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\V MOKNlSG, Sept. 3.
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nil: MJ.BI.VKE MUST BE.
.-iiiL' ilic vcxe-l question of Con*
■K^ioiuri competition ““d political disabili-
liw, our oci!
•Iibor the Daily Commercial
The
,f ;i Democratic Convention
n.ijiioatina a man. who was boru and bred
j n t |, e South—who lived under the shadow
„fuur liuutiie lilue Flag and who drank the
ia-piration of our Southern hopes—who dai-
Itav thousands ol our brave boys come
t', ue .liatte.ed and bleeding in defence of
ife i,„tt - bust Cau-c" -who saw our bravo
rsucu weeping starving day aflcr day, and
then ran lay his hand on his heart and
■•ear that be never sympathized with the
southern people—the idea, we repeat, or
lie Peeioeratie Convention nominating such
: man is absurd and disgraceful.
Auu if the Convention does so far dssre-
ntJ the opinions of the peopia as to notni-
late a man wlm can take the unmodified
irau-clad oath, the yeomen ol the District
•ill call upon some honest and unwave-
in; Democrat to snatch the party-banner
from the dust and flinging it to the sunlight
-ffleaueu, lead them to victory.
This is a spirit that, warms up our deep
est Icilings For such a man as the Goui-
mereial paints in such true and darksome
colors, ire have no sympathy. His heart
must bare' been callous to the refinement
ofMmr.or his judgement must have been
sail) distorted—iioue but a fanatical bigot
ar aii unfeeling wretch could have remain
ed in our iniilst. throughout the dark days
of our struggle, unmoved by sympathy—
or dead tn pity.
Tils is our honest opinion if tile charac
ter fainted by the Commercial, and while
»r regret fur the sake of humanity that
•ael] a being ii permitted to live, we yet re
pel more that the unfortunate issue of
dst terj struggle has made it imperat ivo
•too us to select from such men our polit-
:0 ' rulers. The hardness of this fate we
deplore, our Southern feelings turn with re-
"Won tri iii the great outrage, but as it
7 - one of the sequences of the war vve
tuo only to accept, and patiently endure
'the power of the people can again be
felt md the great wrong made right
trime however, disgrace, and dishonor,
tiie 1 their graduation as well as virtue.—
are seme criminals more deeply dam-
l 'd than others, and despicable as the class
I ma are to whom our choice of rulers
lr ‘ restricted, it is yet a privilege for ns to
I' 7 ml weil to choose at all.
dhere are some men to he louud anion
ihcui eligible, who are better than others.
Indeed lr.-u] some of them we may hope a
ungrcc of justice at least, while from others
only oppression and outrage. Is it not then
the part of wisdom for us to take the best,
miter than by not choosing at all, to have
tic very worst im; used upon us? We re
pel the election this fall as only affording
7 ™ olce between evils. We are not per
mitted L; buuir by public office the men of
II choice. If so such men as Jefferson Davis,
'hhiaidcr H. Stephens, Robert E. Lee,
,J hert leHimbs aud others of our brightest
--i best, would not be allowed to withdraw
tWelres tram the world while their great
■’--'-s are so much needed in this hour of
Cr e-untry’s trouble.
‘wall km
' ,fea Southern and Northern sympathies,
*e eould take the most ragged old con-
^ the whole District and defeat
• Northern sympathiser they could
.!? Held. 15ut such is not the nature
Jow that it were to be a choice
tlil a
fth e
- contest, and our 1
0C;3t " if elected.
“unwavering Dcm-
j j. , would be quietly reman-
,, ""' k 1,1 us > and his radical contestant
^ ™ bis stead.
viulf 5 ^' U ° t * 10 CaSe ’ We ar<: coastra 'ned,
sjmpathizi! g with our neighber in
i to differ in judgement, and shall
"hist
c,Ia Uiau who is not. ineligible by rea-
a 0 P°litical disabilities. The elec-
be a nullity, were he to be cho-
Vo «asEi.p .N His Place "—This
iu, “‘Attaining and intensely internst-
I? Charles Reade, the distinguish
a isb Novelist, and said to bo his best
a. ..announced for publication in
etitlj a'* ,f ^ " ek ’y Register, to commence
tea«, 6 TEt week ' n September, aud will
ij v ourmonths -
The Mobile Week-
the w‘ e , r Uver J enterprising in seenripg
laer I, au(k “tatter generally, in
0r 'a th. n”' ^ ^ our “al, it, has no snperi-
at the Ultcd Slates - U is published
4 mouths PriCCOt S3per year - or 81 f6k
,0se ebarmin
Adelaide DeV. Chaudron,
tranplatiou are so well
Kl) owi. . c 1 ““wuuon are
. ’-outrihutM to the Register.
EDITOKIAE COBltfiSFONDESCE.
Chester, Vermont, Aug. 26.
Dear Courier—Travelling over the
oountry for the purpose of recreation and
amusement, and with the determination to
avoid everything that smacks of labor
is inconsistant With the widest! latitude of
lazy inclinations, your correspondent has
hitherto, during this trip, made uo attempt
to interest your readers in regard to mat
ters and things seen or learned whild jour
neying. Another reason for reticense is
that very little material for. inte^qstipg in
telligentnewspaper readers, has hed) thrown
in the way of one who was : not hunting
that soft of game. ’Ji
lt is always gratifying to observe fad one
is whirled through the country, evidences
of plenty, thrift and prosperity, aud hence
one is especially- delighted with the sight
of the rich harvests that have l-cen gath
ered iu East Teonessee aud Western Vir
ginia. Everything for mau and beast, all
the way from Rome to. Lynchburg seems
to be in the greatest abundance.
After leaving the latter place, on the
route by Norfolk until! we passed Balti
more, there has been a drouth that mate
rially shortened crops, ba't'even here the
amount raised is equal to at least two
thirds the average yield of the soil in these
localities. ,
This state of things, we repeat, is pleas
ing, foT no one -can contemplate, without
pain, even a remote prospect of starvation
and want. Rut there is another thing that
every thoughtful Southern man will notice
with much greater pleasure, and that is
that the dauntless spirit of those who vain
ly fought for ph independent nationality,
is not broken, but still maintains a proud
consciousness of noble aims and purposes.
