The New York Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1875, Page 5

“ THE HERMANN FESTIVAL: Details of the Great Celebration, SCENE IN THE FOREST. The Meeting of Bandel, the Sculptor, with | Emperor Willia DETMOLD IN ITS GLORY. Dermoun, August 17, 1875, Yam afraid it will be somewhat di Mcult for me to tell you how supremely happy have been the citizens of this | Mttle sleepy town for the last few days, and bow proud | they wore of their royal and forcign guests and of the | big monument and the creator thereof, When I ar- rived in the city, a few evenings ago, the streets pro- wonted avery picturoeque appearance. Nearly all the | fronts of the houses were ornamented with branches of | firs and overgreens and flags of Lippe and Prussia and | j ing to the principality had gathered there in order to Germany, and men and women wero busily engaged planting temporary spruces on cithor sido of the strocts, | and the flaxen haired boys and girls came down from | the mountains bending under heavy loads of | branches and young trees, Some of the | sleepy town city fathers were experimenting in | illuminating tho front of the town hall; but they | had very wisely issued a proclamation to tho | effect that a general illumination would not de held on | the night of the Emperor's presence in the city on ac- count of the full moon! Who can but admire the wis- dom and foresight and strict regard for economy evinced by the good burgomaster and the city fathers! Btrange to say, the city has a gas manufactory, but evidently the directors have but little influence in the councils of Sleepytown, Nothing is more character- | istic of the quiet nature of the place than its cows, Every evening, about dusk, they come home from tho mountains, and pass with the greatest calmness down the principal street, disappearing one by one up narrow alleys to mysterious cow houses. The last one | f saw stood lowing for a moment in | front of the Schloss gates, and then marched | over the parade ground and entered one of the priva' doors of the castle and I saw her no more. The de- portment of the sleck animal appeared to me very characteristic of Sleepytown and its ways of life { THE FIRST DAY OF THX FEST. Sunday, the day before the festival, wasa grand day | for Detmold. From carly morning until night came on | she thousands of guests, peasants and students, some | bn foot, some in carriages, and others in the ladder | wagons of tho rural districts. Some thousands had ar- | rived the day before, and though accommodations had | been provided by the committee in tho houses of the | citizens for many, yet there were hundreds who had | been compelled to sleep outin the forest all night. | This, however, was no great privation, since | tho night was warm and many had pur- | chased light net hammocks; these they | attached to the trees, and slept more soundly than the | unfortunate travellers who had to roost with twenty or thirty companions in a single room. The dealers in | hammonks did a thriving trade all day Sunday, as did the | vendors in many other articles, to which they had affixed the name of ‘Hermann, the Cheruskan.” The old Chief- | tain’s name was in every shopkeeper’s month, You | could buy “Hermann medallions,” of all shapes and materials; the tobacconist tried to tempt you with his groschen “Hermann cigars; a deer seller advertised bis “Hermann beer” for sale, and another offered you, * besides tho beer, his ‘famous Hermann schinkenaud | Bausages.”’ Of books about Hermann, and pictures and | photographs of him, of the monument, of the sculptor, of everything pertaining to the fest, there was no end, Thave purchased at least a seore of books and pam phlets and fying eheets about Hermann and the monu- ment, but, strango to say, the booksellers hardly knew anything about the drama on the Arminian battle by Grabbe or Von Kieist, or the operatic libretto by Kotze- bue, or the DRAMATIO POEM HY KLOPSTOCK. Klopstock’s ‘‘Hermannschlacht,”’ which is now con- sidered dreary, was highly thought of at the time of its | sppearance, and Gluck had some thoughts of composing | the music to an opera based on the work. Gluck and | Klopstock became first acquainted in Strasbourg, | and they met later in Rastadt, when the composer played some pieces of his projected opera from memory, much to the poet's gratification. It is to be regretted that | Gluck did not write down his music at the time; it is | said to have been very beautiful and majestic and char- | acteristic, and Kapellmeister Reichardt tells us that Gluck played several pieces of his work while at Vienna and shed tears of emotion at certain passages. The “Wodanslied” affected him very deeply :— Wodan, unbeleidigt von uns, Ficlen sie die deinen Altaren uns ant Wodan, unbeleidigt von uns, Erhoben sie ir Beil gegen dein freies Volk! Sleepytown would have given great pleasure to its guests if its theatre had been opened for the festal ocea- | sion, and a performance of Kleist’s ‘“Hermannschlacht”’ in the version of Rudolf Genee, had been presented on the boards by the dramatic company of Saxe-Meiningen. Unfortunately, Sleepytown cannot afford to maintain a ‘dramatic company of its own, and the theatre is only opened six or seven weeks in the year to a wandering Thuringian troupe, THE FESTAL DAYS, On Sunday night, at a quarter to seven by the old clock on the tower of the Schloss, the Empcror of Ger- many, the Crown, Prince and suite entered the quaint, decorated little city. All the church bells of the place, two in number all counted, “rang out joyful peals,"” as the saying is, and the people gathered in the streets and cheerod very lustily. In the large courtyard of the Schloss a few spectators had been permitted to occupy places on the grass and to watch the greeting of the Emperor and Prince. A company of soldiers, with a military band, stood opposite the Schloss, waiting the arrival of the Kaiser, There was not a speck of dust to be ¥een on the coats of that little company, not a stain on the tronsers of white linen, Whon tho first cannon shot was heard, announcing that the Emperor was approach- ing the sleepy town, tho men fell into position, they | brushed thefr uniforms, and then the officers went along the line and brushed off the least speck of dust that tonld be distinguished, aad x general, seeing a helmet tho eixteenth of an inch out of the perpendicniar, put it Htraight before the great imperator came, To the right of the company of soldiers stood a group of officers in! brilliant uniforms, and among them was a stmali, grayish | bearded nan, clad in a Prussian general's uniform, with | only a broad, yollow-red sash to distinguish him from the rest, He was a very pleasant featured gentleman, and very cordial to the officers around, with whom he shook hands all round, evidently much to the astonish. | ment of the Prussians. This very pleasant looking in- i fividual who seemed ill at easo in uniform and pickel- | haube, is the REIGNING PRINCE OF SLERYTTOWN | and of the entire principality, {t was curious to see | how the vassal Prince greoted his Kaiser, ‘The im- perial carriage, heralied by outriders and drawn by four beautiful Sonner horses, drove up. The Emperor stepped out very lightly, indeed, considering