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I liift'" rntlfllf »«nil ''Main fri *Jgiii raigfct *iji pialp, show that Dan didn't^ /orthe lan %, grabbers, what the saine'organ urged him lito do and praised him for doing! Such are the humiliating necessities which the ^crooked record of the "statesman" Irnpos--»e3 on tlit long-BttfferingJoitrno/. ^VSK-H' M» (WW* 'imm'ys$. U- W»3t •IlADalmost any other prominent Dern-

•"!ituous record—so Tulnerable that it invites attacks from every liuarter—ieeps constantly on the defensive. A man jnwho ba« some time to devote to giving blows, not one who is always kept in a

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trying to ward them off, is the sort

i,.of man for a successful candidate. •m '*d —•Mamsd.fai V-.

TUB fact thatsome twoor three colorS'ed teachers attended the recent session of the Normal School, has fallen as a 'very afflictiye dispensation upon the

Journal and some other Democratic sheets. When colored people were meanly taxed to cducate white children, while "their own children were deprived of any opportunity to learn anything, except at

private expense of their parents and guardians, the Journal and other paper* of the (fame stripe, thought it was allf «'right! if —»nH* .*

No ruBUC MAN, of any party, was evM'er planed in a "i/re humiliating, and C0ts* ""itemjrtible posi ion than that which :D. W. "'VooRJTKES riccupics -lincc the scathing ex'!posiire of his miserable attempt to falsify the financial record of the government.

He stands before the world convicted of coining and uttering what he knew to be a gigantic falsehood. No amount o( (twisting., and squirming will.remove ithis brand and he must wear it—a perpetual mark of political disgrace.

Under such circumstances good sense ..would suggest to him the propriety of keeping hia "organ" quiet upon the subject of bis shame. But instead of that ,,fjudicious course, he turns th.e, crank of that "organ day after day, and grinds out fresh editions of the original falfce-

JlOOd. A.4'"?" "y* An old school book contains a story of a dog-that, for biting and other bad ,(practices, had a big billet of wood tied to 'its neck. But this foolish Canifie accepted the badge of disgrace as a mark «f high 1-pnor, and put-sricd his evil Ways more '.|,ri(lustriously than before.

The moral"will be apparent to the dull-" est comprehension.

Mr. Voorlicps,'tlio. .Journal, nndllic Public Debt. In Tuesday's wane of Mr. VooRiiEKs1 home organ we have an artjele in defince of that guntlcnian's statements concerning, the amount of- the Public-debt, in the shape of a reply to our thorough expose of last Saturday.,,, Its substantial points, are these: 1. That when Mr. VOOBHEES made hi« statement there were many Republicans

present who all declined to come forward lit his request and show the error of his statement, and therefore it must be true. But this conclusion is not in the premises, ,, ./or (1) It is not known that any of the ''Republican speakers were present, and "incrchunts and bankers" are net in the habit of answering political speackers, even when they'know their statements to be false and (2) Mr. V. did no I invite an answer to his statements, only an inspection of his document, lie called on any one to examine if the document was genuine, and the figures quoted accurately, not to expose his iniquity in suppres* ng an important part of the truth. 2. There is-a reiteration of the figures that MCCUI.I.OOH gives the total debt bearing coin interest at S2,107,854,050, while BOUTWKI.T, gives it at §2,107,950,700, showing an increase of bonds issued of $1)5,650. These (igufes are not disputed, but we allege tbey are only a jxirt •of the tiguies which wore before th^jeyes of Mr. V., and that he was guilty of the fraud of suppressing a part of theSecre tary's statement. In

Journal says: But it is now loudly claimed that a certain amount of bonds were actually paid ofl, though Mr. Boutwell did not soe j,,')kfit to say so in his July, or in any other ,previ6us monthly statement."

Now, in plain English, this is a falso'hood and its reitoration closes all possi"ble explanation of Mr.. V.'s conduct, but that of willful deception. Mr. BOUTWEI.L does say precisely what it is alleged he does not. He states in his March report, rliiind in every subsequent monthly interment, the amount of coin interest bearing beads which had been purchased by the Tre isurv. And in the July statement from which Mr. V. quoted, Mr. B. slat» the bonds so paid at $121,420,100. If there is any gentleman in tho city who wishes occtilar demonstration of this, we invite him to call at our offictf and see the report. Mr. B. not only states this, but lie gives the exact characicr of the bonds taken up, being live-twenties of nciYir different Issues.

The Jmirnal goes on: .H The present administration "'claims that for nearly eighteen months it has been applying some portion of this vast sum (of taxes) to the payment of the debt. Yet itR friends and supporters arc* forced to admit that up to July 1st, 1870, they make no official show »f payment or reduction. The Acting Secretary says it has been done by virtue,of an act of Conpressjof July 14, 1S70. If he had said that it was done by virtueof the approach ing elections, and the necessity of deceiving the people, he would have been closer to the truth."

Can mendacity descend to lower "depths? Emy monthly statement since the inauguration of Gen. GRANT has contained aiv "official show of payment or reduction." And the very paper from which Mr. V" quotes says, in so many

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A JUDICIOCS Republican jonimfl wise ly suggests that while the Democratic leaders are lecturing their Southern brethren,ft would not be amis* for Republicans of commanding influence to give wholeeome.counsei to.the Southern members of that organisation. Their dissensions And mistakes have inspired the Opposition with many bright hopes, and if they do not display more wisdom in the future than they have in the past, some of these hopes will be realized. Already they, have lost State after State which br good 9°15

ranks many other losses are inevitable.

A PARAGRAPH is going the rounds,

facturing establishments in the United States, and that the number supported thereby is 10,000,000. Of this number 640,000 are employed in the manufacture of iron, steel, and in mining ore and coal. The 10,000,000 dependent upon manufacturing industries are so many consumers of agricultural products. How would the interests of farmers be affected, inquires, the Philadelphia <Press>, if the free traders should succeed in driving all these skilled laborers into agriculture, and thus convert them from consumers into producers of the fruits of the field? ———<>———

THE New York Times has reliable 'information from the South to the effect that the crops for this year are unusually good. The grain crops are already secured, and are very large, Last year the people of most of the Gulf States imported grain from thcNorth at high prices —corn selling as high as$l 75 a bushel. Dealers are now offering to centract'for the delivery of new corn at eighty-five cents. Wheat is selling at Atlanta at $1 25, and it is thought that, the State of Georgia will have a considerable surplus for export. This condition of things will be a great relief to the South. The cot-ton-crop, moreover, promises to be larger than any that has been raised in twenty years. j'JJ

IT WAS expectud, says a war correspondent, that the presence of the Prince Imperial wonld enlist the sympathies of all on behalf of the imperial family. It has had a contrary effect. The cruelty of uselessly exposing this poor child to the fire of the enemy is severely criticised. The Emperor is compared to one of those beggarmen who carries about a half-clad infant on a cold day,, in order to provolce the compassion of passers-by. GcsI touchant, mais cc gdest pax la guerre. A

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•'Decrease of debt, during the past month, $20,203,772 04. Decrease of debt since March 1,1870, $51,969,877 43."

