Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 March 1871 — Page 2

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WEEKLY EXPRESS

TEBBE HAUTE, IND.

Wednesday Morning, March 22,1871.

PATOKA hu five fiaw mills.

THE upring campaign, in Lafayette, naa been -duly inaugurated.

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A LITTLE daughter of CHAKLES A LEXAHDER, Evangville, was scalded to death a day or two ago.

No one seems disposed to find fault with the appointment of General Do MOHD as Governor of Idaho.

An early adjournment of Congrew,without action on San Domingo, mav he confidently expected. It in well.

THE colored State Convention meeta at Indianapolis to-day. This will swell the new census of that city materially.

Two young men named DUKE were drowned in the Ohio river, a .short dis» tance above Evansville, a few days ago.

THE malcontents of Indianapolis are freeing their mind* through the "WhatThe People-Thiak" department of the Journal.

THE Massachusetts House of Representatives has refused to incorporate the Boston Base Ball Association. This is exceedingly melancholy.

THE Columbus, Ohio, Journal plaintively laments that "there are several counties in the State that have not sent in any name for Governor."

PKOFESSOB BRYANT, Principal of the Owensville High School, had a considerable sum of money stolen from under his pillow the other night.

AT THE present writing there is little hope that Congress will be able to agree upon any measure for the suppression of the Ku Klux.

THE Indianaplis Mirror persists in the assertion that HORACE GREELEY swears We refer the question to HORACE'S pastor, the Rev. CHAFIN.

UNITED and determined effort on the part of Republicans will wrest the control of this city from Democratic hands. Shall we have this unity of purpose, this energy in action

THE honors of the lecturc business, in our city, thus far this season rest with the women. Mrs. LIVEBMORE and Miss DICKINSON were worth ten leagues of GOOOHS and TRAINS.

AND the name of RICHARD SMITH, of the Cincinnati Gazette, adorns the list of involuntary candidates for Governor of Ohio. The catalogue swells like the Indianapolis census.

THERE is a cheering prospect that by the time our Democratic Supreme Court gets done with the acts of our defunct Democratic Legislature there will 1 nothing left of them. This thing would be harmless, if it were not expensive.

A GENTLEMAN residing in Texas writes to a friend, in Indianapolis, that the system of espionage there is so perfect that those who wish to communicate with their friends in the North are compelled to travel fifty miles from home to mail their letters.

TO-DAY the colored men of Indiana meet in convention at Indianapolis. We hope they will have a pleasant and profitable session. Of course, they will have to submit to having their census taken, but that business can be so arranged as not to interrupt their deliberations.

A REMARKABLE feature in the celebration of St. Patrick's Day, in several of the large cities, including Cincinnati, was the presence of colored organizations in the processions. Nothing could more strikingly illustrate the changes which the last few years have wrought.

A CORRESPONDENT, seeing in the papers an advertisement of the "Quaker "Burner" wants to know if it was invented by the Puritans. We are happy to inform hira that it was not. Those saintly men brought into limited use the Quakerhanger, but the "Quaker Burner" is an admirable invention of otir own times.

IT IS laid that Mr. BOUTWELL expresses himself "entirely satisfied with the progress of the five per cent, loan, and seems serenely confident of its success. He says, indeed, that parties in Europe Btand ready to take the entire amount of »fiyc per cent, bonds offered, but he has held back to give American capitalists a chance."

HERE is a suggestive item: During the two weeks ending on the 10th instant the Boston Public Library issued 19,853 books, 17,394 of which were for home use. There are now in the Library, and in the East Boston branch, 174,552 volumes and 88,306 pamphlets. The East Boston branch has 5,699 volumes, and issued for home use during the period above stated 4,260 volumes.

THE April number of The Galajy, best of all the monthlies, makes its welcome appearance "on time." MARK TWAIN'S "Memoranda" will be discontinued after this month, and for it will be substituted a new humorous department under the special charge of DONN PIATT, to which other writers will contribute, and for which the editor of Ihe Galaxy solicits articles and paragraphs adapted to such a department.

ON Saturday the Temperance men of Indianapolis met in convention and nominated full city and ward tickets, including WILLIAM SULLIVAN for Mayor, JOHN JENNISON for Treasurer, SAMUEL TILFORD for Clerk. A dispatch says the ticket is one that will command the full strength of the Temperance party, and goes far toward insuring the success of the Democracy. s—...

IT IS the opinion of the New \ork Tribune that "Mississippi is a healthy State for Mayors. Mayor CRANEof Jackson was shot by a murderer who goes unpunished. Mayor STURGIS of Meridian was expelled because he happened to born in the North. And nou Mayor LACY of Aberdeen has been abducted by Ku-Klux, probably because he wa* once •n officer of the United States Army

Yet there are men in Congress who wish to spend a few months in inquiring whether loyal men at the South really need protection."

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If our friend&in .= the Bay State will take BEN BUTLER for their Governor, and thus rid the House of a "troublesome customer," they will confer a great favor on the Republican party and the country We don't say this from any unkind feel ing towards BEN. He is generally in the right in wiiat he tries to accomplish and seldom fails to show good reasons for his acts. But he seems constitutionally incapable of getting along comfortably with his associates in the House. He is always mulishly obstinate, impatient of restraint, overbearing, domineering, and not unfrequently insolent. When he undertaken to champion a wise and prudent measure, he doe» it in an unwise and im prndent way. His manner of speaking suggests the crack of the "bull-whacker'.V whip, or the la-h of an r. er.-iter on a

Southern plantation in thoie old duys .-o dear to Democratic memory. LKN,in the House, is like an ill tempered, sharphorned, vicious bull among a herd of peaceable cattle. In the executive chair of the Slate of Massachusetts, with a Kepub'.ican Legislature to keep an eye on him, he would do well for with all his hatefulness, he possesses administrative qualities of a very high order.

THE Providence (R. I.) Journal gives the best explanation we have ?een of the New Hampshire election. It says that for some days prior to the election, the Republican papers and speakers in that Siate "thought it best to join the Democrats in an outcry against the President and the majority of the Republican Senators—against the Administration, in fact, by which the party must stand or fall. The leading Republican daily in the State, on Monday, teemed with such expressions as these—'indignity heaped by Senator MORTON and his associates upon Senator SUMNER'—'the perpetrators and instigators of that proceeding, including President GRANT himself'—''deliberate conspiracy'—'personal government not to be tolerated'—and so on, with hardly a dozen lines pertinent to the pending contest in the State." There are papers in this part of the country largely engaged in tlie satae business, and are doing more to help the Democracy than all the recognized organs of that party.