his years, and hastened up to whore the Prince stood motionless. Tho Emperor gavo his hand to the Prince, who stood with head deeply inclined and tho left hand heid to the helmet asin the military salate. ‘The Emperor then | inspected the company of soldiers, had them march past before him, ecomed delighted, and thon the im- perial guest and princely host entered the carriage and were driven tho few yards to tho festal entrance of the yastle, Later on in tho evening « torchlight procession wok place, the torches being oxtinguished in front of bho castle, A MORNING OF GLORIOUS st Monday morning broke out in glo tary reveille sounded through the yoven o'clock all the guests in the city up, and many thousands on their way to the Grotenburg. At Balf-past cight, the Kaiser reviewed a regiment of sol- fiers on the square, tn front of the castle; at nine the Builds and societios anit guests gathered on the “Kaiser- Platz” before starting in procession for the mountain; halfan hour lator they commenced to move, and were pollowed in about an lowe by the imperial and princely party. Such a procession was, of course, never scen in Sleeortown; it seemed like a great, slow moving serpent | | for ladies, the other for general guests. To the left of | known, by the way, on the top of the mountain by | from the city at. the Emperor's express wish. He do- | Germany, which had so long treated him and his work | statue, whose majesty and grandeur makes you un- | structure had been finished fourteen years, and the | aro soveral ladies there, and old men and young boys, | the forest hut, and many times a week sho has walked _ completion of the monument, on Professor Hocfor | inch of the figure was formed by the sculptor from tho NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1875.—-TRIPLE SHEET, LT when you looked at {t from the heights You saw the bead emerge from the narrow streets of the town, pass slowly along through the shady torest skirting the valley where Charlemagne defeated Wittekind 1,000 years ago; then begin the mountain ascent, and as it Decarse lost to sight in the forest you saw, three miles | back, the body of the monster still slowly emerging from thecity. At various points along the way the foresters had erected triumphal arches covered with fir and evergreens, and one erectod just at the entrance to the forest was a very interesting structure. It was | decorated not only, with spruce twigs, but with the antlers of stags, and bore an inscription for the Km- peror:— “WELCOME TO THE TEUTOBURGER vonxsT,”* while, as the Kaiser passed through, four live foresters, clad in hunting costame, stood like statues one in each | of four niches, two on either side of the archway, lean- ing on their rifles, while deerhounds reclined at their fect. The Emperor was greatly pleased at the idea, and spoke a few words to the foresters, ull of whom belong: greet their princely master’s imperial guest. The other side of the archway, which the Emperor would see on leaving the mountain, bore the mscription:—‘Farowell sreeting from the Teutoburger Forest.” ‘ It was a brilliant and interesting scene all the morning | on the summit of the Grotenburg. The monument of | Hermann, the Cheruscan, crowns the summit of the | hill, A Jong avenue had been cut from it on either side, #0 a8 to cnable tho visitors to get good views | of the figure, Om cither side of the avenue | tribunes had been erected for the accommodation | of the guests and the Imperial party, Immediately op- ; posite the little wooden hut, where Von Bandel has Spent 80 many years of his life, the imperial tribune was erected, perhaps thirty yards across, On oither | side of this tribune were platforms, the one to the left and to the right was one for the singers and musicians, Long before the Emperor and suite arrived on the ground the ontire space of the long avenue was crowded with the guilds and students and schools, with their banners. I think as many as 30,000 to 40,000 persons were there, with at Jeast 400 banners and flags, and among the latter I saw the Stars and Stripes, borne at the head of a company of German Americans, who had come over to visit the Fatherland, It was a remarkable scene, and one that will not easily be forgotten by those who witnessed it, I do not re- member any so impressive—the vast crowd, the colossal monuments, the great monarchs of the forest all around us, and in front of the little hut the aged, white- bearded man who built the great hero of copper and called all Germany thither. THE FAMILY OF YON BANDES. And while we are waiting for the Kaiser let us look for a moment at the front of that little wooden hut or shanty. We have an hour yet, for the cannon fired from the foot of the monument announces only the imperial departure from Sleepytown. The fact was the Bandel hut was the tribune reserved for the press, | { means of a telegraph wire, which had been erected sired to telegraph immediately after the ceremony all about the affair to Augusta, in Berlin, perhaps in the old strain:— Lieb Frauch: Old Armin is O my dear Augusta, rog'lar buster; Not Arnim, dear, for he’s no go— Praise God’ from whom all blessings flow. Gathered in front of that little hut around the aged | sculptor, who is greeted with such enthusiastic cheers, | | wore thirty-eight members of his family, from all parts of Germany and other countries. The old sculptor him- self, who for some months past has suffered from im- | paired eyesight, stood gazing about him somewhat dreamily, as if he could hardly grasp the thought that at Jast his labors were ended and appreciated, and that with neglect, had gathered there to look at his hero. 1 have already told you about the remarkable life of this very remarkable old man, who first entertained the idea of making this monument to Hermann when ho was but nineteen years of age; how he has been engaged on the monument for thirty-soven years, and now, an old faltering man of seventy-five, has just completed the cover your head in admiration before its maker. Many atime has the sculptor’s heart been sad, but he never Jost faith in the future, but told his friends, even in the darkest days, “With the aid of God and of the Ger- man people I will, nevertheless, finish my work!” ANECDOTES OF THE ACULPTOR. One stormy night, in the year 1860, after the sub- work had almost completely stopped, a little money had again been contributed to the Hanover Committee for the erection of the monument, and Von Bandel de+ termined to resume his work once more on the Gro- tenburg. He wandered from Bielefeld through tho forest to the summit of the mountain, intending to pass the night in the little hut that | he had left fourteen years ago. What was his sorrow, however, to find that his shelter had been torn down, as he afterward found out, by order of the Detmold Hermann Committee, There, in the beating rain, the sculptor sat down and wept bitterly. He reached Detmold and entered the hotel kept by his friend, Mr. Maller, of the Lippischer Hof, after mid- night, drenched to the skin, exhausted and almost broken-hearted, But when the morning came he started again forthe mountain, A new hut was built and the work was resumed. The relations of the sculp- tor and Mr. Miller