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at s pat their Mag inside their doors, which I | or another, elther largely conservative or largely | Antoine,’ gives a vivid acouunt of the first blood shed— Bever intend to do. CoRRESPONDENT—What do you think of M. Grévy? M. Henve—I have already told you that the very ‘worst of monarchies would bave more support among the people than the Marshal. Well, tf you put M. Grévy against the Marshal the proportion— ordinarily the same—would this time be to the advantage of the Marshal. “LB MONDE." Evening paper; legitimiss in opinion; sustains the Marshal. M. DE LAUNAY. M. de Launay, secretagy of the editorial depart- ment, is conducting the paper during the absence of the editor in chief. In appearance M. de Launay is a gentleman apparently forty years of age, deco- Tated, cold toward people, but extremely affable after he has been warmed up by conversation, Formerly he wrote weekly articles for the Figaro, ‘Under the head of “The Religious Week.” The Archbishop of Paris, whom he consulted about ‘these articles, once remarked to him:—'‘Since I eannot prevent the writing of tnem, 1 should rather have you do the work than any one else.” M. de Launay received mein a small, nicely fur- nished office, upon the walla of which hung two frames molosing each a letter written in Latin and signed by the Pope As soon as we were seated I addressed him as follows:— CoxRESPONDENT—What, in your Judgment, will be the results of the elections? M. pB LauNay—I think that the conservatives ‘will gain sixty to elghty votes, nearly ali Bonapar- tis. There will probably be also a few legitimist Votes, but that will be owing to the personal infu- ence of individuals rather than to the opinions of the masses. CORRESPONDENT—What will follow? M. DE LavNay—Whatever transactions may be made it will be impossible to govern the country while this state of things lasts. In consequence, the Marshal, relying upon the Senate, will bring about a second dissolution which will lead us fa- tally to the Empire. 1do not detest the Empire as ®& means of repression. But Henry V, would not agree tothe measures to which the Empire would certainly nave recourse if it should be’ re-estab- Mshed. CORRESPONDENT—Do you think that the Empire, If it should be re-established, would have any chance Of lasting? M. DB LAUNAY—That would depend in great part Opon the advisers whom the young Prince Imperial would choose. Itts provable that he would select men who showed thetr disposition in 1870~young men who wil not fail to enter his service. You may Bccept my opinions upon this subject as impartial, for, a3 you see, 1 hold the party to which I have the honor to belong as entirely neutral in the question. CORRESPONDENT—What 1s your opinion of M, Grévy? M. DE LauNaY—He has no chance. “LIUNION.”? Evening paper; ordinary circulation 3,000; legiti- mist in opinion; devoted to the conservatives. M. MAYOL DE LUPE. M. Mayol de Lupé, editor tn chief. He is a young man, not over twenty-five, decorated, fair, his face surrounded by ashort beard, of nervous disposi- tion, brilliant in eye and warm in his welcome of «visitors, of whom he ‘always takes a rapid prelimi- Bary examination. In response to my call he came Anto the antechamber where 1 was awaiting. him, nd conducted me into around and spacious par- lor, soberly furnished and ornamented with the busts of Plus IX. and Henry V. Ina few words I told him my mission, and ended my ‘little speech by asking him the following question: “What, tn your opinion, will be the results of the elections?” fe M.M. pe Lurz—It M. Thiers were living, was the reply, the results would be deplorable, and the government would be shamefully beaten. To- lay I believe that the government may count upon Oity-fve or sixty votes. But these will be lost it a second dissolution is decided upon. The French do not like to have the wills of others imposed upon them, as the Marshal has imposed his. CORRESPONDENT—Do you look forward to a second dissolution? M. M. DE LurE—I do not think that the Senate ‘Will agree to it. In case of a dissoiution the Bona- partists alone would profit by the sacrifice of the two other parties. ‘They will not consent to help On their own destruction. CorREsPoNDENT—In such @ case the Marshal, having only @ minority in the Chamber, and the Senate refusing # dissolution, what will he do? M. M. DE Lure—He will arrive fatally at a coup aétat OORRESPONDENT—Who will profit by this? M. M. pe Lup&—The whole muddle wil! profit by it [tis only such a muddle as that amid which We live that can survive the dangers that menace as. CORRESPONDENT—What do you think of M. Grévy? M. M, pe Lurz—You are joking. “LE COURRIER DE FRANCE.” Za Courrier de France is an evening paper of ad- ‘vanced opinions, having a circulation averaging Bbout 2,000, and opposed to the Marshal. M, GUYOT MONTPAYROUX. M. Guyot Montpayroux, the editor, is a man of forty years of age, and was secretary to the com: mittee of the Universal Exhibition of 1867, a fact which led to his prosecution on a charge of jobbery in connection with the catalogue. Tle became a* Deputy at the last election through the annulment of the election of M, du | Dessaine, a Legitimist, He ts a restiess, ambitious | man, and 1s said to be a pensioner of a well-known chocolate manufacturer, “The republican deputies will number over four hundred,” he affirmed, with an air of conviction. CORRESPONDENT—And what will be the conse- quences of the elections? M. Guyor MoNTPAYROUX—The immediate over- throw ofthe Marshal and the advent of M. Grévy. After that, the revision of the constitution, the suppression of the Senate. CoRKESPONDENT—But, then, that would mean the Convention? radical Surprises must be expected, whether | caused by fear or anger on the part of voters, or by | the habit that has become general among many people of abstaining trom the polis In the event of a conservative triumph, affairs will be in statu quo. 1n case of a republican victory number- less annoyances will arise for which President Mac- Mahon must prepare himsel! tn advance, He must remember that the President is the first power ip the State in case the two other active powers, the Assembly and the Senate, should persist in retusing to vote the budgets. “It is probable,” adds M. Houx, “that the Mar- shal will suspend the sessions of the Chamber and make an appeal to the plebiscitum. The latter will either refuse or accord him absolute power by @ vote of coniidence. Lf the nation takes sides with him President MacMahon wil! govern France in conjunction with the Senate until the year 1880. It is useless to discuss the case of M Grévy. In con- ‘She fall of a young soldier by & shot fired from the bar- Ficade under @ misconception, and the return