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THB MILY REPUBLIC?
JOHN U. SARGENT, EDITOR.
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TERMS.
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OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIC.
NINTH 8TREET,
near pennsylvania avenue,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
By ae President of the United States.'
IN pursuance of law, I, FRANKLIN PIERCE,
Preaident of the United 8tates of America, do
hereby declare and make known that public sales
will be held at the undermentioned laud offices in
ibe State of Wisconsin, at the periods hereinafter
designated, to wit:
At the land office at WILLOW RIVER, commencing
on Monday, the third day of October
next, fur the disposal of the public lands situated
in the following named townships, viz:
North of the bate line and weet of the fourth principal
meridian.
Townships thirty two, thirty three, thirty four,
thirty five, and thirty eix, of range five.
Townabipa thirty one, thirty two, thirty thfree,
thirty four, thirty five, and thirty six, of range
six.
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V. WASHINGTON : TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1653. No 6.
Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three,
thirty lour, and thirty five, of range seven
Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty tbi'fce,
and thirty four, of range eight.
Townships thirty one, thirty two, and thirty
three, of range nine.
Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three,
and thirty four, of range sixteen.
Townships thirty three and thirty four, of range
seventeen.
At the land office at MENASIIA, commencing
on Monday, the tenth day of October next, for the
disposal of the public lands within the underinen*
tioned townships and parts of townships, to wit:
North of the bast tine and east of the fourth principal
meridian.
Townships twenty five and twenty six, of range
twelve.
Fractional township twenty one, west of Wolf
river, and townships twenty lour, twenty five, and
twenty six, of range thirteen.
Fractional townships twenty one and twenty
two, west of Wolf river and Bayou, and townships
twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, and twenty
six. of range fourteen.
? Fractional township twenty two, west of Wolf
river, townships twenty three and twenty four,
and fractional townships twenty five and twenty
six, west of Wolf river, of range fifteen.
Fractional townships twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four, and twenty six, west of Wolf river,
I of range sixteen.
At the land office at LA CROSSE, commencing
on Monday, the seventeenth day of October next,
for the disposal of the public lands withiu the following
named townships, to wit:
North of the base line and west of the fourth principal
meridian.
Townships twenty and twenty one, of range one.
: Townships seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twen1
ly, and twenty one, of range two.
; Townships twenty one and twenty two, of range
eleven.
Townships twenty one and twenty two, of range
> twelve.
I Townships twenty one and twenty two, of range
t thirteen.
North of the bate line and east of the fourth principal
meridian.
Townships twenty one, twenty two, twenty
three, and twenty four, of range one.
Township twenty one, of range two.
At the land office at STEVEN8'S POINT, commencing'
on Monday, the twenty fourth day of
October next, for the disposal of the public lands
situated in the following townships and parts of
townships, to wit:
North of the base line and east of the fourth principal
meridian.
Township twenty six, of range four.
Township twenty six, of range five.
Sections three to ten, fifteen to twenty two, and
twenty six to thirty five, in township twenty six;
township twenty seven, (except sections thirteen,
twenty four, twenty five, thirty five, and thirty
six,) and townships twenty eight, twenty nine,
and thirty, of range six.
Sections one, two, eleven to fourteen, twenty
three to twenty five, and thirty six, in township
twenty six; sections thirteen, twenty four, twenty
five, thirty five, and thirty sfx, in township twenty
seven; sections five to eight, seventeen to twenty,
thirty, and thirty one, in township twenty \
eight; township twenty nine, (except sections twen
ty nve to twenty eigm, ana miriy mreeio miriy
six,) and township thirty, of ranee seven.
/ Sections one to five, eight to fifteen, twenty two
to twenty seven, thirty five and thirty six, in
township twenty four; township twenty five, (except
sections six, seven, eighteen, nineteen, thirty,
and thirty one;) township twenty six; townships
twenty seven, (except section six,) twenty
eight, (except sections six, seven, eighteen, nineteen,
thirty, and thirty one;) and townships twenty
nine and thirty, of range eight.
