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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
7.
THE, DAILY SUN.
Friday Morning August 18.
POLITICS IN INDIANA.
Froai the Reexport Democrat.
..... _ _ . i ■ Some of our exchanges have come to
Co!. W inder P. Johnson. ; the conclusion that it has been decided
that the “new departure 1
We have had on our table for seve
ral days a letter written by this gen
tleman on the political topics now ag
itating the public, and published in
the LaGrange Reporter. Col. John
son's position as a member of the
Legislature, as well as his high char
acter and acknowledged talents, enti
tle his views upon all questions of
public interest to due consideration.
But the letter before us carries with
it a force and power which cannot
fail of itself to attract the attention
and impress the minds of all who
read it.
In many of the views expressed we
fully and heartily concur; while in
one or two only, we differ with him.
In principle we agree with him en
tirely. The difference between us is
one its to policy only.
For instance, in speaking of the
“fraudulent amendment,” of the Con
stitution, he uses this clear, strong
and uncompromising language:
We cannot accept an amendment to
the Constitution as valid while we are
conscious of its unconstitutionality, and
of the fraudulent and illegal manner of
its procurement.- We cannot accept a
lie as the truth. It is a moral impos
sibility to convert the one into the other.
When we assert that the XTVth and
XVth amendments are legal parts of the
Constitution, we assert that which we
know to be false. If we acquiesce and
accept them as constitutional, we ac
quiesce and accept a falsehood. It is
urged by some that they must be accept
ed as binding and constitutional until
settled to the contrary by the Courts.
They are binding and must be obeyed
until the Courts have adjudicated. So is
the law of any despot binding upon his
subjects as long as he has bayonets at his
command to enforce obedience; but
when power forsakes the despot and re
turns to the people, his law binds no
longer. But the constitutionality of the
XIVth and XVth amendments is a ques
tion of fact—is a question of figures.
They were not ratified by the requisite
number of States. We know this to be
a fact as much as we know that two and
two make four. Shall we assert the truth
to be a lie, and wait for the Courts to
proclaim that which is self-evident ? We
acknowledge no power short of Heaven,
our guide in morals. We will not accept
what we know to be false in the dis
charge of any duty, public or private.
Those obnoxious amendments have been
forced upon us without our consent.
They are the offsprings of corruption,
and of a spirit of insubordination to the
Constitution, that, persisted in, will lead
to anarchy.
This we cordially endorse without
qualification or reservation. It has
the “old Kentucky” ring throughout.
Further on he says:
Wo cannot accept the Vallandigham
platform. To do so would be to surren
der every sovereign right belonging to a
State.
Then, further on still, in speak
ing of the policy which should
he pursued in the approaching Presi
dential canvass by those who stand
with him on the principles and truths
thus announced, lie uses this lan
guage:
Let the Vallandigham party meet in
convention, draft a platform and nomi
nate a candidate for the Presidency.—
We will have nothing to do with their
platform or convention but will vote for
the nominee as a choice of evils. Should
the South send delegates to that Conven
tion, they will be bound in honor to
abide its action, or in the event of the
adoption of obnoxious measures, to with
draw from it. To withdraw would cer
tainly elect the Badical nominee; to re
main would bind them to “accept the
situation.” Either result would be a
terrible calamity.
It is on the line of policy, thus in-
. ■! is to be the
path in the next campaign. They say,
“Let no man hesitate or demand a
change of ground, for the commanding
power has decided, the mighty masses
endorse the ‘new departure,’" when the
very reverse is true. The masses have
taken no part or lot in the “new depart
ure.” We always thought the platform
for a party to stand upon was the work of
a National Convention, but it seems that
some few are willing to accept the reso
lutions adoptedlby a single county as their
platform. It is to be hoped that these
“new departure" folks will not depart so
far away as not to be able to return agiiin
in time to vote the Democratic ticket.—
The resolutions which were partially
adopted by the Democratic State Conven
tions of Pennsylvania and Ohio, accept
ing the XlVth and XVth Constitutional
Amendments as accomplished facts, nev
er to be disturbed, were not carried in
either of these bodies without very de
cided and earnest opposition from a large
portion of the delegates. The Demo
cratic masses in these States, it would
seem from their county meetings, and
the public press are quite as much divi
ded in sentiment upon the subject, as
their representatives in the conventions.