WE are happy to assure a humbugged and long-sufiering public that the beginning of the end of the Female Lecturers has come.—Chicago Journal.

If HO, it is a pity. "The female lecturers" who have spoken in this city during the present season have been the only ones who have had anything to say worth hearing. Even the world-renowned GOUGH had nothing fresher than the venerable story of the philosopher who saw a calf's tail protrudiug from a knothole and wondered how so large an animal got through so small a hole. Those who laughed at it had the pleasing consciousness that all their ancestors, for many generations, had probably laughed at the same thing. But after all, it is a good thing to have a class of men to go about the country freshening uo amusing traditional anecdotes. Our stock of wit *nd humor is not so large that we can afford to retire from service even the most ancient of veteran jokes.

WHEN you hear a man boasting of hi* honesty, you can safely conclude thai lie needs watching. When one thinks it necessary to assert, upon all occasions, that his veracity is of the highest order, you may put him down as a promising candidate for perjury. When a woman proclaims her virtue, depend upon it she is not above suspicion. As a rule, all such pretensions are the effort of an uneasy conscience to hide a conscious defect. \nd this rule holds in journalism as in other walks of life. The editor who t,hinks it politic to continually remind his -readers huw very "independent" he is, is only telling those who know anything of human nature that his columns and his pen are at the service of anybody who will pay for them. The real possessor of any good quality of heart or mind, never boasts of its possession, but trusts to his conduct towards his fellow men to show his character.

FORNEY'S Press expresses a hope that the administration will abandon the San Domingo scheme. The editor urges that there is no public opinion to support ii It is clouded with doubts. It has been followed by evil omens from the first. The temper of Congress—the resolute unity of the Democrats of the two houses—is such as to insure its defeat. The hostility of the Dominicans has ossumed shape and force. The idea grows that when annex half of the island we annex a war with the other half, and enormous indebtedness. To persevere in it, in the face of all these warnings, is to persevere in ruin. It would be a most gracious act to withdraw the project, and it would be crowned with the favor of the whole people.

THE Massachusetts State Agency, analyzed, pure and unadulterated brandy has had its quality illustrated in the western part of that State, as the following little incident will show: Not long since a man walked into one of the stores in a town there, and inquired of the proprietor if he had any more brandy like the last he got there, and was told he had. "Well," continued the customer, who was from a mountain town, "i want to tell about that last pint you sold me. I went home late at night and hung the bottle up by the fire-place. It was a middling cold night, and when I got up in the morning I found the bottle had dropped on the hearth and broken into a thousand piece* but," continued the mountaineer with animation, "the brandy was all right!—there it hung on that nail, froze solider than thunder!"

AT THE mi-sionary meeting held in Cino.ii.na'ti on Sunday Dr. BUSH said tl at there were 200,000,000 of heathen in India, who worship 330,000,000 gods. He gave as the result of eighty years of missionary labor the qui'ition of 6,000 converts in China, 20,000 in Burrnah, 60,000 in India, S,000 in Turkey, 40,000 in Africa, 10,000 in Madagascar, 10,000 among the American Indians, SO,000 among the blacks of the West Indies, and 90,000 in the islands of the ?ea. Total 319,000.

THE Philadelphia papers congratulate the people of that city on the successful inauguration of the l*nid Fire Department. ItJ 'iany advantages will gradually manifest themselves. The brave old volunteer fighters of the 'lames will soon come to acknowledge that the new wav is the best, and in a year from now all classes of citizens will wonder why it was that they put up with the volunteer tire system as long as they did, and why the Paid Fire Department, instead of one, is not ten years old

THE time is rapidly approaching when our citizens will be called upon to decide who shall control this municipality for the next two years. We think the Republican party has seen enough of the result* of Democratic domination, and will make an effort to retrieve lost ground, No man doubts thai a majority of the legal voters of Terre Haute are Republi- I cans. If these will but do their duty a' the primary mee ings, and on election day, the Democracy will be defeated.

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We have been surprised and pained at the course of certain Republican papers, in the inconsiderate haste they have Bhown, to censure and condemn, without any evidence, the most trusty leaders of the party. And in all our experience we do not remember a more conspicuous example of this sort, than we find in a very large portion of the Republican press of Indiana on the GRANT-SUMNER imbroglio. While we are free to admit that this affair is very unfortunate, we do not by any means concede that it is a matter of such overshadowing importance that it must necessarily engulf the Republican party in ruin, or that serious danger threatens the party simply because a certain Republican, instead of another one, is cho?en by a party caucus to stand at the head of a. certain committee—BO matter whether the caucus itsalf has been governed in its action either by the likes or dislikes of the President, or whether it acted independent of what he might think on the snbejct.

But what gocd, we ask. do Republican papers expect to accomplish by making ii.' the party, and that too, without either truth or justice to sustain them? It has been charged that Senator MORTON was the President's chief adviser in procuring the remeval of SUMNER from the chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Y\have the best reasons for believing thtf this charge is wholly without foundation. Governor MORTON took no part in the caucus debate never to the President or to a Senator on the subject during the pendtney of the question and there is not the slightest evidence that he did anything in the mailer further than to vote according to bis convictions duty. It is not our purpose in this article to discuss the wisdom of the measure involving Mr. SUMNEK'S removal. We disapproved of and protested against it before it was consummated, and columns of regrets now would be a mere waste of ink. But it is our dulv, as Republican journalists, to protest against the unjust and impolitic cen-su-e of a Senator who has always, and often under the most trying circumstances, been true to the Republican party, and who has never failed to be eq lal to any emergency upon which he has been called to act. Few, if any, o^ tlio.se who thow a willingness to complain of Senator MORTON can point to such a record of fidelity to their party as is his.

From tho tiprcss, March 20.] Drop San Douiiugo.