Townships twenty five and twenty six, of range
nine.
Township twenty Bix, of range eleven.
At the land office at MINERAL POINT, commencing
on Monday, the second day of January
next, for the disposal of the following, being re
siduary tracts of the reserved lead mineral lands,
which were not included in the proclamations of
the 20th November, 1846, and 28th April, 1851, to
be sold under the act of Congress entitled "Anact
to authorise the President of the United States to
sell the reserved mineral lands in the States of
Illinois and Arkansas,and Territories of Wisconsin
and Iowa, supposed to contain lead ore," approved
July 11,1846, to wit:
North of the base tine and east qf the fourth principal
meridian.
The west half and northeast quarter of the southwest
quarter, the northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter, and the southeast quarter of the
sji*I?AM amsi 4 ho aaa4 hn If af
DUUIrllCMDV ljuol lol v? ?svmwi. w.?, ?mw v.
the nortbweet quarter, the southeast quarter, the
west half of the southwest quarter, and the southwest
quarter of the northeast quarter of twelve;
and the northeast quarter, and north half of southwest
quarter of twenty nine, in towmhip one; the
northeast quarter of section thirteen, in township
two; the west half of the northwest quarter of
section eleven, in township three; the east half of
the southeast quarter of section twenty five, and
the east half ot the southwest quarter of thirty six,
in township Jive, of range one.
The west half and northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter, the east half of the northeast quarter,
and the cast half of the southcastquarteroi section
two, in totonship two, of range two.
The east half of the northeast quarter, and the
northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section
four, in township two, and the northwest
quarter of the northwest quarter of section five, in
township three, of range three.
The east half of the northwest quarter, the northwest
quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east
half of the southwest quarter of section thirty, in
township J'our; and the west half of (he northwest
quarter of section thirty five, in township Jive, of
range four.
North of the boot line and total of thejourlh principal
meridian.
The west half of the northwest quarter of section
three, in lownthip two; the east half of the
northwest quarter, and the southeast quarter of
the northeast quarter of four; the west half of the
southeast quarter of sis; the southeast quarter of
the southeast quarter of twenty seven, and the
southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of thirty
four, in lownthip three, of range one.
The northwest quarter of section ten, and the
west hall of the southeast quarter of thirty, in
township three, of range two.
At the SAME PLACE, commencing on Monday,
the third day of October nest, for the disposal of
the public lands within the following sections, and
parts of sections, to wit:
North of the bate line and tottl of the fourth principal
meridian.
Section one, the east half and southwest quarter,
the west half of the northwest quarter, and the
northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of ten,
in lottmthip nine; and the east half of the southwest
quarter of section twenty six; the west half
pf twenty-seven; the east half of twenty eight,
and the north half of thirty five, in towmhip (en,
of range five.
Land* appropriated by law for the uae of schools,
military and other purposes, together with "those
swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby
for cultivation," if any, granted to the State by
the act entitled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas
and other States to reclaim the 'swamp
lands' within their limits," approved September
28,1860, will be excluded from the tale*.
In accordance with the provisions of the act of
lltb July, 1848, hereinbefore referred to, preemption
claims will not be allowed to any of the
above-mentioned lead mineral tracts to be offered
at Mineral Point, until kfterthey have been offered
at public sale, and become subject to private en
try. And these tracts will be sold in such legal
subdivisions as will include the mine or mines at
not less than two dollar$ and fifty cent* per acre;
and if not sold at the public sale at such price, nor
shall be entered at private sale within twelve
months thereafter, the'samo shall be subject to sale
as other lands.
The offering of the above lands will be commenced
on the days appointed, and will proceed
in the order in which they are advertised utitil the
whole shall have bjen offered, and the sales thus
UIIWCU, UUI UU OHIO Blind UO upoil 1UI1{(UI iuail
two weeks, and no private eutry of any of the lands
will be admitted until after the expiration of the
two weeks.