In Pennsylvania, that part of the plat
form of the Convention which makes an
acceptance of the Amendments as accom
plished facts, never- io be agitated or re
pealed, a part of the Democratic faith, is
openly repudiated in public meetings of
the Democracy and by many of the most
respectable and influential Democratic
papers. The Democracy of Chester
county (Pa.) held a meeting immediately
after the State Convention and passed the
following resolution unanimously:
“Resolved, That the ninth resolution
of the platform adopted at Harrisburg
on the 24th ult. does not represent the
sentiments of the Democratic party either
of this County or State; that the issues
it refers to were not before the people of
the State when the delegates to said Con
vention were elected, and that had they
been, we believe they would have been
repudiated by nine-tenths of the Democ
racy of the State; that as said resolution
was not unanimously accepted by the
Convention, as were the candidates and
other resolutions, but was opposed to the
last by the votes of fifty-three of the dell
egates in that body, it should be regard
ed and treated during the present cam
paign and until the meeting of the State
WASHINGTON.
Victims of Misplaced Confi
dence.
How Treasury Contracts are
Awarded, Annulled and Disre
garded, besides giving rise to
Official Lying—A Carpet-bag
ger’s Triumph.
and National Conventions in 1872, not as
the sentiment of the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania, hut simply as the senti
ment of the seventy-six delegates voting
for if
We could fill our paper (says the Ban
ner of Liberty) with extracts from Dem
ocratic papers in Pennsylvania and Ohio,
showing that the “new departure,’ inau
gurated by a few ambitious politicians
eager for personal advancement and office,
at any sacrifice of sound principles, is not
approved by a large {portion of the true
men of the party in these States. In
deed we have good reason to believe that
opposition to the Amendments, and the
infamous legislation of the Radical Con
gress under them, is the true sentiment
of a large majority of the people in every
section of the country. “ The great liv
ing issues” (in the language of the Hon.
Alex. H. Stephens,) “now is, between
consolidation, centralism, and empire,
on the one side, and the sacred sovereign
right of local self-government by the peo
pie of the several States on the other.’
it is not hai’d to tell on which side of this
issue the true democrats of the country
will ultimately array themselves.—Rock
port, Inti, Democrat, Aug. 12, 1871,
Early Rising.
The London Spectator denies that early
rising is really beneficial. The truth is
that late rising in civilized countries is
not the result either of idleness or fash
ion, or contempt for hygienic laws, but of
a habit based j)artly upon the social sys
tem of division of labor. It is very in
convenient for any society which is in
any way inter-dependent to vary its time
of rising with the sun, and it, therefore,
selects a rough meantime atr-whicli .for
the greater part of the year there wilTbe
a decent measure of daylight. In Eng
land that time is not five, or anything
like five, but between eight and nine;
and, accordingly, the majority of people
who can do as they like, select that time
for rising, and so enable themselves to act
with something like concert. They all
go to business at once instead of wasting
l hours in waiting for each other, and all
dicated, that we differ with him, as! finish at once, instead of burdening the
stated. i w hole class of assistants, clerks, &e., with
different and variable hours.. J Moreover,
they can all go comfortably to work, that
We believe that the “New Depar
ture” element of the Democracy con
stitutes but a small part of the Party,
either North or South. It is true it
is a potent element, embracing as it
does some of the heretofore acknowl
edged leaders and organs of the Party;
but the masses of the Party every-
Avhere are true, and if those who never
inteudlo rivet usurpation upon their
rights, by tbeir voluntary sanction,
shall not abandon the field to a few
would-be “usurpers” in their own
ranks, the next General Convention
of the Party will be just as far from
sanctioning Radical usurpations as
was the Convention of 1868.
