Decatur Eagle, Volume 3, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1859 — Page 2

THE E HI L E_ | H. L. PHILLIPS.) > EdITOBSA PaOFtIrKTOKB. W. G. SPENCER,) DEOATUH, INDIANA. Frtl.» A V JIJKS ING, APRILS, 1859.! BLANKS’ BLANKS". BLANKS!!! Blank Deeds, Mortgages, Justice’s Bl'nks, ot all kinds; Constable’s Blanks, of all kinds; Blank Notes, &C., <fc<‘ , of the best quality for Sale at this Office, j New Advertisements. U"P»>or —John Ahnet. J_rP<x}r —Wm H*-ck'nnn. j j} Oi School Lan4—John McConncl. O'Town Election—Win G Spencer. fcjr Hungarian Grass s» er*—Nuitruan a Crawford &1F The following article we clip from the Cleaveland Plain Dealer, and indorse it in lull; and we hope the Democrats of our own county will profit by it. It comes i from the right source; and, in fact. Old Gray is always right, though he dwells in the reserve and his habitation may be a pnmpkin shell'. The Duty of Defeated Candidates.

It is expected, vea demanded that every candidate who seeks the uses of the party through its Convention system will religiously conform to its wi ll established ■usages. Among the latter none is more sacred than abiding the decisions of its conventions. No more despicable breach of honor can be committed by a candidate after submitting his claims to hi« compeers, than to disregard their decisions. It is an insult to the majority who have considered his ease, it is an exhibition of treachery and bad faith towards his fellow candidates and it is rank rebellion towards the party whose support he sought. Oat voting a Candidate in Convention is a necessity which must occur when there are two applicants for the same of- ■ fice. It is expressly for this purpose that the Convention system was inaugurated to throw the responsibility of a choice upon a delegated majority in whose wisdom and fairness the candidates are bound to concur. It is folly to found any peculiar; claims to an office on the ground that you

have been ft hard working Democrat for many years. If you have been a Democrat with any such consideration in view, you have been ; n ver', - doubtful Democrat nt best. A Democrat from principle makes use of no such argument. Some Democrats attempt to make up in ac’ivily what they are wan-; ting in principle, an I will this year work vigorously for the Democratic ticket, and I next year as furiously against it, provided I their claims for office are not in their own estimation properly regarded. The sooner this kind ot Democrats bolts into the Black Republican party the bet-, ter. They should be marked, repudiated and read over into that receptacle of sore ■ heads which makes up the present conglomerate opposition to the Great National Democratic Party. Deception. The Young America, with an intention to deceive the public and escape the odium i justly attached to that sheet for permit-1 ting James H. Smith, the Pedagogue, to | manufacture slang for its columns, pub-; lished with great gusto a certificate from the said J ames, stating that he was “neither editor, proprietor or publisher” of that j sheet; desiring the public to understand that the said Jeems did not write for that paper, while at the same time the editors and the said James, all, well knew that! he did. Now, Mr. America, yon are, perhaps, 1 not guilty of lying out!ight for your saying that Jeems is not “editor, proprietor «r publisher,” (a thing not at issue), but you are guilty of intending to deceive your patrons and the public, in endeavoring to make them believe that the said Jeems did not manufacture squibs and editorials lor your sheet. Week before las! we offered to pay expenses, if the said Jeems would tile an affidavit that he did not write editorial for that sheet; and last week we offered to do | the snme thing if Isaac and Thomas would file an uffi lavit to the same effect. But all are silent! Noaffi lavit! No certificates! Not even a denial of the charge! Come gents, your trick is exposed!— Your denial that Jeems is not the “editor, proprietor or publisher” will not deceive, no matter how mu-ch you intended it. You had better open up. make a clear breast of it, and admit the fact, that Isaac mid Thomas are the cats paw, and James the fugalman. < j “Put that rad that together.” Toot Thomas again j-ems. weather for the past few days -fOUid do honor to bleak December, mailing overcoats, shawls, rousing fires find all the etcae’erats of winter indispensable, and we have fyars for v r ’ J t !

