salesroom, owing to the advertisement that the Grand Opera House would be put up at auction, | was far in excess of the usual number. | ‘The Arst lot offered for sare was lot No. 331 West | Twenty-third street, Which Is located 326 feet west | of Eighth avenue. The bidding contunued slowiy | until tf reached $14,000, and 1t was fnully knocked | duwo to Willam i. Dinsmore, President of | Adums Express Company, for $1,250. | closare, the auctioneer announcing that the price pald muse euuject Lo a mortzage of $50,000, | with imierest due from evruary 1, 1873. the buuding, which ia a five story marble frout, covers & Plus OF ProUnl 118. AXGOXOIN 1BONTA 4X1OSXBIXTS, feet, and coustitutes the nortnwest corner of Twenty-third street and Higity avenue. The first offer made «as $10,000 avove the morigage. The $50,000 and $36,000, ant it was floally Knocked down so Kilen W. Pike 10r $75,000, Bx 10 | fhe accumuisted interest, Which must | also.be pald, aggregates DeLWeenu $5,000 anu $6,000. Among those present were W. UL. Peckham, 5. L. | in partnership and contentment, periorming | @ stage on which human nature may be stuiliea | | Which there seems to be @ fascination which can- | dally labors, where he leads a solitary lite, work- | | when he is at home, and seldom leave without a | midst. Lust summer Mr. Jack-on was fortunate | know not | they derive no benetits to themselves nor enrica | WIth hu remuneration, Unt In & few ye Wii be & respe | of the miners are Working Muustrivasiy oa t | modious oF prepossessing. | streams iali over the rocks jor THE HAYDEN SURVEY. PECULIARITINS OF THE POPULATION OF THE MINING REGION—THE ANCIENT “FORTY MINERS'’—TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SAN JUAN | DISTRICT—HARDSHIPS OF HE GOLD SEEKERS’ | LIFE AND NEEDS OF THE SECTION, PloroaRarmic PARTY, ) IN CAMP AT THE LA PLATA River, COLORADO, July 25, 1875. Parrott City is the wearaquarters for all the | miners and settiers in the Cullfornia district of the San Juan mining country, and ts located in a | small valley just west of the La Piata River, of | Teen miles trom its source in the volcanio moun- tains of the La Plata Range. The town contains two log cabins, im which a number of men five thelr culinary aud chamberwork in the only room the house affords every morning and | evening, and devoting themselves during | the day to their various out-door oceu- | patios, A new mining camp is always | in Its oddest phases, amid the most novel and in- | teresting of plays. There are in such places | always some strange characters who have de- voted their whole lives to this kiud of lite, in | not ve resisted, There are men who came out to Ca}!fornia as mere boys during the panic of ‘For- ty-nine,’? ana have since beea following this no- madic life without interruption or desire tochange it; men who hoped to make rapid fortunes thirty Years ago, still poping against hope, but with yet brave hearts, and hands willing to help a brother; | inen Who have become inured to the hardships of | | an uncivilized and dangerous Iife, yet with the tenderness of women and the sympathies of more | refinea natures; blu old men, with sivewy limbs | and brawny muscles, Who can look one upflinch- ingly in the eye and say to a needy friend:— “1 Know not the ways of the worla, but what I Possess I will share witu you.” On the other hand, there are aways those that are unwortny of trust, whe will take advantage of another not so well versed in the wicked ways of men. There are avaricious old men, whose | very eyes express the greed which ynaws at their miserly hearts, In fact, there is every variety | and grade of ore represented here in the human | metal, just as there is in the rocks in which they | delve jor riches, All such characters we fad among the crowds which flock to a newly discoy- ered mineral country. Our camp here ts particu- larly rich in such material ior the study of tne profouudest piiilosopher, There are vld, gray- headed men as poor as when they first entered the country mauy, many years ago, but as hale and hearty and cheerful as ever, ooking unfalter- | ingly to the iuture, Xe little Miss Flite in “Bleak | House,” for great Jortuncs which are sure to | arrive at last, | “OLD BOREN,” a little man of nearly sixty winters, ts as spry as a boy and climbs the mountain sides to prospect and works his claims as well as he could have | done forty years ago, His isolated hut, near the head of the La Piata Canyon, 1s the scene of bis | ing nis gold and sliver mines, and ever ready for ajolly talk or a joke with any visitor, He has | taken out hunareds of dollars in gold during the | last few months, and a nugget, wich