Given under my hand, at the city of Washington,
this twenty-first day of June, Anno Domini
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President;
John Wilson,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled to the right of pre-emption
to any of the lands within the townships and
parts of townships above enumerated, is required
to establish the same to the satisfaction of the register
and receiver of the proper land office, and
make payment therefor at soon at practicable after
teeing thit notice, and before the day appointed for
the commencement of the public sale of the lands
embracing the tract claimed, otherwise such claim
will be forfeited.
JOHN WILSON.
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
June 23?lawl3w
GidkonB. Mason, by his 1 BUI in circuit court for
next friend, William I Worcester county,
Mason, ^ State of Maryland.
vt May terrn^ 1853.
Mabia Mason. j
THE BILL in this cause states that the complainant
is a resident of Worcester county,
State of Maryland; that be bath resided in said
county and State two years next preceding the
filing of said bill; that heretofore be intermarried
withaoertain Maria Ellis, now Maria Mason, a
resident of said county and State. The bill charges,
that the said Maria, previous to ber intermarriage
with the said Gideon, was guilty of illicit carnal
intercourse with another man and men, and that
said illicit carnal intercourse was unknown to complainant
at the time of his said intermarriage with
said Maria; that since said intermarriage of said
Gideon with said Maria she hath been guilty of
adultery at the State aforesaid, and hath forfeited
all claim to the respect and support of the said
Gideon; and the complainant prays to be divorced
from said Maria, a vinculo matromonii; and it ap
peering to the court that the subpoena issued in
this cause against the said Maria has been returned
by the sheriff of said county nen est, and the
court being- satisfied that the said Maria was at the
time of filing said bill a resident or supposed resident
of said county and State, and that she bath
avoided the sheriff of said county to evade the service
of the process of this court issued in thiscause:
It is thereupon adjudged and ordered, that the
complainant, by causing a copy of this order to be
inserted in some newspaper published at the city
of Washington once in eacn of five successive
weeks before the first-day of August, eighteen
hundred and fifty three, give notice to the said
Maria Mason of the object and substance of this
bill, warning her to appear in this court in person,
or by solicitor, on or before the third Tuesday of
[November, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, to
answer the premises, and show cause, if any she
has, why a decree ought not to pass as prayed.
Test: EDWARD D. MARTIN, Clerk.
True copy. Test:
EDWARD D. MARTIN, Clerk.
June 14?law6w
MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION.
TTTHEREAS by the act entitled "An act relating
VV to dogs," approved 25th July, 1829, and the 1
act amending the same, approved 27th April, 1838,
it is provided that "whenever it shall be made appear
to the satisfaction of the Mayor that any animal
of the dog kind within this city shall be
"deemed and considered mad," it shall be "the
duty of the Mayor to issue his proclamation requiring
that all animals of the dog kind shall be
kept confined for such number of days as he shall
deem expedient and proper, to state in said proclamation,
not exceeding ninety days; and it shall
h? (ho Hnli of (ho ritff mniitahlm. anrl lawful for
any other person, to kill And bury all and every
dog going at large contrary to the said proclamation,"
&c.
Now, therefore, it having been made to appear '
to my satisfaction that there arc '-animals of the
dog; kind" mad within this city, I do hereby give !
notice, to all whom it may concern, that "all ani- '
male of the dog kind" in this city are required to 1
be kept confined for and during the term of sixty '
days from the date hereof; and the police officers j
of this Corporation are required to enforce the law 1
in respect to all such as may be found going at (
large contrary to this proclamation.
Given under my hand at the Mayor's office, in
the city of Washington, this 29th day of June,
1853. JOHN W. MAURY,
July 6?law6w Mayor.