While defeat is uureservedly acknowledged
intimatiocsol dishonor are boldly repudiated
A u lion may be overwhelmed, captured and
caged, hue he is a lion still, and, so”long as
his spirit lives, is better than any amount
of captaring dogs.
Rut it is not our purpose to writo i po
litical essay. We merely wish to let Geor
gians know that the friends of the “Lost
Cause” in Tennessee, Virginia and Mary
land, like Alpine Heights, hold their heads
high up in the bean'.ifnl sunshine far above
the,dirty fogs with which fanaticism at
tempts to cover them lroin the slimy cess
pools —
In this littlo mountain State, a visitor
notices everywhere, on a- small scale,- evi
dences of thrift aud prosperity. Tie thou-
sans of little happy homes, thickly scatter
ed among the ever green hills, look a
little whiter, and if possible, a little more
neat and tidy, than a few years since—the
fast horses are a little faster, and quite as
sleek aud comely;the beef is quite as fat and
no less juicy, aud the hardworking people
no less industrious.
The change in the political situalion dnr
iug the past three years, has not been
great, so far as voters are concerned, Out
the persecution of “Copperheads,” as the
Democrats are called, is much milder, and
they are slowly, but unmistakably gaining
ground. The Democrats here are like
gold that has keen tried iu the fire. They
boldly maintain the great doctrines of States
rights, and if the Federal government
survives the war upon its- vital principals
now being waged by the Republican party,
they will be of great service in restoring a
constitutional government to the Americao
people. The fact that Willard, an advo
cate for female suffrage, has been nomina
ted for Congress in the Montpelier Dis
trict, seems rather significant, ulthough
when that question was recently submitted
to the people it was voted down by an
overwhelming majority. The Democrats,
except iu those few townships where they
have some hope of success, will probably
fall far short of polling their full strength
in the general election that comes off on tho
first Tuesday in September.
In Massachusetts a movement has been
inaugurated that is likely to redound to the
advantage of the Democrats. The temper
ance men have nominated Wendel Phillips
as the prohibition candidate for Governor,
and as the temperance question has
one of the hobby horses of the republicans
in that State, this movement threatens a!
split in their party. No other candidates
for Governor are as yet in the field. Adams
gave the republicans such a tight race in,
t-.ie last campaign, that the Democrats are
now very hopeful of carrying the Slate.
Here, as probably everywhere else, the 1
European war is the common topic of cen
versation. The great mass of the people in
this section sympathise with the Prussians,
and one secs frequent demonstrations of
joy at the progress of their arms. D.
THE WAR IS EUROPE.
The. war; between Prussia and- France
still rages with a demoniac fury.' - The dis
patches are meagre and often pcrpUxiogly
confused. The situation of the two armies-
can hardly .he defined. One day we ha»e
the announcement that the Prussians are
ready, to open on Paris —that McMahon
was driven to the-mountains, and that Ba-
zame was starving in Metz. The next we
hear o , i great JYussiap victory at Beaia-
oort, where-.the French army was shattered
to pieces. Today comes the: announce
ment that the shattered army, like the in-
destruelablfc Confederates of the late un
pleasantness, have been gathered .together
again, and are now being sbattcrc 1 to
pieces by the Crown Prince. Bazaine, too,
It seems, is not starving in Metz, but is wait
ing his t,me to he again-shattered into frag
ments. To-morrow we suppose we will have
it from London that the Crown Prince is
in Paris, and that Napoleon has climbed
into the hollow of a tree, aud pulled the
hollow in after him. The whole of.which
means that so long as we get our news
through lying English channels, it will be
distorted, or else utterly false. The French
are not. whipped, and uever will be by
Prussian fcrci.
-far it. Idon't suppose it could: be got in
any other way; and it it . could,1 hope no-
honest man would try to get it on any otb>
jCe terms. Tho City could then control it
vauceiocut and development. .'.It-.cpaldljte
icvenijori lb.
made the source of . great rcvenOei)
an . amount reducing the! tux.CsH ftf lb.ocslty.,
by thousands and.nv.suee-jime inciting memexto to u. e. count Bismarck oi
trade. We-arc toldiiliafc. savecal thousitpS dol»MA scnoNflAUSEW. 1 :! - !
THE ALABAMA RADICAL TICKET.
The Radical convention at >Sclnia on the
1st nominated \\. II. Smith for re-election
as Governor, Rurton for Lieut. Governor,
and Rapier, a negro, for Secretary of State
Bingham for Treasurer, Dr. Cloud for Su
perintendent of-Education, and Josh Marsh
for Attorney General.
This is rather a rnot’ey crew, but the in
troduction of Burton in tho place of Ap
plegate. and the nigger in the place of car
pet-bag Miller, we think is a decided im
provement upon the old regime.
Now that Smith has got the nominations
we hope he will direct some of his Cross
Plains zeal against his household pets in
St. Clair county.
dollars were ta'en from transient..travel
and
ter
interest;
mere pleasure excursions iu buggies and
carriages might well be tolled, whi'c wag.
. ons loaded with produce, wood and goods
purchased in the city ought to go free. Th
this way we could certainly maintain gcod
bridges, save a good deal of taxes to tK-
city and greatly help the people to —“
their produce to market. If at any time,the
Mayor and Counsel, shonld think tl-e inter-
est of the city of Rome required any more
bridges, they could build them also. They
would moreover have the power- to u uke
them free upon such occasions as was deem
ed for the welfare of the city, I make
these suggestions because 1 am interested
in the question pecuniarily to the extent
of my business and property iu the city
and I think also, alone with reference to:
what is best.
I trust the City Counsel will take
this matter in hand and see wbat they can
do in the premises.