fre, which killed the Deputy Baudin, the defence of the subscription to whose monument tn 1863 made M. Gambetta famous, Victor Hugo’s narrative, evidently derived from M. Schélcher and M. Madier de Moutjau, who were eye-witnesses, confirms the tradition that Bauain, tn reply to a scoffing remark of “A bas le wingt-cing francs!” levelled at the crowd of Deputies by come passers-by, exclaimed, “Vous alles votr com- ‘ment on meurt pour vingt-cing francs!” Dwelling on the reluctance of the soldiers to fire and on their mak- {ng DO prisoners when they captured the barricade, Victor Hugo says:— “At this solemn commencement of the conflict a last glimmer of justice and right atili shone, and military probity shrank with a kind of gad anxiety from the crime In which it was launched There ja the ‘ivresse’ of good and thero is the ‘ivrognerie’ of evil This drunkenness later on drowned the conscience of the army. The French army ts not Atted for the comm: sion of crimes, When the struggle was prolonged anu barbarour orders of the duy had to be executed, the soldiers had to be stupefied. They obeyed, not coolly, which would have been monstrous, but with anger, which history will al and with clusion I will state that I am certain the Marshal} many, perhaps, there was despair underiy:ng that will not resign. “UL BSTAFETTE."” Ordinary circulation 15,000; Bonapartist in opinion; supports the Marsha. LEONCR DETROYAT. M. Léonce Detroyatis the editor-in-chief of L’Esta+ Jette. Another celebrated journalist, M. de Gtrar- din, 1s his nephew by marriage. M. Detroyat wasa General under the command of Gambetta, whom, despite their political opposition, he never attacks. When requested to give his opimions upon the probate results and consequences of the elec tions, he stated that he believes the govern- ment will gain eighty votes. “Only two things are possible under present conditions,” declares M. Detroyat; “these two things are the Empire andthe Commune. We shall certainly have either one or the other, Furthermore, I beliete that there is no doubt as to the re-establishment of the empire in 1880, This is inevitable. As it is, If President MacMahon gives Way to M. Grévy during the present crisis we shali have an empire in less than six months, or, at least, another Convention. “PARISSJOURNAL.”” Conservative in opinion. HENRI DE PENE. Henride Pene, who conducts the Paris-Journal, {gs noted above ali for the many duels that he has focght. Two years ago he was neurly killed by two army officers. As the editor of a leading news- | paper, he has displayed undoubted ability, but it is | to be feared that his reputation as a journalist is secondary to his reputation ag a duelist. M. de Pene stated to your correspondent his confident belief that, in the elections, the government will gain fifty to sixty votes at least. He goes so far as to declare that he would not be astonished if the real number should prove to be one hundred, He thinks that assistance will | Deputies to be elected to-morrow there will be 960 M. Guyor Moytraynovux—Nothing short of fhe Convention can go frankly to the establishment of the Republic, CORRESPONDENT—And alter that? M. Gvyor Monrrayroux—The coming to the front of young men. CORRESPONDENT—M. Gambetta, doubtless? M, Guyor Montrarrovux—He or another. “LA DEFENSE.” ‘The organ of Mgr. Dupanioup. Me HOUX, M, Houx is editor-in-chief of La Défense. In & conversation with your correspondent he stated aa his opinion that the elections will all go one way come from 2,500,000 abstentionists. Of one fact he is certain—three-lourths of the votes cast, in his judgment, will be conservative. He adds that nothing can make the Republic more secure than a conservative majority. Such a majority, thinks M. de Pene, would give President MacMahon the power to found the Republic definitively, “LIORDRE.”” Ordinary circulation 14,000; Bonapartist in opin- ion; organ of M, Rouher. M. GAUMONT, M. Gaumont, the editor-in-chiel of Z’Orare, made the following statement to your correspondent:— “The government will certainly be defeated at the polls. Iam not one of those who see a victory in the conquest of twenty-five or thirty seats. After the elections will come the dissolution, Which will lead to the re-establishment of a sovereignty. This result will not proceed from a* sentiment of affection, but irom the fact that the people perceive that in sov- ereiguty alone lies their safety. 1 have no fear of M. Grévy. M.Grévy is @ platonic pretender who will disappear before the Marshal or any distin- guished soldier. Ido not regard a military Pres- ident as a necessity of the times, and I am equally certain that no one holding @ position in the army could venture to enter into a rivalship with Mac- Mahon, If be should make the attempt the army would turn against him. THE MINOR JOURNALS. ‘The opinions of the editors of the minor journals may be summarized as follows:— M. Clement Duvernols, editor of Le Soir, believes that the government will gain eighty members. Floquet, of Le Peuple, cannot believe it possible that France will to-morrow decree a crushing de- feat of the republican majority, Rousset, of Le Nationa’, fears that the govern- ment has taken such measures as will result in the deleat of many of the 363 republican members, M. Petit, of Le Petit Caporal, thinks that Marshal MacMahon will have asubstantiat majority through- out France. He adds further that authentic in- formation has been received from the various de- pattments throughout France that among the new Bonapartists, which, he claiws, signifies the speedy restoration of the Empire. Per contra, August Dumont, editor of Le Telegraphe, believes the republicans will surely elect to-morrow 400 delegates, M. Adrien de Lavalette, editor of the Assemblée Nationale, 1s positive that the government will to- morrow gain froin sixty to seventy seats. M. Bellet, editor of the Frangais (organ of the Duc de Broglie), 1s more cautious than the rest of his conservative contreres. He declares that the government party may rest easily and calculate positively oni conservative majority in the next house; that the policy of the present cabinet will surely be indorsed by the people at the polls; put he abstains from furnishing figures upon which he bases his belief for this encouraging statement, FRANCE AND ITALY. The Italian Ambassador here has bad a cordial interview with President MacMahon and assured him of the good disposition of Italy toward France. A STARILING COINCIDENCE, | | PUBLICATION OF VICTOR HUGO'S TERRIBLE aR- BAIGNMENT OF NAPOLEON II, ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTIONS—A NOVEL CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT. [From the London Timos,) Panis, Sept. 30, 1877. ‘The first part of Viotor Hugo's “Histoire