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scr.a."cs whose names have been already
mentioned, but by the proprietor or the
Marine Hotel and by a female servant who
was de: cendir.g the b*irs with a tray and
was for a few momenta enable so pass the
group on the landing. What a situation —
a landlord and a hitchea-ma : d blubbering
responsive tears to the sobs of an em
press clasping to her bosom a child who
wa u but lately called the hope of France !
Both mother and child looked fearfully
worn and ill, the child especially bearing
evident traces of the effects of nervous
excitement. His eves, naturally large,
appeared unusually so, and they attracted
the particular attention of the Empress,
who was observed to push back the hair
from the boy’s forehead, and after looking
at him long and earnestly to close each
eyelid with a kiss.
The landlord himself, a man who has
traveled and who understands French in
differently well, says he shall never forget
the depth and tenderness with which the
Km pres?, while she held her son, ex
claimed, “Mon pauvre Louis 1 Monpavurc
Iruis, maiatenant jo n’ai que toi ”
“And papa,” raid the child, and before
he could continue the doors of the drawing
room were closed upon mother and son.
lam writing from special information
when 1 say 'that the scene within the
anartinent continued for some time to be
or the same tender and affecting character,
though in time the principal parties in it
became leir deeply affected and their con-'
versation assumed a more cheerful tone.
The child’s horror of the scenes, he had
parsed through on the battle-field was,
however, most decidedly manifested anti
he showed an acuteness of distress that
seemed the premonitory symptoms of con
vulsions when the Empress proposed that
he should at once return to Germany with
herself to share the captivity of his father.
“Not to the battles, mamma, not to the
battles,” he exclaimed more than once,
and the Empress in vain endeavored to re
assure him by stating that his father was
now quite beyond the sounds and the
sights which had inspired his youthful im
agination with so much terror.
The scene proved far too trying for the
Empress. During the whole of Friday
she was cor fined to her room, and she had
to seek the services of the very physician
who had formerly ministered to Louis
Phillippe on a similar occasion. The ticks
of her identity had spread rapidly through
the town, bat her incognita was respected
and beyond the assembling of numerous
group? beneath her windows, nothing was
done to disturb her privacy.
On the Sunday, the Empress appeared
for the first time in public, at the Roman
Catholic Chapel of this town, being ac
companied by the Prince Imperial. The
edifice is of a very unpretending character,
very different from the grand churches to
which her Imperial Majesty hap so long
been accustomed. During the mass, which
was celebrated by the parish priest,
Father Foy, her Majesty appeared to be
entirely absorbed in her devotions. At
its conclusion, the priest and his attend
ants, in compliance with the instructions
lately issued by the ecclesiastical authori
ties, ranged themselves in a row at the
foot of the altar, and the priest said in an
audible voice, and in English, “For
Peace,” after which the Lord's Prayer and
the “Hail Mary” were thrice repeated with
great fervor by the congregation. The
service concluded with this ejaculation:
“0 Sacred Heart of Jesus, suffering in
agony, have pity on the dying.” Her
Majesty was deeply touched, even to tears,
while these prayers were being recited.
Most of the congregation were aware of
the presence of the illustrious personages
who knelt before their humble altar, but
they had too much good taste to manifest
their curiosity in any way which at such
a moment might have been displeasing to
the Empress and her son. E. \\\
Interesting Details of the Loss of the
lap i air.
New York, September 25. —Engl’sh
papers contain the following particulars of
the loss of the Captain : “About midnight
on the 6th, the shipwas ia company with
the Channel fleet about forty miles c-fi
Cape Finncstre, cruising with couble rci fl
ed fore and main top-sails and fore top
mast stay-sail and main sail, and fore sail
hauled up, there being at the time a very
strong breeze ard heavy sea. The star
board watch had beeu called at 12 o’clock,
and were being mustersd when the squall
struck the ship on the port side causing
her to give a heavy lurch to the starboard.