Nor doe» the Acting Secretary, or any other "friend and supporter" of the administration say, that "the reduction *nd official statement of payment have all occurred since," and by virtue of the act of Congress refeirod to. What they do say is this: That the said act of Congress authorited the destruction of the bondi which had been previously paid.5 Until so authorized, the Secretary was compelled to keep them, and report them, as bonds in existence but he expresslv report.* them as bonds paid for, .! and as so much in reduction of the public debt. Antl hence, in his August stately ment, the bonds having been desroved, are now deducted from the aggregate. Thus he reports, "Bonds purchased and canceled, ?129,802,650. Total outstanding, $1,978,14$,150" .These

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child can understand them, and only the most utter disregard for truth can misrepresent them. •is to the necessities of the election requiring false statements, the u.tter demoralization and desperation of the Democratic partr, is efficiently evinced in its complete disregard of troth. The pit.Vmeat of $10,t)00,000 of State debt, and S160,000,000 of National debt by the Republicans, ore facts of such tremendous force as to annihilate that party, imless their force can be broken by unblushing

says: "when the first !NA-

POI.EON, that man of war, went forth in 1813, to defend France against Europe in arms, he took neither the king of Rome nor an ornamental Cent Gardes with him.?

DEATH BY LIGHTNING has long been proverbially considered the most exceptional manner of being deprived of life; but the fatality resulting from thunderbolts this summer bids fair to render the old adage obsolete. Throughout the country the deaths from lightning since the beginning of June have been frightfully numerous. The Philadelphia <Inquirer> learns that in the State of Wisconsin alone, during the last month, forty persons were killed by lightning. When the aggregate of mortality, resulting from this source in the present summer, is compiled for the entire country, the result will.be unpleasant to estimate. Why

the lightning flashes should be more destructive this season than in years past is a question that will soon engage inquiring scientific minds. ———<>———

Now one of the results of this greal work (the Fifteenth Amendment) is, that during the session of teachers which has been going on at the Normal School during all this hot weather have been two full grown negro men, and two full grown negro women participating as teachers with nothing to deodorize the pestiferous atmosphere of the heated room.

The above appears in the Journal of the 19th. We don't know who wrote it, but it sounds like the stuff that has formed tho staple of most of VOOKHEES' addresses for tho last ten years. We do know, however, that if either of those

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tcachers was ever, in any un­

guarded moment, half mean enough to write so degrading a paragraph, he, or nhe, should not have been permitted to share the benefts of the Normal School because the mere writing of it would be conclusive proof that the author was too low in the scale of humanity to be reached by oducational influences.

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A KECENT London letter alludes bo the condition of working-women in England and lrelapd. According to the writer the following facts are shown bv an in--vestigation ofPr. LETHERBY, the medical officer of health for the city of London. The mean age o'* needle-women is 38.4 that of all classes of women, 54.1. #ut of 1,000 needle-women 438 die from phthisic of shop-keeping women only 127. Deaths from fever, needle-women, 106 shop-keepers, 37. More than a fourth of the deaths of the children of needle-momtn is from scrofula, tabes, and hydrocephalus. In ?\11 England the proportion is hardly seven per cent. In 1861 there were 127,131 females employed at the various branches of needle-worlt in London, of whom 21,000 were n'nder 20 years of age. The same correspondent states that the fonrdation of a workingwomen's union is meditated by the united trades association of Dublin. -rtl

CHIVA evidently believes with Dela ware, that punishment should be deterrent rather than reformatory. The last mail from that country brings news of a. fiendish case of torture inflicted upon a native of Foochow for the crime of kidnapping children. The poor wretch, we are told, was exposed by'the side of the street in a wooden cage of such a height that while his heap protruded through the.top he could touch the bottom with hia- toes. His hands were tied behind him, and his ankles were chained together. On the first diry of his imprisonment he wa-allowed to sit on aboard placed across the cage at the proper height, but after the first twenty-four hours this was removed, and he Was then only supp rted by his neck and the tips of his toes. Some of the crowd who surrounded.^ Mm threw little bits of broken brick into the cage, and watched-with jeers his ineffectual attempts-to place them under his' feet, to relieve the frightful strain upon his neck. Ilis groanings met with uo sympathy, and he was deprived of all food. 'In this state he was left to die. Of course, the torture is long or short according to the strength and vitality of the criminal. A week before thus poor creature suffered, a notorious thief had been subjected to the same torture, in the same place, and had lived *ix days in the cage.

POLITICAL 1TEW8 AND NOTES.

THE JottmaFs pnerile talk about Mr. Dunn's meetings is just as near the, truth as pan's contemptible canard about the public debt.

IT generally predicted that revolu-. tion in Paris will almost certainlybe folowed by a general uprising, of Republican sentiment, in. Germany, Italy and Spain. ./

THE statement going the rounds of the Democratic press, to the effect that Senator Morton owns a portion of the Wabash

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falsehood. THE Journal's numerous editorials in favpr of land-grabbing—published while Dan was engineering the land-grabBers interests—will not be reprinted by _the Democracy for campaign purposes. This is authentic.

VOOBHEES started out in this canvass to win Republican votes, 'but soon found thai lie had no hojie that quarter, and is-now making a tremendous effort to keep the old stagers of his own party from flying the track. 'in

THE Ohio Executive Committee have commenced the active work .of the State canvass" in good earnest. They report favorably as the progress ofther work of organization and the gepcral prospects'of the campaign.

WENDELL PHILLIPS has found his "giant evil" to fight, .at last. It is the sale and use of intoxicating drinks. He now appears for the fi-rst time as a candidate for office, having been nominated as the Prohibition candidate,,for Governor of Massachusetts/.

APT scholars are the Chinese in everything. They learned to make shoes in Massachusetts, and now they have learned to defraud the revenue in California. Between the earlier industry and the later knavery there may be a logical connection. They found that honest work brought down upon them tl^e hatred of demagogues and they have seen enough of that class to know that they look tfith fa­

vor on fraud. HON. JAMES L. ORB, of South Caroli­

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Speaker of the House of Representatives during the Thirty-Cfth Congress, has written a letter declaring his intention to adhere to the Republican party in the future. One of the most gratifying signs of the times, bpth for tl^ continuance of Republican ascendancy, and for the complete restoration of order and good feeling in the reconstructed States, is the number of m.en hitherto prominent at the South, and identified with the Rebellion, who, like Messrs. Orr and Akerman, are sensibly accepting the situation, and joining the Republican ranks.

THE chaotic condition of affairs in Mexico, so far from improving, is daily growing wdfse. Revolutions, from being intermittent, have become chronic. The whole country is dissatisfied and restless, nd its future prosperity a problematical matter. Complications which threaten to result in trouble are arising on the Texan border, and the tone of the Mexican press is bitter against the United States. With people so constituted as the Mexicans, republicanism is a failure. Only an infusion of the active, energetic blood of the Yankee, or annexation to the United States, will save our southern neighbors from anarchy.