If the Republican voters of this State could get the ear of our Senators :uid Representatives in Congress, they would say to them: "Drop San Domingo, and go home." Whatever may be the arguments presented by the Commissioners in favor of annexation, the public temper is in no condition to weigh them hastily. Persistence in this scheme, under existing circumstances, cannot be wise. We say, then, to the Republican delegation from Indiana, in both Houses, the good, brave men who have placed you where you are, who, in most instances have done more for you than you have done for them, ask you, in the most earnest manner, not to jeopardize the future of the Republican party, not to incur the risk of the country's losing all that our noble party has gained for her duritig the eventful years of its glorious history. Thus far, we have no dissensions that may not be readily healed. Our strength is not seriously impaired, and, with prudent management, Republican ascendency will be assured for many years. But the signs of the times unmistakably show that the path of prudence and safety does not lie in the direction of San Domingo. The Senator who votes for the ratification of the treaty, with the full knowledge that he is violating the wishes of his constituents, will do an act that he will surely regret. When the owners of our national estate desire to add San Domingo to it, ii will be proper for their agents to make the bargain. Until that time shall come, let those who have this business in charge heed the warning that we give them, drop San Domingo.

THE quarrel in the House last Thursday has created an excitement more than commensurate with its importance. Of course, the Republican party must regrc that its leaders in Congress cannot get along in harmony but there is nothing alarming in stich a war of words, nothing to excite grave apprehensions. So long as Congressmen possess the passions inherent in human nature, such scenes will occasionally occur. All deliberative bodies are liable to similar disturbances. Even religious meetings are not quite exempt from them. And it is doubtful if anything short of a very large measure of Divine grace could reduce BENBUTLER to a permanent peace basis, or enable his associates in the House to quietly endure liia peculiarly disagreeable manners. Perhaps BEN means well, but he is nothing if not offensive. Even when he docs right, he does it in a wrong way. We sympathize fully with hi strong desire to suppress the Ku Klux, and should rejoice to see every member of that organization turned over to his "tender mercies." But it is not easy to believe that such men as Judge KELLEY and Speaker BLAINE are less desir.» than he to promote the best interests of the country and the Republican party. Their Republicanism ante dates his by some years their purity of character is unquestioned.

THERE may be those .vho seriously doubt the intention of the controlling element of he Democracy to commit that party to the overthrow of reconstruction To such doubters we commend the perusa of Southern Democratic papers. For instance, the Augusta, Georgia, Constitutionalist blandly remarks: "It may as well be understood first as last, that" the Democrats in the States tvra'nnized over by carpet-bag rule do not intend to surrender the right of discussion and redress of their grievances to the decision of Democrats in other States who have never felt these wrongs and, further, that the Democratic National Convention "will not be permitted, directlv or impliedly, to signify, with impunity, that the reconstruction measures forced on the South at the point of the bayonet, and the amendments to the Constitution fraudulently adopted, are now beyond the reach of public reprobation, and are to be maintained as established law. If Southern Democrats ar« to be muzzled and choked down by a majority vote in the National Convention, thev" had better not go into it."

Nor is it alone the Southern Democratic press that teems with ucb declarrtions. Even in this State there are two or three influential papers of that party which do not disguise their wish to see the three last amendments to the Constitution set aside, declared null and void. A Democratic Senate of this State has lately tried its feeble hand at nullifying one of them, and not a Democratic paper has disapproved of its action on that question. The Democratic heart hatec all that has been accomplished in the interest of freedom, and your genuine Democrat has little respect for a government under which a "chivalrous Southron" may not lawfully "wollop his own nig-

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THE Tribune says: New Hampshire has not become Democratic. This vote means mainly, if not wholly, Republican apathy, bom of over-confidence and the continuous triumphs of sixteen years, and Republican disaffection, engendered by local quarrels, liquor, and the unwise and untimely Sumner trouble. It is not bv the continuance of such causes that parties are saved and if the lesson is to be learned, in time for 1872, it has not been given us a month too soon. Let us take it for warning and incitement and

J.r#e up the ranks.

THE press of Pennsylvania is not very flattering in its allusions to the new Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations less so than might be expected, seeing that he is the senior Senator from and a mighty power in that State. Speaking of his avowed determination to hold on to his honor.*,the PhiladelphiaJji'/ut.rr ivs: "In this course lie will meet with no support in Ibis State, there beiug but one opinion as to his duty—that he should decline the position/^

THE Cincinnati Chronicle is anxious to know if the purists who insist on saying Santo Domingo mean to carry out their reform consistently with all other Spanish names and compel us to write Santo Francisco, Santo Diego and FO on? Or will one such amendation suffice? Considering the tendency of the American people to shorten names we fear that even in this case the all-important extra syllable will be dropped—after annexation if not before. Observe how the irreverent labor-saving Californians are already transforming San Francisco into blunt Frisco, and then judge.

Senator Sherman.

The Cincinnati Commercial says: "The stories so persistently circulated that Senof or SHERMAN has become very wealthy, are untrue. The Senator is a frugal and thrifty man. He has no children, and was a lawyer in good practice, and in possession of some small but judicious investments when he entered public life.

He has lived within his means, and has given intelligent attention to his private affairs during his long service in Congress. He has never had any business connection with Jay Cooke, and there is not a particle of testimony that he has ever taken advantage of his official position to enter into corrupt understandings or questionable speculations with anybody. The assertion that we find, two or three times a week, in Democratic newspapers, that he is a millionaire, is absurd. He made, several years ago, a fortunate purchase of real estate, and it is possible he has a few thousand dollars in bonds and stocks. The sum of the value of his properly, we have reason to believe, is less than one hundred thousand dollars. Whatever exceptions i"ay be taken to his public career, the nonsense about his great wealth should be dispensed with."

THE Indianapolis Journal of Saturday states that the editorial on the SUMNER business, that appeared in that paper on the 14th, "was not meant or intended as an attack, open or covert, upon any one. It was a criticism upon the action of the Republican Senatorial caucus in the mat ter of the displacement of Senator Sumner, and was prompted by a desire to serve the Republican party, which, to us, is greater and better than any of its leaders. Those who have assumed to construe our remarks into a personal attack upon anv individual, liavo done

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own responsibility. What we baid about an effort or conspiracy on the part of some of the President's advisers io urge him to the advocacy of unpopular measures, with a view to the destruction of his popularity, was based upon inlurmation which we deemed reliable, and late dispatches from Washington indicate that a similar belief prevails there. To believe that the President has been acting in all these matters upon his own responsibility would be to convict him of wilful recreancy to the pledges he gave the*party in 1868, when he said "the President should have no policy in opposition to the will of the people." We preferred to believe that his recent course, which has seriously, if not permanently, affected his popularity, has. resulted from the bad counsels and persuasions of men who can not surely be the friends of the President or the Republican party. Who these advisers are we do not know, and our remarks were intended for them as a class."