As she did not right herself Carrtaia Bur
goyne, who was cu the bridge, gave order
to lower the iorc-tcp sail; but, in conse
quence of the yards being braxd sharp up
—the ship at the time being on port tack
—it did not come down. Orders were
pr luptly given to let go the braces ana
haul the main-top sails down; but, by
this fin e, the ship being again struck by a
heavy sea, she completely hove on her
beam ends, with (he water pouring down
the funnel, and she then turned upward
and gradually sunk stern first.
From the time the ship was first struck
to her going down only from five to ten
minutes elapsed. The number on board at
the time was about 520. 'When the Cap
tain was first lost sight of it was thought
that she had missed the fleet—not an un
common occurrence on a dark night and
when blowing hard —and no one imagined
she had gone down. But alas! the sad
fact soon become apparent when first was
picked up a boat, then a spar, and subse
quently one man, who had lashed himself
to the grating, but did not succeed in
saving his life. Ou the morning of Thurs
day the Monarch , which had been search
ing around the const, brought intelligence
to the flag ship that one warrant officer
and seventeen men had landed from the
Captain.
Mr. James May, gunner, states that lie
was awakened about 12 o'clock on the
night of the 16th by some marines making
a noise outside lfis cabin, and finding the
ship more than usually unsteady, he
dressed himself to go on deck and see if
the guns were all right in the turrets.
When he got up into the after turret the
ship gave a very heavy roll to starboard,
and continued in that position, gradually
keeling over more and more till he found
the water coming into port holes on the
top of the turret through which he crawled
and found himself overboard. Ue, how
ever, succeeded, with five others, including
Capt. Burgoyne, in reaching the steam pin
nacle which was floating bottom upwards,
and observing a launch passing within a
few yards of them, he cried out, “Now
jump, men; this is youron’ly chance.” lie
and three others did so, and succeeded in
getting into the boat. They in vain ea
deav <1 (1 to regain the pinnacle to save
their captain, hut the sea running so very
high pi evented them, and in the attempt
they were struck by a heavy sea, nearly
swamping tbe boat and washing one man
overboard. It was then determined to let
the boat run before the sea, as land was
known to he leeward. They succeeded in
landing about noon of the 7th.
Die Moan tain of Dead Bad cs In Uie
Quarries of Jaumont, Scar Mc?z.
TRANSLATED BY THE REV. F. A. BLUM
For the Chronicle r£* Sentinel freon the
Goulois {Paris Paper).
Until now we have had no details of the
engagement of Jaumont. We extract the
following terrible narrative from a letter
addressed by a young soldier to his brother:
“Yes, my dear Louis, the Major said, I
have had a terrible shock. May Heaven
preserve me from ever witnessing ?. spee
facV; similar to that of the quarries of
Jaumont, for f am verv certain that I
would loese my E ven to this time
my nerves are still trembling, which aliers
my writing, and when I close my eyes I
see again this fearlul torrent of human
beings lading over the precipice.
The battle of Jaumont vifi remain in
history as or.e of the most terrific acts of
war, and, however terrible, the imagina
tion may describe it, it will never attain
that degree of horror experienced by those
who were spectators. Would you believe
that after the blow was over, we remained
dumb, breathing with flight and even
weeping before this horrible mountain of
dead bodies.
Knov/est theu to what cause we attri
bute in our corps, this unheard of drama.
They cay it is the vengeance of four
peasants, ruined and burned out by the
Prussians. In order to avenge themselves,
these men, knowing well the country,
made themselves the guide of the enemy,
and find conducted them to a position that
the Prussians imagined impregnable, not
doubting tbe wonderful trap into which
they were drawn.
Thou will judge of it.
The stone quarries or Jaumont, from
which at first stones were taken from the
top, form an immense and deep exca
vation, the walls of which attain a height
of from seven to eight stories. It is at the
summit of one of these pointed walls that
the Prussians had themselves strongly es
tablished, very certain that they would
not be surprised from the rear.
Os the four peasants who had led them
into this place one made his escape in or
der to inform us of the terrible means
used to annihilate the entire corps.