If those leaders and organs, who
have heretofore been so constant in
their appeals for a “Departure” from
the time-honored creed of the Party,
shall persist in their course, the peo
ple everywhere, will do as they have
done in Kentucky—they will rise in
their majesty and establish new or
gans, and sustain those leaders only
who are true to principle. At any
rate we think the time has not yet
come for the true Democracy any
where to look to any policy hut that
of a firm and unfaltering mainten
ance of their principles.
As to how they may vote under
certain contingencies as “a choice be
tween evils” the proper answer now
to that question, we think, is, “suffi
cient unto the day is the evil thereof.”
A. H. S.
is, can economize their strength to the
utmost, acute discomfort unnacessari^y
incurred involving loss of mental power.
In England, for eight months in the
year, early hours involve discomfort great
enough to be positively injurious—if not
to health, at all events to mental serenity.
Chili is not healthy, and early hours in
that climate are cliiUy and damp, unmiti
gated by fire and uusoothed by food and
coffee, none of these alleviations being
proem-able except at the cost of dimin
ished sleep for the whole caste of ser
vants, who, as it is, need somewhat more
time for rest then their masters, and ob
tain somewhat less. This might be cor
rected, no doubt, by everybody retiring
much earlier to bed; but the only effect
of that change would he to shorten the
time for rest and recreation, which is
much too short already. Under the ex
isting system, the professional classes can,
if they like, work steadily eight hours a
day under the circumstances best calcula
ted to economize effort, and yet retain
eight horns for food, society and reading,
and eight hours for sleep.
Special correspondence of the Atlanta Sun.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 13,1871.
Editors of the Sun: Our noble
high-toned and patriotic Secretary of
the Treasury, who has more patron
age both in the amount of money ex
pended and the number of persons ap
pointed than any other officer of the
Government, and whose praises are
sung daily and nightly by a small ar
my of satellites and pensioners, has
recently given us a Eample brick
which illustrates in a very small way
the ways that are dark and the tricks
that are vain, for which
THE AFORESAID NOBLE, HIGH-TONED,
&c., is peculiar, and in which he
seems to take a special delight far be
yond that of any of his predecessors.
We fear that Mr. Boutwell has in his
composition a very large share of that
element of character which predomi
nates in the traditional Yankee of a
generation ago; that is, smartness, by
which is meant, a capacity to tell
enormous lies and break solemn con
tracts at will, joined to complete ab
sence of anything like conscientious
scruples, which makes such practices
the supreme pleasure of his life.—
We have learned some opposite facts
concerning the letting of
THE CONTRACT AT SAVANNAH
for taking care of sick and disabled
seamen, who find themselves brought
to that port. The conduct of the
Secretary in this matter is a perfect
record of deliberate misrepresenta
tion and had faith.
In the early summer proposals were
invited, by advertisement in the
usual way, for taking care of sick and
distressed American seamen at Sa
vannah, from July 1st, 1871, to June
30th, 1872. The Savannah Poor
house and Hospital put in a bid at
the rate of 86 cents per diem, or $(
per week. Dr. Walsh, a physician
formerly of Massachusetts, put in a
bid at the rate of 81.43 per diem or
$10 per week. No time for closing
the bids was advertised, but on in
quiry it was learned that the 14th of
June was the last day on which
they would be received. On the oth
of July
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SAVANNAH
HOSPITAL
received an official communication
from T. P. Eobb, collector, stating
that the Treasury Department had
awarded the contract to the Savan
nah Hospital. He at the same time
stated that the contracts were ready
for his signature, and asked the Presi
dent to call and execute them. Dr.
