The Sun (New York) Newspaper, August 4, 1870, Page 2

SSW, The ws Sun, It Khines for All. THURSDAY, AU ST 4, 1870. Amusements Towday. Towers Theatre Crai Var Prourslons—Brie Rallway Grand Op rase—Sitsla, the Joguier's Davghter. fan Franctsco Minatrets—'65 Brats Dera ‘ matte Tunnel—Open wo Viator ew York, Res Matioes The Fight at Saarbruck. The fight at Snarbriick scems to have been a small affair, Tho Prussiaus say that the heights were occupied by a very small force. They were attacked by three Fren divisions, and abandoned their position. } The French acknowledge that they did not occupy the town. Napoleon appears to have made tho fight solely for theatrical ef. fect in Paris, and for the purpose of trying his mitrailleure. e — By What Authority ? A letter from St. Domingo city, published In the Timea, says that while much regret is felt there at the failure of the annexation scheme, “ the extension of the United States protectorate till the Ist of July, 1871, gives much satisfaction to the Dominicani ¢ Can any one tell us by what authority of law the President of the United States presumes to establish a protectorate over St. Domingo? The Constitution says that “the President shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur.” But this does not give him any right to establish protectorate over a foreign country, or to employ the armed ves- sels of the United States in controlling the affairs of that country, or in defending it against foreign enomies, except by virtue of some treaty duly ratified by vote of two-thirds of the Senate. Anything beyond this is usurpation, which Congress should inquire into. If it shall be proved that the President has assumed powers which the Constitution does not allow, he should be impeached, and brought to trial for the offence. — The Orange Parade. ‘The Orangemen are to have a public pro- cession through the streets to-morrow. We presume that they will march with their osual banners and with music, playing the tunes that were so offensive on the occasion of the riot of July 12. * These Orangemen must be protected. The question of taste in their banners and their music is one that may be. discussed; but there is nothing unlawful in any part of the demonstration that they propose ; and how ever disagreeable some of its features may be to excitable individuals of a different way of thinking, it is the duty of the authorities to see that the procession is not attacked ; and if it is attacked, that it is effectively de. fended, The Nathan Murder—Was it the Work of a Burglar? In searching for the murderer of Mr. Na MAN, one question arises at the outset, which, if answered, will instantly simplify the whole investigation. It is th Was the murderer an inmate of the house or on outsider? If the latter, he must have been secreted in the building previous to one o'clock on Friday morning ; for at that time, or thereabouts, Mr. WasuINoTON Na- THAN says he came home, and locked, bolted, and chained the front door behind him, « that nobody could have come in withon| having left marks of forcing bis way ; while all the doors in the rear of the house were the following morning found to have been undisturbed. It has been said that a burglar might have entered the library of the murdered man by climbing up the portico over the front door, and pusgjpg back the bolt or catch of the library window, and that he might have done this unobserved during Thursday night's violent storm. That storm, however, was over by 12 o'clock, and up to the hour of midnight Mr. NaTuan was wide awake; at fifteen minutes past 12 o'clock his son FREDERICK entered his room and spoke to him, Of course, as long as Mr NarTuaN was awake, no one could have ntered the library, and that, through the window, without act ing his attention; and after midnight, though it still rained for a time, the heavens were not 0 dark that rson conld have climbed up the front of the house withoat ttracting the atten’ ers in the street. toc ion of the police or oth- Moreover, could a man have spruag through the wintow at auy time with so little noize thet a] leepar, such as Mr. NATHAN was as nearly old meu four or fi i muld not hav éened? And further, what would have entered a hous» 890 publ rt nated in such a way atany ti Bosick this way, there was no cther by whi urglir could have entered withoat leavin videne 6 of the tact ‘ev maust then sup) t murderer, if an outsider, had se in the hose, , Upon this hypothesis, t purderer must 1 burglar or r a profession pne of the workinen who had been employed in the house, That it was not the tier w shown te erintendent JoURDAS faction, when he examined aud released the morning. These men, nt! were able to prove an We 1 1 eon a professional b \ the slee u war night f and his two sons were in the hou wos well acquainted with th N ebout it, is certain, and for th Le tin! work w hed his { 4; he would not have ew day, and thus leave the field clear for his operations. Why, then, should he nat have postponed his work until the following night? Had it been an unprofessional, who could not open a simple Herring anfe, it might be said that he hoped to find the safe key about Mr, Natian’s clothes; but a pro hardly have this fessional would needed key. Mr, NATHAN may, as has been said, have received a large amount of money that day and he may have placed it in his eafe ; but the burglar could not have known this fact Ilis knowledge concerning the house it must have taken weeks to acquire, while this mat ter of the m received that day would hardly have beemknown to any one but a member of the femily. But, suppose the burglar actually resolved to open the safe that night, and was so for- tunate as to find the safe key in Mr. Na- TIHAN’S pocketbook, and actually did open the safe, why, when he was detected in the act, did he kill Mr. Navan? Could he not easily have stunned him, or escaped from him without even that? It is well known that no burglar will commit murder if by any possibility he can escape without