Marcus,
- «* The Liar.”
, -U n d er th ifi h ea d in gthfc. Coh/w J)ei EtaJt
idiit publishes Ihe following ;--.str- I-.uhjaw
''Gcdersrt Tnrr has addressed to M. de
. . .. , „ . ,. Bismarck, a .memento which wo give be-
by its Mayor and Counsel ****; w&out tt
doubt, that “ The Man ” of Prussia,,
lied, Uefh with effrontery,, in the matter of
,w uJi .iW-ibj
Tour Excellency remehibers undoubted-
[Communicated.
Rome, Ga., Sept. 2, 1870.
Editors Courier : Allow me space to
say I, as well as many others who I have
heard express themselves, fully endorse the
position you have taken in reference to who
you would support for Congress. If all
other papers would do the same, we would
have nothing to fear. Reason and modera
tion should cirect our acts. Personal pref
erences and petty prejudices should not be
allowed to influence us. I heartily endorse
the suggestions of “Rome” iu your Thurs
day morning’s issue—Col. Printup and Col.
Stewart arc eminently qualified, and could
take their scats, if elected, and would do
justice anu honor to their constituents, and
would have more influence in Congress than
any one yet spoken of. Their claims should
not be overlooked, and will uot if cool and
calculating heads compcfe the convention
at Cartersville.
Down Town Citizen.
THE INJUSTICE OF THE DISABILITY
LAWS.
We keenly feel the injustice .of those
odious laws. They. deprive our peo
ple of the service of our very best men.— ;
They rob our friends of the right to meri
ted political preferment, and they are a
shame and reproach to the nation. But,;
bitterly as we despise them, and uDjost as
they are in their operations, we cannot ig
nore them, and until they are repealed, we
will have to observe and obey them.
It is hard td meet an old Confederate'
brother—one who haa stood by tho, dear,
old flag and upheld with his bravo right
arm the cause of his native South, and
have to turn from that man because of that
very act of noble patriotism, ijlat such is
onr,unhappy condition.., - -.-jb-.w. ■
The act that disqualifies our political
friends, at the same lyne politically damns
ns, and we do trust that those friends who
aspire to positions, and who axe debarred
from preferment by those disabilities, will
not hold us ungrateful for not encouraging
them in (heir honest ambition. If they be
reasonable men, we leelsnre that theywiU
not. For rib reasonable man would expect
his friends to supper, him in a measure that
can only result in bis own mortification
nnaltln.i/1- *
[Cummunic&ted.
The Bridge Question.
I am uot in the habit of intruding my
opinions upon the public. Asa commission,
merchant and Steamboat man, and other
wise interested iu the city of Home proper,
l feel a deep interest. My business,like oth-
c/ is involvcdiulier prosperity. I therefore
have looked upon the various movements
made lately upon the subject, with much
anxiety. What is the first and paramount
interest of the city of Rome? Most evident
ly to leave, at all times, ijood safe commodi
ous britjes. The city would be mined with
out bridges,that is certain, though they
be toll bridges The present system has
ensured us this much. Though both bridges
were destroyed by the Confederate troops
duriug the war,the Superior Court without
giving Messrs. Wright and Shorter, reas
onable time to arrange and negotiate for
the building of new bridges, notified them
that their charter would bo considered for
feited and let to new parties if they did not
immediately rebuild. They did 60 at once,
and to their credit be it said, they built us
two elegant bridges,e« wide as the pillars
would admit, and wide enough for wag-
ons to paSB on the bridges. It was done,
we are told, at a very heavy expense; to
Wit; of from twelve to fifteen thousand dob
lars, and while railroads, and hotels, and
all other public works were charging great
ly enhanced rates on account of the curren-
rency and war losses, no increased rates
were put upon the bridges. We ali re.
member the condition of the city while the
bridges-were down. We never desire to see
the like again. Hundreds were certainly
tnrned away from the city from the iillpos-
sibility of crossing the .streams. We had a
remedy and a sure one at hand. The obliga*
tion of Messrs. Shorter and Wright to
keep up the bridges or.forfeit their charter.
A Sensation Spoiled.
A few days since the Baltimore Sun con
tained the following startling pa ngraph,
wbioh was generally copied bv Southern
Journals :
Mrs. Vanderhorst, : of South Carolina,
mysteriously disappeared from tho side of
her friend, Mrs. General Warne, while on
their way to Saratoga Springs, a tew days
ago, and has not been heard from,although
detectives have a thorough search at every
point of the road where they could
even hope to find a clue to her where
abouts.
The Charleston Courier settles the sensa
toin by publishing this information about
the missing lqily :
The. many anxious friends of Mrs. Elias
Vanderhorst.—made anxious by the report
of the Baltimore Sun, of Wednesday, that
this lady had mysteriously disappeared—
will be pleased to learn that she has arrived
safe and well at the Everett House Sarato
ga, N. V. Under the circumstances, it is
quite natural that she should disappear
from home ; quite natural that she disap
pear from one Station after another while
en route, and not at all unnatural that she
should appear at her point of destination,
which is the case. Lett, rs were received
from her, dated at tho Everett House, Sar
atoga, N. V., by her relatives iu this city,
yesterday.
: CartumWs'& RaHroaai j71 '^
Friday/ ilastl-.: Tho bill . wair subjected jo
slight sqiegdments, and .ivai immediately
i »- lL - “ **— ~~*n?tW{
maintaiuance of good bridges by the pres
ent system. Let the citizens of Home in
terested in the City oi Rome, be carefnl
how they change it If they could. The
people of the county have the same interest;
that they be able at all times to get to tho
City with fheir produce. Will tho system
of free bridges always ensure us good and
safe bridges? I fear not. We know of - no
City on a large river with free bridges.