Walsh was notified by some one of
the custom-house officials of this
award before any knowledge of it
came to the authorities of the Savan-
nan Hospital, He immediately re
paired to Washington, while tlie”con-
tract, after being signed, was delayed
in the custom-house at Savannah sev
eral days, it is supposed, to give Walsh
time to get to Washington and pre
vent its approval by the Secretary, his
approval being necessary before it
could take effect.
COL. ROBB
stated that during the following week,
say about the 12th of July, the con
tract would be returned approved,
when it go into effect. On the 18th
of July an American Press Associa
tiontelegram to Savannah confirmed
existing suspicions regarding Walsh’s
movements and efforts to upset the
award. A gentleman interested in
the executed contract went to the
Mayor of the city aud obtained a cer
tificate from him that the Savannah
Hospital was a private coi-poration,
over which the city had no control;
that its incorporated name was. the
Savannah Poor House and Hospital,
but that it was not a “poor house,”
and did not receive the poor as such,
but only received such of the sick
poor as might be considered worthy
objects of charity. He also further
certified that
fice of the Secretary and asked the
reason for the delay in the approval of
the awarded contract. He further
more requested that any objection
which the Department might have be
presented to him in writing, which
was assented to by the Secretarv. On
Thursday, the 20th, Mr. Johnston
again called at the Secretary’s office,
when he received a paper propound
ing several questions concerning the
Savannah Hospital, its location, fa
cilities oi ventilation, character of
food, whether poor patients were re
ceived, whether dining-rooms were
provided, whether clinical lectures
were allowed to students of medicine,
etc, etc. To all of these JJr. John
ston replied in a most satisfactory
manner, and at the same time obli
gated himself on the part of the hos
pital to carry out the wishes of the
Department if they should have any
objection to its present system. Mr.
Johnston also presented the certifi
cates of the Mayor, the Danish,
Swedish, and Norwegian Consuls,
and that of Dr. Arnold. On Satur
day Mr. Johnston and another gen
tleman called at the office of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, and asked
the approval of the contract; he de
clined to render an immediate decis
ion, but said that he would do so in a
few days, yet that very afternoon the
papers were made out appointing Dr.
Walsh, and forwarded to Savannah
On the following Monday
A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GEORGIA
PRESS
called on Secretary Boutwell and in
quired if anything had been done
about awarding this contract The
Secretary replied emphatically that
nothing had been done. On Tues
day the same party again called, made
the same inquiry, and received the
same answer. On Tuesday night,
at about G p. m., Dr. Walsh informed
his friends at the Ebbitt House, that
he.had just learned of his own ap
pointment, and that the papers had
been sent to Savannah. On the next
day (Wednesday) a gentleman quite
largely connected, with the Southern
press, called on Secretary Boutwell
and asked him what had been done
with ' this hospital contract, and re
ceived the answer that no action had
been taken.
“LORD! HOW THIS WORLD IS GIVEN
TO LYING.”
Thus a solemn contract, which was
simply a renewal of a practice of
thirty-five years standing, was set
aside on the pretext that the seamen
were to be mixed with common pau
pers, an assumption that was com
TELEGRAMS.
Punch has the following on “Wallflow
ers:” Since it has become the fashion for
gentlemen to dance with married ladies
only, wallflowers have improved much in
appearance, bnt still they are not happy.
Wallflower No. 1—“ I should like a waltz
so! Bnt I suppose there’s no chance for
poor me till mamma’s been thoroughly
danced off her legs.” Wallflower No. 2-
“I should be content witli an ice, if J
could only get one. Fancy! Mamma’s
been taken down for refreshment three
times, and I not once!
pletely exploded by the evidence pro
duced before the new contract had
been annulled. The faith of the na
tion was broken in order that a cer
tain favorite satellite might make fifty
cents a day more than he earned.
Angus.
Garibaldi is very ill.
A New York youth attempted to shoot
his uncle, who was chastising him, and
fatally shot his mother.