d’un Crime; Déposition d’uv Témoin,” is to appear to-morrow, anil the remaiader ou tho 2d of December, The preface | explains that the work, “written by a hand still warm from tue struggle against the coup d’éat,'’ was com- menced on the 14th of Decembor, 1851, and compicted ou the Sth of May, 1852; that 1 has undergone very little revision, aud that ite publication bas been delayed by aa accumulation of labors, cares and bereavemeuts, “In making tho garrative of past things coincide with the things of to-day, has chance had any share? We LONDON GOSSIP. Loypos, Sept. 27, 1877. Doubts have been expressed whether our iron ships will ever be regarded by their tenants in the same affectionate way asthe old “liners” used to be re- garded by our “old salts,” It has been supposed the latest creations of science will not nourish sentiment ‘The following uneedote, however, shows as romantic ap attachment to iron as has ever been mauilested toward wood. On the Great Western Railway, Eng- land, the broad gauge andjthe narrow gauge are mixed; the former still existing to the delight of travollors by ‘the Fiying Dutchman,” whatever economical shure- boiders may bave to suy to the contrary. The officials who have beep longest on the staff also cling to the broad gauge, like (aithtal royalists to @ {ast disappear. ing dynasty. The other day an ancient guard on this line was knocked down and run over by an engine, and though good enough medical attendance was at hand had skill been of any use, the dying man expressed a wish to see “the company’s’? doctor, This gentie- man, & man mach esteemed by all the employés, was accordingly sent for, “Lam glad you camo to see me start, Doctor, as I hope, oy the up train,’’ said the poor man. “Lam only sorry 1 can do notuing for you, my good foliow.”” “1 know that; itis all ovor with me. But there— 1’'m giad tt was not one of them narrow gaugo engines ag did 1"? REVISING DE QUINCY, In the newly published life of De Quincey there aro some remurkable thiugs. But one of his last sayings ig unrecorded, which is probably explained by the fact of the names of Messrs, Hogg & Co. beng on the ttle page of the volume, On the occasion of a temporary disagreement with that worthy house (!u which they were not in the wrong) De Quincey in a passion ouce observed thas bo believed “the devil had entered into those awine,”” WORSE THAN THE EPIZOOTIC. What I hear newspaper proprietors chiefly complain of during foreign wars is the mortality, not among men, but horsea ‘It is quite extraordinary,” they say, “what a number of these animals are used up by ‘our special correspondents.’ | No disaster, however overwhelming, that befalls tho army with which we sympathize annoys us half 6o much as these few lines, which the readers of our tel- egraphic intelligence perhaps hardly notice:—l am sorry to say my sturdy little horso fell under me to- auy, or gave in finally after unheard of excrtious,’ or (tnig is a very favorite phrase) ‘was atruck in the counter by the ricochet of a cannon ball.’ Horses in this district cannot be procured under £40 sterling.” SYMPATHY FOR THE FAMINE STRICKEN, ‘The famine in Iudia is beginning to stir the heart of England, it must be contessed, languidly, Untila catastrophe has actually happened (to sumebody else) one is apt to underrate its importance; or even to be- lieve it may not happon at al When the special vor- respondéats are sending us thrilling accou ot the calamity we shuil doubtk uppreciate its magnitude asten todo what we cap 100 late. However, we are goiting alive to the fact that the lives not only of tens of tvousands bat of buudreds of thousands of our fellow creatures are threatened by the gaunt demon of starvation; and side vy wide with true benevolence steps in as usual the faise, ‘nat charity which, Sydney Smith tells us, prompts A to put bis baud ts pocket to giveto GC. One “Camilla” wrives to the papers to suggest that ull sharebolders in the Iudian railways which lave this ar paid @ good dividend should subscriby to the Tamine (und, they will, but I don’t see any- thing in **Camilla’s’’ argument beyond tue indication that she herself holds uo India railway stock. She might just as well appeal to all deaiers iu India-raboer, or sellers of ‘‘mutives’’ or importers ut Trinchinopolt cheroots as particularly bound to aie their purse strings. matter of fact the Indian railways de- pendent on the classes for whom she would others provide have returned no protits whatever. THK SILLY BKASON, The publication of “Camulla’s” lettor in the Times was no doubt due to the date of is appearance— bumely, the “Silly Season.” Vhis has been very dull this year, and those pikes, the reporters, have been cousequcntly even more rapacious than usual. They have snapped up everything, quite regardless of its diness for lterary pabalu y buve “deplored the premature diseaso of Justia MucCarthy,’”? who, lam happy to 18 alive and kicking—againet the promaturity of tue reporters. 1 wonder how a gentleman feels Who porus obituary, how he hikes to be told of his “failure to ful) toe high promise of bis early yours,’? and to be patted parrooizingly on the back lor his “social aud domestic virtues’? FICTIONS AND PACT. What romances lie in the obituaries of our daily press! deuth. tu type, and if they be “distributed?? again, to the disgust of the composi- tors. Moreover many obituaries have yet to appenr, the writer of which bas hingelt long joined the inajority. Miss Martineau, for example, who bad to “do” the ‘iiterary undertaking” tor tue Daily News, will doubt- less “aiter death yet speak” about many of ber con- temporaries, When they are sick these manuscripts are put THE AMERICAN CONGRESS AT LUX- EMBOURG, [From the London Athenwam,) The second International Congress of Americanists, or pludents of American arcimology, philology and pre-Columbian history, was held ut Luxembourg, Sep- towber 10 to J3, and proved a decided suceesa, Tho visitors, who represented most of the countries of Europe and South America, were most hospitably treated by the inhabitants, who entertained (hem ata civic banquet on the i4th of September, Some highly interestiug communications were made, of which, tue most importaut were the jollowing;— ‘apers on the Ancient Mound of New Mexico,” by M Robertwou, H. Gillman, Stephea Peet anu M. L Puevlos 2 Pupers on ‘The Antiquities of Greeniand and the Primiuve Havitat of the Esquimaux,” by Messrs. Waldemar Scomit and Dr, Rink, 3, Papers upou “American Hicrogly phies, Ethnology and Civilization,” by Provessor Leon de Rosny, Hyue Clarke, Mudier de Monijau, ¥. A. Alien, Schwab, Maite Brun, Ttronck, Abbé Pipart, Dr, Leemans, of Leyden, c. 4 “Pbilological Treatises upon the American Lan- gunges,” oy Messrs. Heary, F. H, Moore and ‘Adum, the last of whom presented au elabora parison oO} the grammar of sixteen Indian nations. 