it. But the wounds in Mr. NatHan’s head show- ed even more. They showed beyond n doubt that the man who felled him, having been detected in the act of opening the safe, and being well known by his vic- tim, was determined to kill him for a cer tainty, and therefore repeatedly struck him after he was down, and struck with all his strength, Now this no burglar would have done, His victim being killed or stunned, and giving him no further trouble, he would, if for no other reason than to prevent being too much bespattered with blood, have desisted from his blows. Besides, how did the burglar come to have the iron “dog” with him? As every detective can testify, that is no bur- glar’s weapon. Also, how did it happenthat Mr. NaTuUAN, eeeing a stranger in his room, did not dash his window open, if it was not open already, and cry for help? At the time of the murder, between 2 and 8 o'clock, as was judged from the condition in which the body was found, the storm was completely over, and crics for help, if not heard in the house, would at any rate have been heard in the street. Few men, especially men of Mr. Nartnan’s age, would have thought of grap- pling with a stranger, of whose strength they had no measure, before calling for as- sistance. When Superintendent JournDan enter- ed the house at half-past 7 o'clock in the morning, there were no marks of blood in the hall or on the stairs, except those that had been made by Wasa. incTON Natnan as he rushed down to give the alarm. Now, bespattered as the burglar must have been with blood from head to foot, how comes it that he left no stain anywhere? That his feet left no stain may be explained by supposing that he had boots on when he approached Mr. Na- THAN'S room, pulled them off at the door, left them standing there, and when leaving the room put them on again. But how was it that his clothes left no stain, that he brush ed against no baluster, or wall, or door? Why should he have been so careful, when in the room which he was leaving lay the bedy of the man whom he had murdered to tell the tale? And why, ifso careful on the stairs and in the hallway, should he have been so careless as to leave the front door open, in which condition Wasursctos NaTHAn says be found it, and to drop the weapon with which he committed the mur der? In fact, why should he have bespatter- ed himself so terribly with the blood of his victim if he was so careful of not leay ing a stain on the stairs? and how could he have ventured into the street in that condition? for by the time the murder was over, the storm had cleared completely away, the skies were very bright, and any passer or policeman who might have seen him would have arrested him. That he did not wash himself in the bath-room is shown by the fact that no bloodstains were found there; and this is also Superintendent JovnDan’s opinion, Moreover, why should the burglar have taken the shirt studs aud the watch of his victim, when, as Wasmincron NATIAN sald, there was $6,000 worth of silver plate in the pantry down stairs? Was he not sufficiently well acquainted with the interior “t And, finally, that a burglar t all enter a house 80 very publicl, dl as t} The evidence th walt the m ne, is almost unprecedent t en outsider did not com- afte overwhelming. —— Will it be a Useless War? One of the conse the wi fer of the nees of WIL be in all probability the tr Italian capital from Florence to Rome. One of the miost momentons events of modcr hus be accomplished, with com. e diMeulty; and Reme will the chief city « at polit ¢ of y culture from ened, the Chureh of Rome w trenythened by this chang As an exclu y ceclestasticul ‘ruler, wh Pope's power over the minds of his flock will bo inereased in proportion to his disconnection trom the material interests of uy and every kingdom. C 8 will bow with pur vor before an altar ol yy saat od to spirit 1 bentitudes, and no longer affected by the cers and cares of terrestrial authority. Italy er turn, will be insptred to greater doed: Consolidating her national greatness by ti possession of the on nietropolia, the f Vicro! to the espital i a new era in Italian pr 3 while it excites the jealousy of the Gaule ad Jur 1 into the present flict, will for its first effect to wipe out the tered louse which was 60 publ ely gituatcd = w t full information con cerning its laterlor arrangements; and it is customary with burglars not te enter any house whatever which th ave not previously inspected within ‘anc without, But if \this Lurglar knew 60 much about the house, he must! also have known that Mr, NavHan and his two sens mold mote vill irfned in Rome, the Mediterrancan can never again ely lake tion will in future d French ambi be hemmed in by Italy im the south as by Germany in northern nd central Europe. hig now nearly certain trimmph of } manity is mainly duc to Germanic THE power in Gertfany os well as Italy, is now, crowned by the neceteity in which Franeo finds herself of purchasing the neutrality or the alliance of Italy by sacrificing: the tem- poral sovereignty of the Pontiff, What fi eceing statesmen have long expected is now on the point of coming to pass; and in this conflict of two highly elvilized nations, the Inst remains of the middle ages will be crushed to death, oe Protest against the Income Tax. The income tax is unconstitutional as w ‘as unjust; and it will certainly be set aside as soon as the question can properly be brought before the courts. ‘Therefore let every man pay this tax un- der protest. Those who do #0 can recover their money back again aftor the law has eon annulled. Those who pay without pro- test cannot recover it back. The Journal of Commerce says that it will be sufficient to SUN, THURS SDAY, AUGUS' JOIN REAL'S EXECUTION. eigenen WARDEN BTACOM ERECTING TIE TUIDEOUS ENGINE OF DEATH. ent Rents Friends? Opinions of Gov. Hominan's Letter- Last Interviews with Relatives and Priends-Preparing for Dev fecting Scene in the City Prt Attent to Save the Prisoner. Gov, Hoffinan’s letter assigning