A young Japanese, who has been in
New York for several months seeking an
education, is dying of consumption.
The Coroner’s inquest on the Maine
Central Railroad disaster condemns the
railroad commissioners and employees for
an imperfect inspection of the structures.
At Saratoga to-day, Tammany won the
steeple chase—time 6:15; Richards’ bay
filly won the Kentucky stakes—time
1:271, and Climax won the selling race—
time 3:11$.
The Italian Government has appointed
General Menenabora, Arbitrator at Gene
va, under the Treaty of Washington.
The mob again prevented Baron De
Carmin’s anti-Catholic lecture, atOgdens-
burg, New York. De Carrnin has been
taken to the station house. The excite
ment is high.
The paper mills at Glenn Falls, New
York, have been partially burned.
J. S. Johnson’s paper mill, at Cleve
land, Ohio, have been burned.
Bullion from Fioche Mines arrives
freely at Salt Lake City. Transactions
in mining property during the past two
days have amounted to $1,000,000.
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the
Staten Island Ferry Company, William
Braisted, Superintendent, and Henry
Robinson, Engineer, against whom the
coroner’s jury yesterday returned a ver
dict of criminal negligence in connection
with the Westfield disaster, were brought
before coroner Keenan to-day and com
mitted to the Tombs prison, the coroner
refusing to accept bail. The action of
the coroner has caused surprise, as hail
to any amount was offered and could have
been given.
Judge Sutherland admitted all the
prisoners to bail—Vanderhilt in the sum
of §25,000, and Braisted, Superintendent,
and Robinson, Engineer, in the sum of
$10,000 each. George Laid was their
bondsman.
St. Louis, Aug. 17.—Senator Morton
addressed an immense audience here to
night. He thought General Grant’s
chances a little the best at present. He
opposed State sovereignty, as tangbt by.
the Democrats, and said there was no
safety for the people without centraliza
tion. The greatest idea of the popular
party was national unity. If wo abandon
that we are not a nation, but an aggre
gation of States which at some time will
go to pieces.
White Sulphur Springs, August 17.—
Bishop Pinckney, of Maryland, and Bish
op Wihner, of Alabama, and about a
dozen clergymen—also Daniel De Jar-
nett, Professor Venable, of Virginia, and
R. A Lancaster, of New York, are among
the late arrivals at the Springs.
A few nights past an armed mob of ne
groes numbering 40 or 50, at Holly
Springs, took a negro, named Horace
Washington,from his house and murdered
him. The jury of inquest charge one
Geo. Jackson as being the leader of the
mob. Most of the parties have been ar
rested.
Tlie Boliemlan’s Anacreontic,
Here
With my beer
1 fit. *1 K . :
While golilen moments flit;
Alas!
They pass
Unheeded by: j
And, as they fly,
X,
Being dry,
Sit, idly sipping hero -
My beer.
O. finer far
Than fame or riches are
The graceful smoke wreaths of this free cigar:
Why
Should I
Weep, wail or sigh?
What if luck has passed me bj?
What if my hopes aro dead—
My pleasures fled?
Hate I not stUl
My fill
Of right good cheer—
Cigars and beer?
Go whining youth,
Forsoothl
Go, weep and wail,
Sigh and grow pale,
Weave melancholy rhymes •
Of the olden times,
Whose joys like shadow ghosts appear—
But leave me to my beer!
Gold is dross—
Love Is loes—
So, If I gulp my sorrows down,
Or see them drown
In foamy draughts of old nut brown,
Then I do wear the crown
Without the cross!
[George Arnold. .
THE SAVANNAH HOSPITAL
had lield this contract for thirty-five
years, and that the seamen were pro
vided for it entirely separate and dis
tinct apartments from the pauper pa
tients. He also certified as to the el
igibility of the location of the insti
tution, and the character and efficien
cy of the medical and other officers in
charge of it. A certificate was also
obtained from the Danish, Norwegian
and Swedish Consuls to the effect
that they had always sent the sick
seamen of their respective countries
to the Savannah Hospital, and that
they had never uttered one word of
complaint. A certificate from the
British Consul to the same effect was
also procured.