Thenystem has,been abandoned as . wholly
impracticable. Who is to build these free
bridges? Whcreis the money to come
from? . Who is to pay the money necessary
to keep them in annual, repair? If one
washes away,as tree bridges are almost cer
tain to dp, who is to rebuild? rhey. inayi
be built upon the cheap plan. So much the
surer to be no bridges. We shall have
immense bridge jobs, paying small iortnnes
jo builders, and no bridges. I ask ypn fel
low-citizens are these fears groundless?
L j wonld respectfully suggest, however, a
belter plan than the.'present for the City
pf Bome, provided it can.be carted,.'fiut;
and that-is to -pturcluule of the pMsent own-
e fs, if they will sell, the franchise which
Natural Portraits.
Ths famous “profilt” in tho White Woxn-
tains of New Ha mpshire is by no means a
solitary instance of natural portraits of the
human vissage.
There is a mountain in the neighborhood
ofEms, in Germany, which so much resem
bles Bismarck in its outlines, that it has
been nicknamed the Bismarckskopf. Such
a resemblance is b t no means rare. Close
to Paris, Mont Valerien, if examined from
the Nanterre side, presents a startling re
semblance to M. Thiers.
Besides Mont Blanc, mountains in the
Prences, in the Tyrolean Alps and else,
where, were supposed to furnish portraits
of Napoleon the First. There is a hill-side
visible from a noach road in tho Ilse of
Wight, the outlines of which recall .vitb
striking exactitude the features ofthc late
Lord Broughom.
In old Paris a group of houses in the lluc
du Vieux Colombicr seemed the exact like
ness of M. Garnier Pages. Tho roof rep
resented his flowing hair, a gallery hisfore
head, and his collar was portrayed by somo
chimney.tops of the Petite Rue Tnreune,
The minister of the provisional government
was ver. proud of this likeness, and when
his guests used to praise., an oil-picture
of him in his dimng-roou), Mr. Garnier Pa
ges always replied that, though a good like
ness, it was not eqnal to that of the bouses
in the Rue du Vieux Colombier, i .
n On Lookout Mountain near i Chattanoo
ga, is a remarkable stone profile of Wash
ington. The resemhlance is so strikio;
that all who so2 it recognize it at once.
The New York Tribune Dispatcii.
—Whatever Greeley may know or not know
about farm-ng, he certainly does know how
to do a big thing in the way. of dispatching.
For instance, the Tribune says : n oi. - 1
Onr single dispatch concerning tho bat
tle of Gravelotte eost tB (notwithstanding
the great redactions in cable tolls) two
thousand Iwo hundred and eighty dollars in
gold for the mere transmission from London
to New York. • • - 1 pf* n ! df
How the French Fight—Tbeir Su
perb Gallantry.—Extract from' the
special correspondence of tho New York
World. The writer says:
At Weisenburg the Marquis d’Espehil-
les, Colonel of Cavalry at the bead -of the
So we may safely say we are secure in the 1 third of Hussars, in order to give the Dou-
ly division time, charged seventeen times
on the Prussian columns. At the List
charge the regiment was redneed to fifty
men, bnt the colonel, covered with wounds,
led'his men again. . .
The Third Regiment of Zouaves at Worth
went into action after a march of over for
ty miles ia the raia. ' ^ :
They fonghtTroaV 1 f uat'il 4. Thea
they retreated to Saverae by a - march of
twenty miles. Five hundred and fifty men
eidy are leit to the regiment. Forty-five
oat of sixty-seven officers were killed or
dangerously wounded. All the rest are
more or less wounded, with the exception
'of Colonel Bocher, who did not receive a
scratch.
When the Ninth Cuirassiers charged at
Worth, Lieutenant Billet, the Colonel’s son
charged four times after his jawbone had 1
been broken bo a ball* His.ihther had him
carried off the field by force at the 5 th
charge, he himself being killed in the
same. «-
The colors ofthe 8eventy-fffst oftheline
changed hands twenty-two ’ times; twenty-
one of those who had carried them-in >snc-
cession was -IriDed.' Tbe twentyseoondi
brought them off the field. 1 arid iidinTul -
in sne-
was in your Cabinet, on the evening of thc
10th, and under the large tree in yonr gar
den, the day after, that it took place. Yon
were very anxious and pre-occapied by .the
war, which 1 was . beginning. You said :—
“Ah! if the Emperor Napoleon wished It,
the war would be so profitable, andhe might
without difficulty take Belgium and Lux
emburg, and even make other rectifications
of the French frostier. I have proposed-
it to him, and he has not wished it. In
passing through, be kind enough to men
tion this to Napoleon.”
After the war, in February, 1867, speak-
iu<* with yonr Excellency about my mission
to the East, I expressed the opinion that
the unification of Germany could not be ac
complished unless Prussia imitiated the ex
ample of Charles-Albert, who, in 1858, in
stead of the fla-; of the House of Savoy,
took the banner or Italy, and gave to his
country a liberal constitution. Instead of
this, 1 said, we see Prussia planting her
standard and enforcing her constitution,
which is less liberal than that of most Ger
man States. Your Excellency answered
that all this was true, and that you deplored
the tendency of Prussification costomaty at
the Com t of King William, bnt added that
it was not in your power to remedy the evil,
inaimuch as it was the wish of the King
and tte great Prussian party. Speaking of ?