6. Historical Papers, such as upon the “European Colonies in Markland,” by £, Béeauvoisin; “Compari- tou between Mexican and Peruvian Legielavion,” vy M, Nodal, aud other papers, 6, Several geological treatises, “The Stone Age 1D America,’ such as one upon by M. Guimot, of Lyons, ‘Alvogether, there is little doubt that when the pro- cevdinus of ‘the second Congress of American ists come to be published and cirowlated throughout Europe and America, the papers w|i receive 4 large amount of attention at the huads of the iterary wad geloutitic world. 1t 18 proposed to bold the third Con- 8 (1579) at Brussels, SENATOR BOGY'S SUCCESSOR, (Prom the St, Louis Republican, Sept. 30] Colonel David H. Armstrong was born in Annapolis county, Nova Scot, in the year 1312, He came West and settied in St, Louis in 1887, where he cogaged in business, Ho became, before many years had passed, well known in local polities and was ta 1852 a member Of the Democratic State Central Committee. For many years be Was Chairinan of (hat body wud a leader in it deliberations. In 1570 bis twiluence way sirongly felt whou pulitical matters Were #0 mixed, and since that Ume he has been promivent in democratic couveil During (he adtninistration of Buchanan Colonel Ari strong was Postmaster at St. Louie, and bus s dave occupied many cflicial positions of infue has belu twice the posiion of Police Commissioner, and hus Vecome kooWn as an @flcient and wetive ofi- cer in thut department of municipal affairs, It ie the oitice of Poiee Commi-sioner which he will resign in Hope wot.” Uno chapter, entitied “La Barricade bt accopting the Scuatorship. . Among otuer things | bis own | The viographics of ali vur eminent persons | are already 1m manuscript iu the desk of every daily | paper, awaiting only the tinal touches aud the date of | hauce to get well the type has to | Builders and a. nawin A. Bar- | in. Aruban and the original Norman draught horse. | built overlooking the ocean and the entrance to tha NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1877—QUINTUPLE SHEET. 1 ERENCH Condition of the ton "Trade. cpasiealtammaasaned DEMAND FOR INDIAN SEAPORT. Cot- CORN. THE PERCHERO TIORSE. Havre as a Watering Place. A SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. | Havre, Sept. 25, 1877. Anterior to the fifteenth ceptuny Harfleur was the chief seaport of Normandy and Havre a wretched sait marsh. Now the Atlantic Ocean bas left Harieur teven miles up the Seine and bas made of Havre the nearest seaport to Paris, there being miles of rail bet n the two cities. In closer proximity to North- ern and Eastern Germany and to portions of Switzer- | land and Southern Germany than either Hamburg or Bremen, Havre has uo serious rival except Antwerp, which i# equidistant trom parts of France, Switaer- | land and Germany. 1p consequence of tnis fact the | transit of goods from these countries greatly depends upon the customa, the facilities afforded and the | French railroad companies Since the Franco-Prus- sian war these companies have eituer maintained | their old rr, or increased them, and the result is | that, owing to the reduction of rates on the Belgian | railways, Antwerp has obtained control of a certain portion of the goods in ¢ransitu which formerly passed through Havre tis extraordinary that so clever a | people us the French should make #0 serious a mis. | take, particularly as it is for the benefit of a foreign rival. DEVELOPMENT OF BAVRX, Nevertheless the development of Havre has been go | Tapid as to be almost American, Iu 1840 its tonnage | amounted to 991,34, In 1873 it Lad augmented to 2,419,620, [ts population in 1840 dia not exceed 24,500, now it numbers 87,000. Great as is this development it would have been greater but for the unwise econ- omy of the goverument since :be last war, the pro- fective tariff aud the almost Oriental jealousy of the French toward foreigners in general and Germans in particular, many of the latter having deserted Havre for the more sympathetio atmospheres of Antwerp, Hamburg und Bremen, While assisting homo indus- tries the protective tariff bas destroyed competition with foreign manufactures in foreign markets, heuce there bas been little increase in tue number of manu- factories, though their capacity has been enlarged by the profits of recent years. THE LIVERPOOL OF FRANCE, Havre may safely be called the Liverpool of France, nd to-day, though much smaller, 18 ouly second to Liverpool in the exteut and beauty of its docks, of which there are eight, capable of barvoring 1,500 vea- sels of the largest tonnage, Th docks are con- atructed of cut stone und brick, and the masonry would be diflicult to surpass, Owing to some freak of pature, the tide at Havre rematos high two hours be- fore the cbb sets in, and vessels uf great capacity are therevy afforded ample time to enter and leave port, un advantage which conduces to the benefit of the town, Oddly enough, the uumber of French vessels entering Havre bus, withio ten years, fallen from 535 to 462, while in 1875, out of 278 vessels of 236,581 tons only seventy-iour American vessels of 62.983 tons rived with full cargo, The ignoble part played by the United States in the mercantile marine is unworthy of @ great nation, aud deserves grave consideration on the part of both government and people, COTTON IMPORTATION, Belore the Franco-Prussian war Havro was the pri.- cipal port of embarkation for emigrauts to America; siwee then emigration Las declined, lis commerce 18 estimated at 1,000,000,0001, for exporis and over 700,000,000£ for imports, or more than one- fith of tue commerce of ihe country, Phe princi- pul staple 1s cotion, the imporia in 1874 being uo less than 659,000 vales. at particular year was disas- trous to imporiers, maby being ruiued, Outside capt- fal is still unwitting Lo Wives, aod withous lutive move our plauters will be poorly re recent lubor, {hat che cotton trade lauguishes is due 1u great part to lust your’s heavy crop of 4,669,288 bales, the largest ever known since 1810, whew it reacbed the number of 4,669,770 Uales, ‘ere our planters to raise 3,000,000 instead of 4,000,000 bales they would reaize more money und at the same time produce larger proportion of whe breat and meat they now buy irom the Northwestero Stutes, The mauufucture ol cottou goous 18 among (he most important of French indusiries, the capital invested beiure the war amounting to 500,000,000 Lhere weré through- out the country 680,000 colton spindies, calcuiaied to | work 90,000,000 kilugrammes of raw cutton and pre- pare materials for $0,000 looms by machinery and lor more than 200,000 band looms. A GREAT KEFORM, Thanks to the cnergy of our