FRANCE has followed our example during the war, by suspending specie payments »nd issuing,- legal-tender notes. There is this difference, however, we had little or no gold on hand, while the Bank ofFrance has nearly .§229,000,000. To juddcnly lock up so large an amount of gold naturally disturbs the financial relations of the country. It is estimated that, in addition to the Bank reserve there .is $600,000,000 of coin in the hands of .the people. All this is at once demonetized, and will be made an article of export, at a large premium, while that in the Bank cannot be touohed. Of course, by paying the expenses of the war in depreciated paper, the actual cost will be largely increased, as was the case with this country

THE Democracy of Maine have nominated Gen. Charles W. Roberts, of Bangor, for Governor. Their platform asserts the falsehood that the Administration has not redeemed its pledges of retrenchment. Tins was apiece of stupendous folly as Well as impudence, for it is well known that ihe'expenditures ot the Government have been so materially diminished that by this mean*, together

'"^hvitb a more faithful collection of the revenue, the national debt has been reduced $160,00©,000, and taxation and the tariff cut down $80,000,000 a year. What the Down East Democrats expect to accomplish by asserting what every newspaper in the land, Democratic and Republican,^* constantly disproving liv publishing the official figure*, is more than we can "guess." It docs not matter *erv" muclf,«however, the Democracy of

Maine are not so numerous as they were. THE Republicans of the First District of Minnesota are to hold their Congressional Convention at .St. Paul, on the 1st of September. This district was lost two 'tears ago by a Republican '"split," and a triangular fight, which resulted in the election of the Democratic candidate,

Hon. E. M. Willson,-by a plurality of votes. The two wings or the party unite this year in the c«0-.of tlje Convention, and a candidate will undoubtedly be nominated whom all Republicans can harmoniously support. Tn the Second District of Minnesota, now represented by Hon. M. S. Wilkinson, the Republicans have nominated Hon. Mark II. Dunnell, late Superintendent of Public Instruction Both districts, in the absence of divisions, ate decidedly Republican.

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THE reblcs of Florida have issued acall for a convention to nominate a State ticket, but have! not. the courage to call themselves Democrats. Representatives of Conservation and friends of Reform" are the modest titles under which they propose toconduct their campaign.

VOOKHEES is filtering his sympathy for Soldiers throagh the column* of the Journal. Do his bowels of compassion yearn towards those boys in blue who manifested their affection for him on the cars between Terre Haute and Green cast teytfn a memorable occasion?

MANY prominent Democrats, in this District, are beginning to regard Voorlices as too heavy a load for the parly to carry. Ilis war record, 'they -Say, was bad enough, buihis silly presumption on the ignorance of his constituents, as shown in his foolish and wicked attempt to rn^e the people believe a notorious falsehood, renders him anything b.ut^ a strong candidate.

EX-SEKATOK BES/AMSTSTARK has re

tarned to Oregon, after eight years of ab-

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THE Portland (Democratic)' givea its- cordial support to any movement which has for its object the election of Gov. Chamberlain to the United States Senate, and all the more from the fact that there is no chance.of electing an outright Democrat.

A UNITED STATES SENATOR is to be elected in Maine,by the Legislature to be

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lot quickly and Erie Canal bonds, is an unmitigated chosen next monl^i: Gov. Chamberlain I L.„.1 1 O If Hf„„:il WIIA hnlrla

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and Senator L. lit. Morrill, wbo- holds the seat made vacant by .Senator Fessenden's death, *hd whose term expires in March next, are tTte chief'competitors for the place^ A usrf motfe of conducting such a canvass has been adopted by the friends 'of Chamberlain, who are holding mass meetings and pacing resolutions in his favor,^ -riiijai

COL. MERRIAM,'candidate for Congress in the Eighth Illinois District, is happily situated for a canvass of four counties of his district. His farm lies in McLean, Tazewell and Logan counties, and near the corner of DeWitt. His dwelling is in Taaewell, hisMiarn in Logan, and the bulk of IUB crop is raised in McLean. He eats and sleeps in one county, stables his horses in another, plows in thethird, goes to church in the fourth,- and,' it. is said, will goto Congress from all of them.

THE "Alabama" correspondence, covering all that has been officially said about the depredations of English pirates on our commerce, has been printed in five volumes, and makes 3,750 pages of fine type, or a strip about the length of the Atlantic cable. Now that this job is done, the people will naturally inquire what the officials are going to <do>. The talk is long enough in all conscience, but the <act> should be short and decisive. It is high time our ruined ship-owners received their money.

THE Legislature of Georgia has done a sensible act in voting down the proposisition to extend the official term of its members to 1872. We have never been able to see any merits in the prolongation" controversy in that Stale, and it ought long ago to have been settled. The Republican party should now go to work and carry the State, if they can do so honorably and if not, let the Democracy have it. We believe they can elect their, ticket if iliey try.

FOR entertaining reading, the valuable monthly reports of the Bureau of Statistics cannot, as a genera' thing, be recommended but the last report, contains an item that will bescanned with unqualified pleasure by gven the most confirmed haters-of statistics. "The'exceptional fact is embraced in a table giving the reductions of Internal Revenue taxes on a large number of articles, footing up the handsome total of $55,000,000 for the year. This is the first response to the popular demand for lower taxes, and the next Congress will be called upon to still further lighten the financial burdens of the people.

THE apostles of the woman's rights movement may-as well subside now. A Southern editor having completely extinguished them in the following pregnant paragraph, we do not see that they have any other course. The Byron (Texas) Appeal is the paper. Its editor thanks God that it has heard of no.Southern woman ''preambulating the country with green spectacles and hermaphrodite apapparel preaching 'Woman's Rights,' 'Free Love,' and 'Spiritualism,' as it has often seen "lantern-jawed, thin-shank-ed, and forked-tongucd strong-minded women who hail from that legion whereof Boston is the social ccntre."

SAYS the Indianapolis Journal: "Private advices from General Love, now iu Europe,show that in America we hardly have a fair conception of the enthusiasm of the Germans in their war against Napoleon. The masses-are fairly wild with excitement. All ages and sexes participate in the feeling—even children between the ages of eight and fifteen years seek the opportunity to stray away to the front, requiring the frequent services of the police to return them to their homes. A nation with such feelings is invincible. On the contrary, we have the news that Paris is in'S stae of suppressed revolution." ...

Frit* and Louis.

There are comedies as well as tragedies connected with this war in Europe. We not only see two kings endeavoring to retain the affections of their people, or rather endeavoring to maintain their seats* on their respective thrones two queens doing battle for their husbands, and two-nations struggling for supremacy, but we have lesser characters in the plav, who are from time to time brought on the stage .with considerable effect. The world will not soon forget the comic dispatch which introduced us to the noble infant to whose keeping the Third Napoleon dreams the destinies of France will be intrusted, and we shall long remember the lond enthusiasm of old King William, who talked so proudly to his lady quefen abouut the victorious "Fritz." Louis and Fritz are the small boys the comedy, with the difference that one is much suialler than the Other. Fritz is, in (act, not a boy at all, but his royal father will insist on having us regard him as a boy, and therefore it is that wo speak of him as still in baby clothes. "Fritz and I," the old King proclaims. "Louis and I," Napoleon writes. "Louis "and I," Eugenie re-echoes.