Dr. E. D. Arnold, an old and most
It is rumored that the Duke of Suth
erland, Mr. John Pende, and Mr. Fow
ler, the eminent engineer, are about to
purchase the Suez Canal for £6,000,000.
The undertaking cost the French Gov
ernment $22,000,000.
Will M. Carleton, the new verse-maker,
is a journalist, and only 24 years old; re
sides at Hillsdale, Mich., seventy miles
west of Toledo, Ohio; is the son of a
plain and laboring farmer; was gradua
ted at Hillsdale College in 1869, and has
made rhymes fer years.
Miss Kate Field has left England for
the Continent. Before going she gave,
on invitation, her lecture on Dickens to
a few invited friends at the Haymavket
Theatre, where it proved quite a hit.—-
She declined, however, all invitations to
public lecturing.
A Honolulu paper relates that as a na
tive man and woman were out fishing on
a reeffa shark appealed and attacked the
man, and by successive bites took off his
arms and legs ; the woman made for the
shore with the limbless trunk of her hus
band; that she reached it in safety, and
that the man still lives. The storv is
told on the authority of a policeman” at
Waikiki, otherwise it would be difficult
of belief.
Edward Whymper’s “Scrambles Among
the Alps,” in the years 1S60-61, by Ed
ward Wbymper, published by Murray of
London, is stated by the Athenctum to be
one of the finest books produced in Eng
land for a long time* The author is
himself an artist, and is said to have de
voted a large part of his time, during the
last six years to the wood-engravings
which liberally illustrate it.
The Alegemeine Zeiiung having lately
stated that Thomas Carlyle was collecting
materials forhis nuto'biography, a London
paper has been authorized to deny the
statement. Mr. Carlyle’s life has so en
tirely been that of a retired hook-man,
that he can have very little to tell about
himself; hut his recollections of persons
whom he knew or met would he worth
reading.
John Stuart Mill has been astonishing
his Scottish Mends by the versatility of
his accomplishments. While visiting
Edingburg this season, lie passed much
of his time in sketching, which he does,
it is said, to perfection. Mi’. Mill, be
side, is a fine pianist, an able philologist,
archaeologist, and botanist.
A Jew, joking with a Christian, struck
him on the cheek, and said, “ Now turn
the other, as your Gospel commands.
Bnt the Christian gave him a sound drub
bing. The Jew cried, “. this is not in
the GospeL” “ Aye,” said the Christian.
“ bnt it is in the comment.” “ Curse the
comment, said the Jew. “it islander
than the text.”
A young lady who left a valuable para
highly esteemed phjsichm, also certi-
fied to his connection with the msti- that she must be mistaken. ‘
John AUsop, one of the gallant fel
lows who held all day the key of the En
glish position at Waterloo, receives only
twelve cents per day pension, and it is
only during the last three years that he
has been allowed that.
tntion for a period of forty-one years,
and a large, portion of this time as
one of the attending physicians. He
certified as to the modem improve
ments and conveniences of the build
ing, its facilities for ventilation, &c.,
&c.
On Wednesday, the 19th of July,
Mr. J. H. Johnston called at the of-
assured
, . A few days
after she called at the same store to pur
chase another, and was shown the identi
cal parasol with a new “tag,” marked
with an increased price from its first cost.
She claimed it of the clerk; he innocently
appealed to his employers; there was a
hurried consultation between them, and
then, without a spoken word of explan
tion or explanation or apology, she was
permitted to take away her property.
Singular Case.