Uonsul, Colonel John A. Bridgiand, losses irom the delivery of cotiou are not What they once were, Until withim two years it was the custom of the Tribaval of Commerce to allow the cousiguee oF receiver of colton tu bold ships responai- ble for country damage in colton, In oruer to ve as- sured that coltou 1s Bot country damaged masters’ suips would be compelled Lo cut tho tes und open alos, thereby putting property in bad order that had Been delivered in uppareutly good coudition, tor whieb, of course, their ships would ve nightly held re- sponsibie, The clause in the bill of lading stating che cotlun tu be in good order, but weight aud coutencs | UUKDOWL, relieves sip wasters fro espons bility; heuce Colonel Bridglaud advised several ship masters who were ueld tor damages under this old custom to | Appeal the decision made against them by the fri | bunal of Commerce to the Court at Rouen, Acting ow this wise advice, Uhese musters gained iheir case, und | to-day our ships are relieved vf a great wrong which in the last twenty-live yeurs hus cost us millions of fraucs. Under the former régume a shipmaster with | cottou did not kuow on arrival and discharge at Havre | wuetuer be would bave 4 uollar of ireight money with which to pay the ghip’s current expenses, INDIAN CORN. ‘The Importation of Iuuian corn Is largely on the in- crease, and here, again, (ue United Siates is indebted to tue Commerciul iutulligeace of its Consul at Havre, who Las spared no patos to couvinee the Frenet that our maize is an excellent substitute for wheat, be price of Which wus goue up since the Eastern wa Colonel Bridgland’s Urst couverts wero the Havre tramway companies, who now feed their norses on our corn, ground into a Course flour oF prepared us a mash, Tiw example bas veen followed vy others, and @ proprietor of @ livery stable, containing 150 horses, declares that he saved 36,000 francs last year by substituting Indian corn for wheat, Elevators hay- jug been built at New Orieuns ships can vow be ionded with corn in bulk, apd, ‘or the first Lime in its history, Havee is Witnessing the arrival of ships packed wiih corn in bulk tuat Hinds an easy market, A MODEL FAKM MOKSE, What bas struck me in Havre and its neighboring stock raising country 1@ the great size and endurance of the truck horse culled Percheron—a cross between the Percheron weighs irom one thousand to three thousuud pounds, and has the comparative action of the Arabian thoroughbred with the eomparative sirongth of the elephant. A Percheron will geul with ease twenty-five bales of American cotton, Which 18 equal to two lgads of cottum hauled in New York vy two horsee. lo fact, one Percherou i# equal to four American truck horses, aud Why our farmers do wot Wake up to & reulizing ‘sense of tueir deficiencies in Unis respect is nota litte surprising. So lar we sera to have hud but two ideas in the mater of horses—the production of trovting and of face hor: Unlike our ordinary custom, we have thought more of pleasure than of business, We bave ured mongrels where we have not the (urf in view, where ju Kurope the Classes of horses are kept en tine! lo our great country there 18 room tor all olns. aud common sense demands that we should have as One dray horses as trovers and racers. Tue West is particularly in need of enduring work horses, aud the farmers who aro suflcientiy onterprising to import a few Percherons will tuank the Henato for having made the suggestion. A SKASIDE RESORT, But Havre lives not vy commerce alone, It lays very substantial claims to being a watering place, and here are these who preter \t to its wext door veigh- #, Bt Adresse and Ktretat, or even wo Trouviie, even miles distant across the Seiue. | ain wot of this opiniod; bat, when compared wih English seaside resoris, Havre shines respieudent, Hotel Frascati, harbor, is excelleutly kept and largely potronized during July and August, a vrauch of the Rotnsebild family baving passed the last two summers there, Americans are found among its guesis, despite the preterence ot our countrymen to Ktretat, where 200 ure now said to be vasking and bathing. The baths at Havre are under the sia.ow of Frascati’ ond iu the open sea, where bathe: pO permitted to drown themselves if they Would, as boats aod boatmen aro anchored off the beach reaay to rescue the ignorant or foolhardy, Tue air at Frascati’s is excetion a obliged to re main bere several weeks, The town 1 part from ite di commonpiace, but tho Rue de Paris pos- sesses Several fascinating shops, The drives will not compare with thove on the opposite bank of the river, A SCIENTIFIC CO\GRESS. Moreovor, Havre is ambitious of distinction among | eved trom | bad scholars, For the last week a Scientide Congres# bas been heid in the Hotel de Villo and the theatre, ab which (he universe bas beou widely discussed in eom- mittee moeiings, special! meetings and public meet- 10g% Anturopology, Zoology and botany bave re- ceived special attention, [uy physics much hag been Gone, Dr, Brame bas read two papers; 0: Correlaiton of physical forces, the ob deusity of sulphur in different 'condits hag proposed that @ porhon of U Auon should be devoted to purcbasing model tural and other implements, to ve placed op trial at the temporary disposion of provincial tarmers who do not learn of their exisience until jong after the invention, This i# a sensible proposition, as French farmers kiow litle of the art of iabor saving. The Mathematica! and astronomical Section has Cee ab Work several hours dwily, while the geograpnical section bas goue very thoroughly ‘nO the matter Of colomiastion. M. Coquelin heid tue Freach system of cuioulzstion up tw verison, nists afe invited after a military government bas b¢ establisbed, aud On arrival tue Wretched colouists are g:Ven land upon which they are uot free agents, beng told what they mast cultivate Lu consequence of this despotisin colonists leave at the earliest opportunity for colonies that mean freedom, Dr. Hurean wanted to seud to Algiers 3,000 children that are now exposed to misery, whervapon Mr. Pomel reealied the extract dinury meaus of repopulating s¢ a! German vib lges" iM Algiers wheu the cholera of 1847 carried off ail tue Men and ebildren, leaving the women utterly Jone. In order \o remedy tuis evil Genera: Petisnier ed to Leroic treatment, Ordering to Algiers nt of the Foreign Legion he promised « deinite of Absence to every soldier WHO married & Widow German colonists, Ail the widows tound bus. ot th bands, aiuce when this colony bas prospered greatly ud tucreased its population tive fold, : TOUR ROUND THE WoRLD As a spevial aliractiou to the general public, M. Levasseur, a member of the institute, deuvered an Qudress oa the soil and riches of the United States, Which held Our natural advuotages and veiilians pros: pects up to An appluudizg audience. On tue same day Lieuienant George Biard preseuted his programme of W bour round the world, organized by the Suciésé des Vovages d'Etudes and promowed by Ferainand de Lesseps, Drouyn de i'Huys, Hippolyte Passy, Vice Aue | mural de fa Roncicre and otners.' A fast | | suiling steamer will start on the 1th of next June, eX weeks alter tue opeutug of the French Exposition, freighted with professors, books Charts aud students tor a year 8 aveeuee, tue role being akin to that of the Woodrafl expedition, which, | tar tour tor duuvle tue lengta of time New York students are cha : Frenet turit! 