It is an ex-

qtiisiie comedy. The royal actors play their parts with great skill, and it is hard to say which one of the three is entitled to the ino*t applause. The curtain has fallen on the first act and left the audience laughing at Napoleon because his small boy cried for his hobby-horse when he should have* shouted lustily for his small sword and cannon. Fritz wasloudly cheered because lie had borne himself well, and put to flight his boy opponent. We await the opening of the second act. It may bi tragedy or comedy. Only one thing about it .is certain, that the small bovs will not be the first to appear. The plot has thickened. The lerfatng characters, or at least one of them, is in danger. He may lose his life, or he may be rescued by some wonderful means, which fate and authors can only devise. We cannot tell how it will be until the bell sounds and the actors appear, and ihe prompter gives the word".

But this after all, is only the old tragedy and the old comedy which has been played in Europe1 for a thousand years, and we can scarcely blnme William and Napoleon for ie-acrtng it to-day. There has always been the same struggle to erpetuate dynasties, to place a few above the many." Europe has bled for centuries that Louis and Fritz might reign and pursue a career irf'roySt iniquity, falsely called glory and historv4

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TERltElIAUTE, INDIAK^V,: .WEDNESDAY,MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1870.'

ADDRESSTO THEREPUBJL1

CAN PARTY.

TheRepablican Congressional

Committee on the Fall

Campaign

Who Shall Control the Next Honse of Representative^—Fast, Present and Fntare of Republicanism—The Duty of the Party ,&rsJSK '•ilki*

To the Republicans of the United States'.

In the present.juncture itbehooves the Republican party not to forget its origin, nor itsdiistory. Amid the difficulties that beset it, and the responsibilities and labor, which the needs of the country in the new and nntried condition of affairs imposes, it should remember that it was born of the nation's necessities, and thus far it has grandly met the exigencies for which it was formed. Having passed triumphantly tlirouadi three great eras of its history, it is^pBw summoned to enter upon its fourth. Gathering, therefore, inspira-. tion from past success, it should grapple hopefullv and with unshrinking confidence with the duties of the present iind near future.

Recurring to their origin, Republicans .will remember, when the land was the the theatre of a stern and irrepressible conflict between the demons of slaverand caste and the spirit of liberty am equality, when the slave power held great interests

and

powerful organizations in its

grasp and ruled the nation with imperial sway, that the founders of the party, instructed by passing events, with convictions deepened and zeal quickened by the "teachings of history and of holy writ and inspired by the deathless words of tlie.patriots, statesmen, and heroes of our earlier time, rose to the exigencies of the hour, opposed the haughty ambitions, the mad dening passions, the cruel prejudices, and the disorganizing theories of the dominating majority, and, although long overborne by numbers, still struggled on amid jeers, insults, mobs, blows, and assassinations, till under the lead of AbrahaniLincoln they achieved success and grasped the sceptre of political power.

Entering upon its second era,appalling responsibilities at once rose. The slave masters, in the pride and arrogancc of power, instantly plunged.the nation.into the fire and blood of civil war. But the Republican party rose with the crisis. It raised money in unstinted measure, organized vast armies, created powerful na vies, fought bloody battles, crushed the most gigantic rebellion of all recorded history, and saved a nation's life. It was then, amid the clash of arms, that the Republican party saw that slavery was the relentless and unappeasable foe of the country was the inspiration, the heart and soul of that civil war, _and thai its death would be the annihilation of the rebellion, the unity of the Republic, and the development of free institutions. Against cowardly fears, selfish instincts, and unreasoning passions and prejudices, it pronounced the doom of that hideous and horrid system of human bondage, though, it was upheld by the aggregated interests of thiee thousand millions of dollars, hedged about by

the

accumulated passions

and prejudices* prides and ambitions of seven generations, and intrenched^ within the social, political and ecclesiastical organizations and affiliations of life- By a series of executive and legislative acts it broke the chains and lifted from the depths of chattelhOod up to the summit of manhood four and a half millions of hapless bondmen, and stood before the nations wifli their riven fetters in one hand and their title deeds to freedom in the other.

The war ended, the rebellion subdued, tho bondmen emancipated, the KepubliCan party entered upon the third era of its eventful history. Though conquered by arms, the rebels dtd not^ accept the just, humane and generous ideas of the victors, nor did they return to their proper allegiance and" loyalty to the Government, but still bemoaning the "lost cauRe" thev remained unsubdued in will and unrepentant in spirit and purpose. Though made free the bondmen were homeless, without property, without employment, subject to the crull laws against free people of color which had always disgraced Southern legislation, and in the midst of

a people exasperated by defeat and maddened by their loss of power still longer to hold and oppress. Property was swept away, industry disorganized! society disintegrated, and States were without lawful governments.

Upon the Republican party devolved the task of reconstruction. To its intrinsic difficulties were added the intense hostility of the ex-rebels, the lingering prejudices long engendered by the slave system, the timid counsels of Conservatism, ^nd

the

apostasy of the Executive. Great

interests and powerful combinations sought to so reconstruct the South as to place the power in the hands of the late slaveholding class, and leave the helpless freedmen in the abject condition of practical serfdom. Seldom in history has there been imposed upon any body of men a work of greater magnitude or difficulty. The Republicans might haveshrunk from and avoided it. They were sorely tempted to do so. But they resisted the temptation tf official power and patronage, the threats of Executive dictation, and all other adverse influences, and with sublime fidelity arid courage addressed themselves to the herculean task.

To aid in reorganizing disordered industries, caring for, protecting and instructing the emancipated bondmen in the new duties of their changed condition, the Rcpubl«*iw~«rtabli»hed the Fteedmen's Bureau, which, by the wise expenditure of a few million of dollars, did an incalculable work for order, peace and the rehabilitation of Southern society. To reconstruct rebellious States on the solid basis of equal rights, they gavesuflrage to the freedmen in .the reconstruction measures. To secure citizenship and civil rights to a wronged and hafed race, they proposed and adoptpl the Fourteenth Amendment, and enacted the bill of Civil Rights. To establish by irreversible guarantees equal political rights and privileges they adopted the Fifteenth

Amendment, and as a crtfwning act for freedom tbey provided by law for the enforcement of those amendments thus newly enshrined within the Constitution. Thus the Republicans, against the sternest opposition, against misrepresentation,

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arid Napoleon have'royal and ancestral precedent for the little episode of Louis and Fritz, for we had the young King of Rome and the first Napoleon and Frederick William III, And so it will be to the end. The world will weep and the world will laugh, and we will have royal tragedies **H! roynl comedies until kingn and em|»erors are no more.—»V i.Stundard.

appalling obstacles, have strug­

gled on until the rebel States, reconstructed on the basis of impartial liberty, have been restored, and the sublime doctrineB of the Declaration of Independence made assured and practical realities. In th# progress of the ages it has been given to fefr, in any form or by any modes, to

achieve a work so vast, so grand, so bencfpmt, so sure to be recorded by history, and applauded and remembered by coming generations..