And this plan was infallible.
At first worked from the top, the quarry
has been slowly excavated in one of its
sides by long subterrenean galleries with
many stories, one aboye tbe other, and
which were maintained by supporting pil
lars. One side, I repeat again, had been
thu? excavated, and it is on this ground,
sustained by these pillars, that our peas
ants had established the Prussians during
the night. The obscurity, at first, and
afterwards the high cleva'iom prevented
them from having any knowledge of these
galleries, which were hollow, on the top of
which (hey had enthrencked themselves.
At daybreak Bazame attacked them
from the front, and they fought, full of
confidence that they could not be taken
from the rear. But at the height of the
combat, Canrobert, who had Hanked the
quarries, planted cannon oil the other side
of the precipice in order to fire on the pil
lars which supported the galleries. An
hour after a sudden and immense crumb
ling, in one enormous block, took place
under the feet of the Prussians and pre
cipitated them into the chasm. 0, my
dear Louis, should I live one hundred years
yet, I shall always hear the horrible cry
uttered by the entire corps in feeling tbe
ground giving away under them. Im
agine to thyself 20,000 cries confounding
themselves into a single sound of indescriba
ble despair, coming up from these men,
when conscious of the instant death ap
proaching.
It was like one human voice, but pow
erful as possible, vibrating with that ter
rible anguish of a last and doleful appeal
for aid and a frightful adieu to life, but of
very short duration, for the human ava
lanche immediately commenced, and men,
horses, cannon, all, is hurled pell mell into
the chasm in one enormous mass, which
crushes itself under its own terrible weight.
At the i-ama time that this crumbling
took place, Bazaine dreve the Prussian
corps before him with such irresistible fu
ry that a half regiment of French who
CDuld not restrain their elan were also pre
cipitated in tbe alyss.
The drama lasted ten minutes. At this
moment the national character was imme
diately elevated. Instead of exclamations
of ferocious jov, which the Prussians would
not have failed to have given were they in
oltr at a similar succoss, we remain
ed quiet, terrified by this last and mourn
ful cry which still rung in our ears; and
tears flowed from our eyes, which remain
ed fixed on this mass yet moving in the
spasms of a terrible agony.
This heap of bodies, from which pro
truded arms, busts and heads of men, legs
of horses, cannons, broken caissons, repre
sented to us a living mountain, the height
of which settled little by little by its own
weight, endoi by fi’liug two-thirds of the
precipice which had received it.
The noise of the combat immediately
ceased.
All, with heavy hearts, were silent, list
ening to the twenty thousand moans issu
ing from this mass, and dying away as the
mass became more compact.
Our victory gave us fear.
I am ignerautof what passed afterwards,
for I fainted, and I am now awake in the
ambulance after a long attack of delirium
which had seized me.
To remove these thousands of heaped
corpses for interment was impossible, nor
did time permit the raising it these bruised
bodies. We had at first thought of burn
mg them by inundating in petroleum,
but we gave up that idea. The Prussians
then hired Belgians, at ten francs per day,
to cover with sand this mountain of human
beings, from for four days terrible
cries came out. In tbe place of earth
they employed sand, because it fills up the
empty spaces in the mass, ard, rising little
by little, it finishes by covering the fright
ful hecatomb caused by four peasants
who desired to avenge their cutraged
wives and their burned homes.
They say even, that one of these false
guides, who bad succeeded in escaping in
order to forewarn us, hud rej fined the
Prussians, in order to enjoy, at the price
of his life, the pleasure of this terrible
verge \nce.
Poor peasants, who a month since have
seen life so calm ! They are there, all
four, sleeping their last sleep under the
bodies of 20.000 Prussians, for which their
pa .riotic hatred prepared the death !
Joe Trezel.
GREAT FRESHET IN VIRGINIA-
Fortress Monroe, October 1 --The
North German steamship Berlin , of the
Baltimore and Bremen Line, passed out
of the capes last even ng for Bremen.