resembles in shape a rooster, is always crowing for him over his neighoors. Then there is “Big Alec,’? who works all day at his “Comstock Lode” and re- turns at night to bis humble tent of sprace houghs, where he eats his frugal meal of bacon and bread as heartily as an alderman, Thompson, one of Bret Harte’s characters, was here last year, but has disappeared irom the boards of this stage to act npon another. Kinney, an original Irishman, was constantly travelling around the country at all hours of the night, with his Burro as sole companion; but he | has also recently snumMed offon a trip to Japun. But Putnam ts still hers, wth bis long, sprinkled | hair lying on his shoulders and parted in the mia- | die, his classic fea'ures, buc! in suit and dry | Jokes. Captain Moss, however, 18 the head to which every man turns. When he is speaking each eye isriveted on his benevoient face, and the oldest of his audience pays him homage. The | Ure and Pan-Ute Indians hover around the city” leg of Mutton, some flonror tobacco. He is big clef among them, and bis name 1s 4 passwort to travel without molestation auywhere in their enougn to secure wie captain's services on bis photographic tour as guide through THE PRE-HISTORIO RUINS of the Mancos Canyon. Just as the settled parts of Colorado are intersected in every direction oy railroads, the southero and western portious are covered With a network of tratis jeading to all points, and most of them are of Indian origin and ulmost as old as the bits, having been travelicd for many generations, some 0! them being worn afoot below tie surmice. Hach one of these the Captain 18 periectly tamiliar with, having tra- | versed them for years. But as he has jast started | for California, and goes not expect to return for three or jour Weeks, 1t will be Impuss'bie to have | him with us bois summer. Wheu he goes on a | long journey his baggage consists simply of one | blanket and a pocketlui of bread and jerked meat, | which usually last bim a jormnight, | Yne sarrounding and natural advantages for mipiag in Wus country are jar superior to any other section or district in the southwestern por- ion of this Lerritory. Unitke Baker’s Park, where | ail the valuable lodés are located far up tne moun- | tains and even above the tim all tne veins so | far discovered have, tn the Caliiornia district, aps peared jow down and generaliy on the very brink of the river, so that they can ve conveniently | worked and brought into communication with | any point. east or west, by means of gvod wagon roads. But the great drawback in tats whvie western country 18 the lack of capital and capi- tals. Those Who Own and atvempt to devewp the mines are scarcely able to purchase the necessities of life. It iS not an uncommon tag to find men Who possess tiirty or jorty lodes, valued at perhaps millions of dollars, who hve on-bread und bacon the year round and often from wheace their next meal Is to come, Men owning a dozen or so mines there are | who spend rheir whole tine in WORKING OUT THE ASSESSMENT ofeach loge i order to retain them, and thus the coffers of the people. In the jaws of Volorado each mine ts required to have $100 wortn of labor | periorined upon it each year, Which 1s termed the assessinent, And In neglecting thls the cam 1s | liable to be forieited, or, if the owner ts absent, | to be jumped by wnotier party, Another ureat drawback to prosperity 18 toe great scarcity or entire absence of smeiting Works, for the ore | backs of animals for deemed ciirreucy pusses from hand to hand so many tines thabit is irequently diMcult to rece ognize the deaommauon in the btatiered and greaxy paper whica 18 presented to one in change When change can ve ovtained. What the country | wants, then, 1s capital and cupiiaists, Until | such material 18 AVaLavie the lavorer will labor in | Vain jor wealth, ana things wilt drag aionz in the same vid channels, hetvact Improving nor retro- grading. To be sure, the ore will still ve tanga | Oat by one or two msu, stowy, laboriously und S$ there bly sized “damp” at tae mouth of che snatt, but noboay will bo any tae better jor the work. \ fis district belongs properly to the Pacific slope, and, thereiore, 1S commencing to attract the attention Of capitalists and Calvornta ts be- coming interested im its development; for 1t 18 ciated hat the mineral weaitn of this district Will equal any Section Of that Stave in qualiiy and qaantity. Lodes that show such unsurpassed richness in tuelr suriace Ores are certain to prove | better upon development, and tuereiore my ir claims bo get at the vaiue of the veins below. The VALLEY OF THE LA PLATA 19 here