Austria, I said that she might probably give
to Hungary concessions sufficient to satisfy
that country, to which yon answered that it
was doubtful. . Then you added : “Austria
always works for Prussia. Look at the
treaty of Gastein, and still more at that of
Nicolsburg; Austria 1 as abandor.ed it- al
lies, thereby giving me time to conclude an
alliance with its own friends. Rest as-
ured that Austria will not give satisfaction
to Hungary, aud that I shall do all in my
power to aid yonr country in re-establishing
its independence and make additions to its
extent East 1 .' “ . 1,
I answered that Hungary had no desire
to become greater, but that in order to be
come secureif wanted Poland re established,
which at the same time, would be a repara
tion on the part of Prussia towards ‘his
noble country. Your Excellency answered
that Prussia was ready to do a great deal
for Hungary and the countries of the lower
Danube, bnt that it woe Id do nothing fur
Poland, inasmuch as Prussia needed Rus
sia. Finally, Your Excellency complained
of the bitter tone of the French press, and
said, “I want to live in harmony w.th
France, 11 and do hot wish*for war r, To Na
poleon wo owe our success of 1866. He
has made it possible by his loyal attitude of
neutrality, for which he asked no cornpen
sation, and therefore I am willing to help
France in everything. But here in Berlin
one must work slowly, for one cannot open
ly attack the King. If the Emperor would
put his wishes into writing, I know that I
I can obtain them in a few months.—
If : he wishes, for instance, to annex Lux-
ctuburg to Frrnce, he has unly to create
a party in that State who ask for an
nexation. I will not even try to verify if
this party is in the majority, bnt will be
satisfied to acknowledge tacitly the accom
plished fact. As for Belgium, I have said
it often and repeat it now, that the Empe
ror need only take it, ana if there is a pow
er who would oppose we will cross bayonets
with her.”
Your Excellency knows full well that I
reported these words lo the Emperor Napo
leon, for I wrote--you at the address which
yon had the kindness to write with your
own hand in my tablets, which I have care
fully preserved. In the same letter I wrote
Your Excellency that if Prussia wanted to
find friends in France it most try to prove
that it is a liberal Germany, and not a Prus
sian military, which it tries to establish.—
The concessions of Austria to II angary have
been really considerable, so that the major
ity of Hungarians have accepted them, and
I myself, after an exile of twenty years,
haVe been able to re-enter my native land
in September. 1867. Then, I have con-
vinced myself by my own eyes that the ma
jority of my countrymen were reconciled
with their: sovereign.
Shortly afterward I went lo Constantino
ple and Belgrade, and in this last city, at
the house of the Italian Consul, Chevalier
Leovesso, I met the Prussian Consol, M.
Lorabean, and M. Marinovitcb, President
of the Servian Senate. In the coarse of a
political discussion, the Prussian Consul,
speaking to M. Marinovitcb, said that Scr-
via ought to arm nt once, so as to be able
at the first opportunity to pass the Danube
and the Save and occupy Croatia, Benat,
and the Comitate of Boda, while the Rus
sians advanced from the otherside and the
Prussians shonld go by way of Bohemia to
Vienna. I observed to the Prussian Con
sul, that these words raised the supposition
that since 1S66, the programme of war was
entirely changed at Berlin, when the Con
sol tried to: explain his words, bnt in snch
an awkward way. that he only entangled
himself more fully. When we were a’one,
M. Marinovitcb assured me that Servia
would [ never bs inveigled by Prussia in
nnch a hazardous enterprise, for it. wished
to be on good terms with Hungary. I an
swered him that the interests of the two
conntrids forced them to live in harmony,
and that I blessed the fate which to me un
vailed the intrigues which hade cured me
entirely of my Prussian sympathies.
On"my return from the East in October,
1867,1 told this episode to several of my
conntryinen, and made a note of it,-as I am
in the habit ot doing of events more or less
meinorable which I witness. I had no in
tention of publishing the facts as stated in
this letter, bnt seeing that yonr Excellency
plays the innocent in the question of the
treaty with Benedelti, I take it ss fair to
send yon this little memento.
Hungary sincerely wishes for the great
ness and freedom of Germany, hut it will
fever'be the' dope of Prussia, acolyte of
Russia. Now, as in the moment of danger
under Marie-Theme, every man will stand
np to defend his country.
~ Count Bismarck has addressed a ljote to
the editor of a German paper, in which he
emphatically denies 1 having ever told Gen.
Tnrr that he (Bismarck) proposed to Napo-
loon the annexation of Belgium and Lux
emburg to France, m-consideration for an
alliance between France and Prussia. ' -
transmitted to. 'the.Reuse for approval.-^
The caption of-lhe hill as passed was amen
ded so as to read-‘from Rome, iris CarriilJ-
1 itoo abdiLHGrange, to ColumbmU liTlris is
j precisely in acoardtoiVilritMheexprfeahejl
wmhikofhbp^Roojq-meetjpg.,. . £
There being Ecperate bills foreach end.of
the route, that from Rdme "to Cht ttanobg
has yet to stand its chances in the Senate
If it meets with like success, and: both ari
favored with the Governor’s sign>tnr.e,.tfi
beginnin, of .work is the next thing to bi
thought of. WHF Judge Underwood obi-
lige us by looking affer a little of that Ndtflx-
ern and European capita!which he spoke
abont at the Roue meeting? Let’s put the
thing through. Judge, at once,—j Golumluif
£iigaira\
[Special to the New York Tribnae
Battle ofcrarelott.
.0. V. 1- ; • l I..
.Tbe Women la Paris.
At th'c suggestion of several ladies be
longing U> the American colony in Paris,
similar benevolent measures to those which
proved so effcackras daring our late civil
war ware adopted : as soon as the Franco-
Prnssian war was declared. Liberal sub
scriptions were made, lint was abundantly
prepared, medicines; cordials and linen
jandages were provided, and, in fine, atom
plete system was organized for the relief of
sick ■■ nd wounded French soldiers.
The same enthusiasm.-animate? all wo
men in Paris, whatever may be tbrirsoc-al
rankt -Tbe Empress; Eugenie takes the
The 1
cession excused himself for so dding on the
ground that he got off wi'h one mother-in
are engaged. Her Majesty has converted
the chateau at Compiegnc into a- military
hospital. - She has also tendered jto the
commander of a newly formed <a.rps of vol
unteers for tbe defence of Paris the valua
ble horses which make up the stud of the
Imperial hnnling establishment,accompany
ing'her offer with the request that’ the ani-
-mals be used as may be deemed best for the
public set vice.
Ex Queen Isabella, of Spain, has glvon a
palace in Paris for the use of the wounded.
Incalculable sacrifices have been made
throughout France by the mothers,striv
ing lu check apd repel the Prussian invad
ers. ... 1 ■ \ .