News From the Westliclie Post. Startling intelligence is communicated to its German readers by the Westliche Post. Referring to Republican caucus dissensions in Congress, it says: "The General in the White House who thought he could maneuver the Republican party like a company of soldiers, and those who have misused Grant's experience in politics for their own selfish plans, have finally succeeded in splitting the Republican party from top to bottom, as a great party was scarcely ever split before."

To this, the St Louis Demvcral replies: "Only the wish could have been the father to that false thought. There is but one possible way of'splitting the Republican party from top to bottom,' and that way is for professeds Republican to take the course the Post is taking. When traitors undertook to destroy this nation they began by declaring the Union to be split from top to bottom, and by persuading all whom they could to believe the monstrous falsehood. No! Mr. Weslliche Pod! The Republican party of this country lives in the hearts of the people of this country, and is not split from the top to the bottom. Keep on proclaiming this Democratic falsehood, and the rebuking thunders of your German readers wi'! soon startle you from your dream thai liie Republican party is split from lop to bottom."

NOT a single Southern State that is under the control of the Democratic or Conservative party, with the exception of Virginia, affords safety of either life or property to a Northern man or to a black Unionist. Listen to this invitation to revolution from the New Orleans Times of the 11th:

It was left to the Radical usurpers of government and law-making in this State to improve upon the most ingenious plans of oppressing, vexing, and harassing a people which even tne malignant cunning of Caligula, Neio, and Tiberius ever devised and enforced.

And this bold threat from the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist: Nothing is irreversible which the mongrels have done to our Federal system, unless the South gives up. The devid cannot be be brought back, hut all the sovereignty which has been stolen from the States can be regained, or will be, if the South is not whipped in its manhood.

And this from the Columbus Sun, in the same State: Whv, we ask, should we surrender our last hope and basely abandon therighi to speak out our convictions, unseduced by bribes and unawed by power? Why should not the assassins of liberty and the plunderers of States be pointed at with the "slow, unmoving finger of scorn?"

From the hour when the Republican party came into existence there has been no time when the great interests of the country needed it, in all its strength and courage, more than now. I pon the maintenance of Republican ascendancy at Washington, the future of the country depends. The Democratic pary of to day animated by the same spirit as the Democratic party of '61. Let but "Democracy" triumph in a national election, and the work of the last five years will be destroyed. No reasonable man can doubt this, in view of the manifestations of Democratic spirit that are visible on every hand.

A RECENT official report on ..he subject of immigration makes this showing for 'he last calendar year: "We received 280,278 immigrants, of whom Great Britain furnished 145,384, or over half, the Irish immigration not being reported separately Germany, 82,547

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than one-third Sweden and Norwav, 14,133. China comes fourth, sendin"* us 11,"3. Canada sent but 210

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THE OltLEANS fKlNCES.

What Tkey are Doing.

The Journal de Bordeaux says: Duke d'Aumale and the Prince de Joinvillt are staying in the arrondissement of Libourne, in the Department of the Gironde. They at first intended coming to Bordeaux, but M. Thiers, being made aware of their intention, strongly blamed it, saying that the law by which tHey are proscribed .still is in force, and adding: 'It is my duty to put that law into force, but it does not suit me to apply it. This state of things, however, imposes upon me another duty, that of resigning my functions, which sh.ill certainly do if they show themselves in Bordeaux.' A friend of the princes went to -meet them, and prevailed upon them to remain at Libourne."

The Bordeaux correspondent of _lhe London Daily Ncics says that the Prince de Joinville kept so closely hidden while he was in Bordeaux that none of the pa pers announced his e=ence. And vet (the writer proceed-) to my 'eriain knowledge he was ac'ually at the Hotel de France on the d*y when he telegiaphed the news of arrival. A suit of apartments in the Hotel de Paris, AHees de Orleans, had been taken for the Duke d'Aumale and some of the younger princes of the family. But almost the first act of M. Thiers, when he was appointed head of the executive power, was to tell the Prince de Joinville that he and his brother had better go away directly. He gave them to understand that their presence in F. ince was an embarrassment, and that he could not repeal ihe law of banishment again them v.ilhout allowing the Co«nt deChombord and tbeBonapartes to return also. The journals, wh'ch never eaid anything about the arrival of the two princes here, now announce the'.- departure. They left on Sunday for England.

It is not generally known that the Pi'nce de Joinville is the au hor of an article in the Courier dc ici Gironde of February 29, signed F. D. (the initials of Fiancois d'Orleans), er ressing opinions of universal suffrage which are well known to be those of the Prince from his conversations on the subject with private friends. The composition is labo! ed, and the words so carefullv weighed that perspicuity is sacrificed to a straining impartiality. But for extrensic evidence I I should hardly be able to make out its meaning but with the assistance of a friend who lately had an opportunity of conversing with the Prince de Joinville at Brussels, I am led to believe the P.ince means in substance this: It is a pi that universal suffrage was introduced so precipitately but it is now impossible to do away with the name our hope that it will work well in the future must be founded upon the spread of education among the peopie. and in the meantime some means must be found of excluding the most grossly ignorant from the exercise of it? In short, the Prince contemplates a new law of May 31, which, though in fact it enormously limited the ntimbe# of electors, professed not to destioy universal suffrage. The Prince, who has been a good dea! America, was quite willing to go in :or the Republican ''ticket." piovided always that the sovereignty of tlis nation should be reserved, in case, afier reflection, a monatchv should be thought more desirable. These speculations, however, are not now much upon the cards, because, owing to the unexpected attitude assumed M.Thiers, the Orleans campaign has oeen a complete fiasco.

THE Louisville Commercial says the principal writers for the great New York daily newspapers are paid far diffetently from iheir brethern of the old days of Grub street. The managing editors of each of the four great dailies, the Herald. Tribune, World, and Times, receive each $100 per week. The smallest sums paid for writers of position are from $35 to $50 .per week, while fi.-t-class writers receive $150to$lG" weeklv. Salaries ranging from $1,800 to $8,500 per annum would have been colossal fortunes even for Milion or Drydon in their day. It is, bower, by no-means cei in that ei.herof these great men would have earned such sums as writers for the modern newspaper. 1 deed, the men who have acquired ,he greatest reputation as aiuhors have never been successful when the" have tried the experimer. ueconug conductors of the press. Either tact surpass. talent in the editorial chair, or, at least, the la ier, unaided by the former, is by no means a guarantee of success. It is what people want, and not what they ought to want, that they are willing to pay for. No one man, however great, can make a newspaper by himselt, though the success of all papers certainly depend upon the one mind which guides and controls it. It is also true that the most successful newspapers have been oiigiimied and kep* in being by men without any particular aim to distinction as good write.s or men of great literary abilility. Business tneigy, common sense, and knowledge of ihe world and its wants and wa- are moie effective in making a great newspaper than the combiii 1 ta'ent of Newton, Bacon, Milton, and Shakspeare.