have always been the most inti- mate. The people of Detmold call the sculptor “The Old Man of the Mountain,” because he has appeared among them go frequently and mysteriously during the last thirty-seven years, while Von Bande! styles Mr, Miller the Waldliufer, or the runner of the forest, since he has always taken the old man’s letters and papers and telegrams up to the mountain hut, Mr. Miller it was who had the kind- ness to walk with me one afternoon up to the monument and to introduce me to the old seulp- tor and his family, and during that week T heard many | characteristic traits about the old man. Herr Maller told me that Von Bandel had never expected to live to see his work finished, but had provided in his will that in case of death the statuo should be completed by his friend, the sculptor Professor Hoefer, of Stuttgart. The old man had, too, selected a place for his last resting place, on the summit of the mountain, nearly under the shadow of the greatmonument, To this spot he once took Mr, Miller, and made him promise solemnly that when he died he should be buried there on the moun- tain, in the forest stillness. “And how will yon place me?” he asked. ‘How else, but with your face to the rising sun?” was the reply. “Good!” said the old man, and went slowly along, And what better resting place could Germany give to tho glorious old man than the crest of this hill, and let tho monument of Her- mann the Cheruscan be his GRAVESTONE AND EPTrarn But Lam forgetting the figures before the hut. Thero all bearing some relation to the sculptor. Frau yon Bandel is there, a black-haired, slondor lady, of perhaps fifty or fifty-five years, whose face shows the lines of care which she has suffered with her husband during the many years of privations and hardships. Sho has been for months the sculptor’s faithful companion in down the mountain to the town to bring up their scanty provisioi For Von Bandel was a conscientious | steward of the moneys contributed for the erection of the monument, and after he had spent his entire for- tnne, which bis friends tell me must have been somo fifteen oF twenty thousand thalers, he paid hinsolf, whenever he wns working, the same wages that he gave to his assistant workmen-ut first a thaler a day, and later about four marks, or a dollar in gold! Among the setptor's relatives prosent Imame also the architect, Hacklaender, the cousin of the novolist, his wife and two children; Horr Meyer, of Berlin, a sou-in- law of the sculptor; Herr Arnulf von Bandel, who was & long Umo in. America; HH. H. Ruhl, ayoung and promising composer, who is origaged toa granddaughter of Von Bandel, now resident in London, and Mrs. Henry yon Bandel, an attractive English Indy, tho widow of Heinrich von Bandel, who gained great ropa lation in London asa sculptor. Professor Hoefer, tho sculptor, Von Bandel’s intimate friend, is thero too, among the family, Had Von Bandel died befor the would have devolved, as I said, the duty of finishing his friend's work, Professor Hoefer expressed to me the greatest surprise that his friend had ever been ablo to accomplish the work as it now stands; for, said he, he beat the copper plates with his own hands and with nothing but agmall modei to guide himself by, Every plan in bis mind’s eyo, and yot tho statue must be de. | druggists resident of Brooklyn deny having dressed clared a great and finished work of art. Profecsor Hoefer favored me with some detailed plans of the mopument which 1 am sure will prove very interesting to American sculptors and engineers. Ono figure is g00d representation of the entire monument as wo see it to-day, Another figure represents the iron cylinder Supports for the statue and the anchorage, which is firmly secured in the walls of the Gothic temple—like substructure. Although the monument has already | been described in the columns of the Hxnato a repeti- tion of THE PRINCIPAL DIMENSIONS and architectural characteristics may be permitted me. The Gothic substructure is 93 fect high, the figure from the plate on which it stands ts 90 feet, making in al! 183 fect, Tho body is 50 feet high; to the point of the winged helmet, 55; to the point of the sword, The figura is composed of 209 separate plates of copper, weighing altogether 23,000 pounds. ‘The figure is upheld by eyl- inder supports of iron. The lowest portion is a cylinder 13 feet high and 10 feet in diamoter and etands in the hollow space of the domo; a smaller cylinder is placed within this one immediately under the plate on which the figure stands, ‘To these supports in the dome are attached the anchors, which are secared lower down in the stonework. The plate on which the figure rests 1s thus safely held in position. ¥rom this plate then rige the three cylinder supports, reaching to the hips of the - figure, ‘The principal eylinder | is concealed in the shield and mantle, | is five feet in diameter and weighs 6,000 pounds. Three | other cylinders extend from the hip to the breast of the | figure, ten feet high, and aro securéd together by means of @ horizontal iron plate. Above this rise two other | eylinders, one supporting the head, the other the right arm with the sword, ‘Tho fingers of the right hand em- | brace an iron holder, in which the sword ts placed, The | entiro iron support consists of 600 separate pieces, | weighing 113,000 pounds. The cylinder framework, | constructed by Von Bandel, offers a resisting power | fifty or sixty times greater than will ever be required even in the violent storms that frequently rage on the summit of the Grotenburg. THE INAUGURAL CEREMONY, Now let us return to the inaugural ceremonies. The tmperial tribune is filled with priices and officors, In the centre of tho front row sits the Em- peror, looking pleased and remarkably well. To his right is the Princess of Lippe, on whose right again sits the Crown Prince. To the Em- peror’s left are seated Princess Louise, of Lippe, and the reigning Prince of Lippe-Detmold, Back of these are Prince Carl, of Prussia; the Duke of Saxo-Meiningen, the hereditary Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe; Prince Gunther, of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, and high military representatives of all the other reigning princes of Ger- many, General Von der Tann is the dolegate of King Ludwig, of Bavaria, Immediately in front of the impe- rial tribune is a body of twenty ancient peasants, clad in | ancient mail and bearing on their shoulders ponderous swords that appear to have beon made in Nebelheim for | the Teutonic gods, so longand wide are they, This is | the guard of honor. They are styled swordmen, | and come from the neighboring village of Horn. ‘The shirts of mail and the huge swords are heirlooms andowned by the descendants of the men who 400 years ago fought in the struggle against the Catholics under the Duke of Brunswick. One of the members of | the band handed the Kaiser a poetical effagion assuring him of their loyalty and willingness to defend the Em- pire, notwithstanding the fact that the coats of mail were rusteaten and the swords a little too large for or- | dinary purposes, A cannot shot announces that the festival is about to commence, A chamberlain 1s de- spatched from the {mporial