Hiiving achieved this grand work,' having passed th/ough tjjese tbtee eras of its history, the Republican party, entering on its fourth era, was summoned to deal with questions relating to the national debt, the currency, finances arid taxation, to reforms in the military, naval,- and Indiah service, and whatever remaining burdens and legacies were left by the war. Concerning these questions there are apparent diversities of interests and real difference of opinion. The solution of some of them is embarrassed by grave difficulties. They require time as well as financial skill and practical statcsman-

ship for their adjustment. Differences

linion on matters so recondite and com

plex, in an organization embracing BUT men ol large intelligence, trained tu habits of independent thought, expression and modes of action^ are inevitable. They are, indeedt to be expected and desired, lor front' such freedom of discussion truth is elicited, and proper modes of action are deduced.. The men, therefore, who stood so, firmly while in a minority, amid the denunciations, arrogance and scorn of power the men who met the stern exigences of civil war with sdeh heroic courage, whtj assailed the slave power and extirpated the slave system the men who grappled so successful* ly with the perplexing and.pregnant issues of reconstruction, lifted helpless .freedmen up to citizenship, exalted them to the heights of civil *nd political right* and privileges, and made the nation free in fact as well as in name, "should not shrink from the less momentous and less embarrassing question now before them.

The Executive and Legislative 'Departments of the National. Government and two-thirds of the State Government have been committed to your keeping. Such power carries with it grave responsibilities. The people, as is their. right will hold you to a strict accountability for this great trust. Elections are soon to be held for the National House of Representatives. These elections will' determine the political complexion ef the popular: branch of Congress. They- will, too, determine the political character of several States ^Governments. And these results will be accepted, as the verdict of the people 'tfpon the ideas, prificiples &nd policies of the Republican party, and up^ on the measures and character of the National Administration. To these responsibilities, and tp the gravity of these lasues, your thoughtful consideration is invoked.

Patriotism, .principle, the continued existence, reputation and renown of the Republican parly, and a due sense of self* respect and pride of character demand that Republicans now, as in the past* should have faith Jn this capacity to carry forward to completion reforms so auspiciously begun. It came ihlo being as an organization of reform, and progress, and should be ever ready to accept the living issues of the hour, and march abreast with the spirit of the age, Unaided it has fought the battles of reform with constancy, and.courage. Nor in the work still before it can it hope for aid from those who still cling to the traditions of the past, pride themselves on their conservatism, and who during the conflicts of ,the past twenty years, have resisted all reform, and mourned_ Over every effete and hateful abuse as it tell If there are Republicans who are weary of the ascendancy of a party which has achieved such crowning victories, who are tirdd of the responsibilities of power, and would relinquish it toother hands, tjiey should remember that 'there are none worthy to ,accept it. For surely they can not fail to see that the Democratic party, by its policy during the closing years of its power, and by its power and by its_blind and unrelenting opposition to reformatory measures while ,.y out of power,-even now, as if smitten by ,3 judicial blindness, refusing to accept the

Constitutional amendments as .fixed and final, has demonstrated its uttter incapacity for such a trust.

Accustomed to success even against fearful odds, and underrating perhaps the intrinsic difficulties of the pending issues* many Republicans, looked to General Grant's administration with high expectations Of course, they have been impatient, and not always satisfied with results. But while these expectations have not been"fully realized in the ac? tion of either the President or of Congress, much has been afchieved enough, at any rate, to satisfy them that the difficult problems will be wrought out Aid the hoped-for results accomplished.

Gen. Grant came into office pledged to maintain inviolate'the public faith, reduce the national debt, diminish taxation, appreciate the currency, refornj abuses in the civil and military service, and maintain order in the States lately in rebellion. By the combined action of the President, the Heads of Departments, Congress and the General of, the army, many abuses have been corrected^ and many reforms inaugurated. President Grant's Indian policy bringing forth evidence of its justice, its humanity and its wisdom. The firm, just and generous

policy of the Administration toward the States lately in rebellion, has brought much of order and security, and crimes have largely diminished. In the interests of economy the service of thousands of employes, both civil and military, have been dispensed with. The currency has been, appreciated in value by tens and scores of millions of dollars, and the national credit has been largely atrengthened.

Republicans will. remember that during the last two years of Mr. Johnson's administration lie removed Republicans appointed by Mr. Lincoln and others who ni

adhered to the principles of the Re{5ub lica'n party, and appointed Democrats where he could do so. The character of these appointments and the demoralizing influence which his opiilions and conduct had upon them were seen in the loss of scores of millions of dollars of revenue in these years. The large gain in the collection is mainly due to the determined and avowed purpose of Gen. Grant to secure an honest administration of the revenue laws and the appointment of Republicans to office earnestly devoted to his economical policy.

During the recent session of Congress taxes have been reduced more than $75,000,000. The taxes have been removed from transportation by cans ar.d railways, from sales by dealers ».*1 manufacturers. The income tax has been to 2£ per cent, on all incomes abov» 52,000 and it is to expire at the end of two years. The tax on tea has been re duced Trom 25 to 15 cents per pound on coffee from 5 to 3 cents and the tax on sugar and molasses has been reduced in the aggregate 12,000,000 per annum. By this reduction of taxation the industries of the people and the necessaries of life have been relieved of burdens amounting to millions. The funding bill is an important financial measure, which contemplates the saving of interest upon the public debt by the exchange of outstanding six per cent, bonds for those of a lower rate of interest, to the amount of twentysix millions and a half a year. While a reduction in taxes transfers the burden of the debt from one year to another, from one generafion to another, a reduction in the rate of interest is an actual saving to the country, not only for the present generation, but for all time. And yet these important and beneflfcial financial measures, intended to lighten the public bur(1l dens, received little countenance and support from the Democratic party, whose responsibilities for the war, its losses, its expenditures, its debts, and its taxation, are so fearfully large.

Not faultless, but high, noble, and glorious, is the record of the Republican party. History will note- it, and the world will gratefully remember it. In the light of this brief review of its achievemenU for patriotssm, liberty, justice, and humanity, should not Republicans, one and all, cling to their grand organization, rectify its mistakes, correct its errors, and keep it trne to its past traditions and

harmony with the enlighteued and progressive spirit of the age? So doiug may they not perpetuate their power until their beneficent principles shall become the accepted policy of the nation?

HEKBY WILSON.

Chairman of the Congressional Republican Committee. JAMES H. PLATT, Secretary.

The World imagines it was Falstaff, and does not know it was Solomon, who said that a 'Hiving dog was better than a dead lion." We lately bad occasion to recommend an elementary geography tn this journal. It now seems that we ought to add a Bible. Will that excellent organitation, the American Bible Bocieiy, take notice? Twelve "mo. sheep would Wfi think, be- about the thing—though possible half calfmight be, better.—X. Y. Tribune.

JSAPOLEON'S INDECISION.