his reasons for not commeting John Real's sentence elict much comment yesterday from all classes of citizens; and the emphatic refusal of the Governor to attuch any weight to the affidavit of the policemon whoarrestet Real, or to the offidavits of over fifty citizens who were aware of the ol feud between the prisoner and Smedick, was recarded by Real's frien accountable, A pass: in the Governor’ which has called forth bitter comment fs as foilo “It ie now claimed in belalf of the prisoner—and ho amserted ta day after the murder that Smedick cae to bim.on t stenick two blows at Mie hoad he shot him. ‘the Triscner hor oniy id not neseet (his on the nizht of tis Arrest, but the evidence on the trial platuly contradicts it ‘Ti is oneertion is contradicted by two epectal aM. make the payment in a certified check boar. ing upon its face, after the order to pay the pecified amount, the words, “ for income tax paid under protest The check itself will prove the fact that the payment was made under protest ; and it will thus enable the party to compel the agents of the ‘Treasury to refund at the proper time. As to the fact that the law is unconstitu- tional there is no sorious dispute. No in- telligent man, lawyer or layman, who has read the masterly argument of Mr. W. 0. Baxter on the subject, can entertain any doubt about it. When the points in the case were presented in the Senate the other day by Mr. Scorr of Peansylvania, no advo- cate of the law was bold enough to reply to him. Let every man who has to pay the tax be sure not todo so without the necessary protest. cient taniain The public debt was diminised over sov- enteen millions of dollars in the month of July, and the partisan press boast of the fact as a mat- ter execedingly creditable to the present Admin- istration. But what else could have been done with the money except to pay it out upon the public debt? It was in the Treasury, and must either be applied to this use or sto how is the Administration entitled to particular credit for having so large a sum of money in the Treasury ? The taxes which produced this sum were levied before Gen. Grant came into power, and it is no merit of his that they happened to have been so much larger than there was any need of, The truth is that it would be much more honorable to the Republican party if it had reduced the taxes, so that instead of putting a surplus of two bundred millions a year into the Treasury, it had left that surplus in the pockets of the people. Low taxes are more glorious to Government than an enormous revegue extorted from the poor and suffering masses, boaeisbic ats from yesterday's Zri- leading article under its war head : “Thus far the Tribune deapatches haye beon ased fn ant by the York Herald, World, Limes, Yesterday Uuey were so used by the The following bune und Sux. New York Heraid and Sox." When Tue Sox prints the substance of the news in less than half the space which the 7ri- bune wastes in sounding rhetoric, it is, accord ing to the!Spruce street philosophers, “used iv an imperfect form.” As an illustration of the two styles of doing the thing, we reprint the fol- lowing From Wednesday's Tribune “In Washington square this evening there will ve music Dy the Central From Wednesday's Sun © Music in Washington equare this evening." Buy Tux Sex, which gets the news into half the space consumed by the blanket sheets, and sells it While we think of it: Sincefthe Tribune scomingly requires its contem- poraries to print all or none of its correspondents’ of yesterday morning, as follows “The only corresponclent allowed with the Prusslan army is Dr. Kusseli, the correspondent of the NEw Youx uy." ES Jon Monnrésey voted against the In- come tax in his place in the House of Represen tatives, He isan honest man. His doctrine is fair play. He is no friend of robbery, even though it be disguised in the forms of law, The income tax is a misappropriation of other peo- ple’s money ; it is stealing by act of Congress and honest Joux Moumssey gave his vote aguinst it, a —— The Tribune informs the public that the President will go to Washington to-day or to- morrow, to hold a Cabinet meeting and consider whether an extra session of Congress shall be summoned to meet early in September. The Secretary of State, says the Zribune, will in all probability go on with the President. “If not, he will be represented in the Cabinet by Assis. tant Secretary Baxcaort Davis.” How do the people of the U States like to sce in the Cabinet a man who has been proved by an investigation of the Massachusetts Legisla- ture to be guilty of selling his clients for abnbe of #00,000% And what do they think of the Presi- dent aud of the heads of executive departments who meet in Cabinet council with such a man ? Aud what will they think of the journals * whieh I this v Lond triumphant, and re it to pass without re- ny enac close U es and suff buke or o ment’ ? — Does or does not Attorney-General AkEN aan, of President Grant's Cs I believe in the right of secession? ——— - The Tribune prerches a sermon against ‘the publication of the open prurient details of divorce trials” on the ground that it is injurious to morality, We agree with our contemporary in this pinion; and we wish there wiht never Le any necessity for publishing details of the sort Lut we cannot help the reflection dhat when such ions arise, the une'e responsibility tor many cases be very great, The tors and writers of that journal we chiefly instrumental in bringing about the events which led to the trial of Daxie. McPantaxo, That notorious free-love consp Was concoct ed and escried out to its awful catastrophe by persons who controlled the cvlumns of the Ziv by , too, the free-lore marriage whieh re. cently took place between » Wann and the couragement from the persons who own and t nu which inspire the Zrune Tt would all the world to fad enum. uence. ‘The codperation of Italy with Prussia, which the country the very next a eulininated in the extinction af the Austrian ber