suite to the sculptor’s hut, and then a way is opened through the crowd and Von Bandel, leaning on the arm of the said chamberlain, | walks slowly, with uncovered head, to the front of the imperial tribune and bows low to the Kaiser, placing his hand upon his heart, as if he would express in s1- lence the gratitude ho feels, Bandel returns to his hut, and we notice that he now wears upon his breast the cross of the ORDER OF THE PRUSSIAN CROWN, and we learn that the Emperor has granted him a pen- sion of 4,000 marks as long as he lives, and that when he dies his widow will receive half that amount, until her death. No wonder the old sculptor appears troubled and moved. Then, on a temporary pulpit, erected a little to the side of the Bandel hut, shaded by a venera- ble beech, appears a Protestant clergyman, Koppen, of Detmold. He opens the ceremonies by prayer, ‘“‘in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,’ and } gives us a brief sermon, durig which the Emperor and the thousands assembled stand, with heads uncovered, | in reverential silence. The musicians and singers give us the “Hermann Cantate,” composed by Herr Ruhl, to | the words of Lechleder. The music and choruses aro very effective, and the young composer is greeted at the close with a very flattering ovation by the hearers. A TIRESOME ADDRESS, Then there followed alengthy address by a Councellor Preuss, of Sleepytown, who tired the patience of his | hearers somewhat, and was finally compelled to vacate the pulpit by the cheering of the people. His address reads very well now it is printed. He spoke of the sig- nificance of the festival, of the deeds of Hermann, of the history of the German people, of the life of Von | Bandel, and when ho finished cannon wero fired near | the foot of the monnmont, a German flag was hoisted on the monument, and musicians, placed at the foot of the dome of the substructure, played the impressive old German choral, “To God on High the Praise,’ the peo- ple singing, with uncovered heads, all standing. Then came Y A VERY TOUCHING SCENE. The Emperor despatched his chamberlain to the Bandel hut, and in a few moments the sculptor was seen ascending the steps loading to the imperial tribune, The Emperor rose, and went to meet the old man. He graspod his hands with great warmth, holding them for over a minute, and then apparently complimented the sculptor on the completion of his great work. The people cheered again and again, with delight at seeing the honor paid to the aged man; but Bandel himself was deeply moved, and tears of joy coursed down his cheek, and a chair had to be given him whercon to rest, Then the Crown Prince came up and followed the example of his father, greeting the sculptor in his open-hearted fashion, The | Prince of Lippe-Detmold followed suit, and the old man was almost overcome with emotion. There he sat, a prince of the mind, among the princes of this world, who had come to do him honor, Did this repay for ail his labor, all tho years of privation he had passed through, when both princes and people had apparently | forgotten his existence? I am afraid not Tho old | man can never forget the past neglect, But he does not care; the great work of his life is finished, and the monument stands in all its glory and majesty, and he Is ready to occupy the silent grave in the nook of the | forest which he selected for himself long ago. There | was another address, more music and cheering; then Miller von dor Werra’s ‘German National Hymn,” | sot to music by G. Reichhardt, the composer of “hat | is the German's Fatherland,” was sung, and the festi- val was over, Tho Emperor and suite went to view tho monument and then drove away down the mountains to tho city, AND OF THY CHREMONY, So ended the ceremony of consecrating the monu- mont to Hermann, the Cheruscan, on the summit of | the Grotenburg. The weather was delightful, and the people enjoyed themselves to their heart's contont in the forest, under the shade of the beeches and ouks, in view of the colossal gure, A great number of restau- rantsand booths had been erected n short distance | from the monument, and here the festival was kept up with song and dance and music until far in the even. | ing. Later on bontires were lighted on various po! of the Grotenburg, presenting a very weird appear- ance, and very picturesque were the scenes then, with the lurid flames lighting up the happy faces of groups of dancers, and now and then reflected on the colossal monument of the Cherusean hero, About ten o'clock the people began to leave the scene of tho festiviti forming a long procession to the city. Some bore ban- ners, others Chineso lanterns, others branches of the troes, and the students and Turner societies joined in singing Scheffel’s rollicking song about Hermann and Varus, THE MISSING HIGHWAYMA’ ‘Tho police of Brooklyn have called upon overy medical man in the city, by order of the Superin- tendent, and also at every drug store, and inquired whether any person had had a gunshot wound dressed last Wednesday night, ‘The object/of this was to to efect the apprehension of the supposed high. » who was shot near Jamaica, 1. [., by Con- amer, on Wednesday nig! Vhother he was shot dead or ‘not ix a matter of mere speculation, The army of physicians and surgeons and the hundreds of any gunshot wound since Wednesday night. FRANCE. aii aenn Assembly of the French Councils General. —-—~——— FOREIGN PRINCES IN PARIS. Sale of the Grand Hotel du Louvre. Sewn RECOLLECTIONS OF TE GAY EMPIRE. Panis, August 17, 187%, ‘The session of the Councils General, in all the depart- | ments of France, opened yesterday, and their sittings will have considerable !mportance, because their mem- bers constitute the electoral body who are to decide upon the choice of anew Senate, How far their choice will bo ratifled by ominent Frenchmen, should many such be chosen, remains to be seen, Itis probable | that afew prominent placemen and ex-placemen will consent to perform Senatorial functions; but the great lights of France will stand aloof, Men of exceptional ability and influence, such as M. Vietor Hugo, who was once a Senator under Lonis Philippe, have begun to un- derstand that they exercise a far higher and more | beneficent control over public aMairs by steadily refusing offices and honors than by consenting to receive them under any conditions whatever, Nevertheless, the new Senate will have a good deal of work, and may possibly become more potent than the lower house, It will be a very differont assembly to the English chamber of peers, or to any other legislative institution which has preceded it, The new Senators will not be shackled by imperative mandates, and the powers granted to them are so extensive that they will bo able to take tho initiative in law making, and will have the real guidance of public affairs in their hands. In the first instance it is believed that the Senate will be composed of respectable mediocrities, because the Councils General are so packed, and the parties com- posing them are often so equally balanced, that it will be difficult to obtain a majority of votes for any of tho { favorites of faction; and, therefore, conciliatory attempts will frequently be made to select