1s $4,600 lor those who vceupy rooms to themselves, $3,400 for those who suare tier roums With ove person aud $2,800 Where tiree # udeuts room toyetber, Assuredly tue Amuricau expedition is much more rousonavle Wan the French, and, considering | the thine allowed, ought to be tofiultely more prot abie, | | Lam told, will wave New York in Ociover ov wsimi+ | | ed $2.5 ILLUMINATIONS. Wishing to’ produce # iuvorable impression on ite guests Havre bus inuulged migutly in an org aious, the wort u . Bussin du Commerce,” when allie Xeeption of tue Begrano, were re- the busin, the entire place, with tne theatre lor a Dackground, was Urdiiandy liguted and the Water Was covereu With small bouts uecorated with Chimese luntorus Liat skimined avout like Urethes, luthe coutre of tho busin the great Belkrany was anchored, its Marts aud yards being traced io tre, a belt of light runoing round tne ship, and Chinese lanterns —festooning the yards. Tbree bands of music, in the midstips, bow fud sterp, played altcruatoly, atu the spectacie was ag Deautiul as it Was dramaiic. Souiers witu bayonets stood at stated intervals, but were unnecessary, for vrder wousd have reigned without them, Lt seems to be a tixed belie! that (he Freuch require a greut deal of governing, Whereas there never existed a more practi- cal people if leit Lo themseives, MacMabon, however, thinks they need to teel the bit, and because Lhe morn- ing papers of Havre bave dared to assert that there | were republicans in the Repubuc of Frauee every one of Lhem bas been suspended. We are now obliged to wait for OUF LeWS Unt) six o'clock tn tbe evening, When the Journal du Havre appears, 1s this petty yrauny calculated (0 make 80,000 republicans in love “with the reactionary policy of Lue French President’ Mac- Mahon bas veen snubbed again aud again in bis tour Uirough Normandy, aud ougut to have learned by this me thal the country tuivks for iselt MODEL TRAMWA ‘The tramways of Havre ure an example to America. The raiis are laid on a level witu tue street, 80- quently carriage wueels puss over them at auy angle without detriment, Why canuot raiis ve laid with equal Intelligence in the Streets of American towus? Mr, Roscoe Coukling would have found several things to admire ia Europe had he rematued longer. KAIE FIELD, o be ships, wita Us WITH MEHEMET ALI. DISADVANTAGES UNDER WHICH CORRESPOND- ENIS LABOR—ABSURD OXNSORSHIP—THE BAT- TLE FIELD ‘OF ESIRDSCHE—A CHANGE OF HEADQUARTERS, Camp ov rie TURKISH Ansty IN THE FIELD, SARNASUPLAK, Sept 0, 1877. Alter the battle of Kuzeljevo, or Aviava—i believe it is to be kuown by tho latter title—which completed the series of brilliant offensive engagements auder- taken by Mehemet Ali tor the purpose of expelling the Russians from the eastern bank of the Lom, I return to Rasgrad, the beater of my own telegram, Exclusion from the use of the field telegraph is oue of the many serious disadvantages under which we anforwunate correspondents, whose duty it has been to record the events of the war from tne Turkisb side, have had'to endure, With the exception of Mojor Sartorius, who Js attached to the staf of Valentine Baker Pacha and also to that of a very Turcopbile Loudon journal, and of Selim Effeadi, who is @ member of the Political Commission appointed to watch and control the telegrams and letters of the other geutles men of the press, and who 38 himself, they say, the agent of Baron Keuter, none of us are permitted to avail ourselves of tue fleld telegraph. We canwot hope, therefore, ty do ourselves or vur Journals justice, aud bave to make the best of what lias been Irom first to last a trying gud a thaukiess busine { we are fortunate cnough to Witness a battle we a& compelled to seud our aceount of it, whether by telegraph or mail, to Shumls by special messenger—basui-vazouk of Gireassian! Alter due collk Bey, the bead of (he commission, who does hot anderstand 4 word of Koglisu, the tele gram or letier goes on to Vousiantinop! der. goes another eximination, Eveatuatly, untess sup. pressed pur ordre superteur, or dropped into the Wasio paper basket, 1b reaches 18 destination, probably ata lime when papiic interest iu the matter of which it treats has subsided or witosether ceased, THK RASGKAD KOAD. Having gent ofl my telegram and letters L returned to the cump of the right wing of the Turkish army at Kuzellevo by way ef Esirdsche and Solemk, |For avout eight miles | followed the main road between Rasgrad aud Rustchak, past the villaees of Haseanlar and Hasenagche, Un either side of the way were tue Aun pits and shelter trenches turown up by tue Turks at tue ime of the battic of Esirasche, wien the adveniurous advanced guards of the Russians pushed their recunuoitring — parite up to and across the great road connecting Rystchuk with Rusgrad, aud had cut the rai road at Vetova. Ail the earthworks aud redouvis were empty; the inhabitants of Hassanlarand Hus eudsche tad returned and haa peacetuily resuined their | munotenous viiluge life; (here Was scarcely a soldier to be Seeu in or uur Rasgrad, Un the nilis overlook ing the town, which had been alive with swarming sol- | diery a few weeks nyo, there was uothing to be seen except a few of the bough buts which dud been put up close to the headquarters and the holes and circles in the ground Which inarked the site of the camp tres and tent drains. Here and there, too, on the biliside were Iresuly made graves telling of tue death, from dyseuiery, provably, of some of the patient men who had succumbed eerily under the leseer hardsvips of the campagu. By the side of the road [ saw @ buwan skull which m Dashi-buzouk messenger immediately pronounced to be that of a “Moscov,’ although he was unable wo give wny grounds for his belet beyond thut the Givours had been on the ground. Tiorgot, while looking at this grim rembant of humanity, to carry it away With tno in fullilment of a rasi promise Phad made to ons of the Englisi doctors to bring bin ante Ri and Cossack s« T might come across in ti of my Wanderings atthe iron, But 1 was not sorry the skull i# better thore, resting on mother earth, tha knocking