of individuals who have labored with such fatal effect 4o promote the ideas aud practicns of ree love as those connected with that jo Is it » an indirect confession of gui piece of sublime hypocrisy, when the f ermons upon virtuy, and adyoc tives the reverse of those with whi ¢ in the general opinion me so reunikal ideu' Ay — - Wit wot manifest that the Cuban Purchase ve Guu, ¢ as Ugbtly Ring in Washington 2 corked up as the brilliant soldier Burien was davite which were presented to the Governor, and which he seems not to have rend, The first was made by Omicer James Meo, as follows: City and County of Nw York, #—James Meo, being AWorn, says that he Wa: tue officer making the arrest of John Real; that nis A when tng with him joure, he mad Jed at the trial; rat he Real nex; morning, In when Real states bind he shot Smedick was: pate met bim on the Bud commences to veat him, a8 end. unt pe. could Pet or =, ¢ he Was on je Way to rae watching, When ‘Smediek Coy seat cone have testified tO this at the triat, told what Rel ry the nce morning after Bwora wo belpe e my ‘JOuN SWORN TESTIMONY OF KYE-WITNESSHS, Annexed is another important aMdavit, which positively coutradicts the assertion of the Governor, that Real deliberately shot Smedick. It was made by a citizon wholly uuknown to either Real or Smedick, and it has special reference to the traced Mad this testimony been received at the trial, Keal's life might have been saved. itu and County of New, Tork Mer by det Sworn, deposes muy Sceupatten, and reside bat on the night duly tanding on the northwest corner Of ¥ ret ue and Thirty-second street, waiting for a ‘iret avenne car to go hon then resided at 683 Kast Twellth strect: at the jue of b Handing on the corner waiting for gear officer strike Aman twice in, the head with a ¢ ‘then saw the turn and give two thot N. ‘Being @ siranger in the neqhoor Lyaimped im the car and went home, to ham, ts arrest JAMES MEE. ie 2h day of July, 1810. rx, Commissioner of Deeds, ever pay iny Attention to Mt untit stontit ta 4 any NA WOFD to day of July, 181), J ott Public, Ne says Ci'y and County of Nee Y sworn, devotes ao t ‘of Thirty-sec fand is a gins blower Dy this occurrence he Was euipiv Darke:per, on the corner of F fourth treet. ‘That on th: Siuedich devouent was e the T of Thirty-second and saw Smodick and Real on Aye! Ue, Near the cornet of I hirty-s ther wien devonent ponent ‘omecr {a 0 wct Of uslig his clu ‘and saw him #irixe at fils, one oF Aimivedyatciy after aeponent heard two W iteal Fun op Thirty-second street, * vhyonta not at the tune os awitness at the eitement a f ‘ a) coneerning ti Keeper he Was airaid ob injur per, aot that it mignt busines cause of hie | were at that (une striviag to keep ob slice, aud because of tne ent of bh Put Sworn to defor 20th of July uos, P. SOMERVILLE, ANTECEDENTS OF THREE OF THE WITNESSES, Goy, Hoffman, in rendering his decision, an- nounced that he would not go beyond the testimony taken at the trial; bat this testimony was furnished mainly by three men—Oficer Lambre ht, Curpenter, ana Hyland: Lambrecnt is accused of periary In a case before Jndee Coulter, in which he charged a responsible citizen with Vagrarcy, aud subsequently contr dicted hjs owa afidavit, Hyland was held in $500 bail last week fn an eptown Police Coart for drawing a revolver on @citiaen ; and Carpenter wits found guilty of robbery a suort time aco, and wns sent to the Peuiteatiary by the Court of special bessions. VISITORS TO RFAL TESTERDAT. ‘The brother-in-law and sisters of It him yesterday, Teal was calm and told them that be was reac that the Governor had giyen him few days to prepare for etert { expected a commutn+ tion of his gen eae Of bis OWN states so many Of those whe knew him what he bad said ia the afiduvits ch were presented to the Governor. Judge Stuart and some of Real « old companions in aris, connected with the Tenth New York Regi ment, sudsequently called wpoa «iim; but he «pene inuen of the day with Father Duranquet and the pious Sisters who attended him. He wi at si ock in the morning in the neat |i tie chapel of the Tumbs and knelt alone belore tue alist PREPARATIONS POR THR EXBCETION, ‘To-day the gallows is again to be erected i yard of the Tombs, Once before this structure ruised for tue reception of Jouu Real, but a Te hear taken down, ft is to stand within Keal’s cell, and this afternoon bt of the hammer which pute tt ‘The direc: tians for the va up of ure of death were given by Warden John Stacom, wh» has di layed! the Work until the last moment. The hide engine is made of heavy timber. beams ar Gark and stained with age, More than one man tus gone to his fnal account ander its crossbeam, the jast one lveing Jack Reynolds. Mark F Esq. 's to have tho personal super. vision Of the’ gallows by several Deputy Sheri cards of tnvitation to the execution don paper bordered with deep black, whe being iso in mourning. but “sheriffs, deputys, special deputys, clorgyinen, and the p to be permitted insiue the courtyard, ‘The force of police is to be much larger than the usual stroag body om such occasions. THE RESCUE RUMOR UNFOUNDED, ‘The reports that the friends of Heal ere to make scue him seem to be without foun the syinpathy of a large majority of th is evidently with the doomed no whisper of a rescue bas b je. Its be Real he thjnstic lis eens jaw must be carried out Governor shoul I force of th re respect it create nid of th gemen Da y they will, all Cre power {to protect them am their City Pris of In a conversation with sotne irresponsible Id make su altempt to his rr aoa. than tuey have mo such t ‘and Edo wot beieve that the As God i# my judye, if could not and would not put the keeper Wardens of this prison, who have b me, i as Would theui was unusually ear 4 impressive while im king this declura!fon convineed thore with Whou he was conversing Ut Le aewne What he said, He addeas { think the report has beon got un on varpose to cast Tefleettons npon tie amd upon Cinse wy Who tieve enideavoror 10 serve aut gave t ; His triewis Liked With hiw for some minutes Real ovidenty realized M+ position, He said Nad oll stone Loned nnd Yelieved that be would pot Le hanged, Dut that hy had ail the Wake eadeayored kuow. aid We, that 1 hay rong,? 