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER C. BARRY'S
TRICOPHEROUS,or Medicated Compound, for .
beautifying, curling, preserving, restoring and (
strengthening the Hair, relieving diseases of the <
skin, curing rheumatic painB ana healing external i
wounds. Bounded by no geographical lines, the '
reputation of Barry's Tricophcrous pervades the
Union. The sales of the article of late years have I
increased in a ratio that almost exceeds belief, i
Professor Barry, after a careful examination of his I
sales-book, finds that the number of bottles de- i
livcred to order, in quantities of from half a gross
upward, during the year 1852, was within a trifle I
of 960,000. i
It ia unnecessary to present at lengin tnc cvidencea
of the wonderful properties of the Tricopheroua
when the public have furnished such an
endorsement as this. The cheapness of the article,
and the explanations given of its chemical action
upon the hair, the scalp, and in all cases of
superficial irritation, first recommended it to
the attention of the people. This was all that
the inventor desired. Every bottle advertised
itself. The effects of the fluid exceeded expec- .
tation. It acted like a charm. The ladies would !
not be without it. Country dealers in every '
section of the United States found they must 1
have it; and thus was built up a wholesale
trade of an extent hitherto unheard of as regards
articles of this kind. The highest point has not
yet been reached, and it is believed that the sales '
this year will be a million and a half of bottles.
Depot and manufactory, No. 137 Broadway, New '
York. Retail price, 26 cents a large bottle.
Liberal discount to purchasers by the quantity. '
Sold by all the principal merchants and druggists 1
throughout the United States and Canada, Mexi- 1
co, West Indies, Great Britain, France, &c., by
S. PARKER, Pcnn. avenue,
And A. LAMMOND, 7th street,
June 4?d&triw6m* Washington.
RANKE'S CIVIL WAR8 AND MONARCHY
IN FRANCE in the 16th and 17th centuries; I
a History of France during that Period. 1vol. i
The Life and Letters of Doctor Olin, late Presi
dent of the Wcsleyan University. 2 vols.
For sale at TAYLOR & MAURY'S
June22 Bookstore, near 9th st.
By the President of tb.? United
IN pursuance of law, I, MILLARD FILLMORE,
President of the United States of America, do
hereby declare arid make known that public sales
will be held at the undermentioned Land Offices
in the State of WISCONSIN, at the periods hereinafter
designated, to wit:
At the Land Office at WILLOW RIVER, commencing
on Monday, the Becond day of May
nest, for the disposal of the public lands situated
within the undermentioned townships and fractional
townships, vis:
North of tht bote line and west of the fourth principal
meridian.
Township forty nine and fractional township
fifty, on certain islands and the main shore of Lake
Superior, of range three.
Fractional township fifty, on the main shore of
Lake Superior, of range four.
Township forty nine, and fractional townships
fifty and fifty one, on the main Bhore of Lake So-1
perior, of range seven.
Township forty nine and fractional township
fifty, on the shore of Lake Superior, of range eight.
Fractional townships forty nine and fifty,on the
ahnrn nf T.alrn Qnnnrin^ nI ronwa ninn
Townships twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, and
thirty two; townships forty seven and forty eight
and fractional township forty nine, on the shore
of Lake Superior, of range ten.
Townships twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty,
thirty one, and thirty two, and fractional township
forty nine, on the shore of Lake Superior, of
range eleven.
Townships thirty, thirty one, thirty two, thirtythree,
and thirty four, and fractional township
forty nine, on Lake Superior, of range twelve.
Townships thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirtythree,
and thirty-four, of range thirteen.
Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three,
and thirty four, of range fourteen.
Townships thirty one, thirty two, thirty three,
and thirty four, of range fifteen.
At the Land Office at LA CROSSE, commencing
on Monday, the sixteenth day of May next, for
the disposal of the public landB within the following
named townships, to wit:
North of the bate line and wett of the fourthprincipa
meridian.
Townships seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen,of
range one.
Townships twenty-oneand twenty two, of range
six.
Townships twenty-oneand twenty-two, of range
seven.
Townships twenty-one, twenty two, twentythree,
and twenty-four, of range eight.
Townships twenty one, twenty two, twentythree,
and twenty-four, of range nine.
Townships twehty-one, twenty-two, twentythree,
twenty four, and twenty five, of range ten
Townships twenty four and twenty five, ofrange
eleven
At the Land Office at STEVENS POINT, commencing
on Monday, the ninth day of May next,
for the disposal of the public lands situated within
the limits of the undermentioned townships, to
wit:
North of the bate line and eatt of the fourth principal
meridian.