The spirit of Joanne d’Arc has biei reviv
ed. It has even led many women to imi
tate the example of numerous, volunteers of
their sex whq : served bravely and faithful
ly daring tho wars of- the first empire. A
correspondent of the Eicniug Post mentions
that in the ranks -of the ‘francstireurs along
the frontier are-to found several of the fair
sex, who have adopted as a-uniform a jack
eted knickerbockers of black velvet, fas
tened at the knee, over swollen stockings
striped black and scarlet, black ankle boots,
red flannel'shirts, a blcck velvet cap,-with
1 won crowned plumes, and 1 a Cartridge box
of the model worn by: the officers of tbe ar
tillery. .. tl . { > :j l uff how 1 1:0 -j-ju
The correspondent also records a, recent
cufions episode in the Miromcsnil quarter,
oneof the most respectable qoartersin Par
is. A woman rnshed through the Labordc-
Market House screaming‘I am a Prussian,
and in a fortnight the Prussians will be in
Paris 1’ Thereupon the hucksters flow at
her like tigresses, beat her with fish and
legs of mutton, tore off her chignon, acd
not a little of her hair with ityand would have
hnng her to a hook in a butcher's stall bat
for the opportune arrival of the police,—
This woman mast have been crazy.
But -vliat shall be thought of other sig
nals, although rare, exceptions to the pre
vailing patriotism of the women in Paris—
exceptions supplied not only by certain aris
tocratic parlors in the Faubourg St. Ger
main, but even by tbe Imperial Court cir
cle ? r ' 11 * VJ c
It is said that one lady of high rank has
been detected as a spy and thrown into pris
on at Vincennes,and that another,the Duch
ess Taschar de ia Pagerio, his been exi'ed
for having lent aid and couifort'to the ene
my by a secret correspondence with Bis
marck himself.
Whether these alnost incredible instan
ces of treason spring from an over weening
passion for diplomatic infincnco, from in
tense personal hatred and revenge or from a
still more despicable greed for foreign gold
as a means of gratifying an insatiate fond
ness for dress and luxury, they but bring
out in brigher relief the patriotic enthusi
asm of women of all classes In Paris.—A r . Y.
Herald. ’ '* u !tt "
£>mn ended chiefly the- conflict behind the
fare Win to the south ol it. j. r
Pru? sians l'ourlug in.
T- c Pinssian reinforcement coming np
on ililtf iii-lit Ehd out on the Boisdes Op-
uous, ai.u it Wa.- at that point, as they
mardit'd W n. tbe field.that unccould per
haps, get the I-M1 idea of the magnitude
,of this iUvidnig a- my now in . the heart of
Frunec. 1 heie uas uo break whatever i'dr
hours in ilic mar.li
A VRRY FANCY DESCRIPTION
At midnight or a Rttle aftcr^ on the 17 lp
and 18th',all the trtrnipets.qbr-milesaronn I,
began to soumL- This was tbe first tin e
we hal been.starthd hy iueh trnsie.TruUi-
-through, all,#
bivoucas around .the little city.
For seviraf -dsj4 "previously there ha i
been troopfe almost perpetually marchm g
Wfc® v .the woods,
between midnight and dawn, a perpetual
rfafrs otuosuoj .iou - -.-J. • • • it
'-Hastily dressing, I went out into the
darkness and managed to get a seat on a
wagojt th it was goiug in the direction-df
toe front, which'was now understood to be
a mlte'df twobeyerid the village of Gory d,
Isome twelve 'utiles from Pont-a-Monssdip-t.
On onr; way we met a considerable batch
of French prisopeis, „who was looked upon
with considerable curiosity by the contin
uous line of German soldiers with whom
tre advanced. But one or two offensive cries
towar i the prisoners were heard. . ;
The way was bo blocked- with wagons that
1 finally concluded I could do the six or
seven miles remaining, on foot better, so I
got oat of in; carriage and began to walk
and ran swiftly ahead.
At Mootvicnt, on the Moselle,about half
way to Metz, I found vast bodies of caval
ry, uhlans and hussars crossing the river by
a pontoon bridge and hurrying at the top
of their specd toward Gorge.
Hurrying my own steps, I sxm heard the
first thunder of the cannonade, seemingly
f met! out,of. that.
vfo d_i.
If seemed almost as if all the killcdand
wounded revive',and come-back and march
etl iorth again. - Bitnamwccd. advancing
tn Duiisiiiamy Hjll. was ni.t a m«.re ominous
slgbiTtn MaVbeth than tl-ctc me?of Gut.
Goeberg’s army, shielded as they v ere by
the woods until they were fairly within
range and xeacbiof their enemies.
So tlie French limit, have felt, for between
Tour aud five o’clock they concentrated up
on' that spot tbeir heaviest fire, massing ali
available guns, and shelling the woods
Which.covered' fhc Pinssiaus nmemittirgly
Their shot reached the Barvnrian lines and
tore through them and though the men
were steady, it Was a test to which no gen
eral i-ared long to subject .big troop. ’J 1 cy
prcsrrtly swerved a little frtm that lice of
"advene, and there was no lougc-r a con-
ti-jccus column of ict'anly pouring out ef
lead in actively promoting the labots of love . „ ... .
ami patriotism in which alt hearts and hands com,D ” fr0IU the heatt ot a ra, ’" e of 11,1,8 00
A Hayenco letter sayB that Bull Run Rus
sel moves about in it cab having painted on
it: ‘Dr. Russel, Times correspdndent,army
The Bishop Elect of New Hamp
shire.—The arrangements arc now all
made for the consecration or Rev. Dr. Niles
as Bishop of New Hampshire, -and are as
follows: ‘Tho consecration is to take place
at St. Paul’s Church, Concord, at eleveD
o’clock on Wednesday morning, Septem
ber 21st (St. Mathew’s Da;,) the presid
ing Bishop, B. B. Smith, of Kentucky, act-
,ng as consecrator. The sermon will be
preached by the Rt. Rev. William Croswell
Doane, D. D. Bishop of Albany. The
Bishop elect will Le presented by tbe Rt.