A young lady of Pittsburg to all ap-~
pearances laid dead for 22 days. When-
she died (?) there was such a peculiar ex
pression on her countenance, and decom- -
position not appearing, her friends refus
ed to allow her to be buried. Ou the 22d
day she arose with a start, as if just awak
ened from a refreshing sleep, and was
surprised upon being informed of her-
Rip Yan Winkle dumber. About her
first motion was to go to the cupboard and
pnt herself outside of a couple of pies.—
She then told the astonished neighbors
who had filled, the house that she had
only been asleep a dreaming, and became
greatly annoyed at what she thought was -
their propensity to “tease” her for “over
sleeping herself an hour in the morning.” *
It is a very singular case.
► » 4
All for Science.
A remarkable story comes, or purports
to come, from Paris, through the corres
pondence of the St. Louis Republican..
It is of a count who, while living, dwelt
in a mansion in the Quartier St. Germain,
but who was killed during the bombard
ment. On visiting his residence a gen
darme stepped into a closet on the upper-
floor, and at once found himself rapidly
descending aud finally safely landed in
a dungeon on the ground floor. The
windows of this room were built up with,
brick, and the door leading into an alley,
from the outside into a suite of rooms,
while the real entrance from the alley was
through a swinging door cut in the solid
masonry, and skilfully concealed from
view. This room had ostensibly been
used by the Count as a place for storing
old furniture, but on sounding its walls
a large and deep closet was found in
which were tools, implements, and appa--
ratus of various sorts, including surgical,
instruments, jars of chloroform, narcotics;,
aud so on; also a powerful battery. Hero
wa3 found a manuscript which purported
to be the Count’s record of experiments
in ga’vanism and electricity, made by
himself during several years. It is welt
known that for the past four years it has.
been his habit to deliver lectures on such,,
subjects before learned societies, one of,/
whiqh, entitled “The Mechanism of .
Life,” procured for him a confidential in
terview* with the Emperor. The manu
script shows that it was the system of tho
Count to invito people to his house on
one pretext or another, and then kill and
experiment with them, most of his ex
periments being made with a view to re
storing suspended animation,
Versailles, Aug. 17.—The Assembly
t i-day re-elected Grevy its president.
The proposition to draw up a new con
stitution was rejected.
In the court martial M. Lullier denied
that he had anything to do with the as
sassination of prisoners, or the incendiary
acts of the Commune, or that he had at
tempted to make himself dictator.
The prisoners appear much depressed.
It has been positively ascertained that
a majority of the Assembly will support
the proposition, made last Saturday, on
behalf of the Left Centre, conferring the
presidency upon Thiers for three years.
The committees on elections, to whom
was referred the prolongation of Thiers’
term, approve the proposition,
London, August 17.—The deputation
of French citizens appointed to visit tie-
land to thank the people for aid given for
the relief of the wounded during the war
with Prussia has arrived. The people of
Dublin are wild with excitement, and the
roads to stopping places from hence be
came impassable because of crowds. On
Wednesday night the city band of per
formers, dressed in green, marched to
the hotel, where the Frenchmen were
stopping, and played American, Irish and
French national airs; also, some Fenian
tunes. No interference by the police.
The deputation reached the Shelbotirne
hotel and, in response to calls, came out
on the balcony.
Martin, a member of Parliament, made
an address to the crowd.
The son of Marshal McMahon also ar
rived with a deputation, and was loudly
cheered by thousands .of the people as
sembled. His reception was worthy of a
King. •
Many houses are illuminated to-night,
and the enthusiasm still continues.
In the House of Lords . to day the
Queen’s assent to the army regulation bill
was announced.
til the House of Commons Viscount
Enfield, under Secretary of Forign affairs
said a searching investigation had been
ordered into the facts of the recent mur
der of six Englishmen in Peru. ^ ^ ^
Gladstone spoke at length in (lefense j bo y g gathered it up in their hands, said,
of the action of the Ponce at the Dublin j “itis no -wonder the English are so fair,
meeting of the 12fch in reply to remarks s j nce they wash themselves in white rain.”
of Maguier from Cork and others. ! Mr Williata B Reed being uuablej
California’s latest curiosity is a rooster
with two sets of legs, one on his back.—
When ho is weary of standing on his nat
ural position, it is gravely asserted, ho
turns a somersault and walks off upsid9
down, and when he takes a drink he im
mediately turns over so as to swallow
the more easily. But it is in a free -
fight that he shows to greatest advantage. -
For he is a terrible fighter, and, when/
thus diverting himself, looks like a re
volving wheel, turning somersaults in
cessantly, and kicking in every direction.