1 am not conseions of the guilt o or, NO 'inan ean be more sorry fF lk hi ! w " measur tol Tis cout wr to the grave, and thnx me toa t than desis. Tam prepare itodic, It \ 1 go to the grave 1 4 murder. -¢ ° i me the plain truth that woald have 5 es Luricd beceath shese cu cus 118 POOR SISTERS AND » FATUEL Real then + very tonehingly oF his poc t Kis poor old father ata a tetore, ¢ ' ‘ nd or the Pombs h—Afe | f po Ger Hoffman, notwithstan tty est to commate Rerl's. s6n le: fine nt a rospite. Se kind. thet are eeeriy Interestet I's fate, ir way to Newport for t! PO8G. Went they will ie Waseerstate Real ha oon informed of this last desperate attempt to “Texpected this, You will all bé, following my body to Calvary on Sanday alternoon,” 1 the poor a sad tone of voice, to bis triends f Ul was Governor’ » him, Hh coms (0 be but tle doubt that he spoxe AN OPINION IN NEWPORT. Judge Stuort says that While nt Newport he con ed With Very many pe reone about the ¢ forts for tie commutation Real's ntence, and that ne heard only one man sperk in opposition to these ef- forts ; but that person, bearing in mind the Nathan murder, said that if Gor . Hofman ‘doned Keal, he onght himseif to be pat in Real e. beh Tite An Opinion of Gov. Hoffinan. To the Kauor of The Sun. Sin: Lhave read, and I believe every true citizen Jn MUSE Fed, WIth BFeAL FA\iefaction the Gover re reasons for Totusing to Interfere In the hanging of Thave tvard much for and much against Gov. Hoff. man tines hie pnbite Ife ne a promineut politician, and for myseit did uot eym uch with the Gover: nor, being an old Repudlican ; Dut rea tive hie firin re: fosat to commnte the sentence of this mu withstanding the teary of heauuiful, wome Dravers_ of priests and. politierans.. thie. cer Votes the Governor In the heart of every Iall the Juiges of New York would y @ stern and ernor here sows to be, then not be #ieh an every-day Occurrence, and city ‘uae na bight Lika Had renewed Uae of his ‘aud high tharncter aan val, au 1 wi Give him the heartfelt thanks of an adhd OLD REPUBLICAN. ——— QHE WAR IN EUROPE. poet ‘wien The Theatre of the Great Co Prassia France. Itis pretty certain that the shock of arms be- tween France and Prassia will come in the valley of the Moselle, and extend, by flunk movements, alon the Rhine from Strasburg to Coblentz, and proba bly even down to Cologne, ‘Those Rhenisn pro- vinces are classic ground, historic ground, and especially are they martial ground. Not to go so far back as Casar, who hero encountered the Cimbri and the Suevi, each squire mile of this ter- ritory has, from the advent of Charlemagne to the downfall of Napoleon, been fougat over and over Again, till, borrowing the langnage of Crmpboll, every turf boneath the fect of the traveller isa sol- dier's sepulehre. ‘Thie debatablo ground between Germany and Trance, on stained with the blood of both n Vous, abouuds with interesting memorials of me- dimval times, ‘The legend tells us that one day Charlemagne, the giant Emperor, who stood seven fot high, was riding In the forest between the Rhine and the Meuse, when the floundering of his horse discloged those boiling springs of Aix which for tem centuries have been 60 famous throughout Europe. A fiir ely rose on the spot, which Charle- magne adorned with builfings of extraordinary splondor, Aix became his favorite abode, and here be was burted, In the hall of its palace fifty-five of his successors were crowned Emperors of Germany, Further up the Ruine, in these same disputed provinces, les Worms, a city not less famous than Aix, where the monk of Wittenberg, in the presence of the Emperor and notables of Germany, defendea the ninety-flve theses he had nailed to the door of the old ehareh, exclaiming, “Here T stand; Tean- not do otherwise, so help me Goi.” ‘The religious wore of the sixteenth century, which eprang up on promnlgution of the doctrines of Luther, raged ury in the Palatinate, Chartes V., who raicd ¥, the Netherlands, and Spain for forty years, was during nearly the enttro period at war with France: and the Rhine border, being the natu- ral gateway into the dominions of the combatants, was repeatedly ravaged with the sword. ‘This con- test terminated when, tn 1556, the conseienc: stricken Charles laid down the crown of half Ea- rope and America, threw aside his royal robes, put ona monk's cowl and a naif shirt, and retired to the monastery of St. Just. Bat Protestant and Catholic Europe azain rushed toarme early in the next century; and during the famous Thirty Years’ War. when Gustavus Adol- phus emerged from his Scandinavian fastnesses and made Sweden a first-clasa power, these provinces, from Mavnheim down far beyond Aix and Cotogae, fered sevorely. But incredible misery was in- flicted upon them in the later wars of that centary. waged to gratify the ambition of Louis XIV. Lux embure was stormed, Lorraine and Alsace were overran, and the Palatinate was seathed as by a tem- pest of fro and blood, Voltaire informs us that the Elector Palatine saw from his castle at Mannheim two cities and twenty-five vill ges in flames at once, and ta bis despulr and rage sent a challenge to Turenve, the Fronch Marsiial, to meet him in single combat, ‘Tarenne declined this novel summons; but the infuriated Elector not long afterwards bad the gratification of seeing his enemy fall by a stray cannon ball, wlile he wes reconnoltring for a spot to plant a battery near Sassbach. It was in these wars of the seventeenth century © celebrated forteesses of Mentz, Codlentz, let between , Cologne, and Laxumberg taxed the genius of the most eminent military engineers for their en- largement and improvement, After Vaudan and his contemporaries pissed away, tleir successors, from generation to generation, have employed