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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. XMDlSTlMCT PKINT