Another name is to be added to the list
of royal and noble authors. This is tho
Marquis of Lothian, lately deceased, of:
whom the London Times says: “ His
work on ‘Italian History and Art in tke-
Middle Ages,’ written almost without any
books of reference, in the year 1863, when,
his disease was fast creeping over every*
limb, bears witness to tho great stores o£
his memory and to his power of philo
sophical analysis. Such as he was, it is a.
small thing to say of him that he carried
off the highest honors of the University.
He died in his thirty-ninth year. ”
Mr. Halliwell has discovered that, by
order of James the First, Shakspeare and
his “fellow’s” attended on the Spanish
ambassador at Somerset House for up
wards of a fortnight, in August, 1604.
Ohe of the ambassadors from Morocco
to England, having never seen snow till
he came there, and obserwing that the
thfTLTZ 3 ' 1 ^om'ill health, to write the life of the
Tn f fiVnn rW«f not I late President Buchanan, Pro! James O.
In that town whose population does notj nf £,*u aa{):
excel 6000 about one half of whom are
Jews. There have been 443 cases of the
disease, 83 of which were fatal.
Top*ka, August 17.—Mrs. Seales ad
Mr. Ford, who were convicted or mur-
Welling, of Annapolis, will do it.
Mortimer Collins, the novelist, an
nounces “The Inn of Strange Meetings,”
and other poems.
A Wisconsin editor, while riding on the >
dering Mr. Scales,'and ^sentenceato be > pl-'-tform of a car recently, lost liis hat.
hung to-day, have had their sentences A train boy at his side suggested, joking
commuted to imprisonment for life. ! ly, that hue had better jump off and get it.
The judge and jury refused to sign the i ^ itkout a moment’s thought; j. ■
petition for commutation. The Gover- * upon the suggestion, aiul the piusengers
nor’s action causes surprise, as the con- ! were suddenly treated to a display < r ac-
victs confessed the crime, and there were robatic performances w noily nev to theiji
no extenuatingcircumstances. him. Fortunately he was no* sen
v -xt „ * , m . , , i onslv injured, but has learned to look and
New York August, 17th.—Tue fend TTli , i_„__
, . p ’ ., « . , , to uuniv belore lie leaps,
between the Cuban exiles, which has . . ,
existed for so long a time, has ceased. -foe Early English le.xt society s
At a meeting held last night at the house 1 books for 1871 will include a cunous
of a prominent Cuban exile, Cubans, collection of Legends of the Holy
repr< seating all parties were present. ; R 00 d. or An°-lo-Suxon and e.uly Eng-
The resignations of Aldamaand Mestre boem& oa the Gross, with copies
were accepted by the new representatives * ” “■
of* the Cuban Republic, and to-day
Aqnilena was installed. Aguet and Ces-
pedes diplomatic commissioners at the
Republic.
Richmond, August 17.—The heaviest
rainstorm of the season occurred this af
ternoon, accompanied, by considerable
bail. The thermometer, which had been
ranging as high as the nineties, fell twen
ty-one degrees in fifteen minutes.
MSS., of illumina-
rnmeats of Christ’s
irom two ear
tions of the ii
torture.
Prr-"oods merchants aud business men
wli(> tio not advertise complain *
times, while those who do have
dull
their
.s filled with customers nearly all the .
time. This secret is known but to a se^
I.mr e.v, who are taking advantage or.
their knowledge.
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