Close of the Winter Schoo!. ' On Friday last the winter term of our public school closed; in the evening our ciiiZ'-ns were agreeably entertained—the exercises consisted of declamations, dia- . logues and compositions, interspersed with vocal music. We do not intend to eulogize any one in particular, although we think we could and not be partial, but we will say this much: that some of the young lads acquitted themselves in a manner ■ that would have satisfied an audience, i I where a much greaier display couhl be ' reasonable rXp-cteil than here. They i (seemed to enter into the spirit of the au ; thor, which always gives life to exercises of this Lind. Several of the dialogues; ; were performed in a creditable manner; notwithstanding the disadvantages under which they labored, of crowded stage and the confusion attendent upon a still more crowded house. The compositions of the voung ladies were commendable, it is certainly one of the most useful accomplishments of the age and should receive that attention and encouragement which its importance demands.

Upon the close of the exercises the fol- i lowing resolution was offered by Dr. J. > P Porter, and unanimously adopted: i "Resolued. That the sincere thanks of ou r citizens, and others, who have availed themselves ot the advantages of this school are due A. Larimore for the able and efficient manner he has discharged his du i ties as teacher in or midst; and further our grateful acknowledgements for the highly creditable manner in which the performances of the evening have been conducted. Re is about to leave us—our ; i best wishes go with him. On the departure of Mr. Larimore, we ; i cannot refrain from wishing him that sue-i ’ cess, that his talent, as a teacher, deserve, ■ and as a citizen his loss will be fell by all As a teacher of vocal music, the sin- [ i cere regret evinced upon his departure by the voung folks, is a better evidence of i J his worth than anything we can say.— ! May he receive that welcome, encouragement and sympathy which is indespensa- j ; ale to the success of a teacher, in the 1 community where he is about to take up i :. ....

l his residence. — ... — Something NewWe understand that a lodge of the In • 1 dependent Order of Good Templars is about to organize in our town. If con- , ducted as it should be, it doubtless will I b ■ conducive ot much good; but so soon as fin ilicism combine 1 with the ultraisms of i this vexed question, —which heretofore have been attempted in organizations that ! had the same object in view, but now deI lunct—begins to show it# hydra-head I °. • I ' then will its influence cease, and with its ; I I kindred will it have an existence only in memory. * I’rimary election. We have not received the Jull returns of the Piimary Election, yet we have rei ceived sufficient to determine that the fol- ■ lowing persons have received ;he nominaI lion: For Clerk. James B Simcoke; for ; ; Auditor, Wm. G Spencer; for Commis-1 -ioncr in first district, Conrad R- inking;] I third district, Josiah Crawtord. The official vote may change the above, but we ' think not We shall g've the official vote j next week. JtSrThe following is a list of the names ! of the Petit Jury, drawn to serve as such at the May Term of the Court of Comi J inon Pleas: D 0. Jackson, Lucion Dunbar, Lyman Hart, Wm Vance John Hart, Jonathan ; I Moyer, P. C Bolinger, Wm Ketchen, I J T • I John Archbald, James Niblick, Justin Mann and A. Studabaker. Short Catechism lor Young Black Republicans. Who voted to introduce slavery into Kansas. The black Republicans. U ho voted to extend the 1’ ugitive Slave Law over that Territory? The black R- publicans. Who voted to udmit Kinsas as a Slave State? The black Republicans. Who voted against admiting Minnesota as a Free Si ale? The black Republicans. Who voted against admitting Oregon as a Free State? The black Republicans. Mho believe that the Constitution of the United States is a league with Hell and a covenant w'th the Devil? The black R-publicans. Who carried bannersin 1856. upon which only sixteen stars appeared where there should have b-en thirty-two? The black Republicans. Who are in favot of letting the Union slide? The black Republicans. ! Who are in favor of paper money, high tantfs, ami high taxes? The black Republicans. Who profess one thing and practice ■’nn'her'’ The brick Republicans