Township twenty five, of range four.
Townships twenty five, twenty seven, twenty
eight, twenty nine, thirty, thirty one, and thirty
two, of range five.
Township twenty five, of range six.
Sections eighteen, nineteen, thirty, and thirty
one, in iown6nip iweniy nve, 01 range seven.
Townsbips twenty five and twenty six, of range
ten.
Township twenty five, of range eleven.
At the Land Office at MENASHA, commencing
on Monday, the twenty third day of May next, for
the disposal of the public lands within the following
named townships, viz:
North of the baseline and ea?t of the fourth principal
meridian.
Townships twenty two and twenty three, of
range thirteen.
Lands appropriated by law for the use of schools,
military and other purposes, together with "those
swamp and overflowed lands made unfit thereby
for cultivation," if any, which shall be selected by
the State authorities before the days appointed for
the commencement of the public sales respectively,
under the act entitled "An act to enable the State
of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the
'swamp lands' within their limits," approved
September 28, 1850, will be excluded from the
salet.
The offering of the above mentioned lands will
be commenced on the days appointed, and will proceed
in the order in which they are advertised, with
all convenientdesDatch. until the whole shall have
been offered, and the sales thus closed; but no sale
shall be kept open longer than two weeks, and no
private entry of the lands will be admitted until
after the expiration of the two weeks.
Given under my hand atthecity of Washington,
this first day of February, Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
MILLARD FILLMORE.
By the President:
John Wilson,
Comfnissioner of the General Land Office.
NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person entitled to the right of pre-emption
to any of the lands within the townships and
rroctional townships above enumerated is required 1
to establish the same to the satisfaction of the reg- i
istcrand receiver of the proper land office, and ,
make payment therefor at toonat practicable after
teeing this notice, and before the day appointed
for tho commencement of the public sale of the <
ands embracing the tract claimed, otherwiscsuch
claim will be forfeited.
JOHN WILSON,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Feb 3?lawlSw
POSTPONEMENT OF THE PUBLIC LAND
SALES IN WISCONSIN.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the public
sales of lands ordered by the proclamation of
the President of the United States, dated the first
lay of February, 1853, to be held at the followingnamed
Land Offices in the State of Wisconsin, to
wit: at the Land Offices at WILLOW RIVER,
LA CROSSE, STEVEN8' POINT, and MENA3HA?to
commence on the 2d, 16th, 9th, and 23d
of May next?arc declared to be postponed until
the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th of July next, toipectively.
Given under my hand at the city of Washington
this 18th day of April, Anno Domini one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-three.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President:
John Wilson,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.
April 20?lawl3w
LIBERTY STOVE WORKS Si IIOLLOWWARE
FOUNDRY, Philadelphia.
THE UNDERSIGNED respectfully inform the
public, that having still further enlarged and
improved their WORKS, and increased their facilities,
they are now prepared to execute orders for
itoves, hollow-ware, &c., on the most reasonable
erms.
They invite the attention of SOUTHERN and
WESTERN MERCHANTS to their large and extensive
assortment of NEW PATTERNS, all of
which have been got up at great expense, combining
originality and beauty of design, with durability,
utility, and economy in their operation,
comprising the most complete and varied assort- 1
ment oioiuj ivs over oirereo lor saic ; consisting ;
af Liberty Air-Tight Cook, for wood or coal; Com- f
plcte Cook ; Star Air-Tight; Star Franklin ; Star
Radiator; Fire King Radiator; Improved Jenny
Lind ; Cannon Stoves; Rases; Bare Cylinders; *
Bar-Rooms; Radiatcr Plates; Tea Kettles; Ran ,
ges; Gas Ovens, kc , kc
COUNTRY MERCHANTS desirous of ordering
by letter can have a list of prices sent by mail, con- <
taining drawings and descriptionsof all the differ- 1
ent varieties of Stoves, &c.