TIME'S WONDERFUL changes never received a more marked illustration than by the introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives proliiliting the indiscriminate slaughter of buffaloes along the line of the Pacific Railroad, and providing for the preservation of the bison, which, under the present system of wanton destruction, would soon be exterminated. The author of this game eseiving article, Mr. McCormick, of Arizona informed the House that, in passing over the Kansas Pacific Railroad lat winter, a train was snowed in, and for ten davs the only food of about one hundred ^sengers was buffalo meal, and had '.'-not been at hand they must all have rved. It is in view of the probable recurrence of circumstances of the same character for years to come, that, as a measure to preserve those animals, the bill was suggested and will be supported. When the idea of a Pacific Railroad was first brnacbed in Congress a quarter of a ccir.'iry ago, the opponents of the "improvement" insisted that no railroad could ever be maintained on the plains for a single week, because of (he herdi of buffaloes that would trample tracks and sleepers out of place and deep down into the soil, and now, before the Pacific Railroad has been an actual fact three years, is deemed necessary .o protect the buffallo that he may serve as food to the passengers crossing the continent over the very road that his vast and roaming herds were to render an impossibility.—Phil. Inquirer.

THE Indianapolis Journal learns that "the school fund which the Democratic ignoi amuses of the Legislature tried to distribute to the different counties of the State, amounts to over seven hundred thousand dollars. The boobies who followed the lead of Brown in the Senate, and McDonald in the House, hadn't sense enough to frame a law free from objection, and it. is more than likely that a Democratic Supreme Court will decide that the funds shall lemain in the hands of the Auditor of S' ite for two years. Of course, Mr. --Iioemaker professes to be astonished ai the course things have taken, and apprehends that, in addition to his other onerous duties, he will be compiled to loan out the money on his own account to hard hearted bankers who will only pay him »ix per cent, interest on it.At this rate, his fees and perquisites will amount to over fortv thousand dollars per annum, which will enable hirr. to eke out a miserable official existence fo two years, und leave him enough to j-ty for repairs toNeff's coat tail, which was dreadfully wrenched by the jerk it got from the "very young Democrat of Ir.rge aspirations."

WE must not expect more from the society of our friends and companions than it can give, and especially must not expect contrary things. It is somewhat arrogant to talk of traveling over other minds but still, by association, we be come tamil'ir with the upper views, tastes, and tempers of our associates and it is hardly in man 'o esti.aate justly what is familiar to him. In traveling about at night, as Hazlitt says, we catch a glimpse into the cheerful looking rooms, with light blazir" in them, and we conclude, involuntarily, how happy the inmat" must be. Yet there is heaven and hell in those rooms—the same heaven and hell that we have known in others.

As THE Republican army was a mass of thinking bayonets, so the Republican party is amass of thinking voters, and it is too great, too historical, and too sacred a thinr to be endangered by any personal conflicts or issues inside its ranks. We carry the flag that makes us free, and it is borne with the same devotion, 'he same intelligence, and the same spirit of self sacrifice as when it floated at the htad of our armed and uniformed columns.—PkiL P.r*t.

What Do Tra Wftit!

Discontented and "soreheaded" Republicans may find profitable reading in this "The •f'nrticle from the New York Times: "There are Bepub'icans who have nursed their grievances so assiduously as to find cause for great rejoicing in the

Democratic victory in New Hampshire. It is, they say, a good lesson for Gen. Grant—it will bring him to his senses, &c-, &c. Well, now, it is very convenient to have a soap-goat at a time like this, and who so fitting to be made use of in that way as tbe President? There he-is in a conspicuous position, and it is the simplest thing in the world to make him responsible for everything that goes wrong. It is doubly convenient because it saves you, who make tbe charges, from taking any blame to yourself. As for tbe justice of the coU'-se, who thinks of doing President Grant justice? No, no—it suits the whim of many Republicans far better to change him with all kinds of ofle:i es, and to eid those generous and manly attacks upon his father, his wife, and -.ill who belong to him, which are prepared from time to time by the professional libelers of the press, and which pa-a muster in these days for political cri'icism.

If President Grant is "all wrong" at this particular crisis, where is your man who is "all right?" Bring him out. Let us have a look at him. Why make him a "dark horse?" Nobody wants to prevent you "saving the country." If you have got anybody stowr.' away in the background who can reconcile the discordant sections of the Kepublican par'v. and give to each section all that it demands, for pity's sake let us know who he is. Where is your one man who is to day more entitled to ihe confidence of the country than this much-abused President, whom you first dragged from a post with which he was well satisfied, to make President, and whom you then proceeded to scold, misrepressnt, and abuse? Politics is a practical business, not a jack-o'lan-tern, to be pursued by fanatics, sentimentalists. and "soreheads," with the public at iheir heels. We must have some man at the head of affairs, and not an abstraction hatchedjjv doctrinaires. Now, where are you going to find a man—you Republicans who go about raving at Gen. Grant —likely to do all that you require of him? Why, if you could produce such a man by evolution, or natural selection, or any other device of the philosophers, you would be pelting him with mud before six months were over. "It is all president Grant's fault." Very good—then of course you have some policy to suggest which would restore harmony and enthusiasm to the Republican ranks? Let us hear what it is.