Rev. Bishops Williams of Connecticut,and
Neely, of Maine. Rt. Bev. Manton Eaft
bnro, of Massachusetts, and Rt. Rev. W.
H- A. Bisgell, of Vermont will also be pres
and assisting. It is hoped that the Rt.
Rev. Thomas M. Clark of Rhode Is
land, will be present, and take part in this
imposing ceremony. A large number of
the clergy of New Hampshire and of other
dioceses is expected.’
Republicanism.
The Richmond Dispatch very seasonably
gays': tlsJaui
There is a very peevish and most incon
sistent hostility displayed towards monar
chical governments by northern papers that
have sustained, oppressions and tyrannies
in this country to which “ Ctesarism,” for
which they profess such holy horror, is tarts
and cheesecakes. Row much of republi
canism is there in this world? Yet these
inconsistent, dreaming, fanatical, cruel, and
mad philanthropists, pretend to.seo in the
heavens of Europe signs of that republi
canism which they have done all they could
to destroy on this continent. Spain is to
be republican, so is France; and even in
Prussia they swear tbst they detect at least
a speck of a tendency towards republican
ism! What staff! ,What, humbug 1 Wbat
knavery! ■ .
~ There is about is much republicanism in
Europe as may be pat into Greeley’s right
eye. Even the leaders of the so-called re
publicans are ambitions knaves, who them
selves aspire to dictatorial powers. Kos
suth aspired to. (he throne of Hungary, and
in'this country moved-about'in State with
retainers'-and'a body guard:' Your Red
Republican den-agogne is the most selfish
and brutal of all pdjjieal agitators, and
wheneyer he gets power is the mast heart
less tyrant in the world. ' :
Republicanism 1 : Bah! Where is itT-
i* ' ■ » . . . Ua-J
the right..Passing through the villageand
ascending tho high plain beyond, I found
myself suddenly in a bottle field, strewn,
literally, as far as my eye could reach, with
dead bddics. ' " 7 - ' i:} ‘ " ®* i!
In oncer two parts of the field, compa
nies were still. burying the dead,-.chiefly
Prussians. The French, being necessarily
buried last,were still lying in vast numbers,
on the ground.
A* few of these I saw were cot dead.—
As I followed on, a splendid regiment of
cavalry came < n behind, and when they
reached the brow of tbe bill they all broke
oat with a wild hnrrab and dashed for
ward. ' >*“ ' 1 omen.'
A few more steps and I gained the sum
mit, and saw the scene which had evoked
their cry and seemed to thrill even tbeir
horses It would be difficult to imagine a
grander battle field.
The Scene of Battle.
From the hill to which I bad been di
rected by good authority-to come, tbe en
tire sweep of the Prussians and French cen
tres could bcsqen, and a considerable part
of. ibeir wings.
The riot where I stood was fearful; it
was amid shortly corpses and hardened
With i the stench of deal horses, of which
there were-great numbers.
I was standing on the battle field of the
16th iostant, and on the Prussian side there
of On the left side stretched, like a silver
thread, the road to VerduD, and to Paris
also, for the possession of which this series
of battle had begun It ran between a line
of poplars, which stood against the horizon
on my left,and as for as the eye could reach
tewords Metz.
' With military regularity, strong on its
road, like brads, were the pretty tillages,
each with its church tower,which, although
they have separate names, are only a few
hundred yards apart.
On my right were the thickly wooded
hills, behind which lira the most important
village of tbe oeighborhood, the one I had
just left, Gorge. So envirooed was the
foreground of tbe battle, which should, one
would say,be called tbe battle if Gravelotte,
for H was mainly over and beyond that de
voted towo that it raged.
The area l have indicated is, (erbups,
four miles square. Owing to having come
on foot rather than along the blocked road,
I arrived just as the battle waxed warm,that
is, abont noon of the 18tb. At that time
the headquarters of the King of Prussia
were at the spot I have described.
Watching the Battle.
The great representative men and sol*
diers of Prussia war were standing od the
ground watching the conflict just begun.
Among them I recognized the King, Count
Bismarck, General Von Moltke, Prince
Frederick Charles, Prince Carl, Prince
Adelbert and Adjutant Krotski. Lieut.
Gen. Sheridan, of the United-States army,
was also present. At this moment the
French were making a most desperate effort
to bold on to.the last bit ef the Verdun
road, that between .Kezopvillc and Grave
lotte, or that fprt °f Gravelotte, which in
some maps is called St. Marial.
' ’ Fighting Two to one.
Desperate, bnt unavailing, for every one
man in the French ranks had two to cope
with, and their line was already beginning
to waver. Soon it was plain that this wing
cf the French right was withdrawing to a
new position. This was swiftly taken np
under cover of a continuous fire of their
artillery from .the heights beyond tbe Til
lage. _ . , /V !;
The movement was made in good erder
and the position reached at 1:30. I believe
nine military men ont of ten wonld have
prononneed it impregnable. When once
this movement had been effected,the French
retreated irom tbe pressure of the Prussians
artillery fire and the Prussians rapidly
advanced. ' ' '• 1
The Scene Shifting.
The battlefield was no longer abont Re-
zonville,. bnt had transferred and poshed
forward to G ravelotte, the junction of the
two branching roads to Verdun. Tbe fields
Into the Jaws of Death.
The attack of the Prussians in the centre
was dearly checked at five o'clock; howev
er another brigade of fresh infantry was
again .orated in the woods ml merged from
its cover.
Once cut from under the tries, ll.i-j ed
va need st double-quick. I watched their
movement, nr the French .gnus had not
lost, t lie-range ofthc wood nor cf the ground
in front Seen at a distincc through a
putrcrlul glass, the brigade was a hugb ser
pent bending with the .undulations of the
fields, but it left a dark track behind it,
and the glass resolved the dark track into
falling and dying and dead men. As the
horrid significance of that path, so traced
came upon mc,*I gazed on moro intently.