ABBOTT k LAWRENCE,
Brown St., above Fourth, Philadelphia. 1
Feb '2b -lawtiin* i
THE REPUBLIC.
Paris Correspondence of the Republic.
Paris, June 27, 1853.
The Moniteur has of late boon retrieving its reputation,
as an attractive and vigorous newspaper,
which had began to be seriously compromised.
Nobody had been exiled, nobody's property had
been confiscated, and no startling fiat whatever
had gone forth, for two months at least. On
Tuesday afternoon at the Bourse there was a rumor
that the next day's Moniteur would contain
something novel, and, to the public in general,
unexpected. The spokesman was consulted on
the morrow with no little interest. There it was,
in the first column, under the heading Partie Offidelle.
The Ministry oTPolice was suppressed,
and de Maupas dethroned. The motive alleged
(remember, alleged) was that the calm and security
prevalent in the country were such that there
was no longer any necessity of the ministry,
"which had been instituted under exceptional circumstances."
De Maupas was put in among the
Senators, as a consolation, (as if that could console
anybody for any thing,) and would shortly I
bo sent somewhere in a diplomatic capacity. The
more important officers in the department were
advanced in the Legion of Honor, if they were
| already in it, and set agoing in it if tlioy were yet
outsiders.
Of course, the "calm and security" business is
a mere pretext to cover the real motive, which is
none other than a desire on the part of the Emperor
and the other members of the Cabinet to rid
themselves of the society and co-partnership of de
Maupas. Though he held tho title of Ministor,
and has a seat at the cabinet councils, he was
not looked upon as quito at par by the others, and
he gradually became intrusive and importunate
with his advice and his pretensions. It became
necessary to shako him off; and Louis Napoleon's
way is always to clap the individual to be dispensed
with into tho institution called the Senate,
otherwise known as Chelsea Hospital, or the Hefugo
for tho Destitute. The Pay# and Patrie called
upon the country to rejoico at this reward of
merit, and this accession of dignity in the person of
the late Minister. A day or two afterwards de
Maupas was appointed Ambassador to Naples,
the Ambassador already there being transferred to
Belgium, and the envoy there being recalled to
Paris in the capacity of a Councillor of State. So
ends de Maupas; to be put out of the cabinet and
sent away on a mission is, in France, perfectly
well understood to be a political downfall.
Now, as to the suppression of the Ministry of
Police. The department is no longer a ministry,
but it existed under form of a "Direction de Surete
Generate," as a bureau attached to the Ministry
of the Interior; and a prefect, who had signalized
himself by unscrupulous obedience, is called in
from the Department of the Aube to take charge
of it. To all intonts and purposes the ministry
is still maintained, only the presiding officer is
not a member of the Cabinet. The "calm and
security" are not such as to enable the Emperor
to dispense with the action of these bureaus.
Three weeks ago the Emperor proposed to the
Legislative Body a guillotine law for the repression
of insurrection and barricades, which is strikingly
at varianco with tho calm and security now so
complacently referred toi Four weeks ago the
budget, containing the appropriations for the
Ministry of Police for the year 1853, was submitted
to the Legislature and voted. The appropriation
will doubtless be applied to the purposes
intended, notwithstanding the declared suppression
of the department.
Other motives, all working together, have conspired
to remove M, do Maupas. The Minister
of Police was a very unpopular innovation. The
Minister of the Interior did not like it, for it somewhat
circumscribed his action. The Minister of
State thought that do Maupas watched him unnecessarily
closely, and had been for some time
anxious for his removal. The country prefects
complained that their hands were no longer free, I
and sent serious remonstrances to Paris. But
above all, the Prefect of Police of this city felt
annoyed and harassed by the supervision exercised
by a man who, he felt, was loss acquainted
*dth the mattor in hand than himself. Their attributes
were not so clearly defined as to obviate
clashing and interference. It was said, too,va
fortnight ago, that dc Maupas was totally ig/io- 1
rant of some conspiracy that Pietri the premcT"
lad discovered in all its ramifications. It was
then represented to the Emperor that do Maupas
ivas useless, and his removal was urgently pressed
ay Pietri, Fould, and Porsigny. All these considerations
have doubtless had their influence in
cringing about the result I liavo described.