Wendell I'iilllip? speaks first. What does he take to he tbeV.w.cea for all our trouble"? ilef- t'..'.vv it red hot from uionu! i.'t iweek: ''Ni'.hing snort of »huv.*«.e a do item millionaires at the drumheau ..i.i awe the Ku Klux into submission." Mr. Phillips prints this new remedy in capital letters, but it* looks to us sufficiently fierce in ordinary type._ And again he talks of sweeping "rebellion with the besom of destruction and teave it no rider but the sword until every now living white man is in bis grave." Mr. Phillips puts no commas in this sentence, nor do we, for it is clearly meant to be read in a breathless manner. Now is this the magic policy which would have prevented New Hampshire going Democratic! The New York Evening Post—as thorough-goins: a Democratic paper as you will meet with anywhere—vows that even the comparatively moderate measure, introduced into Congress for the lestoralion of ..rder at the South, would "fall wi'h the certainty of doom thai always falls on madness in power." A charming senience, although we cannot pretend losay what it means— except ihat Wendell Phillips' specific would not take with the Post. So here we have the doctors quarrelling over the patient, and protesting that_ each other's prescriptions would be certain to put him out of the world. Republicans are everywhere wrangling about the differences wllioil they have created for themselves, and then they so Bhouting at thePiesident, and tell l: that it is all his fault they are living like dogs, whose nature it is, aswe know on the very best authority, to bark and bi.e.

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tbe ''impeachment" of Grant and

the dNsoliuion of their party, come out plain'v and tell ns what it is they want. If you don't like the President policy «iiy don't ou suggest a better oiic?—not on a sing:e point only, maik you, but uoon the entire range of questions with which a man in the President's position is necessarily required to deal, it is easy enough to keep on nagging at a public officer but can you producc a policy better than that which he i- pursuing? If not, the best ihing you .u do is to lock yourself up in a room and have your minister come and talk to you, or rt you a few chapters out of some good book, or else you had belter fight it ou' with your own shadow, and not go forth like a prophet of evil into the public streets, wringing your hands and tearing your hair, and calling out for "more gore" and a few Southern heads,—as Mr. Phillips does far instance.—by way of freshening things up a bit.

WISCONSIN is trying to rid herself of the delays and costs so often incurred in the administration of justice, through the obstinacy of eleven stiff-necked individuals, who, in getting together in jury rooms, refuse to agree with the twelfth man. The Wisconsin plan is to let eleven decide the verdict, and leave the other fellow to agree or not, as lie pleases. Practically, this reduces the jury to eleven and provokes the query, would not ten, or six, or three, serve as well? The unanimous agreement of twelve men has hitherto been invariably required for a verdict. That there were good reasons for adopting that number, and the principle of unanimity in the diluted and the :hc reasons have

first place, general beli lo no abandn'. b,-

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principle, the .lie ni'es L'OVould according to me

whims of successive Legislatures. Individual jurors are often stubborn, and sometimes corrupt, perhaps, but a reduction of the number required for a panel would not guarantee the exclusion of stubborn or corrupt men. The present system has been proved a go^d one by ages of experience. It is not infallible, and no substitute that the Solon.s of Wisconsin may discover will be so. They had better "let well enough alone."—Chi-

WIIAT ll be the next move to create a bitter rj idice throughout the country against Joint Commision now sitting at Washington.' The first step was to endeavor to show thai tbe Commission ought not to beal'oived to procc'd in it' deliberations un i' Canada was annexed. This policy was vowedly lggested by a "distinguished idual"'at Washington. The r.e-1 nice was to pssert thp.t M-. Sum net hau b. en Kiiuved by order" of he Briti-h SPnisft a sroi which was too childish ior a.iy 1 to believe who rt .is not utterly blinded by lieired of the Administration. Bo these attempts to create a fresh misunderstanding are said to have originated in one quarter—although the ilero'd was made hespokesman for the one he E ening Post for the other. The World join with man journals in condemning i: undei handed and disgraceful method of trying embroil two great countries war. This is enough to put even the Post to shame. If it is going to compete wiili a shameless and venal sheet in inventiug slanders about Gen. Grant, his wife children, and all his kinsfolk—wo^k wnich is onl" fit for soi' 1 outcasts—its readers v.-ill cover fresh cause for regretting that a lespectable reputation should be wonton'*- sacrificed. We cannot believe, howevei. that the Post is really ben» upon this suicidal course.—-V. Y. Times.

The following petition, a sanguinary woman, has been r—eived by the Michigan Legislature. It is written on perfumed paper, and ii igned by Mrs. Sarah Martin, of St. Joseph:

GENTLEMEN: My Bible tells me the legend of 'a life for a life," but modern lawmakers have a legend of their own, entirely disregarding thecommands of the disciples. I am in favor of hanging murderers, and of partially hanging those who assault with intent to kill. I think the time has come when all mock sentiment should be done away with, and tbe sacrifice of life punished to the fullest extent. I am no enthusiast on this idea, but, in case such a law was enacted, and there was any difficulty in obtaining the services of a hangman, I would willingly act in that capacity without pay or hope of pay. In lact. I hereby nut in my claim to be appointed State Executioner, and to execute all the murderers to be executed under the proposed new law. 1 have attended several executions, and will guarantee to make so blunders.

BY TELEGRAPH.

The ••riiment «t Versailles lit iv 1 to Re-establish Order.

The Mayors of Paris Refase to Obey the Illegal Order for Communal Elections.

Many Persons Shot Without Trial on Sunday.4

Nationals Threaten to Shoot Thiers, Tinoy and Others, if Captured.

The Forts to be Immediately Armed, by Order of the Insurgent Government.

The Assembly Ordered to Retarn to Paris by the 23d inst.

If They Refuse, the National Guard will March to Versailles and Disperse them.

Gen. Chansey and other Officers Still Detained by the Insurgents.

ENGLAND.

ARRIVAL OF NAPOLEON.

LONDON, March, 20.—Emperor Napoleon left Wilhelmshoehe on Sunday for England. He was escorted to the railway station at Cassel by a guard of honor, composed of two companies of the eightythird Prussian regiment. Emperor Napoleon arrived at Dover at one o'clock this afternoon. An immense crowd was waiting at the landing, including a large number of French refugees, who cheered enthusiastically as the Emperor appeared on the dock.

THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT. It is thought the revolutionary movement now in progress io Paris will extend to Marseilles and Lyons, and even to Bordeaux, and the "Thiers government contemplates movement to Tours. It is snid the Germans decline to interfere with affairs in Paris.

DESERTED.

A report from the French capital says the scns d'armee collected from the provinces by tieneral Vinov, have deserted and joined the insurgents.

THE TEERAOE.

Sir Henry Dulwer has been elevated to the peerage as Baron Dolling. EARTHQUAKE.

A di-tinct shock of an earthquake was felt in all the northern counties of England on Friday night.

COLLISION.

The bark Cornwall was sunk in a collision with the steamer Himalaya, and eleven persons drowned.

THE FRENCH LOAN.