Klsglake'g OptatMi of the Emperor

of the re well

Ts his history of the Crimean war KISOLAKI the historian, .manifests remarkable hostlility throughout the work to NAPOLEON he give the follow ing summary of NAPOLEON'S oncer tainty of purpose:

In general men are prone to find out consistency in the acts of rulers, and imagine that

to hare diffent aspects, are the result of one steady design bnt tho?e who love troth better than symmetry will be able to believe that much of the conduct of the French Emperor was rather the effect of clashing purposes than of duplicity. There pre philosophers wbo imagine that the human mind (corresponding in that respect with the brain) naa a dual action, and that the singleness of purpose qbsertedin a dcided man is the result of a close accord between the two engines of thought, and not ef actual unity. Gertainly it would appear that the Emperor Louis Napoleon, more than most men was accustomed to linger in doubt between two conflicting plans, and to delay his final adoption of the onej and his final injection of the other^ for as long a time as possible, in order to find out what might be best to be ultimately done by carrying on experiments for many month together with two rival schemes of action.

If vt aecept this as a point of view from which to intimate tne doubt and hesitation that Napoleon III baa manifested since the commencement of the war, the matter may be explained as a mental characteristic—otherwise Napoleon is not usually the slave of an infirm purpose—(hen probably his enfeebled lealth and immense anxiety have-led to hesitation in his plans of action.

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DOWN IN THE DEPTHS.

bar, but they either got wearied of their

W. N. Somes, who has had a very large

It can well be remembered that the monitors Petapsco, Weehawken and Keokuk, and the magnificent sloop of war Housatonic, went down, carrying with them the most costly machinery, appliances of war, and many who were aboard. Capt. Somes has had great difficulties to encounter, the heavy sea, bad weather,

Without any increase in the articles subject to taxation, or in the rate of taxation, the revenues of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June,1870 were rtear- ^clTwhich.'in due'time'/wiTl lv four hundred and nine mil£ on. rf

dollars against less than three lit nd ed

and seventy-one millions for »he! year

ending the 30th of June, 1869,^sho ga

dX°s

receive their meed of attention.

encounter, the heavy sea, bad weather, j(j i»

and many drawbacks calculated to dis-

Unnrlan tiln, hnthn tins lha Mfllllaltn I

hearten him, but he has the requisite pluck, and, undaunted, he has kept at it. Yesterday he came up to Commercial wharf and made preparations to land from fourteen to sixteen tons of material taken from the Housatonic, where she lies off Sullivan's Island in six fathoms of water. The huge propeller, a portion of her stern and her shaft, and sundry other articles belonging to the vessel and

To the uninitiated it might appear,

Onr!he other hand, the expenses ^enterprise, which cannot be overcome of the fiscal year 1870 were less than those of 1869 by more than twenty-nine millions of dollars, thus showing an increased revenue, and saving in expenditures of more than sixty-seven millions of dollars in the first fiscal year of Gen.Grant's administration. In the last 16 months, of Mr. Johnson's administration, the receipts from customs and internal revenue were less than three hundred and seventytwo millions of dollars. During the first 16 months of Gen. Grant's administration, they were more than four hundred and sixty-nine millions, showing an.increase of nearly ninety-seven millions of dollars.

with the assistance he has, an easy mat-

ter, but there are serious perils attending the enterprise, which cannot be overcome

many

witliout encountering trials of no ordinary character. The vessel on which he is now operating—the Housatonic—was one of the finest sloops-of-war that the Federals ever put afloat, and was the best built and heaviest armed of her class. She went down in 1863 from the effects of a torpedo, which struck her under her port quarter, and carried down, if not all, at least many of her officers and crew. There

has been so much powder used in her to

dislodge the machinery, so that it could

be lifted, that it is impossible to discern

correctly her internal condition. She lies on a hard bottom, and has only sunk a little, while the others are imbedded in the soft sand peculiar to that locality. It is contemplated to blow their engines to pieces and by that means effect their re-

He descends from a platform on the side of a flat, from which runs an iron ladder, and when down remains from one to six hours, and sometimes twelve hours. He communicates by signal ropes. As soon as he has secured any part of the wreck, he either comes up or gives notice, and the raising commences by steam, with a power sufficient to elevate 100 tons.

Let the reader imagine a man thirtysix feet below the surface of the sea, with no life about him but that in the inhab-

(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

Why are the blossoms1 Sach different hues 7 And the waves of the sea

Such different blues? So many .soft greens Flit over the trees? And little (ray shadows

Out of the brewe

Why are tho insects Sowonderotisly fsir?* Illumining grasses

And painting the air? Yon dear little shells, 0, why do yon shine? And feathery seaweed

to

.... numberless acts appearing

Grow fragile and fine?

Why are the meadows Sach mrdtns of gracc, With infinite beauty

Indefinite space? Each sepnrate crass A world of delight? Oh, food for the c*ttls "i -Why are jou so bright

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Wrecking Operations In Charleston Harbor—The Sunken Monitors and the Sloop-of-War Housatonic. From the Charleston Courier.]

It may not be generally known that wrecking operations are now going on at the mouth of our harbor on a scale and with a persistency that deserve notice. Prior to the attempts now being made, and, we may add, very successfully, sev-

Why are our facos Sach lovnble thini •U

w«-v«l 'V "W*. *.

With lips mode for kisses, «, And laughter that sings ?&' •te. With ejreg fall of love .a,.j '•i'*0 That sparkle and gleam tti Through beautiful colors

That change like a dream,

Think for a moment— Look op to the sky Question your heart: It

Will answer the whylOsM'.J sBright as the glitter Or beauty nnfurl'd— 'i1'" ~l Boundless the love that-

Ill's fashioned tho world! —[Good Wordifor At Yovnf.

Sjtory of a door-step-^A Nlec Old Man in an Embarrassing Situation. From the Cincinnati Times.]

In the most innocent way possible, and most unsuspected on his part, an old gentleman from Clifton—and ndcacon, too, by the way—was placed in an extremely compromising and embarrassing situation one afternoon last.week. He came into town in the morning with his son. After walking about the"city a goed portion of the day transacting business, the sen left his father on Broadway, about the middle of the afternoon, for the purposeofgetting their cenveyance, which was left at a neighboring stable, so as to return home. The old gentleman said he would walk slowly up Rroadway, jind his" son could overtake him. -This hfe prcejeded to do.

The afternoon wiwwarm, the old deacon weary, and when passing along be-

twecnFifth and Sixth.streets, he stopped ...... at a respectable-looking dwelling, whose been more literally rostcd_ alive. front steps being shaded invited him. to

rest, and sat down to await the arrival of his It chanced that the house whose

h{

eral parties undertook to carry on diving

amid the wrecks which are sunk off the

,son.

on Jt chanced thal

ri

rfe of Br01Ml

work, or met with such unremunerating results that they gave up in despair.

Some time.since the New York Monitor I uncovered, the little breeze there was Wrecking Company took the matter in moving his white locks, a pleashand, and secured the services of Capt.

a

nt.i00k

bor. They had a large flat built in our city, and put aboard of it machinery adapted to heavy labor, and went to work in real earnest, to recover all the valuable machinery and appurtenances attached to the vessels that were sunk during the War by the Confederate batteries, torpedoes, and by accident.

In the meantime people passing on the sidewalk stared at the old man in surprise for a moment, glanced at the woman, and then smiling very 'peculiarly passed, on. Others snickered right out, and one abandoned yetith yelled, "Go in,

ome

people whom he knew

He

nodded them a pleasant

1

recognition, but they either stared in blank astonishment as though they condn't believe their eyesight, or drove laughingly away. He did'nt know What to make of it, never suspecting the cause, and began to feel very queerly.