very beautiiul and on the west side are numerous little open parks, in which many of tne Miners live. ut their residences are Lot com. | Tuere are cubic: boxes, made of logs, scarcely five feet in dimen. | sions; there aro lent-shaped suanties, formed of boughs of trees, but many of the meu live under canvas, The vegetation 18 rank and laxuriant, | Aud the spruce aud wuite piue often reach the | | size Of bWelve feat in citcamierence, The canyon contracts toward its head and picturesque many feet and | flow into tue river. We visited one o: these fails, eight miles avove our camp. Wiih tue photo- grapuic kit, While We were Waiting for our sup. | plies. and as if Was DaINClEss We called it, from 118 | discoverer, “Horen’s Falls.’ On our Way back we stopped at Boren’s ranch, received a good dinner, pholographed tue Cavin and adjaceat god alg. | gins, and (0 as-ure Ourselves Of Lhe enuiueness | of his representations concluded to make an ex. | amination of the gulch, Taorowing ho. more than | halt & dozen shoveiluls Of loose earta and gravel luto the siuice boxes, the water was turned on, the gravel Washed and several pieces of pure gold taken from tae residue consideraply larver than a large pin’s head. Toroagh all tae remaining biack sand Were scattered multitudes ot grains of gold, and th must have oeem at leas’ (our or five dollars’ Worth of dust, taken as it Was ih 1e83 than ten muinutes from (ve suriace soil. While other men are tolliug up and down M. Barlow, and others interested In the aifairs of the Kitie Ratiread, the mountain for days im search oO: “leads” Old | other Cuban cities on a grand scale. | the charity funds of | lk | trustees t | LOL; 1878-74, 105, and the nas recorded “forty” in the past few months an¢ a few evenings > wandered out und discovered and located four, promising veins. Since tne first discoveries Cap- tam Moss made tn ‘Tirbircio Gulch three years avo the country has been steadily incyeasing Ip value, and it is safe to predict thas in a very few monins, or even Weeks, there will be an influx Of jortune seckers here, believing they nave at length discovered the El Dorado of the world, THE WAR IN CUBA, CIVIZ AND MILITARY DEMORALIZATIONS AMONG THE SPANIARDS—GUTIERBEZ DE LA VEGA, His ‘‘RING” ROBBERIES AND HIS FRIENDS— WHAT MAY COME OF IT-—-SLOW PROGRESS IB THE FIFLD IN THE FACE OF ACTIVE REBEI COMMANDERS, Havana, July 31, 1875, In & previous letter Istated that serious charges had been brougnt against Guuerrez dela Veza, but as they were of a grave character I nesitated to state them until { couid obtain full particulars, He ieft here yesterday tor Spain, covered witn tl execrations of every loyal Spaniard and branded as the greatest public robber that has ever been sent to Coda, It has been known for some time that smuggling has been carried on in tnas and The Now York Cronista denounced tt, but no one could be lleve that if had assumed the gigantic proportions thatit did acquire. More than $1,500,000 in gold is the lowest estimate, Part of this plunder lately remitted to Madrid as bush money Gutierrez de la Vega, with a list of those were to share 1t nis cocument ati ne clude the name of the Minister for the Colo and he, suspecting the honesty of his prot | for even public thieves are supposed to be rc among themselves—telegraphed to General maseda requesting information asto thed bution of the $250,000, and asking who haa it, This telegram broke the speil that thel Cuban siren, Conentta, had cast over THE ENCHANTED TENT at Las Cruces, and hurried our gay Lothario to Havana, as well to.answer the Ministe pleading ignorance of the whole proceedings i+ insure himself from farther attacks. The v pected disclosure naturally produced great 8 tion, and the result of the repeated telegrams © been the summary DISMISSAL OF GUTIERREZ DE LA VEGA. As bis bad luck had pursaed him up to the 215 inst., his last diy in oMce, he endeavors mantpulate the Havana lottery so that he or pin intends should get the capital prize. The naw oe 30,087 was billeted for tne capiral prize, wh the number shonid have been 30,088. The le 1 or being drawn fn pnbdlic, the swindle was soc | tleed by the crowd who had collected to w the drawing, andthe right pumoer was s tuted. This ends the ofleral term of the por ex-Gobernador Pollnco of Havana, wno pt the city, and in. ms oflice of Director General of the Royai Excr closes his career in the grand embezzlem over a million in bard cash. THE MALEDICTIONS of a naked, starving and unpaid army accor him to Madrid, where his ill-gotren wealt | probably be speot ia Intriguing lor anoth | office wherein to julil the old axiom that “1 repeats itseli.’