[ Naturalized Citizens place Republicans below Negroes. The Republicans, in plac-s where there are many naturalized citizens; are in the habit of professing great love for that class of voters, and seek to throw the od ium of opposition to them, e.itirily on the know-nothings—studiously keeping out of sight the fact that nearly allcompo'ing that party are Republicans, and that their forces invariably act together against the Democrats. We have always assured our naiurahzed citizins, that the inveterate hatred the managers of the Republican party entertain against foreignborn citizens and religious liberty was only 1 concealed for a time. It is manifest, that it is cloaked merely to get power and whe they deem themselves strong enough to effect their purposes, they will cast off the mask, and proceed to oppress the for- ' eignborn and the catholics. In Massachusetts the Republicans have passed a law to prevent naturalize I citizens from voting until ’.wo years ha»e expired after the date of their naturaliz ition p ipers. This ! places the white citizens of German. Irish English, Welsh, and Scotch birth in aj condi.ion of civil inferiority to negroes” who are full citizens and voters in Mas J sachusetts, and are eligible to office.— ■ I Again, they are engaged in an attempt ■ to make the Catholic childern in the Boston public school participate in certain religious exercise, at variance with the : < scrpulous of that sect. The children to the number of three or four hundred declined to participate in the i x rcise, and thereupon the trustees proceed to ex pel many of them from the school; one boy having been severely chastised because lie did not conform, although he ■ xpresslj slated to the teacher that he did not do it, because his father and the priest had forbiden him to do so. The spirit of persecution is hereby plainlv evidenced. We ask the foreign boin citizens i and catholics, and the jnst and liberal of American birth and denominations, to mark these doings The persecution of foreigners and catholies, the oppression of poor while men and the elevation of neI groes are favorite tenets with the RepubI licans, and yet there are many voters ol i the class whom they so much despise, who are in the h> bit of voting with that party. It seems strange how any naturalized citizen can show a craven spirit. The most charitable construction is, that they are deceived, and are not aware of the rancorous hostility fell towaids >hem by those they so blindly follow — We commend to such a careful tnvestiga tion of the facts In Massachusetts lhe Republicans are omnipotent and manage

matters entirely as they like. Then course in thus placing a naturalized citi- I zen in an inferor position to the negro, is | a true manifestation of their real feeling* I where thev feel strong enough to avow them, as in Massachusetts. Give them the same power in Indiana and thev I would use it in the same manner. — Fort Wayne Sentinel, The Effort* to Revive Wbigxery. A fi-w days ago a meeting was held in , New York city, at which Hiram K-tchum presided, for the purpose of considering | the question of a re-organiz ition of the Whig party. The meeting was called by ! the Whig general committee, and ex Governor Washington Hunt was the principal speaker. Such men as Erastus I Brook*. General Frederick A. Talmadge, I and Luther Bradish, participated in the proceedings. The burden of the ex Governors’s song was, a union of the opposition forces upon national grounds. He is, in fact, very urgent for union. He objects to the Democrats, just as the Whigs always objected to them, and the Black Republicans, he thinks, are merely

sectional, without principles, or anything ; else, and therefore the most objectionable of all These movements to revive Whiggery are considered very harmless by every one except the Black Republicans. They veiw with the least possible delight the movement in Kentucky under the title of opposition, the. movement of Botts and Giggin in Virginia, to get into power as i Whigs and nothing else, and now this! movement in New York for a revived Whig partv throughout the Union. The Black R-public.ans fear lest a good por lion of their rank and file may be induced to desert to this their first love, where they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that they are contending for i principles, having found Black Repnbli I camsm io be mere sounding brass. They j have reason to fear — State Sentinel. I Consistknct —This article is not a Black ‘Republican’jewel. The Assembly has I been tinkering away at a Prohibitory Liquor Law, one of the hobbies of the j ■Republican’ parly, and got so far ns to order it to a third reading, but on Thursday last, this vote was reconsidered and the bill was slaughtered by its own friends We instance the proceedings to show the dishonesty and tergiversation of this reckless party. This class of corrupt politi cians make use of the temperance ques i lion to get int*> power, and they quietly kick over the ladder by which they climb to place. They have a majority of two to one in the Legislature and yet dare not pass what they professed was a favori'e measure of their party. How long will the people submit to be deceived by tiie pretensions and humbuggery of the Black Republican’ party? How long?— New York News. Drv weather this month and in May, and a “good” June, will be all that is necessary to the yield of a large crop of wheat in this county.