persons against whom nothing can be said rather than states- men of marked opinions likely to take vigorons action in any difection, The trath is that the conservatives of all parties in France, whether imperialist, legitimist or Orleanist, are anxious to wait upon events and seize such opportunities adroitly as may turn up hereafter rather than to try hazardous chances, which have scarcely any prospects of success during tho present wealthy apathy of the French people. On the other hand the more cautious of the republican leaders, such as M. Thiers, M. Gambetta and the Nestor of the liberals, M. Victor Hugo, are perfectly aware that if they push their triumph too far just now the Republic will get into difficulties, and could not possibly be maintained without bloodshed. Whereas, they think that the old MONARCHICAL SUPBRSTITIONS ARK DYING OUT, and that as soon as timid people are satisfied that a republic does not necessarily mean perpetual rioting, | terrorism and the insecurity of private property the | whole population of the country will become so at- tached to it that they will wonder that they ever agreed to live under any other form of government. Thus there is a general truce in party warfare, and tho best thing which can be hoped for France is that it may en- dure till it has been consolidated into a permanent peace. Indeed, if France could once appease her inter- nal political discord she would become very prosperous and happy, and there is no need to fear that she will be dragged into the religious disputes which are likely soon to breed civil strife in Germany, while she can also very safely keep out of the complications which aro again surrounding the Eastern question, Her pros- pects, therefore, are fairer than they have been at any time in her history since the reign of Henry IV. If sho can but contrive to pass a few years under a republic and keep out sho may reduce her five per cents to three per cents, and her commercial large that she may at the same time lighten her taxation and diminish her public debt to such pro- portions that it will no longer be felt as a burden. Meantime, in the natural course of events, the mantle of M. Thiers will have fallen on the shoulders of M. Gam- betta, who has become a very prudent and sensivlo person, not at all like the rash demagoguo he was a few years ago. If the Republic can be really consoli- dated, therefore, M. Gambetta will probably succeed Marshal MacMahon, and thus a heavy blow will be dealt at the military system, and tho enoraous cost of | standing armies may be reduced in France to the same figure as that of the United States, With the army would go the last traditions of royal power, for mon- archs have never thriven without soldiers, and France would be thus placed far beyond the danger of a ‘coup | @éat, Morcover, should M, Gambetta be wise enough to make friends with the conservatives and include the Duke de Broglie, or, at least, the Duc Decazes, in his Ministry, he will do so much to conciliate public opinion by letting down his adversaries easily that the families of Bourbon and Bonaparte will soon dwindle down into | private citizens and be satisfled with the legitimate rewards of honorable ambition in a free State, A SUCCESSION OF GRAND YisITORS, We have had a succession of grandee visitors in Paris, among whom the most notable are the Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the Emperor of Russia; the Duke of Coimbra, heir to the throne of Portugal, and Prince Milan, of Servia, Nobody has paid much atten- tion to them save the President and his officials, and they have been allowed to amuse themselves without the fatigue of public ceremonies which usually make | royal journeys so troublesome to all concerned. The Grand Duke Constantine made a sensible speech at the | Geographical Congress, and showed a considerable ac- He has | quaintance with the object of the meeting. grown much quieter and steadior than he was at the commencement of the present reign, when he was tho hope and representative of the Russian malcontents. He has had considerable trouble with his family (Mra, Hattie Blachford among others), and so the flery, | wrong-headed young man, who played at tho Russian court a part not unlike that of Prince Napoleon during thé Second Empire, has gradually changed into a re- spectable middle-aged gentleman, who passes his time in riding a few hobbies of decent pace with extremo de- corum, The Duke of Coimbra is little known in irope out of Portugal, and still less in America, He is a harmless sort of prince, allied to most of the reign- | ing families of the Old World, and he has been woll received both in England and in Franco, Portugal is perhaps the most popular country in Europe at present, It has given no recent offence to any of the great Powers, it has conciliated the national yanity o¢ France by appointing Marshal MacMahon as arbitrator | in adispute with Great Britain, and it has pleased the commercial spirit of the English people by its laudable exactitude in paying dividends on the Portuguese debt, Likewise the King, having wisely refused to accept of an offer of the crown of Spain when it was made to | him, has secured the good wishes of the Spanish Bourbons and of the Spanish people, ‘The Duke of Coimbra therefore dined with Queen Isabella, and Marshal MacMahon gave « banquet in his honor at the Elysée, For the rest, he lives at the Grand Hotel, like any other ordinary traveller, and not even the Cockneys of Paris think it worth their while to mob him this hot weather. BALE OF THE NOTRE pu Lovyne. Tho Hotel du Louvre has just been sold, together with its furniture and fittings, and it was bought by MM. Chanchard and Heriot for 17,500, 0508. ($3,500,010), There was only one bid made for it, The upset priee was $3,500,000, MM. Chan- chard and Heriot advanced $10 more, and tho great hotel was knocked down to them at thit insig- nificant sum beyond the reserve price. What would have been done with it if it had not been sold ean hardly be Imagined, The site is, of course, valuable still, but probably not halt so valuable as it was when a splendid court resided six months of tho year at the Tuileries, The burning of the hereditary palace of the French monarchs has ruined all that part of the Rue de Rivoli | which extends from the Louvre to the Rue Castigtione, and the line of hotels once filled with magnates and courtiers from all countries have now lost their fash- jonable character, because they are inconvenient and too far removed from the centre of Paris, without any of hostility with foreign nations | gains will be 60 | sompensating advantages beyond a fine view over the Tuileries gardens and the banks of the Seine. Ten years ago the caxo was Yery different. Tho Rue de Rivoli, between the Place de la Concorde and the Tuile- | Fie, was then the State avenue to the imperial resi- dence, and the Empress Eugénie was with difficulty prevented by prudent counsel from insisting that all the householders in that part of the Rue de Rivolt should bo compelled to gild their balconies, decorate | them with flowers and hang out gorgeous tapestry. | Perhaps, after all, it would not have beon such a bad business; for the gayer and more splendid Paris