The same number of the official journal contained
several other mutations in the departments.
Agriculture and Commerce are taken away from
the Interior, and absorb the Public Works, making
a. new ministry out of the whole. M. Magna,
lead of the latter department, and 0110 of the 1
most oificiont oflicors of the government, becomes 1
minister of the consolidated departments, 1
Then, again, we have a batch of nominations I
to the Senate?more cases of destitution. Pros- 1
icr Morionec, of the Institute, is made Senator '
>ecause he has done a good deal of writing of late
for the Mnnileur, and 1 supposo it was part of the '
>argain. Ilergcr, prefect of the Seine, (upper '
municipal officer of Paris,) on account of his long e
icrvices in lhat capacity, and also in compensa- 1
ion for liis removal. Tlio Marquis of Lavalctte,
ate ambassador to Constantinojde, in tardy con- t
lideration ofbis late ignominious recall from that n
lost and liis non-appointment to any other diplo- c
natic station. It. was said three months ago that c
his indemnification for his disgrace was offered t
lim, but that La Marquise do Lavalettc, an c
\mcriean lady, indignantly refused it, as she np- t
ireciated the Senate in its real light, and under- I
itood that her husband's diplomatic career was t
>vor if he accepted it. If this wns true, it would <1
tppenr that reflection has brought other councils, a
ind that the second offer was received in a differ- 1
jut lYame of mind. There is nothing like sitting
in the stool of repentance for a few months; for a c
Frenchman who has lived all his life as an attache [
if the various successive governments, there is t
lothing ho awful as living mil of favor. He can- t
not endure estrangement, and rallies to each new c
rp? i "i ii T
sovereign in his turn. He gives in delighted and
ecstatic adhesions to every succeeding regime. If
he can't do better, he goes into the Refuge for the
Destitute; like M. de Lavalette, wears livery,
pockets 30,000 francs a year, and "does not oppose
the promulgation of the last law voted by the
Legislative Body."
Then again the Monileur announces that a
universal exhibition of the fine arts will take
place in Paris in 1855, conjointly with the Crystal
Palace Exhibition of the industrial arts of that
year. The usual exposition will not take place
in 1854, the two being united into one, so as to
improve the quality, and give the artists more
time.
Afler so many decrees devoted to the living, it
was but just that some attention should be paid to
the dead?the "illustrious dead," as the lyric
journals style the Pope's late nuncio, Monseigneur
Garibaldi, a man who was neither eminent for his
talents nor ins virtues, out wno represented tne
Holy Father at Paris. Orders had been asked of
the Pope what should be done with the body.
Louis Napoleon, while this question was travelling
south, decreed that it should be inhumed at
Notre Dame, "in order to render all possible honor
to the Catholic church." If the Pope should
want the body at Rome, we might havo reason to
regret so serious a difference of opinion.
It is curious to see the skilful manner in which
the obedient journals comment upon the accidents
happened to de Maupos and Berger. They keep
of course the downfall carefully out of sight, making
the most of what they are pleased to call the
additional dignity conferred upon them. Here is
the Constitutionnel upon de Maupas's mission to
Naples: "Under the ancient regime, ministers,
even those who own the name of Choiseul, rarely
left their posts except to retire in exile to their
country seats. Our modern political customs prevent
the chief of the State to be more just towards
services rendered; and the decree we have referred
to is an example of what, in different degrees,
awaits sincere devotion to the country and the
Emperor." On the increased duties of M. de
Persigny, the some paper holds forth thus: "With
the new organization of the Ministry of the Interior,
M. de Persigny bears a heavy burden; but it
is not beyond tho strength of the young and devoted
servant of Napoleon III." On the fall of
Berger, it goes off in this wise: "M. Berger lias
proved his capacity in difficult times; the services
which spangle his administrative career deserved
fliio liA?AvnKin rntrant " Hut itu rnmnflru tinnn TVT
de Lavaletto arc a chef d'auvre of address. That j
gentleman, as I have said, was,recalled for bungling.