I From the Fori Wayne Sentiuuel. From the Sandwich Islandr. We are indebted to Judge Borden, U. ( 8 Commissioner, fora package from Ho , nolulu containing many interesting ma tistics concerning the trade and commerce , ct lh» Sandwich Island; and a!«o accounts of a great volcanic eruption which hasre- ■ cen’ly occurred there. We extract a notice of the eruption: New Eruption on Hawaii-—Maginificent Volcanic Display! Just as our paper was going to press last week, we announced that a new eruption had taken place on Mauna Loa on Hawaii. By several arrivals since, we have received further advices, and all accounts represent it to be the most magnificent eruption that ha* occurred on that island for many years, lighting up the whole heavens’at night for a hundred j miles around and making the night like dav. There can be no sight more splen- j ded than that of witnessing at night, at a distance ofthirty to fifty miles the red ' molten lava from an elevation of 10,0001 feet, bursting out from the side of the 'mount-in ami flowing down like a river at the rate of ten to fifteen miles an hour Yet such is the sight which the inhab- ’ itants of that island have been favored •with. We have received several brief letters ; from Hawaii, announcing the eruption as i having taken place at 4 P. M. on the 23 ! . Jan, but no one at the latest dates had; been able, to visit the locality or determine the course of the stream. The out-' break appears to have been near that of. 1855 which was located near lhe summit and on the north side of Mauna Loa Passengers by the schooners say that three or four distinct eruptions could be seen on •he northeast side of the mountain, and 'rom them several streams flow to the valley Iving between the large mountains . which constitute the center of that island. Those acquainted the locality think that if the flow continues long enough.it must find its exit to the sea th rough some part of she Kona district, but there is some an-. certainty on this point We cannot learn that this eruption was acquainted by earthquakes or any premo ( nition of disturbance in the volcanic elements. It is now evident, however, that the immense destruction of fish, noticed in our last, paper as having been observed ; off Maui bv C-ipt. Dows of the clipper ship Henry Brigham is attributable to this 1 new eruption, which probably broke out first in some submerged portion of the island of Hawaii, thus causing the death of millions o 1- fish. We may add here • hat these dead fishes were noticed of

I Hawaii by passengers on the Manuokawai on Thursday the 10th. During the middle and latter part of : last week, the atmosphere about the is ; lands was very smoky. A singular phe- ] nomennn was noticed on board of one of ( ' the schoonets running between Lahaina ; ! and this port. Soon after dark, while in ] channel between Oahu and Molokai, a storm looking cloud rose up from the direction of Hawaii, covering the heavens, i and indicating a squall, but it parsed over without any perceptt.ble wind or rain, proving to be only a heavy cloud of smoke from the volcano. During the past few 1 days the s'rong trade wind has kept the atmosphere clear of smoke. Friday and Saturday considerable anx liety was maniiested in Honolulu to vest I the volcano, but no vessel was dispatched till Tuesday last, when the Kinoole sailed for Kiilua with twenty four passengers, consisting of President Beckwith and the tutors and scholars of Panahou College On Wednesday the Ki Moi sailed for the same port with > few passengers, ex pecting to find some eight or ten more at Lahaima ready to embark. The Fiholiho

and Kalama will both leave for Hawaii about Saturday. Bv advices from Lahaina we hear that 1 on Sunday night the refl-c'ion of the light 1 over Hawaii was brighter than on any previous one, indicating that the eruption was on the increase. The reflection on , 1 the water was like that of a full moon.— There appears to be no doubt now that I the flow is towards the western or Kona ' side of lhe island, and that the eruption is far greater than ever before witnessed in the memory ot these now living. We hope to r.-ceive further advices by the Hilo and Kona packets now due, A green looking chap from the Green Mountain State, wi-nt over the line and on to Montreal ‘to look round a leetie. ’ — Going into a large and handsome dry goods store, his verdancy attracted the attention of the proprietor who attempted Ito quiz him, but as he unhappily had an I impediment in his speech, he had to give it up and his head clerk came forward to 1 speak for him. He began thus: ‘Mr, Bull wishes to know if you can tell him why B daam’s ass spoke?’ Wall,’ said Jonathan, ‘I rather guess as how Balaam was ast u tertn man, and his ass had to speak for him.’ —•l Ml Gen. Cass Dangerously 111. A Washington letter of Monday says that Gen. Cass was taken suddenly ill the evening before, with something resembling apoplexy. He was totally blind and unconscious for some moments.— , Physicians were sent for who bled him i copiously and remained with him all night. , He was better in the morning. He has . had several such attacks of late, which in- , dicate a speedy termination of his earthly career. But he is determined to die I m hr« post. The General is now in his 77th year, having been born in Exeter, . N. H., October 9tb, 1782. He has been in the public service over forty years.— Plain Dealer