can be made the more visitors’ it will attract and the moro monoy will be spent there, MM. Chauchard and Heriot, the new proprietors of the Hotel du Louvre, are also owners of the immenso store which is located in the,same building. Should they turn the hotel into a part of their shop they will have the largest store in Europe, and should they de- cide to continue tho hotel they may open the most con- venient board and lodging house in the world; for a traveller, by touching an electric button, will there be able to ask for anything, from a cup of coffee to a velvet ball dress or a pair of gloves. Perhaps they may Mako it a successful speculation; but these gigantic caravansaries are never such pleasant abodes for Strangors as small private hotels, for a person who is no¥ in some way remarkable is quite lost in the crowd, and none of the servants knows his name or his where abouts, s0 that cards, letters and invitations got con- stantly mislaid and letters of introduction fail to pro- duco any effect. For people who like bustle and per Petual motion, however, they are well enough, and an advantage than otherwise for a traveller to be able to find some lively place of sojourn where he may amuse himself in his own way and escape altogether, at least for atime, from the pompous nonsense of dress coats and varnished boots, with the other small tor- tures inflicted on fine compan; THE TROUBLES OF TURKEY. AN ACOOUNT OF THE LATEST SKIRMISH WITH ' THE REBELS, Tho correspondent of the London Standard, writing from Vienna under date of August 13, says:— The Vienna papers have received from the Ministry the following seemingly authentic account af the last skirmish near Nevesinje or Stolatz, On the plateau and mountain chain between these places at least six skir- mishes have taken pla Tho Turkish forces concents ted in and about Nevesinjo— which, though they figure under the high sounding title of @ “divison,” are in reality far below the pence footing of @ brigude—are commanded by the provisional eneral of di- vision, Brigade General Selim Pacha, Up to. this day | competent judges in military matters nore. fail to under- stand what aim Selim Pactia had in view in the dispo- ion of his troops that led to the affair of Nevesinje. ‘This much only is certain—that about the 4th of this mouth the Turkish commander felt obliged to push on some bactal- | fons in x westward direction from Nevesinje. These exposed | Turkish battalions were surprised by the insurgents acting | on the offensive, fter s severe fight of some h rs, during which both sides exhibited much bravery and persistence, the Turks wore forced to loave the field, ‘They conld not with- stand the insurgents, who were armed with breech-loaders: the best construction, for they had no troops to full back The result of this by no means inconsiderable battle co the view, at one time entertained here, ax to. the snid to have taken part in it, contained'In despa Ragusa of the 9th of this month, The despatch was correct in the report that 800 Turks were totally defen and even this nuinber is rather below than above the truth) for, nccording to necounts iu our possession, 1,100 Turks | must have been engaged, As for the 200 insurgents who forced the ‘Tarkish battalions to give way, for once, for & The change, « molebill hy insurgents engaged least, 1,200 vo 1,400 si ig and well ofticered. On both the loss of killed and wounded was considerab! Pacha was himsolf wounded, besides several staff and officers. The stratexetical consequences of this battle, which was so unfortunate for the Turks, bear no relation to its dimensions and obstinate character. Nevesinje is held now, as before, by the Turks, und the insurgents, though the moral effects of their victory are unmistakable, up to the sending of this report had not yet undertaken any advance movement on the Turkish position there. W! | Situation has not ossentially altered since then, h the more questionable, as the fact that up to this hour 2,( Montenogrins have marched to the scene of insurrection throws great weight into the scale, The Turks blockaded in Trebigne hold out bravely the defence of badly fortified cities having been the strong side of the Turks even during the Crimean war, It seems, thongh, that the garrison of the town doos | not consist of one battalion of light infantry alono, as [ reported, but also of one regiment (perhaps 1,000 men) of regular infantry, at least one squadron of cavalry and several guns. | Without including the suburbs, the town has 3,000 inhabitants, mostly Mohammedans, who doubtless atford the garrison no slight aid. Besides | this, the insurgents have no cannon, The garrison | Make sallies daily, for they are in want of prov | | | been made out of a he skirmish at N in, which they are expecting from Ragusa, The insurgents have already suffered severe losses from these sallics, On Monday alone they had nearly 100 dead and wounded. | If, however, the garrison is not relieved—and this is scarcely possible—hunger will compel them to sur- render. The confirmation of the fact that the insurgents are armed with breech-loaders of the best construction is, ! above all, worthy of remark in this official report. It is a convincing refutation of the assertion that the 8 spontaneously revolted out of desperation at the oppressive taxes, for they must have received the breech-loaders from abroad. Even directly after the Emperor Francis Joseph returned home {rom Dalmatia, when the Sclaves began to terrorize the Italian work- men, the Italians in their letters of complaint stated that great numbers of weapons were smuggled ‘into the interior of the country,”? and that in the little town of Milna alone sixty revolvers had been con- fiscated. These arms were destined for the Herzegovina, | and were sont off long before the harvest was gathered jin and the collecting of the taxes had be- gun. In Trieste it is whispered that mountain cannon of the smallest calibre are smuggled into | Dalmatia in the large trunks of the Servian’ volunteers, but this must be a fable, Yet, at all events, the Mo | numbers. Prince Nikita has made known to. the | Powers that he would have reason to fear for his life | should he prevent his subjects from joining in the con- | flict. Should the tidings be contirméd that the Prince is | coming to Vienna, the journey would only be under. | during his absence all the Montenegrins would rush to arms, The Russian government has already declared that in consideration of the Prince's precarious situation he should in such a caso be judged “leniontly.”” Nor is Prince Milna reposing on a bed of roses, His faithful subjects give him to understand that he will be expelled if he should fail to expel the Turks. The news of his engagement is ived with extreme coldness in Servia, especially since it has become known. that his betrothed has not, as was said at first, adowry of 6,000,000 ronbles—every Servian had of course reckoned that ‘this whole sum would have fallen to him after the establishment of Communism—Dbut only an income of 6,000 ducats. So, if we take it all in all, a thunder clond {8 hanging over Europe. Allow me to mention a few errors of the earlier tele- ans, It was stated that tho insurgents had taken