Richmond, Octcbcr I.—The water here
atUi o’clock, was still r’sing and between
three and lour hundred stores are in seven
feet water between 15th and 18ch streets.
The street oars plied till noon, when, the
water coming at the windows, the line
was stopped, and a ferry is now seen cn
all the main streets rom 15th to 18th.
Just at noon the Manchester end of
Mayo’s bridge gave way, and half a mile
of the bridge floated down stream. All
the wharves are far under water, and the
York River Railroad is completely sub
merged. Several small manufacturing
establishments along the river bank have
been swept off. A’l day the river has been
dotted over with small houses and wrecks
of houses, fencing, dead cattle, &o , drift
ing down stream. The gas works are sub
merged.
The first wave from the Lynchburg
freshet struck here at 5 o’clock this morn
ing, and the river commenced rising with
much greater rapidity than before, when
it was only swollen by the overflow. In
three hours the lower end of the city
known as Rocketts was under water, and
the scene there beggars description. Two
cr three small stores were swept off, with
all their contents. A lamily who had re
mained in the house, hoping that the flood
would subside, commenced crying from the
upper windows for help. Boats were
brought and they were saved, but the
larger portion cf the furniture was lost.
Turn hundred families in that portion of
the city are houseless to-night, and camp
ing out on the neighboring hills.
About noon the street cars on Main
street, which had been running through
the flood with water up to the seats, gave
it up, aud connections between up town
and down town were made by ferries. By
this time a portion of Mayo’s passenger
bridge, built by the United States military
after the evacuation, was swept off, and
was soon followed by the whole structure.
The bridge was three quarters of a mile
long. The water then entered Mayo’s to
bacco warehouse, which is 35 feet above low
water mark. All the teams in the city were
impressed to c ave tobacco, much of which
is for the French and German Govern
ments. With the exception of about one
hundred and eighty hogsheads the tobac
co was saved.
JuM here it was found that the upper
portion of the city was ia danger from
overflow of the canal, down which an im
mense body cf water was rushing, spread
ing above the banks. The canal was cut
two miles above the city aud the danger
abated. Ia the lower portion of the city
the street lamps are under water, and the
city is ia darkness to night. The gas
works are being submerged.
The loss by merchants, though their
loss is great, is greater than it would have
have been if the telegrams trom Lynch
burg, annoucc ng the flood, had been
heeded. It is probably two hundred thou
sand dollars. Persons well acquainted with
the sections of the State flooded —without
including railroad losses — estimate the
loss in the State at four millions ol dol
lars. To-night the bridge of the Rich
mond and Danville Rabroad is still stand
ing, but as the river is now (9 o’clock) still
rising, it is hardly believed that it can
stand much lc nger.
At Morris’ large sugar refinery the
water burst up the floors dropping on all
the machinery into the basement. All
the large cotton, iron and flour mills,
employing two thousand hands, have been
forced by tbe flood to stop operations.
The city water works have abo been
stopped, and bein r so damaged they can
not be repaired in two weeks. The res
ervoir only contains five days’ supply for
the city. All the ice houses in the city
are on the river bank, and are twenty
feet under water. The water is seven
feet higher than ever known before.
A dispatch from Lynchburg says the
river there is rising again.
Richmond, October 1. —The river here
rose twenty-five leet last night, and this
morning is within a foot of the Danville
Railroad bridge and Mayo’s passenger
bridge. The streets for four or five blocks
in the vicinity of the old market, the low
est point in the city, are submerged in four
feet of water. Thousands of persons are
on the river banks waiting for the bridge
to go.
The lower portion of the Libby prison
took fiie at 11 o’clock from a quantity of
lime being overflowed by the flood. The
fire was stopped before much damage was
done. Citizens are volunteering to re
move tobacco from the warehouses on the
river bank, and the scenes are full of ex
citement. Furniture, trunks, aud barrels
of flour and whiskey, are floating down
the river.
The river at Lynchburg has fallen eight
feet.
Several bridges on the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad were washed away.