It is said that negotiations that had been commenced here for the new French loan have been suspended.

INCOME TAX IN INDIA.

A dispatch from Barackpore, India, says there has'been an excited debate in the Council over the question of abolition of the income tax, which has evoked a strong public feeling on the subject.

OVERTURES.

LONDON, March 20—9:30 r. M.—The Gaulois reports that overtures have been made to the Government by the Montmortre insurgents, and that La Bische, Minister oi the Interior, has been fully empowered to grant liberal but legitimate concessions.

LATEST NEWS FROM PARIS. LONDON, March 20, 10:30, P. M.—The Etoile Beige has advices denying that negotiations nave been opened with the insurgents in Paris, and representing that the rioters, flushed with their success, are in full possession of the city. The windows of the Hotel De Ville are crowded with armed Nationals. Chassepots are being distributed among the people, and the cry of the mob is "A Versailles." The centre remains undisturbed.

THE SITUATION IN PARIS.

LONDON, March 20—6 P. M.—In Paris, this morning, the situation was unchanged. The National Guards, in obedience to the orders of the Central Republican Committee, have taken up positions in various quarters of the city, meeting with no resistance. The majority of the Nationals are passive and quiet.

PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTIONS. Preparations are making at voting places throughout the city for communal elections, ordered by the Central Republican Committee. According to the apportionment made, 'here is one representative to be chosen for every 20,000 voters. The elections will be he'd on Wednesday instead of Tuesday.

FROM PARIS.

LONDON, March 21.—The Paris correspondent of the London Times telegraphs that many persons were shot without trial on Sunday. The Nationals will shoot Thiers, Vinov and Daurelles, if they be captured. There is a strong reaction among the respectable portion of the inhabitants. The Central Committee is alarmed.

CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

The Paris correspondent of the London Time" telegraphs that the Central Committee seeks mediation with the Mayors "r city for the appointment of Adli al Laisset to the command of the National Guards.

VERSAILLES.

Versailles resembles a camp. The entire neighborhood strategetically occupied by troops. The prisoners at Metz and Sedan are offering their services to the government. The city is crowded, so that many deputies to the Assembly are obliged to sleep in stables.

ARRESTS.

M. Rouher has been arrested and imprisoned at Boulogne, and narrowly escaped lynch law. His wife and daughter were also arrested. Other Imperialists have made their appearance in Boulogne, and theii arrest i3 expected.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

The French National Assembly met to day. Deputies of the mountains all absent. A committee was ordered to report measures for dealing with Paris, and an energetic resolution is expected to be returned at once, and adopted, l'icard proposed as an urgent declaration, a state of siege in the departments of the Seine and Seine Et Oise.

DENIAL.

It is officially denied that France has requested that prisoners of war in Germany should return through Switzerland.

NAPOLEON.

Emperor Napoleon arrived at Chiselhurst at 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon. He was received with enthusiastic cheers in that village, and at all railway stations along the route from Dover.

MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS LOUISE. The journals are filled with programmes for the marriage of Princess Louise to Marquis Lome, which takes place to day. Immense preparations are made fur the celebration, even throughout England.

BANK OF FRANCE.

The bullion in the Bank of France has been removed to Versailles, and all the unissued notes have been destroved.

PRIVATE TELEGRAPHING.

M. Cambates, in assuming the title of Director General of telegraph in France, orders suspensiou of private telegraphing.

MISTAKES OF TIIE INSURGENTS. The insurgents have on several occasions fired into each other by mistake. No particulars of these occurrences, or accounts of loss of life are at hand.

THE ELECTIONS.

A majority of the journals of Paris consider the elections oidered by the insurgent committee are void.

INSURGENT PROPOSITIONS,

The insurgent journals declare a willingness to treat with the Versailles government, on the following conditions: The election of a Communal Council by the people of Paris, reorganization of the National Guard, coupled with the power of -If-election and removal of their offiof the Prefecture of cer and suppression Police of Paris.

ARMY JOURNALS.

The army journals declare Thiers is the author of the treublea in Puis, and counsel troops to self-government, firmness afld tranquility.

INSURRECTIONS JAPAN.

Telegraphic advices were received day that an insurrection had taken pi in Japan, but had been suppressed.

CIRCULAR.

The Government at Versailles has addressed a reassuring circular to the prefects of department", informing them that the situation in Paris is no worse. The revolution, dishonored by its criminal j' "a unanimously disavowed.,,,

I PRISONERS. 'vjefl. Chansey and other officers are still detained by the insurgents, but there are hopes of their speedy release.

PROTEST.

The Mayors of Paris protest against, and refuse to carry out the illegal orders for communal elections.

GENERAL INDIGNATION.

LONDON, March 21, 9:30 P. M.— The indignities inflicted on Gen. Chanzy, the many arbitrary arrests made, and suspension of the Figaro and Gaulois, have aroused general indignation.

A GOOD IMPRESSION.

Grevey's address yesterday makes a good impression. THE GOVERNMENT IN EARNEST.

The government at Versailles has resolved to promptly re-establish order. ADDRESSES TO THE GOVERNMENT.

The Council at Rouen have voted an

address to the government, deploring the revolution in Paris, and asking that prompt measures be taken for its suppression, and promising their support,

A similar address, signed by private citizens, has been forwarded to Versailles. It is anticipated that these addresses will have a good effect on the working classes. INFLAMMATORY APPEALS FORBIDDEN.

Copies of an insurrectionary proclamation have been seized in Rouen, and the distribution of inflammatory appeals forbidden.

FRANCE.

PROCLAMATIONS BY THE NATIONALS. PARIS", March 19.—The Natiouals have placarded two proclamations. The first one says theFrench people waited calmly uniil an attempt was made to touch the life of the Republic. The army did not raise its hands against the liberties of the Republic, the only government that can close its era of invasions and civil warr The people of Paris are convoked for communal elections. The proclamation is signed by the Central Committee of the National Guard, and dated at Hotel De Ville. The second proclamation is as follows:

To the People of Paris:—You have entrusted us with the defense of the rights of Paris. We report that we have driven out the government which betrayed us. Oar mission is fulfilled, and we now report to you to prepare for communal elections. Give us, as our only recompense, the establishment of a real Republic. Some signatures, thirty in number, are appended.