their skil! in perfecting these works, till, just as they baye be- c e models d even marvels in engineering, mod- era improvements in arms and new systems of warfure render them comparatively of little vatue. ‘The treaty of Ryswick pad hardly given peace to Europe when the war of the Spanishg Succession, known in our country as Queen Anne's War, broke out, and fora dozen years the Palatinate and the border were again given up to desolation, present contest, this for the succession one of the most causeless ever waged. To de termine which one of two royal noodles, whether a grandson of Louis XIV. or a sou of the Emperor Leopold, should mount the throne of Spain, Mari scourged the Low Countries aud won s Peterborough, the erratic Eur!, invaded per n, While Admiral Rooke took Gibralter ; Gor mans slay nelmen and other Germans to the Palatinate A the walls of Mentz and Maunbeim ; 1 1 Indians on the shores ed white men and he sources of the Mudson and the Mohawk, he treaty Of Utrecht gave the dwellers ia the Provinces rest for thirty years, when they wor in drawn into the vortex of war by the attempt of the Great Frederick to humble Marla Theresalan¢ the House of Arstria, and enlarge his own dow car whieh he prosecuted throng’ ¢ such as the world had rarely seen, till the of 19% During these wars the terr 1 France are roing to con ‘or the mastery of Enrvpe suffered great ealsn The litter portion of he contest, known as the Seven Yoars’ War, was pertieipated in by all the great i f Bu nd raged all over the world, Op his side of the Atlantic, Wolfe conquered Cana da, and Washington, then a militia eotonel, caused the surrender of Fort Du Quesne, which thence- forward bore te name of Pitt, the great War Min: Whhout ame ehame of my doath that b any that 6 in thas position, nly shown, Would place me when he Be od to sburg by way of straet, aes to ws from Washington, based on informat) derived from a highly creditable some startling developmeni# are about je in Tecard to the contrets awarded to parties to fivh for seats in Alawka, In pe sition ta the bids of othet parties whieh were davurable bo the Govermmeny Th A rumor o capnot bear the thonght of the listers and futher aud t her must suffer, Uf Hoffman could have been thade to know what al Truth Was in my ede, d yet feel sure that he have acted diferemtly,” BULL suppose there ts no hope, and Lwust die. 1 hope Lam prepered. 1 feel that But w ard, very ba and 1 hope AO man will ever again be plac D position ast nave been placed. LAST ATTEMPY TO SAVE THE PRISONER, Lost night parties of unquestionable social position ard inOuanes lak tule edlv Jor Newuort to pres aud ter, whose energy, like that of Stanton in our try, and, by tnapiriag commanders and 1 ont and on the land with the fire of his owa onrage and enthe Gnnily shed over it the lus Froderick who won the ehter glory in the # ra’ War, to bore y ar stall € : nd proved himself to be t pretty touch ruce ever since tuey emerzed from the obscurity of vie swamps and forests of Bi burg the ad tof the Great Elector, n ariv two cont and a half azo, ‘The futher of Frotenick the Great bel A in tall eoldiers and rix Na He scoured Europe tor ar giants lived Hike a rthat he might save In 1 n he was almost a savage, 1 net won in the streets of Berlin, and pounded Frod « € and bis own fiste as tf he were s pn, and the K the head of the seuller wth Frederick suffere’ all bat decth nila of Lis royal eve, and eame ve re hot for running aveay from bis tormentor 1 hot operate to goiten his own character after tb avended the throne, At one of the severoet battles ln the darkest hour of the Beven Years? War, the Prince of Prussia, who was a good ndy rode a splendid horse, Whose trappings fulrly shone with gold and silver, As the King, in the red beat his horse and eqainments 1" French rhymes that moved the sarcasm of Voltaire, ahd lating determined neveg to be taken alive by his esemics, carried about his person a subtle drug for tefMinating bis existe at short notice, It te Frolorick composed fm allusion to this Mat Macaulay describes him as “half Mithridates and half Trissolin, bearing up ‘against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the ottier Turd outlines have always marked the character of the Hohengoilerns. ile was a true typo of the house who, the other day at Ems, suid to bis adja- tant, when the French envoy troubled him with his impostunities, ‘ Tell that man to go away. IT won't see hint again." ‘The eagles of the first Frencli Republic early came down upon the Rhenish provinces, guiled by the masterhands of Pichegra, Hoche, and Moreaa. ‘or the twenty-three years that they hovered over this devoted spot the inhabitants drank thelr fill of the pride, pomp, and circutnstance of war. Among these cornfields and vineyards, and amid this beauts ful ecenry and these impressive mementoos of past ages, and surrounded by cathedrals and aniversitics , whose hoary walls roverberated the thunders of thoir cannon, kindred peoples and rival races shod each other's blood like wator, to slake the ambition and soothe the vanity of a Bonaparte, Napoleon, on tie many occasions when he invad- od Germany, led his armies through the gateway between Mentz and the Moselle; and through this defile he fled like a fugitive, on a snow sledge, ina cold winter's night, when he returned from bis Russian campaign. Thitherward his stricken legions hnrried the next autumn from the disastrous fleid of Let psic, the whole army, as they approached the banks of the historic river that separated them from home, rushing pellmel! to the front and shout- ing, “The Rhinet the Rhine!” These provinces were compelled to submit t6 a change of rulers during these terrible years we know not how many times, ‘Their conqueror, who like Attila of old was to them the “Scourge of God,” used them as pawns upon his chess-board throughout this gloomy epoch; and they mast have fancied that they heard the echo of the gms at Ligny and Waterloo whieh lieralded the downfall of their