( Imr.u ier.sUes of Black Jteu.iblicnas. j Mr Eli Thayer a Black Republican Representative in Congress from Massa jchusetts. unlike most ot the other Black Republican members, voted for the admission ol Oregon, and said some sharp things to the brethren. Here is one of them. Some members of the Black Republican party are alwavs uneasy. They are ; nev. r satisfied When they get to heaven they will not be sa il'd. Instead of tuning their harps to heavenly praise they will be getting their opera glasses to look over the gulf and see if they cannot desIcrv a Dred Scott decision ora Supreme I Court, and they will be wanting a Wilmot (Proviso to keep slavery out ol heaven. The puritanic instinct—comments our I cotemporaiy, the Democrat, ol Louisville is the chief basis ol I haver s party. They are all uneasy about other people’s sins,’ and feel it their mission to repress them. They used to punish heresy by; fire and sword, and purge the wiches from society by hanging. If their zeal I led them io self sacrificing efiorts t> reform the world by kindness, persuasion and pious example, they would be a godly generation; but their uneasiness does not take that direction. They trust in 'themselves that they are righteous, and I hate others II is the mission of such | (saints as they to use force to reform sinners. They have become tiled of the (slow process that Heaven has appointed to reform the world. They have substituted their contrivances. They will toice , men to be temperate. They have given with reluctance and regret the cherished | practice of making Christians by law; hut they are still resolved to use schools to to make the rising generation religious, ( and sectarian at that. The passion of late is against African I slavery. The saints are not. themselves involved in the great sin thev are uneasy aboui; but other people are, anil to pre- j I vent lhe sins of others they are greatlv exercised. Their untiling vigilance is worthy of all pra'se, if it were only direcj ted towards a reform of their own sins — ■ But they are safe in their sell righteous- ( ness. Why should they reform? It doesn’t occur to them that there is anything to do at home, and that if they i would look at home they would have less :to complain of abroad. True to the char acteristic of their class, they Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have uo mind to, Have we a Dem >cratic Party Among Us?—This question is promptly and well answered in the following paragraph, which we clip from the Buffalo N. A ,

Post: ‘Some of the blatant Opposition and false-hearted Democratic presses of the country are tickling their readers by propounding the above interrogatory. Ctiil dren are said to be pleased with a straw ! even, and so we suppose we ought not to ] deprive the Opposition of the meagre crumb* of comfort afforded them in this innocent pasime. They will find out when the ballot box-s are closed in 186 ’. that there is a Democratic party among us. and a successful one too. The glorious past history of this country is but h record of lhe triumphs of the Domocraiic] party. It has already controlled the Gov- , erment ot the United States three-fourths of the time during its existence, and we ! venture the prediction that it will continue to do so. Surviving the ignominy j heaped upon it by incompetent and designing men—outliving the assaults of open enemies and secret foes—the Democratic ' party' will in 186 J take the field under; the banner of its liine-honored principles, and. despite the howling* of its adversaries, it will again achieve the victory ’ National Democratic Party

The uniform consistency and fidelity to principles of the national Democratic party, is worthy of admiration. It has advanced but has never changed Meas ureshave been projected, pm into execution and left to vindicate themselves bv their practical results, while the party has gone forward to the achievement ot new reforms. It has not always s’ood in the same position, but all its positions have been consistent with each other, and with 'he theory upon which it is based. No single act in its history is inconsistent with its avowed purposes of to day. Its foreign and domestic policy has always been the same; and it is the chief glory ot its career that it has never compromised ] its faith to retrieve its misfortunes — Whenever it has been defeated it has rallied again anti conquered under the same flag that went down in its fall No other party has such a record.— Auglaize County Democrat. i Kinsas is soon coming in as a Republican State. Does anybody propose to reject her if she excludes negroes from her ! soil and her ballot-boxes?— Springfield Republican. tvansas will cotne into the Union at the next Congress as a Democratic State. — The Republicans will oppose her admission; and will probably trump up the pre tense of negroexclusion, though they voted to admit her under the frau hilent Topeka Constitution, with its addendum if negro exclusion. There were 453 votes cast against negro exclusion by the Topekaites, and 1,287 for it—in all 1.740; while the Oregon vote was for exclusion 5,479 to 651 against. We shall next year see the Republicans rallying against the admission of Kansas, as this year they have against the admission of Oregon. We shall then have the full revelation of an hypocrisy that can no longer be concealed.— Albany Ary us.