? GLAD TO BE HOME FROM THE SEAT OF W Some o: Valmaseda’s staff oMcers and amateurs belonging to, all the arms of thet celsbratea their return from the fatigue ennui o! the Cinco Villas campaign by gett @ private bull fignt on the 27th inst. Thr ? | was gotten up in grand style and the you cers vied with eaco other in seats of val: dexterity. ‘his was to amuse the inmates ’ brothet houses of this city, who were the or vited guests, I regret to say thata few 4 highest ofiictals of the government dis themselves by thett presence at tit!s scar exiipition and their utter disregard of the morality of Havana, PROGRESS OF THR WAR. The Ptario de la Marina farnisnes its witli its usual forraignhtly exhibit of militar ations, Which, summed up, mean simply | Spanish army, a8 @ general thing, les qu rest In sammer quarters, the Commander- 1s luxuriating In the cool and secluded Qu los Motmos, and a tew contra-gueriilas « only parties seeking the wary Mambl in hi tain fastnesses. From the insurgent army I have tne inte that Sanguill 1s encamped within twenty Colon with 5,000 well armed men, The commanders knoW that h4 18 there, but abxety ty atwack him, It is Stated that Garcia ts tn the vicinit Tunas W.th 3,000 men, and that Maximo G in command of 5,000 men 1a Lhe vicinity © sey and Cieniuegos. DEPORTED TO SPAIN. Quite anumber o army and naval oMe sent nome on vesterday’s steamer by Valmaseda. They have all been guilty ¢ meanors, and [suppose forma partof w clique that Concha anounced as insnbdor Joveilar will probably be adie to fin} piaces for them 1m tae army operating ag». Carlists, THE POOR CHILDREN’S SIONS. wiers ? The following additional contributions |» Poor Children’s Free Excurston Fand nays * received by Edwara King, Treasurer, Broadway:— 4, A, Roosevelt, per Theodore Rooseve It. Maiden Lane, per Theodore Roosevelt. Rose and Nelly, per KB, C. Homans. . the J. W. vam ; Cash... x R K Excursions. A. K., Brooklyn. A. J. GAIMAN. .. coeee Total. oose.+.0 Previously acknowle Total Expenses, Balance on hand...........+ The ‘hird excursion will be giver and after the expeuses therefor are there will remain in the bands of 1 urer nearly enough money to give thet nic, which wifltake place on Saturaa In order to give additioual ¢€ money 1s urgently needed, and at once i manager, Mr, Williams, may be enabied t the necessary arrange ia (a work * days) In advance. The beneft derived b ' chiluren from tuese Tee exearsious emp usk for SUDSCTIptON:, TN sa sent to Mr. kdward King, freasurery 73 1 or to any of the trustee. THEODORE ROOSHVE CHARLES HH, MAR: WM. BUILE GEOKGE W, Me EDWAKD KING, No New York, August 6, v1, No. 9¢ Mata a (0. 38 Burl ie wtp LL rine st N, Stock Exchang broadway. 75. Atm THE CATHOLIC PROTEC! In consequence of the rush of vist to the grounds of the Catnolic Protectory « festival which 1s now \a progress arr have been made to continue 1% autil ¥ the 1ith inst, Incinsive, In addition to tne large factlities of, joyment as well as instructive ent | there is also presented to the public ay perte nity Of taking chances ior a very valu teresting work of 7* It consists o of cod, richly chased and with antiga mountings, sent by His Holimess the P after tue female department of the was destroyed by fre. Airoady the lip takers Nas become quite JoogtAy, Ab! & ue continuance of it 1s looked Lor ‘The speaker of yesterday # Tn con ou With an incere: institution's ends and progress ne ive very jearned and well applauded er Daniel O'ConAn whose centennial W enthusiastically celeorated wherever hear! beat. Several over geutiem: hin in speeches, linstratiug the » ‘ dered by. the Protectory to sulfering | tuts city. To-aay the Hoard of Ald make their aunual Visit to the Protec merous distinguished gentiemen a | eubereeedty (toc ok) ak os) aan HOM@®OPATHIC MEDICAL | ' ‘The sixteenth session of the New Y Dice patnic Medical Coilege will begin Arey Taesday In October, The Board of Tr ‘ evidence of success, state that the cli the first under the new adininistrauo « but 48 students; that of 1871-72, 79; tt lags Of 1874 s Increase Of Nr . 138 Matricuiates—an cent im five years. Lhe studeuts are arragged im & fur and senivr Cliss, reference being b progress in studs, previous colleg and relative proficiency. Candidate gree oi Doctor of Medicine mast, th with law of the state of New York, bi years of age, 0. good moral character Biudied medicine three years with physician ta regular standing; mu Certificate of at iwast one Ors: apatomy; also, an acceptable thes) handwriting, and must sustain suck tion in each department of the cour Boren is locating them om @ Wholesale plan, He satisiactory to tke faculty and a eel