Many of those who had fallen leaped up
and ran forward a little way, striving ^stili
to go with their comrades. Of tl esc who
went backward instead of forwatd, there
were a lew, though many fell as they pain
fully endeavored to follow the anvance. I
do not kuow whether, after the vain effort
of that brigade, another movement was at
tempted
Another Movcmeot.
From within the road, half an Inur af
terwards great numbers of troops began
to march over the hill where I was stand
ing,and moved forward to the field,where as
hard a struggle had been so long protracted
There also were a portion of Gen. Gohein’s
troops, who had been directed upon a less
dangerous route. Tbe conflict irom ibis
point, 00 the Prussian left, became so fierce
that it was soon lost in us, cr almost lost,by
reason of tbe smoke.
Now and then the thick cloud would open
a little and drift away on tbe wind and
then we could sec the Fr.-neh. I tried to
get a better view of this part of the field. I
went forward about half a mile from u y new
standpoint and found myself not far from
Malmaison. Tbe French line on the hills
was still unbroken, and to all appearances
they were having the best of tbe battle.
Bnt this appearance was due perhaps to
the fact that the French were more clearly
visible in their broad height and fighting
with snch singular obstinacy.
Stelnmetz in tbe Field.
These were the men and these were the
guns ol General Steinmetz, who there and
then effected his junction with the army of
Prince Frederick Charles, and completed
the investment of Metz to northwest. With
reinforcements thus continually arriving on
both sides, the battle grew more and. more
obstinate. There could be no doubt the
French understood tbe meaning of the new
movement in the Prussians and of the
geueral development of their line to the
north.
Steinmetz was able to extend his line
gradually further aud further, until the
French were outflanked and began to he
threatened as it appeared, with an attack
on the rear of the right wing. So long as
the smoke ol the Prussian guns hovered
only over tbeir froat. The dsistanee from
headquarters to where Jthe Prusiacs flank
attack stretched forward was great, and to
add to the difficulty of clearly seeing the
progress of the battle, darkness wrsee rn-
ti g on,
I know not bow long the French held
ont, nor at what precise moment the Prus
sians onset became irrcsistablc. What I saw
was this. The puffs of smoke from the
Freneh guns mingled with the flashes,
brightening as the darkness increased and
receded gradually-
The very serious pillars of cload and
flame from tbe West as gradually aud stead
ily approached, and with that advance the
French fire became every moment more
slack
EUcct Upon King William.
The King as he stood gazing upon the
battle field, bad semething almost plaintive
in it. He hardly said a word, but I ob
served that his attention was divided be.
tween the exciting scenes in the distance
and the dismal scene nearer his feet,when
they were jnst beginning what must yet
be a long task—to bury the French who
fell on the Tuesday before. On them he
gazed silently and I thought sadly.
Count Bismark could not conceal his ex
citement and anxiety. If it had not been for
the King the Count would clearly have gone
forward where the fighting was. His tow
ering form was always a little in advance
of the rest.
The End.
When the French completely gave up
thier hold npon the road to Gravelotte, the
horses of the headquarters were hastily
called and mounted- They all with the
King at their bead, dashed down at a point
not very far from the village. Then shouts
and cheers arose ard followed them when
ever they passed.
The Prussian Losses.
London, August 23.—(Special to the
New York World-—Creditable authorities
assure me that Steinmetz and Frederick
Charles lost over 100,000 men,leaving them
no more than 150,000 to hold their line
from the frontier to Metz- The feeling in
Berlin is of undeniable horror and depres-
in firontofthat village were completely coy- “tHc war threatens to last, and already
the flower of North Germany is decimated.
The railways are taken np with the wonnd-
so as to delay the movement of reinforce
ments.
.It sometiniej v takes a trying pf ajjrojr to
develop? the jirauf-j of our &ith just as
“Darkness shows ns worlds of light
ered. with Prussian reserves, and over it in
terminable lines of soldiers were perpetually
marching into the village and emerging od
the other side of it with flatting volley!
This second battlefield was less extensive
than the first,and brought the opposing for.
ces into fearfnliy' close quarters. Tho pe.
cnliarity of it is that it consists of two
heights intersected by a deep ravine. Tins
woody ravine is over 100 feet deep, and is
at the top some 300 yards wide. The side
of tbe ravine next to Gravelotte, where the
Prussians stood, is reach lower than the
other side, which gradually ascended to a
great height.
.. ; Fearful Slaughter.
From their commanding eminenee the
French held their armies beneath them, and
"Daredupon them* searching fire. The
trench guns were in position far np the
Meti rioad, hidden and covered among tbe
trees. There was not an instant’s cessation
of; the roar.,: Easily distinguishable among
all was the curions granting roll of tbe
mitraillears.
Tbe Prussian' srffflery was pioste d to the
'north and South of tho village, - the guns
no tfee latter side being necessarily raised
for an awkward vertical fire. Tho French
stood their ground and died by hundreds: I
almost said by thousands!' This, for an
hoar or two, that seemed ages, so constant
Two Highly Esteemed.—The follow
ing scene is said to have occurred near Par
is, according to Frencn papers:
A Frenchman and American were about
to fight a duel. Only two shots were to be
exchanged,?aod the lot was t.i decide who
was to have the first shot. The French
man was the first to shoot, but missed his
adversary. When the Yankee raised hb
pistol the Frenchman exclaimed:
Hold on! what do you want for that shot?
The seconds looked at him with tbe ut
most surprise at this speech, but- the Amer
ican replied:
How much will yon give me?
Five hundred dollars.
Nonsense! said onr American, and tub
ed hb pistoL I am a good shot; yonr offer
is too low.
You esteem me too highly, said the
Frenchman; bnt I will give yon a thousand
dollars.
All rigbt, said tbe Yankee.
Tbb wss the end of tbe dnel.
A young Indy in Philadelphia has jnst
celebrated herwooden wedding by marrying