The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-10-19

lowing his suggestions while in Rome and con-
demning his policy on that account The pub
lication of the letter short time after ended
the Counts diplomatic career for he was at
once retired by order of the Emperor. This
had scarcely happened when letter was re-
ceived at the Berlin foreign office from the
chief of the records of the Paris embassy, STATE
ing that eighty two confidential papers belong
ing to the archives of the legation were missing
and there was no explanation for it. They
were the reproying. letters of Bismarck to the
Count, containing theiwhole history of the at
tempt OF Won Arnim to prejudice the Emperor
against his chancellor, REPETITION of the prev
ious instructions and warnings as to the course
the ambassador ought TO pursue, censure for a
neglect of duty-in a word. the record of the
whole official career of the Count at Paris.
Bismarck addressed the Count a personal
and confidential letter requesting him to restore
the papers, to which the Count responded that
they were Of personal Character and did not
belong to the embassy. Bismarck replied that
it could not be admitted that the foreign Office
ever held officially personal correspondence
stracted were part of the embassy, addressed
to the German ambassador and not to Won
Arnim personally. and though of private
and confidential character they could not lie re-
tanned by him. The Count replied that he diff
fered with Bismarck on this point as he had on
others and should not return them. a.
A brother-in law of the Count was applied to
for his influence with him, and failing in this
the foreign office presented to the criminal
court at Berlin charge of embezzlement of
government documents against Won Arnim
the plea being that they were a part of the
records OF the embassy at Paris, sent there by
the German government for the guidance and
direction of the ambassador, and as such should
be restored to the embassy. The court sustained
the charge Of embezzlement aud hence the
arrest of Won Arnim, who is held to have vio-
lated the criminal laws of his country 1t APP
pears that the Count did not like the transfer
from the most to the least important of Euro
pean missions, nor did he care that his success
sor at Paris should readlthe scathing rebukes
he had from time to time received from his
government. While copies were in Berlin and
the originals in his possession he did not case,
but to leave them in Paris was more than his
pride would permit. 1t is then these SO letters,
provoked by the replies of Won Arnim to the
of. and for which the late ambassador is held
as prisoner.
London Times Explanation.
LONDON, Oct ia despatch to the Times
from Berlin says that Count Won Arnim's case
is becoming Ineligible. 1t appears that Bis
marck became indignant at the Counts want
of Judgment in preferring the Ultramontane
monarchy in France to a comparatively liberal
and specific republic, and determined to remove
him. Not wishing however to offend the Count
the Prince wrote him a censuring letter, which
he expected would induce the Count to tender
HIS ItSiS udLlUu VI Lu0 4 reuCu ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
This Count Won Arnim refusing to d. he was
finally absolutely dismissed, and took with him
the letters of Prince Bismarck, which are now
represented to be SO fearfully offensive. The
despatch also says that the reported letters have
been publicly offered for sale. 81 t[F
French Elections.
PARIS, Oct. 18.-Partial returns of elections
departments to-day are received. In the Pas
de Calais and Seine ct Disc M. M. Brasme and
Senord (Reps are ahead, and in Alpes Mara
time M. Medicine (NationaD has a majority of
votes as far as heard from.
Destructive Cyclone in Bengal.
BoMABY. Oct. 1.-THE Presidency of Bengal
has been visited by frightful cyclone, which
this city AVID Calcutta is Frustrated. A train of
cars on the Bombay & Calcutta Railroad was
blown from the track.
Cuba News.
HAVANA, Oct. 13.-The time for the payment
of the tax on capital is postponed till the 3lst
Official dispatches say Spanish troops who
are following the trail of the insurgents came
upon them ON the river Sebocal The Spaniards
dislodged them, killing and wOunding several.
There were heavy rains this week. The Riv-
er San Andes OVERT owed its banks. The viii
lagos Alacranes, in Matanzas districts, are COM
pletely inundated.
KINGSTON, JAM, Oct ia meeting of Gu.
ing, the 10th, the celebration of the anniversa-
ry of Cuban independence, was summarily
dispersed by order of the Governor General.
Quesada was delivering an Grafton at the time.
The police upon entering the meeting were d.
rected to take the names of any who refused to
leave Quesada said, having no country of
their own they. were obliged to obey the orders
of those who imagined they had power to pre-
vent innocent gatherings. The police cleared
the building
The Guatemala Earthquake.
PANAMA, Oct. 1O.-A Guatemala paper says
of the earthquake of the Sd of September that
the losses suffered in the department are calcu-
lated TO be from $2OO0 900 to $3.50, 200, including
farming houses, machinery and some thousands
OF yards of store houses in which cochineal
was stored. buried under the ruins. The num-
Der of victims cannot be exactly decided be-
cause many dead bodies were buried under the
streams OF mud which descended from Ceno
Del Tigre. IN Antigua alone thirty persons
pershed, the greater part women and children.
1t is calculated that twenty-five bodies were
buried in other towns, and 100 more or less
bruised and wounded. The town of Duenos is
entirely ruined. In place called La Estaneia
there was an extraordinary prOmOntory of mud
which had descended from heights of the ,Ceno
Del Tigre. The promontory had in some places
o deph of 100 feet, and was formed by these
eruptions of mud which biologists call Salsas
and which is generally not a good sign for bor-
dering countries. The eruption which produc-
ed this promontory consisted of cold mud which,
although very compact, carried in its current
enormous masses of stones and trees whose
trunks measured eight and ten inches in diam
eter. The earthquakes caused the river Portal
to overflow its banks, which put stop to the
running of flour mills causing great scarcity of
flour. The government ordered supplies of
flour from Salvador and California The de-
partments of Sacatepequez, Chimaltenango
and others suffered considerably. Alatenango
and Cndad Vleja very much damaged. The
The Villa De Saragoza, Patzsiza and Istapa
will be ruined completely. The victims, ac-
cording to the latest telegra ns, might be 200,
more or less.
Great excitement exists, and trouble is feared
in Panama during the coming state elections,
and it is hoped the general government will
send enough troops.