about among preserved moat ting tu wy | saddie bags. THE BATTLE FIELD OW RSIRESCH Soon after leaving the village of Husendsehe I | turved out of tue main road by a byway whieh leads | to Esirdsche, the place wero Aziz Pu tu 1b & severe Skirmish on the 2otu whole country around Esirdscue ts cove! brusiWood, scrub oak and baze Who seom particulary foud of ughting wa cover, advanced and fell upon the Weak Turkish force which Azi2 Pacua bad rastiy advanced beyond proper Himits abd without adequate support. hvidences of the Struggle abounded; maay of the shallow graves bad been invaded by dogs and vultures aud tue dead mea ragged out and devoured; bones and shreds of clobing we: atlered over the ground, aud the smeli— ckening sei of a battle feid—was, a aficr & lapse of sik weeks, quite poticeadle, No douvi many of the Russians who were killed jn the woous Were net discovered aud remained unburied, [came across auother skull—a fue speot- wien 1t Would have beeu for the Docior’s Muscam— which had « Kittie round hole, with sharp clean edges, im the centre of the lorchead, LUOSING MY ATTENDANTS, From Eeirdeche | took the roau leading over the High plaveau between the Beli aud the Middie Lot to Kostenteba, a village lying on the latter stream, Ail along Wis eXieusive platoau wore Vast felds of wheat and barley still aueut, and, of course, ihe graiu is bow {ust jailing trom the ear, Every now and then I Saw Ohe OF LWO poaswals In the fleids, WHO Wore trying to suve some of tueir harvest, but there could not have buen much leit for them to save, ‘The road descends sharply to Kostanteha and the deep vayey of the Midde nd there inversects the road which runs along connecting the Villages on the river with Eeki Djuma, From Kostantcva | toliowed this vatiey road down stream 4s far as Solenick, and thence as cended the opposite beiguts by a s.cep and stouy track which loads to Kuzeljevo, The view irom ine heights down jato the valley is very striking, the river rans through « flat grassy bottom in an ex- traordinarily winding course, wod the hills rise on either side in abrupt wooded slopes crowned with procipices of perpeuuicular re the stwep road we were met by the long lin 18 por potually trating along bebind the army whereve goce, Bringing from Shamla and Hasgrad aod Eki | from fast progressing di | made know | Wearing, deserted and is sill one of Mrs, Ward's nowt wb Dele Fioreace wore dirs Ward's children, was not previously aware of, tho Tast-tamed infant been reciaimed irom the family of Mrs, Lai wi ihad been given, and ret Deiog then held to awart the wishes of Th excep night be takeo to what has very recently transpired in connection With the case they are readily passed, Djuma incessant supp! of biscu und ama won, To the contusion and crowd | missed seeing U the time justly Genounced as ao lahumen ach / Senne es my own arabs, which carried my blankets, wud bedding und the bumble suppiy of provisions which | Lad aid in for a wees's campaigning through the Gesolated distriets tn which (he war 1 Dow Being carried on. I tad given the driver instructions te £0 Siraigot to the Vilage of Kugeiyevo, and, tng DU Laas be Would at least follow bus m: eaay road whieh led 1 she rode op ahead tc the thick wouds which fringe the way, leaving on my let on Turkish camp, from which I was by & gentle depression in the plateau. The whole ¢’ iitthe neighborhood of this part of the river us solitary and uncultivated, aud as night was coming on and there were no signs of the srabe 1 began to feel rather anxious abouts dinner apd shelter, As | emerged from the wood wo cavalry men passed by on their way to th lasked them whether! shoaid have getting into the village of close at band. They rephea that Moxcov” was there, aud that the Kussiau outposts were only a few hundred yards trom where we siood! | tnouzbs thas this Was strange, considering that the Russians bad beon driven across the river by the baitie of the Sih iosh ; buts assumed, of course, that the soldiers knew the whereabouts of tue enemy in their immediae front aud so rode back. 1t was dark bofure [ reached the bill, aod, a8 ‘tt was too iate to think of obtaining admittance to tLe camp, there was notbing for it but to mde dowo the steep road into the villuge of Soleotk, Aa my bag and bags id were nowhere to be ev: heard ot, o spend the night io an emp/y how. aud dine of « biseutt which f bought trom With my saddiecioth for a bed aad my au ra pillow I slept tor @ few wretched, flea-disturbed hours, and early next moraiug rode up to U where I found my araba aod the driver install to the beauquarters, The meeting between 1 tajee and myself wus, to say the least, stormy; bat I might as Weil Dave preached sense to the cart am the mun, He bad done all for the best, aod God willed i¢ that in of following the straight road he should turn off by the path which led to the camp, What more could he say ¢ a MOVE, On my arrival at thecamp | heard that the bead. quarters’ were about to move, and as 1 the Genera’s tent 1 saw that his pair of Russian horees, captured from the enemy by (he Circassians |p a ral near Rustehuk, were alanding ready to be bitched to bis corriage The tents of the British and French | inilitary attachés were veing struck and the Political Commission was in its boots and breeches ready lor a rlark. Where were they all going ? That was the q ion, but 1¢ Was Wot « question 10 which a corresp dent could get ab answer, The General was busy wi u councit of war with Nedjib, Fuad and Achmed yout Vacuas, and could uot be approach ibe military uttacnés looked sad when they Were asked their destis bativn, a if tney would like to teil, but were alraid to; and us for the Political Commission, which bad over and over dgain (old us that correspondents were expected, us a rule, to be wherever the Deauquarters were, itcould only look down as its patent leather boots, smiie, amd say that it utde’t know, By and vy, however, 1 louked out, from the Commander-ia+ Chivt’s own coucoman, tor ull 1 koow, that the order of wareb was tor Vrineé Hassau’s camp on the Ki chen heights over Sarmasuilir, but av thi oficial imutimation to tout effect issued to ai ept the sacred circle whicu surrounds the G 1, among Others, had vo alternative but to oruer m; horse wud cart und to follow in the wake of the he quarcer’s stall, keepwg them well to signt dt cannot have been pleasant to the Com. mander-in-Chiet of the Army of the Danube to see @ caravan of futher disreputable Wok. ing carts foliowiug close bevind bis aia aud sticking to bis retinu grim death, ip pose be recoxnized the delicacy of the situation aod bore it ikea mun, When the Cuiet and tis stu! hud passed turough the villuges of Kostantcou and Sadiow it became apparent that their destivation really was the