The persons drowned at Lynchburg were
Mrs. Ransom, her daughter, and three
children of Mr. Whitlow, and a colored
woman.
Wheeling, October I.— Harper’s Fer
ry advices report a great flood in the
Shenandoah. Tne lower part of the city
is flooded, and many substantial buildings
have gme or are crumbling. Fifty lives
lost, and many ia peril and beyond aid.
Fortress Monroe, October. 2. A
severe northeast storm set in last evening
and still continues, blowing a gale. The
roads are full of shipping.
Richmond, October 2. —The food on
the Rivanna river is the highest ever expe
rienced since 1807. The families of M .
Jennings ana of another mi’leroa the liver
were washed away —in ah five persons.
Mr. Jennings is supposed to have been
drowned. His wife and two children are
known to have perished. A young lady < f
the family clung to a tree forty eight hours
and was washed >ff and at la t drowned.
Her death was witnessed by a crowd oi
the other bank of the river, but theie was
no boat near by which she might have been
rescued. On the Manassas Railroad the
bridges across the North and South She
nandoah rivers are gone. There i3 no in
formation from beyond Strasbarg. Many
lives, ?ays a telegram to the Dispa-ch, are ;
known to have been lost. The Baltimore !
and Oh o Railroad above Harper’s Ferry j
lias been swept away. Scottsvilio, ia Al-1
becaarle county, his been inundated, and
the destruction of property was very
great. Eighteen lives were lost.
Trains are running regularly between
Alexandria and Richmond.
A despatch from Lynchburg this morn
ing estimates the loss there by flood at
SIOO,OOO ; loss to Ouio and Alexandria
Railroad $500,000; loss to the canal $250,-
000, and loss to South Side Roadssoo,ooo.
Oa Thursday, while the wat.ir was ris
ing, James Ramson’s daughter and ser
vant girl, Robert Whitley, wife and three
children, and a colored woman, with her
two children were, standing on an abut
ment of the canal bridge at Lynchburg
waiting for a boat to take them off, a
dredging machine broke lose above and
drifted against the abutment carrying it
away with all on it. All were drowned.
Richmond, October 3.—The flood ha?
gone down, and the merchants are calcu
lating their losses, It is thought this
morning that half a million will cover the
loss iu the city, but not in the towns
above.
The Legislature will adjourn from day
to day until a quorum can be obtained.
Afion, near Greenwood 3 --Accounts
arc coming) iu from this county (Albe
marle) and represent the destruction cf
property as immense, and many lives lost.
The fined in some instances swept away en
tire families.
The number of lives were lost in Albe
marle connfy, r.sfar as heard from, are
fourteen The amount of destruction of
grain, tobacco, barns, fences, cattle, hogs,
horses, and mills is incalculable. The
number of mills and dams destroyed with
in tbe range of the flood is about fifty.
The freshet was confined within the
radius of the upper valley of Virginia,
and the fbod was so great that it carried
cows and hogs before it like so many chips
of wood. lc was particularly severe
along the Chesapeake and Ohio' Railroad
at Shadwell, about a mile of the track wa3
washed away and some dozen land slides
between Cobham and Millboro’, and eight
or ten bridges swept away. The road is
damaged to the extent of one huudred
thousand dollars.
At the Mountain Top House, on the
summit of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the
iiitcaen was flooded with water.
Greenwood, October 3. —lt rained
very heavy again all day yesterday, and
last night, and an augmentation of the
flood below may be looked for. Owing to
the destruction cf mills and the interrur- I
tion of railroad transportation, there will I
be much suffering among the ooorofthb
deluged dLtrict. and it is reported tW
breadstuff* have advanced.
Such of the passengers here of the cut
off trains as desire will be transferred to
Charlottesville to-m rrow, and then fer
ried across Moore’s Creek and IFvu:a\
river to connect with the train on the op
posite side. The road between the White
Sulphur Springs and Milhcro’ is open. hr ►
between Mfiboro’ and Keswick and a fiU*
tacce cf eighty-five miles, the rosd L
impossible, and so injured by the flood
that travel cannot be resumed for two
weeks, although .general Wjckham has
all the availabl#force at his command at
work upon it.