At length his son appeared. When he the deacon at the window, the surprice depicted on his countenance exceeded all the rest, He shouted impatiently

inexqlicable conduct of his son The son began—"Father, you asotonish me. "What's the matter, my son?" "Atyour tiine'of life." the son continued, "with a family of grown up children, and you a deacon, too!" "Tell me what does all this mean?" cried the old man, getting very nervous and excited, "anybody been stabbed, or robbed, or murdered?" "You might, at least," said the son, not heeding him. "have shown a little discretion about the matter. You are oldenough to know better than to expose yourselfso, right in daylight, and at

front window, too. If yon must go, why

didn

-tyou

wa

'it

unt

re

night? If you are

ckless-of yourself, do have some re-

gard for the faraiiy.»

moval. About one hundred feet from the Housatonic lies the famous segar boat with her bottom partly up, and in good order. The poor but brave men who made that unfortunate voyage never had a chance to escape, and. all that is left of them are their skeletons, through which the fish frolic. The diver, who is Capt. Somes, goes down in an india-rubber suit, with an iron, helmet-shaped covering for the head, which reaches down to his shoulders. Air is supplied through a tube, connecting with an air pump aboard the flat, which cost $1,600, and is the same one used by Capt. McGowan, who raised the wrecks off Sebastopol after the Crimean war. The shoes worn are of leather, with leak [sic] soles, weighing twenty pounds each; the lead belts around his waist are five pounds each; while down he is under 180 pounds, the whole weight of the ar mor.

The old man was nearly frantic by this time, and clutching his son wildly by the collar, he demanded an explanation, or th.ose aged- hards would strangle lum where he sat. "Why, father," exclaimed the son, "aie you not* aware you was in one of the most notorious houses of prostitution in the city?""

The old man fell back with a groan. I sec it all now," he gasped, "the smiles of the passers-bv—the laugs, the i-taru.s of my neighbors—the—the 'go in. oldjman' of that sausy young rascal. I'm ruined— disgraced—this will be talked of all over Clifton. Why, why did Fate make me 'linger on that pointed door-step?"'

It was a revere lesson to him, aad let it prove a lesson to other nice old men from the suberbs, to be careful what door steps they stop to rest on.

Revolting Dlsclosnrc— An Establishment for Curing Dog Meat. From the Oswego Advertiser

For several years past, attention has been attracted to the movements of a man named Archambeau a French Canadian, living in a building adjacent to the Murray block, who was seen conveying to his domicile a number of dead dogs which had been shot on the streets^ by the policemen. This forenoon a citizen who had noted the circumstances, determined to satisfy his curiosity concerning the disposition made of the defunct canines, and on some convenient pretext called on Archambeau and gained admission to his house. The visit resulted developments of a most disgusting

ip. developments or a

-itantf* of the deep, which dart about him 1 character, and theba.se man neeiaeato here and there, and often come so near exercise no [(articular care to conceal the him that he dan feel their slimy skins as fact that he consumed dog meat or food, they put their glaring eyes to the glass and was engaged in collecting and curing windows through wdich he sees his way. a large stock of the commodity for future His thoughts, while down in the blue use.

The

depths, hwve been strange at times, and breakfast table indicated beyond mistake wonderful visions has he had of the

Vle-

Death of a Snake Charmer—A tim of his Own Folly A letter from Columbia county, X. Y., 7th inst., says:

A man by the name of Roberts, who has been living for some time past on the mountains near lhi place, died at 7 o'clock this morning in great agony, from (he effects of a'bite of a isattlesnake which he had caught and exhibited to a number of persons at the railroad station the previous afternoon. Roberts WM considered to be a "snake charmer," as he had on several previons occasions caught rattlesnakes and been bitten by them without suffering any serious consequences. On these occasions, for a consideration of ten cents show money, he woold take up the snake and torment it in order to make the reptile open.it* mouth and show its fangs.. During one of these ex hibition* veslerd^y. the snske bit him twice, the 1*st ttiheflanging to the band until he knocked it off :and

fragments regaining upon his

that the

dog gourmand had not long pre-

ii '...~ ." I f\Miai«r rAaaIo^i himself unon hia favorite

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boundless ocean.

viously regaled himself upon his favorite viand, while a barrel standing in the room wa* partially filled with a filthy looking species of flesh, from which the odor was exceedingly offensive.^ The gentleman who made the casual inspection of the premises, counted eleven dog skins lying on a board in theyard, which were most probable.to be tanned and the profits the fellow derives from the dogkilling crOsade further enhanced....,

THE SALM-SALMS.

Among the German officers of the Union army during our war for the suppression of the rebellion, who are now fighting for their fatherland, is Prince Felix deSalm-Salm. He was the Colonel .... of a New York

of Robert I oinix iiw killed ii with his cane. In the course of surgery and received a diploma, two hours the hand and body of Roberts I practical knowledge of ourJinbecame swollen in a shocking manner hospital and sanitary sprvicc can and covered with spots like the snake,

whila hU suffering* were very excruciat ing, fltnd continued r.ntil he' died this morning.

regiment in the

there used to be a deal of camp ^SO^.'Pi

•fterward distinguished herselfii Mexico as the devoted friend of the unfortunate Maximilian, and she is now again in the field as Directress of Camp "Hospitals. Since her return to Germany she has

hlrt raa

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'Tllsniat-ck Is reported to have said of ""Leopold, the new candidate for the Spanish throne: "He In quite the flower of cbivaliy, iij cfjqj-t, tfte Primrose,"

|-e ),er very useful".

Scon'* ''Lady of the Lake," dramatized, will be jierformed at Booth's TH-'ter during Mr. Jefferson's enyagemern.

A Virginia farmer says that he had rather have a keg of shingle nails th-ni.•„» the -i-enei HP the banks of the IViow»T.

ANOTHER FEARFUL WABSIKe.

Kindling a Fire—Explosion of nn oil Can—HOTT a Little Girl Lost Her

Viitt JIU»» aaitiv v«n 1LC1

Life—Literally Boasted Alive—Horrible Scene.[From tho Pittsburg Gazette, Aug. 11.]

Last evening Allegheny was the scene of a horrtble accident, which adds anoth-. er to the lobg list of terrible casualties resulting from the-reckless use of carbon oil.