camp Ou the Sarnasuflar begbis, and as it was drawing toward evening | turned off with one of my collexzues to tue village of Ketchiler, where we spent the night, It wus well we did # ward beard that the woole of the headquarters, Ge eral and ali, got lost among the woods ou th hte and had to blow bugles as signals of disti Twas informed that the immediate cause of Mehemet alt sudden Bepurture from the camp at Kuzeljevo was the terribie bluuder committed by Princ Bs a mander of the Egyptian contungent, iu permitting the Russians to escape irom Vopkeai General Baker, with ms usual energy and foresight, bad ridden down into the valiey and across the river, right upto the Russian posiions at Vopkeul, 1a order to ascertain wuether there was a considerable torce still ther He pushed bis Tecounoissance so cloge as Lo see be him the whole of the Russiag troops tu full retreas, with @ loug baggage train und fourteen heavy guns, The retreat was a hasty one, the whole torce mixed up Logether in couiusion, and would bave fa! an eusy prey to 4 small body of intantry with two eld guos, Bui Prince Hassan could not see the necessity of employimg iniautry ip the pursuit and would on cousent to send cavuiry, saying positively that there was po Russiao intautry lets at Popkeds, Stich Pacha and Baker had pointed out to the gallant Prince thas the Russians would scarcely leave fourteen heavy gus Lo tue protection of cavairy alone, but he would bave it thut there was po infantry, and that could effect the capture, Ot couri forward With few squadrons of cuvair; tuat there was an infantry guard for the gu he could do uothing. 2 beur that Salich aud Baker actually cried with vexation over the afiair; 4 oppur- tunity Turely given in war hud been lost lorever by the abject incapacity of tho Prince. What Mevemes All said to Lim ts unknown, Probably motives of policy and etiquette forbade his saying mucn; Dut the opinion seems universal in the Turkish camp that if Prince Hassan and the whole of his suowy, biack- fuced troops were to go buck to Varna or Egypt tue loss would not be 50 severe as It Might seem, even at this moment, When Turkey Wunis every ‘man and every gun she can raise to carry on the campaign. A PECULIAR SULC.DE. ry PATRIARCHAL GERMAN’S DETERMINED EFVOR? TO REACH “THE SILENT LAND" —= NalViZ MESSAGE TO A SON. (From the Dubuque (lowa) Times, Sept, 30.) A suicide was discovered in the upper part os the town yesterday moruing, which undoubtedly was com. mitted on Wednesday morning. The victim was Mr, William Hauser, the father-in-law of Mr. William Holuagel, who keeps the grocery om the corner of Couler avenue and Engle Point avenue, Friday even- ing a boy employed about the premises, named Fritz (or Fred) Woodrich, on going out to feed the horse, smelled something peculiar and disagreeable, but said bothing about Habtue time Yesterday morning, 09 going CO the stave, the same sinell assailed him more sirongly, and he began to look avout for tho cause, Then be saw sowe blood oozing through the ceiling above and dropping on the floor below, At this he went to the house and told old Mr, Holnagel (lather of the grocery keeper), snd the old man and the boy went out to i.vestigate the matter, ‘The boy went up the stairs leading to the loft; near Une head of the stairs was a smail door leading irom the apartment, in which the bay was kept into the smaller ove in Which (he #traw was wept; and looking through ito iis the boy saw the corpse of old Mr, Hauser, not exactly hauging, for the lower pare ed on the ilvor. The suicide had leaned a board aguinst the partition, fastened one end of tho rope over the upper end of (he bourd, pat the lower esd of the rope wbout bis Deck and +o strangled bimselt. The distance was so suort that he bad wo bend bis knees, 80 tuat bis logs Lelow the knees were b: tal in Order vot to rest upon the flour, and even wae not sufficient; so he bent his legs at the thighs, and thus by great muscular eflort at contraction bad brought bis weight to bear upon tho rope. Lhe rope Was not tied in a noose, but with a knot shat left it loose about the kk, so that it did uot necessarily choke him; on the cuutrary, the loop was so large that he could bave takea wad out of 1% atany time had he so chosen. [bis serves to berate determination with wich the old man took his life, Our reporter visited the scene of the tragedy, The stench was unonduravie, and prevented # close ap- proach to the corpse, ‘Tue body had been cut down, and lay on th floor of the stable loft, clore to where it was iouud Tue blood was ovzing trom,the nose and mouth aud rupoing down over the head and shirt front, Tbe body and face were swollen and biack but tne large and powertally built [ram foreh a rugged features and (he gray hair and abuodant white beard gave the old tau @ patriarchal appearance, = | in the presence of death and i the midst of putretac- toa. lu the pocket of the corpse was found « letier or note, the contents of which have not officially beeo j but to the best memory o! one who saw itund read 1t onoe, it runs suvstantivily as follows “The letter was addressed to a son Ip St Lou! Septe phe! Mr. Houser had veen tn the habit o! It te suid that the writer bad much trouble that he frequently bad to go out and cry a good while, and that he feared he should yet do sometuing thas God woulda’t like; aud Gosed by bidding bis son ap affectionate farewell. REPARALION LO MRS. WARD, THE CHILDREN OF THE MODERN ABELARD AND HELOISE AGAIN UNITED, {From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Oct, 3) Ibis with great pleasure that the Jnfr-Oceam an. Dounces that the ventiation given to the Ward watier has not been without at least one good effect. Thetwo little ones, the twins, Willie and Florence, have been reunited, and are now at the Douglas Asylam, where they were first left under orders, awaiting the retura to the ouver world of their motuer, The iret to are of tho restoration of Florence was the Mra, F, before rolerred Ww in those columus; the lady with whom Mrs. Ward found shelver the very day ber pesband her, and into Whose “sympathizing eat and womanly heart the wronged women poured her tale of woe at the time her griet wus of bier woman! upon her; at the time when tt flus ness at her husband's treatment roused ti instincts of her motherpood aud caused her to out; at the time wheo ber mouth had not been avd judgment biassed—the same lady who hus stanon Iriends, Op Monday Mrs F. went to plas litule Willie, 1o response to & request tro; that she would do sa The Mother Superi stitution received Mra, F, judy, and with warked courtesy t, expressing pleasu! wole to state that on learning thas Witie vod to her brother, born Mrs. Ward. +) eos good news, indeed, ‘reparation has been made tor what was ab