The weather is clear and warm.
. American Officer »u Egypt.
An American officer, in the service o
tbe Viceroy of Egypt, writes to the Her
ald ; “We hope to be, and no doubt will
be, of service to this country, and in a
short time make the army of Egypt the
best little army ia the world. 1 have
never seen such mat rial. The soldiers
are the finest looking men I have ever seen,
well-behaved and subordinate. They
would charge tbe gates of darkness. I
am pleased to say the American officers
are very popular with the soldiers and j tu
ple. It was very different with the French
officers who were here before us. With
regard to the American officers here, I
will inform you that General O. P. Stone
is the chief of the staff, General A. W.
Reynolds is quartermaster, commissary
and paymaster general, General Luring is
inspector general of ali the iaiantry, Gen
eral Sibley is inspector general of artillery,
Colonel Rhetfc is chief of ordinance, .Col.
Kenoon is in charge of the coast defense?,
Cob F. A. Reynolds is colonel of the light
artillery, but is at present acting as as
sistant inspector general ; Zenker is i
-of cavalry, General Mott, who had
that position, having been transferred to
the smff of the Viceroy. While I am
writing, a regiment of infantry is just
passing. I have never seen such a lo ly
of men. Their movements are like clock
work. 1 have visited most of the places
of interest, and am much pleased with
all I have seen. Tnoro is always some
thing going on which interests us in the
way of files and amusements. lam told
the winter here is most delightful. The
Viceroy expend- large sums of money to
amuse nis people. We have or.e or the
finest opera houses in the world. Tne
Viceroy pays ail expenses, and La? the
best performers in Europe engaged, xic
will Lave none but the best and .ne * rer;i
est women as performers. Ilis balls are
magnificent.”
OUR DOG*
The San Franciseo Californian so thus
addressed by a person who keeps a
dog. .
It is necessary to own a dog. V* by,
it is difficult to tell; but all the world
at some time in their lives, have taken
unto themselves a dog'.
Our uog Nip made himself at home
immediate! v after hi? arrival at the house.
There were no immediate stages of back
wardness with him in his intercourse with
the family, or in his assuming the direc
tion of a large portion of affairs relat
ing to the household. He is a sm til
dog, but very lively. His natural con
dition seems that of motion. He con
centrates within himself the activity of
tli»'ce or lour dogs.
© . ..
His first act soon after coming to live
with us was to take charge of the hack
door mat. lie seemed to regard it as
bis own exclusive possession. He had
his ideas with regard to its place and
use. We preferred that it should re
main where the clean-liness of the house
hold might be best promoted. He pre
ferred it in the back yard. The whole
household toiled in vain to keep it where
it was supposed to belong, dragging it
time after time up the back stairs, all to
no purpose. When such a dog as Nip
chooses to devote hi3 whole life to keep
ing a door mat in the back yard, it is
difficult to contend successfully with
him. When he thought we had be
come resigned to his disposition of the
mat he became dissatisfied and tore it to
pieces. He was dissatisfied because we
were resigned. He wished to do some
thing provoking. He loves actions ol
this kind. There was an inoffensive old
broom which, having been discarded
from the house, was used to sweep the
back stairs. The broom never did an)
harm. It would not harm anybody, bn .
its total innocence and inoffensiveness
provoked him. Good nature is often
provoking. ,
He has access to the cellar. He nues
there. It was a very quiet and order -
ly cellar previous to his coming. H it
be so now, it is according to canine not
human views of order and neatness He
was furnished with a heap of old clothes
for a bed- These have been torn up
and dragged in every direction. He has
no use for a bed. His time too pre
cious to be devoted to sleep, there are
boles to be dug in the bare cellar lioor,
and anything accidentally hung up hi
his reach must be torn down, il e
•kindling wood must be kept scatb tc