On the corner of Washington street and Bever avenue, Sixth Ward, almost as far down as'the car Stables, is a three-story brick house. The lower part of the building is occupied by Saxton «& Rado as a grocery store, the upper portion being, used as a-dwelling. Aoout 5:30 o'clock :. Mr. Saxton, who was in attendance in the store, heard a sound like an explosion, which apparently came from the room' above. He had not time to ascertain the cause, before a cry of fire was raised in' the street, and upon going to the front," he discovered flames issuing from the windows in the third story. One rf the persons who had given the cry, ran at to Box 3 in the" vicinity and soun-' ded an alarm, once while the other, Mr. James M'Causland, started through the house upstairs. When he reached?j the room from whence the tlames had emanated, he found it filled with.smoke. He passed through and endeavored to 4 reaqh the window, and in doing so his foot struck against a human body lying on the HoorJ Eeaehing down he caught hold of an arm, and attempted to carry itfi out but the fiesli gave way and'the limb slipped back through his hand. He then went to the window to get air, and retur- 3 ning made a second attempt to get the body away, but failed—being unable to see for the smoke in the room. By this time he was assisted by another gentle- a man, and atfcist they succeeded in picking the body up and getting it out of a •rear window, to the roof of tnc kitchen, a two-sftry building. There they discovered it to be the bod of Maggie Shano, a I little girl who had been employed about the house. She was still living, but presented a sickening spectacle of a human frame burned almost from head to foot into a crisp.

t,v"' r""~ n"nn,M

the house whose

teps he thus embellished by his

venerab

appearance, was a well-known

w«y but, of coursp,

While he wvs 8 tting there wilb he!U]

ngi

matronly lady came to the

haU do0rand

experience in his line in New York har-

i^-ited him to. walk in and

hall door and invited him to. walk in and rest himself in the parlor.-, This, after some gentle persuasion, he consented to do, quite won by the gentle and lady-like manners of the woman. He entered and sat by the front window, the woman sitting by his side and conversing most agreeably. Looking around he saw parlors furnished with richness and taste, and everything indvated -a household of the highest respectability.

The rumor in the meantime had spread that a child had been injured, and Dr. Wm. Wilson, whose office is in the vicinity, was on the

roof

almost as soon as the

body was bronght out, and endeavored to render medical assistance. A blanket was e: procured, and the girl removed to his office. The physician at once saw that her injuries were fatal. There was hardly a spot upon her that was not cliancd as through it had passed through a furnace. Her clothing Mtfis entirely destiovd not a vestige of hair remained upon her head the upper eyelids hud been burned so badly that they had turned up like crisp, and her scorched eyeballs evidenced that she had lost sight. The llesh of the face as also shivered up, and the Doctor up_n opening the mouth saw that the tongue and throat had been burned as far down could be seen. In fact if she had been placed in a furnace, she could not have sen more literally rostcd alive.

nt

fi'1

For a few minutes at first she was able converse, and in response to inquiries .aid she was "kindling the fire with oil," when an explosion occurred. She begged piieously that 'water might be thrown oveu her, and when toll she could not recover, moaned and cried, sayirg 1 can't die I won't die," in the most heartrending manner. An immense throng gathered around th.e Doctor's office, and of all who looked upon the scene there were none who did not turn away horrorstricken with the sight.

Dr. Wilson as soon as possible had her wrapped in cotton, medicated for the purpose, and then administered an opiateto calm her nerve.s and case her agony. She was then removed to tho residence her father, Martin Shano, a tailor, residing at No. 204 Heaver avenue, a few squares distant. It was not long before her tongue began to swell and protrude from tlve mouth .which prevented her from conversing. In about an hour the medicine began to take effect and she seemed to suffer less pain, in which condition sho remained unconscious foranother hour when, death ended the scene.

The little victim was about fourteen years of age. She had been engaged in attendance ujion a sick lady who lay in an adjoining room from that in which the affair occured. After the excitement had calmed down somewhat a search was made in the room, when the oil can was found lying on the floor, and bursted open, showing the place of the explosion. She had evidently been pouring the oil on a part of the lire to brighten it lip, when the blaze set tire-to that which was in the can.

A dish-pan wan also found lying alongside where the body lay, with one handle melted ofl', showing tho intcn.-e heat of the (l.unes. Singular to relate nothing in the room but the carpet and window blinds were burned, I he smoke seeming1,to have subdued the flames.

Not mi Unmixed Evil.

A Paris letter to the New York J'ost describes the Spartan patriotism of many rich father# who send their sons to the army—fast sons for whom their anxious

parents

have disbursed liberally on con­

dition that they would break with the Ernestines or Cora Pearls, and give up t'neir eve-glasses for muskets. '1 here, in no ill-wind that does not blow some good.

The same letter describe:, how'a Counttvs got her husband to pay her bills: The Countess de C-s-1, with tears in her eyes, entered her husband's room and annoiiuctd that she was about to make a dreadful, a heartrending revelation.—• Monsieur C-s-I trembled as he saw a .bundle of folded papers in his wife's hand, for. he dreaded their indiscretion. "You shall know everything," said the

Countess. "Rftad these, and you will confess that it is niv duty to leave the conjugal roof

The Count tinned yellow with jealousy, a thousand horrid thoughts passed.:' through his brain, and snatching the letters from his wife's Jiand he saw a series of bills to dress makers, milliners, Ac., Ac., to thcsiyu of 25,000 franc*. Serious as was ill is assault upbn his purse, Monsieur de felt immensely relieved, but still he scowled, and told his wife that it was outrageous, that lie would not pay, and soon. "1 know" it, mon ami 1 could not ask vou to do so," replied the lady, "and so I nave determined to liquidate my debt from my own resource--. Look at this," and she'preseuted another paper. "'It is only my engagement at the Toulou.-c Theater," she added, as the husband showed symptoms of increa.-inu anger at what lie thought was perhaps another bill. •'You on the stage," he exclaimed the Countess de O—s—1 an actress! My name on a play-bill?" "1 will keep my name a secret I «ill call myself Cecile or Anna." "You have no right to sign :\n engagement, madam. I will oppose my authority as your husband to-morrow your debts shall be paid!"

The Countess yielded gracefully, and

thus

the noble faubourg has been spared a scandal and the Toulouse public has be£n cheated of a prima donna, who if report is correct, is to have rivaled l'atti and Xilsson.

Personal.

the lieav-

Gen. Humphry Marshall ies'. tax payer iu Ixiuisville. Hon. O. A. Henry, of Tennessee, has almost entirely recovered from his late severe illness.

Jusffm McCarty's new siorv comifienrcs in the September Galaxy. It is called "I.ady Judith a]story of Two Continents.'.

Kilsson will be accompanied on her American tour by Henri ieuxtemps, who is generally considered the guest ist in the world.

violin-

Ldgar Wells, eldest son of the ex-.Sec-retary, is to wed the dagnhter of one Qp-k the ^eltliiest families in llartloidj^

army of .September.

of the Potomac, and he is now Major of j^ of Prussia lias received from the Fourth Regiment of Prussian Grena- Oppenheim, a banker (J Cologne, one dier Ouards- The Princess, about whom

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Hon. L. Q. C. Lamer, Of Mrsslsippi, has been elected to and aceeptud

thalers as a contribution toward

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ition of Profe^v of belles' Lettr« and History, in Emery College, Geoigia. It is stated that Lord John Russell, long a power 111 English politics, ing verv feeble and aged, and he nov

IFF CI 1 ,. erus in fair way to be forgotten until the recollection of him is revived by death.

John Smith John Dove, and Peter Smith, citizens of Andover, Mass., have made an offer of $35,000 on condition that £•_- of 0 he subscriebd bv ethers, ior he p" 1 po«e of erecting a uituiorj.il hall, at .'.iiilovcr.