Laud Su it.tiling in Missouri, ' A correspondent us the K ukuk (b. w \ Post, caution* the public against tl/ enormous frauds that are being practiced in selling Missouri graduated land. X great number ol sharks about St. om s and other points have entering, * n d having others loenter for them large tracts of land at 12| cents per acre, and then sell. ,ing them tn a f.-w weeks at Irotn one to five dollars per acre. The mode by which they practise this fraud is effected in various Ways. Some enter hall sections in their own names ( swearing at the time that they wanttlis same for actual settlement and cultivation for the law binds them to do this be ore they can enter land at the graduated price, and yet at 'he same time never attempting to go near it, they commit downright perjury After entering the first 320 acres'., as that, is all the law a||, IW3 any man to obtain, Hu y give some worthless scoundrel a few dollars to enter another half section, and so on. supplying names until thev enter thousands of acres. These lands are then conveyed tn the principal plotter in a blank deed, and an agent, is appointed to sell them; the buyer's name is inserted in the blank deed, and the conveyor perhaps lias sold il before an<l can never be found or it he can, h e Ino better than a blank, not being responsible. for more than a pint of whiskev at a 'ime. Tosav nothing about these continiren- | cies. these titles are all unlawful, ami will 1 be vacated when it. is found in the course Os two or three years that the original (buyer has not settled and improved hc- ; cording to law, as was the case of Illinois i a few years since. Some of these knobs I anti hili sid*s are platted off into paper I towns, and are being sold out at from ten to fifty dollars per acre throughout the whole country. Opposition. This is the cognomen which the Republicans. the North and South Americans, Abolitionists, the Disunionists, amt all other i.-ms and factions are assuming, ( with the hope of forming a union ot -.ufiicient strength to defeat the National D< mocratic party. The very tact that such a combination is being attrmpted for the purpose of securing the power and spoils ot office—for having no principles in common th“V have no other o'ject — thev pay unwittingly, a high tribute to Democratic principles and policy. The very name, opposition, is a confession that such a combination have no positive principles — They oppose. That is the total <>t their political creed. They opposed the ai1n.......... n.......... .L. .. ...i

mission of Oregon, tiny oppose the admission of free States, they oppose appropriations to sustain the Postoffice D- p'irtment, in a word they opp ise every mevs- . ore inurgur ited and sustained by the I Democratic party for the progress mid i prosperity of the country Such are the ' objects and ends of the Opposition party. Upon such issues they propose to appeal ito the people in the contest of 1863. It won’t, win. The masses ever svmpaih'z? with a party Ol positive principles, with live issues, whicu proposes measures for the aggrandizement ol the country. The Democratic has ever been a party of progress. It has iniutiated every measure of public policy which lias resulted for I common good. It h,s always lead. and lif temporally defeated bv misrepresents- ! tion or misapprehension. the ‘sober second I thought’ of he people, never fails to come Ito the rescue. The experience of the p ist is the tv pe of the fu'nre An opposition party can not command the sympathy of the people. It can only live in opposition Success would destroy it. Composed of incongruous factions, with no principles and policy in common, victory would ba the signal and the occasion for these op-

posing factions to return t.o their original contending positions. Such a poli'ical organ'z ition or combination caul I not successfully administer the Government for its composing parts differ as much wi'h each other as to the principles and policy which should govern do either ot them i with the Democratic party Such has been the history of such combinations — They can never prevail over the compact and united Democratic orga.vzttion one in principle, one in obj-ct. an ! which has the sympathy and support ofevny section of the Union—and whose e„d* are the harmony and progress of the coun'ry, the preservation of the rights of the t , es and the common welfare of all. Sfa/« Sentinel. Caleb Cushing on Sickles —The Hon Caleb ushmgin a speech m the ‘Stephens poisoning case,’ used this an guage in reference to the Sickles cast-. ? ‘G> to your National capital and see there one of vour most rising statesmen immured and solitary. And why. serpent entered his garden and whisper*-' in the ear of his Eve, and he slew tN serpent.* Curious evidence has late’y h-ri brought to light in England show ng tba Napoleon th* G r eat in earlv life off-rH his services to the commander of the hfli glish navy in the Mediterranean, tfij service# were declined, as he was nnh a® ordinary sort of a youth, and soon at <■ he entered the French army and bvgaß hi# great career. Constitutional Convention —The bB providing for the calling of a conv“nt>« i to make a new Constitution has beconuj law. The question is to be submi'ted B the p«iple at the next October eh-* and the assent of a majority of the, vo« i cast is required to give validity to <■ I act