oppressor. As has already been shown, the Rhenish Provinces are celebrated not for war only, though, sad to say, the shedding of human blood seems to have been their normal condition for many centuries, Charlemagne was born at Aix, and Mary of Medict, the unfortunate Qneen of Henry IV. and the eonfi- dant of Richlieu, was entombed at Cologne, of which “city Rubens, whose paintings adorn the galleries of the Low Countries, was s native. But though this district has produced eminent scholars, divices, and professors, that one of ite sons who has conferred the greatest boon upon mankind is John Guttenberg of Mentz, the inventor of the divine art of printing. ‘This was the chief sect of the Hanseatic Leagec when that Confederacy, them numbering eighty-five cities, was in the height of its power and prosperity. ‘The ancient waters of Aix-la-Chapelle have been outrivalled by those of Baden, near the upper bor- ders of the district, where invalids, princes, and sharpers resort to bathe, drink, and gamble; while lower down the valley Cologne supplies the toitets of all nations with {ts sromatic liquor, though, sooth to say, the streets of this once beautiful city are now so narrow and nasty that tho traveller of sensitive olfaetories is constrainod to exclaim, Hau! By the by, ws is a sort of suburb of Buden, and should Napoleon accomplish his threat to cross the Rhine, it would be signal illustration of the whirl- igig of fortane ff the biack eagle on the field argent should chase the tri-color through the streets of the very town where the alleged cause of the war arose. ‘The Rhine Provinces are rich in vineyards. ‘The Moselle is not only famous for its wines, but its “blue waters were celebrated in the legendary poetry of the Troubadours ; while Bingen,near which the Prussion headquarters are said to be estab- lished, is also noted for the One flavor of its wines, and is made familiar to Americans by Mrs, Norton, and by Longfellow, as “ Bingen, fair Bingen on the Rhine,” At shocks the moral sense of Christendom, and is a deplorable commentary upon the boasted advance of etvilization in the nineteenth century, to see these fair bills and valleys and the binks of these lovely rivers stained with blood by a bastard Boun- parte in another war of the Spanish succession, ————— VIEWING THE OCEAN RACERS. The Yachts on the Market St The Launching of the So great was the multitude on the screw doek platforms yesterday, at noon, during the raising of the yachts Dauntless and America, that Superintend- ent Doane was compelled to seek the aid of the po- lice to temporarily clear them so that he might properly work the docks, It is estimated that not Jess than ten thousand persons visited the vessels during the day, ‘The yacht Idler, which was to have deen raised with the other two, failed to arrive in time, sadly disappointing many, but she is to be cen. tred at abont noon to-day ou the smaller dock, the ove nearest Market slip. Ex-Mayor Kingsland’s yacht Alurm will follow the America on tho ce dock atthe same hour, ‘The Dauntless will probably be tn repair by Friday morning, and is to be succeeded by the yneht Ial- cyon, a telegraphic despatch from her owner in New London having been received yesterday to reserve a place for her. ‘The Fieetwing, if room can be had, is to be taken up on Saturday, Many distinguished people were among the throng of visitors to the docks. ‘The engine house and many of the neighboring vessels were covered with urchins, and boats filfed with people were plying to and fr under the stern of the yachts, Artists from the il- lustrated journals were sketebing the animated Not au accident can be recorded, sy excel- lent were the povice arrangements. When the Cambria was launched, wild eheering burst forth, which compliment Capt, Tannock ac Knowledged by dipping the Union Juck, and then gracefully raising his eap, She wax soon taken in tow, and proceeded to her anchorage off Staten Ts- land. After the race she will go to Boston, drop ping into the harbors of New London, Newport, and Dry Docks elsewhere, On her return she tx aain to be an chored off Staten Island, aud prepared (or exhibition to the padlic Man¥ of the visitor# to the serew docks eagor'y Inquited of Superintendent Donne Commo- dore James Gordon Bennett, dr. was expecte 1 to vivit hia vessel during the day, and lind be done <0 iis reception would have Deen enthusinatic, and given an of the estimation In w the gailant y an yachtsman is ——— The Proprictors of the St Domingo Mines. Yu the Euitor of The 8 Sint As you do not to have much faith os at Prevt Le kitchen Cabinet, you wil) per ind if you will walk down to x and eal! at Mr, Hatsey*s offer (agent Moday), Where you Will fad a lange map St, Domingo, and another suowlug the 4 y of the St, Domingo Land Company, Halsey, President and Gens, Grant, Ingalls, sud Baleveis, propr with mines of gold, copper, and salt tutor Ingniis and Babeock did not x thougit they wor nal Mateus f Fortress Monroe 1 story Destroyed aud Four dien Killed. eth x — Sam Patch Lad Aug. 3.—Af Thor The New York Republic Sanatoua, Aug i Committee are an caucus in Ue Phe attendance Is un! ny Jing and Fenton, @: Murphy, Gon N B, Cornett, A, 't, Siowark, and Daniel Leow, — Phe Ball of Vauderbilus Depot. brick arch of the & The ofthe conflict, beg imed with smoke and snuff, came deshing along toward a weak point in his sorely-pross- ed lines, the Prince was precipitated to the ground by ‘ cannon ball right before his eyes. Frederick, who never stood for trifles, and always looked to the main chance, dido't draw rein, but shouted to an orderly,’ ‘the Prince of Prussia ts killed ; look to ion depot second street aad Fourth avenue, tel y torning, and severely injared John Honeh, of att Fast Thirty-second street, John onvhue, of East Porty-siath sireet, and Moria Burns, pa aati Execution jn Norwalk Ohio, xvenann, Aug. 3,—Bennet Scop was hany t Norwalk, ‘onioe to-day, for the marder of Goo map, & peddier, SUNREAMS. =Mrs, Charles Dickens has been