lonastir, a strong fortress in Roumelia, with a numer- ous garrison. In reality they occupied the Monastir monastery) of Due, near Trobigne. Another of euter's telegrams reports that the insurgents, have | taken Giabella, and that the Turks have concentrated 1,200 men near the Krupa, Now, a place named Gia- bella does not exist in Turkey; only the town of Gabela, 60 often mentioned of late. ‘And, morcover, the latter cannot bave fallen into the hands of the insurgents again if the Tarks are on the Krupa, for this river ilows to the leftof the Narenta, and Gabela lies on the left bank of the latter, near the'capital, Mostar, THE TRAMPS. SHOTGUN LAW. The Philadelphia Bvening Star asks:—What ts to be done with the tramps? Thoy have become so numer- ous and lawless that in many parts of the country women and chikiren are afraid to remain at homo without malo protection, Tho number of outrages perpetrated by this class of men during the present summer has never been equalled. Nover beforo was the country so infested with them. ‘They appear to be no respecters of persons or property. They appropriate to their own uses whatever they can lay their hands on, and, if necessary, use violence, sometimes amounting to murder, rather than forego their plunder. As the law appears to be almost helpless against them, farmers and others, who are the subjects of outrages from these peregrinating scoundrels, will have to arm in their own defence and drive them out of the country, ‘THK COUNTY JAI. ‘The county anthorities in one district of New Hamp- shire have put up posters warning thom to leavo and containing the significant hint that there is room in the County Jail for just 100 of their fraternity, The brother. hood of the road, however, would be undaunted if they y knew how our worthy old contemporary had spoken ‘“aword for the tramps.’? NOT TO BLAME, A tramp Fleeping in « farmer's barn in Rensselner county one night this week came near paying dear for his lodging. Karly in the morning the owner, ina fit of remorse for sonie wrong action toward a neighbor, t to the barn and hanged himself to a ladder. the man was dead the tramp Was aroused by t ing motion of the ladder and gave the alarm. naturally fell upon the beggar, f hard with him had not a neigh! hanced to see him asleep in the darn only a fow minutes before the suicide was committed. DORS NOT SEBK WORK. The Boston Advertiser says that thoro is no greater mistake than to say that the tr artisan out ofemploy, and seeking work. He 18 no such person, There are laborers and mechanics ont of employ, and too inany of them, and they may walk from one city to another seeking work; they may even, and doubtless do, sometimes ask for’ food, drink and sholter; they may be mistaken for tramps, but they are not the irue, geuuine tramp, any more’ than they are graduates from the State Prison, Nor need the two classes be easily confounded. Ono is honest and earnest, Ilo is necustomed to employment and misses it oven more than the money he earns by it, Te has all his life boon accustomed to labor and. to the rospect of his fellow men, and his manner and bearing, though it may be modest and doferential, is that of one who respects himsolf, there are many who will perhaps think that it is rather | tenegrins are taking part in the revolution in great | taken with the idea of thereby proving an alibi, and | mp is a laborer or an | B THE PIGEON CHAMPIONSHIP, LETTER FROM A. H. BOGARDUS. New Yors, August 28, 18% To rmx Eprton ov Tas Henaup:— ‘The letter of your Newport correspondent under date of August 26, published in your columns this morning, detailing an interview held with Mr. Ira A. Paine on Pigeon ebooting in general, and my work across th¢ ocean in particular, contains many facts and opinion¢ on which J would like to make both comment and cor- rection, especially the latter. To say that I did not meet the best men in England is but poor return to one who, unaided and without previous heralding or notice, crossed the Atlantic to meet any and all men. I, of course, could not compel any man to meet me before the trap, but J did all I could to find an antagontst suf- ficiently skilled to contest with me my claim to the championship of the world. Immediately om my arrival in Great Britain I inserted a general challenge in Bell's Life for 100 birds each, half American and half English rules. I fixed a time during which the contest was to be fought, as my stay there was necessarily of short duration. There was mach talk but no definite responses, many wishing to arrange matches, with allowances of distance or dead birds. In several instances I agreed to thit handicapping arrangement as in the Stevens match, and stillwon, Meanwhile the time had run out before 1 had an assurance of having more than a quiet walk over for my championship badge. Then Mr. Rimell came forward, and, with the stipulation that I should load the cartridges for both, accepted my terms, The result of that contest is well known. It occurred on the 7th of August, after the time fixed by mo, and when I had already arranged to return with the rifle team om August 12, the intervening days being already taken up with engagements at Birmingham and Liverpool, 1 had boon informed, that the eve of my departure would bring many challenges, and so it proved. When the few days before sailing were all fully engaged I received an inyitation from Mr. Wallace to shoot at 100 birds, My response to this may be taken from Bell's Life of August 7, which says: Captain Bogardus requests us to state that he finds it impossible to shoot a match with Mr. Wallace to- morrow (Monday), at Hurlingham, as he is compelled to | eave for the country. Bat the Captain states that ha | will shoot Mr, Wallace, or any other man, in May next, for 1,000 guineas a side, from’ twenty-one to forty yarda } rise, at 100 birds each. To this offer I still hold, and if a real contest or a series of contests can be arranged will be glad to take a run over again next year, or even sooner, if any reasom | can be given for haste. | My antagonist, Mr. George Rimell, was complimented on his performance at the championship match; and whatever Mr. Paine may think, the English sporting papers spoke well of it, Mr. Rimell has had a standing offer open to shoot for a stake, undor their own rules,“at any time with any man in England. This has never been accepted, the general impression being that Rimell is @ representative man and worthy of a place in an interna tional match, I could not choose my men, and was only too glad to meet any one, and should have been more than gratified to have met Mr. Wallace or any of | the members of the Hurlingham or other club during | my stay there, | ‘Phe assertion of Mr. Paine that I had failed to inform | myself of the capabilities of English shots is entirely | gratuitous. I decidedly object to his measuring my | corn with his halt-bushel. The scores made at the | Hurlingham Club grounds are measured within bow | daries defined by a fence eight feet high and within | square field, and many birds fluttering along strike the | fence and thus fall within bounds, I myself saw plenty | of such instances during my visit to the club grounds, On the day before my tirst match with Rimell | was on. the grounds and had a conversation with Captain Mon- +son, the manager of the club, and then and thera reiterated my offer to any member of the clib or any man in the country in whom they had suflicient con- | fidence to set against me. I had, however, shot at Hendon, and with my reputation in America and tha substantiation of it on their own soil, they declined at that time accepting anything. Mr. Howard Jaffray was’ present at that interview and can verify my as- sertions. I have no hesitation in saying that the pecu- | liar arrangement of the Hurlingham grounds 1s worth | at least ten birds in a hundred to the shooter, according ‘0 our eighty yards boundary, and I will, if opportu- | nity is offered, wager to beat any score ever made om | the grounds. 