WHAT THE JOURNAL OFFICIAL SAYS. The Official Journal contains the following: A proclamation from the Committee, assuming the name of Central Committee, has been distributed throughsut Paris. Men of the barricades have taken possession of the Ministry of Justice, and assassinated Generals Thomas and Lecompte. Who are the members of theJCommittee is unknown, as is also what they deliver Paris from. The crimes committed by them remove all excuse for support by their followers." Let all who have regard for the honor and interest of France separate from them and rally around the Republic and the Assembly. Signed by the Ministers at present in Paris.

THE SITUATION.

The Hotel de Ville is surmounted by a red flag, and barricaded, but circulation is unimpeded. Shots have been heard, but no conflict reported. Respectable Parisians are stupefied. Gen. Lecompte was abandoned by his trcopsand arretted on the heights of Montmartre. Gen. Thomas was arrested in plain clothes. The latter's last word was "cowards." He fell at the third discharge. Thiers is firm but full of grief. Gen. Vinoy's indignation is boundless. On Saturday gen d'arms fired upon the Nationals. The latter returned the fire and several gen d'arms were wounded. Gen. Vinoy has been mobbed. The mob is triumphant, and virtually possess the city. Only wine shops are open, drunkenness rampant. Even women are armed. Gen. Chansey upon his arrival in Paris was arrested at the station by Montmartreists, and is said will beBhot to-day. All per* sons of prominence are flying from Paris.

THE GOVERNMENT AT VERSAILLES.

VERSAILLES, March 19.—The Official Journal announces that the whole government, all the authorities of Paris, and 40,000 good troops under (Jen. Vinoy are here- The department authorities have been instructed that they must obey only orders from Versailles, otherwise they will forfeit their positions. THE EXECUTION OF LECOMPTE AND

THOMAS.

PARIS, March 19,10 o'clock, evening.— The Secretary of the International society was President of the court which condemned Generals Lecompte and Thomas to death. The corpses of the Generals were mutilated.

NATIONAL GUARDS.

National Guards arc now the only armed force in Paris. Most of the Nationals marching through the streets belong to the Faubourg.

BARRICADES.

There are barricades in the Rue des Mantyr, the Avenue Trtidaine, Chaussee de Clignactcourt, Faubourg St. Denis, Rue Rochechocourt, vicinity of the Hotel DeVille and Faubourg St. Antoine. Elsewhere is clear.

NO TRAFFIC.

No acts of pillage have occurred, but there is no traffic. The insurrectionists hold the Mayoralties office, Ministers and telegraphs.

ELECTIONS.

Municipal elections ere ordered for Tuesday. REMOVALS.

Mayors and deputies demand the removal of Generals Paladines and Vinoy, and of the Prefcct of Police, Valentine. Ferry was suggested as the latter's successor, and theGovernment gave also consent to change General Langlctn, who succeeded General Paladines. After the latter was taken prisoner, he went to the Hotel de Ville, but the insurgents refused to recognize him.

FORTIFICATIONS.

Several positions in Belleville snd Montmortre have been fortified. Cannons du arondissement des Buttes ch^umont were turned on the authorities on Saturday, the National Guards in that seclion being unwilling t. become insurgents.

EXCITEMENT AT ROUEN.

ROUEN, March 20.—Tbe people here are dreadfully excited over the news from Paris, but no outward demonstration has been made. The Mobiles are piohibited from crossing to the right bank of the Seine.

THE ASSEMBLY.

VERSAILLES, March 21.—There are 20,000 troops in the neighborhood of the Assembly chambers. The Assembly adopted a resolution providing lor the appointment of a committee to consider the condition of France and the necessity of placing the departments of Seine and Seine et Oise in a state of siege.

THE INSURGENTS* GOVERNMENT. The Insurgent Government annnounces that the forts will be immediately armed to insure the defence of the capital. It has also sent an intimation to Thiers fixing the 23d inst as the last day for the return of the Assembly to Paris. If they return they shall have liberty of action. If they refuse, the National Guard will march to Versailles and disperse them.

In the National Assembly to-day, Grevy, President of the body, made a speech denouncing the insurrection in Paris. Clemencian introduced plan for the election of a municipal Council, to be composed of eighty members, for the internal government of Paris, the urgency of which was voted by the Assembly. A plan for the election of commanders of the National Guard was introduced. S|ome of the deputies denounced the assassinations which have recently taken place, and repudiated the course of the Paris deputies, who have parleyed with the inRurgenU. Louis Blanc, Trochu, Picard, and several deputies, have gone to Paris to demand the release of Gen. Chansey.

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CONCORD, N. H., March 20.—visional certificate having been the Democratic members of Coelect, Hibbar4»*nd Bell left by the mo ing train for Washington, who will joined in New York by Parker.

THE SENATE.

The State Senate stands 5 Bepublioins to 6 Democrats. Flinn, in tbe 10th District, has but 6 majority, and Thrasher in the 11th District^ but 19. Both gentlemen »re Democrat^."

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THE HOUSE.

The Statesman claiin the House stands 166 Republicans to 164Democrat.", giving the Democrats in toe orgnnidation the 4 labor Reformers, included in (bis estimate.

The Statesman claims Underbill of Chester, Legro of Lancaster, Wilson of Pambrake, and Morse of Winchester, who were returned by the town Clerks as Republicans. The Democrats also claim, ana no doubt are sure of |»rt if not th whoje of them, which will give them majority of 6, which they S*y by the vote of disaffected or bolting RejSubliewiS W be raised to 12 or 14. Tne allotment of officers, the complete ousting of the present incumbents, the change of acts in relation to the Supreme Judicial Court, to enable rotation on the bench, are subjects of discussion in Democratic circles.

BOSTON.

BOSTON, March 18.—McKeaii Buchanan, a retired paymaster in the United States Navy, died at tke navy yard, to-day, aged seventy four years. He was on board the frigate Congress when that ve»sel was sunk by the rebel ram Merrimac.

DEFEATED.

The bill to incorporate the Boston Base fkBall {Association was defeated in the ^House.

KEY WK8T.

SAN DOMINGO COMMISSION. KEY WEST, March21.—The Tennessee with the San Domingo Commission on board arrived here this morning, five days and six hours from Kingston. The whole party, including officers and crew of the ship, is in excellent health. Wade haj his report finished, ,to which Howe has agreed. The reportls about two columns long. White wisherfto add considerable, but may agree tfl it with few a amendments. The report isjn the»main favorable to annexation, rfhi chief features are deemed somewhat iiph'orable, connected with the questions (if debt, boundary and grants.

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