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2 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