'T made this offer on the grounds immedi- | ately on secing them and hold to it stil. . Mr. Paine thinks Shaw’s record in his match with me Proves that he is not a good shot, but he forgets that a& Woodruf’s place on Long Island,’ in a series of matches arranged between us, using one’ ounce of shot, and in every way similar to the Shaw match, except’ in the way of boundaries, which were eighty yards imstead of sixty, he killed but sixty-two out of a whole hundi whiist Shaw managed to knock over sixty-five out ol eighty-nine. With the more restricted boundary in ther | Paine match I killed eighty in the one hundred, while in | the Shaw match, with the more difficult ‘‘blue rocks,” I brought down the same number out of ninety-two, so that if Mr. Paine considers Shaw asecond rate man he must class himself as third class or lower. My scores made with Rimeil and Shaw I guarantee | cannot he oqualied by Mr. Paine or anybody in. this | country or England, and I will furnish American birds for the trials here, which in itself is an .allowance of from five to eight birds in one hundred compared with the blues. This guarantee I will back up with $1,000 even on each trial. Mr. Paine very ingeniously attributes his want of suct cess to want of prairie training, and, after all, I con- sider this the real test of a shooter's ability. ‘It waa there I gained the experience which is embodied in my “Field, Cover and Trap Shooting,” and it is there £ have gamed and expect to gain my proudest triumphs. | If Mr. Paine has skill for anything above the training of begixmers at the trap I shall be happy to moet him for a match at odds as great as $1,000 to $250 to | game shooting contest in the fields of the West. This L consider incomparably the best and proper use for gun: and, for men desiring the best.and quickest course o} | training, far above mere pigeon shooting from traps. Of the match at Newport I have heard nothing detinite or authentic as yet, If it is, as stated by Mr. Paino, a mere cup exhibition, I must decline entering against him with my present knowledge of the man and the circumstances,’ Mr, Paine may remember that T vanquished him fairly and honorably before leaving for Europe, and am now the holder of the ehamplansh ip badges of America and of the world, to either of whic! | Mr. Paine is very welcome if he can prove his right ta | thom inaction. “In the Lorillard Badge he drew up h own conditions, only to be defeated under them. if he | desires work I'shall thank hit for his custom in win- | ning what I now hold, I have already shown my | readiness to make a fur fight across the water | with anybody, or if Mr. Paine can induce his numerous | “erack’? shot friends there, or any of them, to make the trip across, I will give them a yard allowance and, at | 100 birds each, make a match for from $1,000 to $5,000 ‘aside, using their own rules, In short, | will do ‘the square thing by anybody to establish my well-earned + of champion Wing shot of the world. AIT want ia and open field, With the exception of a very few ting men, who expressed a desiro to hava matches sold, I met nothing but the best of treatment on British soll. The professional press there were fair and impartial in their comments, giving praise whore praise was due; and on this side since my return every courtesy has been extended me by ‘press and public. Mr. Paine's caretuily worded misinterpretations of my work, given ‘in all friendliness,” belittles him in the* eyes of all fair and hones sportsmen, My style of shooting, which Mr. Paine deplores as being “not rapid enough when the birds are first class,” has been suffi. ciently so to make for me an unequalled record as a field shooter, and against the liveliest of pigeons in England, gave mo the right to subscribe myself as below, 1 desire no newspaper talk; my experince in England will be placed betore all readers within a few days iv my new pamphlet, ‘Bogardus’ Trip to England.” If any man wishes to try conclusions with me I am ready for action in the field or before the trap, and to afford Mi Paine or any other possible caviller no resort but silence or work. [challenge the world at 100 cach for from $1,008 to $5,000 a side, the acceptor to choose his own rule For my own convenience | would suggest Chicago as the place and within ten months as the time. | “What more can Ido? In ten have defeated Mr. Ira A. Pain meet a single rebut, and yet my critic makes Ii reoord. Yours, ght of may ADAM H. BOGARDU: Champion Wing-shot of the Worl | MARRIAGE FESTIVITIES MARRED, . On Friday evening, according to the New Hater Register, John J, Gallagher, rosiding at No, 203 Wallace street, New Haven, was married to Catherine Quinn by. | Justice of the Peace 8. Zunder, at the residence of Maier Zunder, A large number of the friends of both parties gathered at the home of the bridegroom, and @ merry time was had up to a late hour of the night, Tho proceedings were interrupted by the entrance of three police oflicers, Who served a warrant upon Mr, Gallagher, i which he was charged with’ seducing Catherine Hutchinson, a girl whom he had formerly | conrted, Gallagher resisted the officers, refusing to with them to the police office, In this he was aided is Mrs, Rosanna Gallagher, who, in the course of the aflray, received a severe fracture of tho shoulder, She charges Oificer Doherty with striking her with his club, but this is denied, some of the potict alleging that Officer MeCarthy pushed her is such a manner as to cause hor to fall against an. articlt of furniture, receiving in this manner the injury to het shoulder. ‘The Chief of Polich is investycuting the ailuir in order to ascertain whether the officers. were te blaine, Friends of Gallagher, who waa finally over powered by numbers and iaken to the station honsq claiin that the charge of seduction made against him it entirely false, They accuse the comptinant with do siring to induce him to marry her, Mrs. Gallagher wat attended by Dr. Ballosa, She will be confined to tht eral days, ‘arthy emphatically denies all know! as to how Mrs, Gallagher was hurt, He claims that he and Doherty made the arrest together, did not lose sight of each other during the encounter, and that neither of them struck or in any way injured her, at is charged. As Mrs, Gallagher walked up to tho police office about one o'clock and gave bonds for her son, it would seem that the accident must have occurred long after the officers had left the houge,