seriously it since her hneband’s death x admissions a day is the average at the Lilinois State Lunatic Asyinm. =Paterson, N. J., will show @ population of noarly 40,000 by the present census. Jeff, Davi and Toombs were recently recone ciled after an estrangement of ffteon yours. Practical communism—To be willing to dividg with any man who lias moro than you have As long as Gen, Grant bas Fish under him, ho must, of course, be considered superficial, =The free-lovers pretend that they ore iq favor of marriage, but “ on the European plan.” =A Torre Haute (Ind.) Judge has given an Adtvoree on account of the wite's horrible pro tan ‘fount Benedetti is a Corsican by birt has been French Ambaseador at Berlin #inee 1 —Miss Likelike Kewaukeascowawmekaka leads the choir in the Kawalahoe Church, Sandwich Islands, =A French writer says there are but four great social tdeas, viz., birth, marriage, Paris, ant death, =A secret society is about to be formed in Boston under the title of “The Good Feiloes of the Mu." —McKean Buchanan, the tragedian, is said to draw" much better in the West at “poker” thay ow the stage. —An inventor of “a machine to facilitate mare rages" has sont a model to the Pateut Office at Warhe ington. Participating in @ charity dinner may be id to be eating yourself to keep other people from ving. —People who subseribe to mutual coal om. panies, most of which are humbuge, may be said to lack a warner. —Bierstadt, the artist, is said to be engaged in painting ® magnificent waterfall he once *aw—on Broadway. A faithful wife passed through town in Kansas the other day with her decrepit husband lasted to her back. —A workhouse ia an institution so called be. enuso there if no more work dope in it than at the White House, —The Scandinavian steamer reached Liver. pool from Quebec on the 18h of Jaly, im eight daye ‘and tixteen hours, —The late M. Prévost-Paradol was a weekly t Of the London Z¥mes on the sutjeot of ities.” —Maine boasts of an cleven-year-old girly “who manages @ mowing machine with the eate of @ born farmer What is the diffrence between tempts and eternity? The one is @ wile of a devil, and tha other is @ devil of a while, —Nearly two hundred divorces have been granted in Chicago this last year. Devotion to tuo union Is yory weak there, =A Philadelphia paper gives the following grammatical illustration: Positive, pean; comparse Live, piano ; euperlative, peanuts, —Important to mothers. Children should rarely be allowed to arink tea, but should be kept ia the Inck-tea-al way as long as porsible, —Mr. Crocker, Vice-President of the Central Pacific, bas just finished, at Sacramento, the handtom- sidence in Californt —The Bishop of Liucoln, Eng., without the fear of Ward Beecher before his eves, says that “pews letting leavens devotion with selfishness, —One of the finest qualities iv a huraan. being is that nice sense of delianey whieh renders it impotsie ble for him ever to be an intruder or a bore. —Many of the small country towns of New England rhow a considerable decrease of population vy the present census, but the Western States are (ie goia- e st A physiological teacher having put up in his class room the device, Mens sana in corpore suno, 0 of bis young lady puplis wrote under it, and women's also, —The snobs down at Long Branch and else. where who sport their coatsofarms, liverled th &c., would have to be promoted to become res) domestics. —Gen, Wm. Terry, who commanded the frmous “ Stonewall” Brigade during the Inst days of the war, is the Democratic candiaate for Congress in the Eighia Virginta District. —The English Government are busy removing All the cannon and shot from the fortification at Quehec, and shipping them to England. One ship load has aiready been despatched. —Some workmen in tearing down # house ia Jay county, Indi found $1,270 in gold and si) is feared that there will not be another old hous »sta: tng tn Jay county in a wee —A London journal advertises a ‘fairy ain pillow, which weighs bat two oune od wheu whim. Dated cau be packed in a note envelope OO & pookes lite preserver, Weighing three ounce —A miracle play which was to have been per- formed at Ammergan, in Germany, every Sunde ul September, hat been sto ed, the man w part of the Saviour having gone into the army —Bishop Whittingham of Maryland has off to present his valuat of ne t volumes to the Episenpailans of W will provide for it a euitable fire prot baila: —Near Alexandria, Va., the other day, 0 co! Ored man forgot his freedom and, when given work he didn’t live, shouldeses 2* bundle and sce end +tarted northward oo au old-fashioned runaway. —Talleyrand, on being asked by a lady the nieaning of non-tntervention, replied + * Mac ‘ intervention is a diplomatic and enigmatic wor which signifies about the same thing as | » took the —A Memphis reporter has seea the sun go down 1a the hyaciuthine waves of the Saronic golf, 8 the Mediterran: nd behind tho Pyramids, but was ever atteuded to his couch with yesterday and day before.” —Ex.Gor, Leland Stanford, of Califor purchased the Warm ngs of Alameda coun: the Mission San J He will build hinsell ap residence near tho «prings, and will hereafter Fee them for the ase of himself and guests. —Thero isa significant remark of the present French Empero ated by Jerome e “The fal] of Palmerston was the hea vist blow flava re splentor tuaa a, has ara poking ov fence of bit . a , i ¢ You are not going to br Saya he drew out aia: {lluw ° py! Well, E should think «hs , —The London Daily New ‘ ' * a to Got bins od to military duty at ye tha we Rank of penalty 1 A govd fal 08 < Mod ' u 1 ! vi gentionan asked nis com * to dic” whereupon the IW 4 consilering the question synonymous wit ‘ li. Pansha’ ling at Ouk G ' possessed of mors than, ordiaar vea TS years ola ‘ " , " ! ' ) ' t ' \ r ant ana vo on ¥ Wit no bused to hie Tor dartain—ton't rhe Bitdown, Law! why; sho! Tiree Wed sa! Thanh vous OF VL taint ani \ ee bit dowa—anvicherr” were {Pea chanae “Lord wine fens Febied Malbab, ue veer i