Thus the Constitutionnel: "The services of
M. dc Lavalette are too vividly present to the
minds of all for us to recapitulate them here. He j
will bring to the discussions of the Senate the
fruit of his diplomatic experience." !
The successor of Berger as Prefect of the Seine
is M. Haussman, Prefect of the Gironde. I know
little about him, and his name is not familiar as
one that has been often signed at the foot of warnings
and communiques. However, the Constitutionnel
says of him (what it would have said, indeed,
of me or you had we been nominated instead of
him) that he is a firm and experienced administrator;
that his summons to Paris is the proper
coronation of a splendid departmental career,
and that ho obtains the prefecture of the Seine at
an'age in which he retains all the "activity necessary
for a post of this importance." This time,
however, the Constitutionnel was hard pressed for
a theme, and so it eulogized the man's age. It
will soon get to approving of nominations on account
of tho complexion or the hair of the nominees.
It is becoming difficult to keep paco with the
discoveries of relics, mounds, subterranean trea
sures, hidden mementos of centuries ago, that the
diggers and delvcrs in ail parts of the world are
unoartliing just now. We heard in one day of
three excavations with results of an interesting
antiquarian cliaracter. Marble columns, a colossal
cup of basalt a yard in diameter, and the old
Viva Triumphalis, have been discovered at Rome.
A man working in the Experimental Garden at
Bova, in Algeria, found underground a sort of arcado
containing forty-one statues of white marble,
and of groat boauty, all in perfect preservation.
He offered to make known the spot to the
Governor of Algeria on the payment of a large .
sum. Then at Lilleboune, in France, a man lias
come across ten yards of a wall painted red, and (
the ruins of a square basin, apparently used for
containing hot wator for baths. It is supposed :
to havo bocn constructed by the Romans. The ,
reservoir seems to have bocn heated by means of
flues.
A young man IQu* been condemned to thirteen ,
months' imprisonment for wearing illegally the
ribbon of the Legion of Honor. The necessity of (
such severe verdicts will bo at once apparent .
when I say that by means of the ribbon he was
onabled to pass himself olf as the nephew of M. ,
Casabianca and an officer in the Chasseurs dc Vin- ,
conncs; to obtain goods from a tailor and other j
tradesmen on credit, and to livo for six weeks at ,
t restaurant without paying a cent. Of course a (
>ortion of the verdict was for his swindling ope- (
ations, but the ribbon alone would havo entitled ,
lim to six months' durance. I
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n jlUUUrilllML VI iiuini nmci mi ttHU ?II WTC? t
and journey to California opens to-night at tlie t
3alle Barthelemy. ?It is doubtless one of the many |
sxhihitions of the kind that havo l>ecn offered ot t
ate to the inhabitants of your large cities. t
M. Mcry, the court poot, has translated from
he Spanish a drama in five acts, entitled fins- I:
nan le Brave. The manager of the Odeon ac- p
epted it for his opening pioce in September, on o
ondition that the consent of the Emperor be ob- t
aincd, as the Gunman in question wns an an. c
estor of the Empress. M. Mery road the play to a
heir majesties on Thursday evening, at St. Cloud.
<fo objection was made; on the contrary, the
ratislator was congratulated on his happy ren- 1
Icring and adaptation of the original. Perhaps
. snuff-box was also privately conforrod upon
lim, which would make the fourth in one year. (!
An artillerist of the battery of Vineennes sue- e
:cedod one day last week, at the exercises at the *'
olygon, in aiming a mortar with such precision
hat the l>omb, aflor having described an arc in
he air, fell into a hogshead placed at a distance tl
?f 1,400 feet, This Is seldom or never accom- o
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doin required. The sliurpshooter mud taken in
triumph to Paris in a wagon occupied with
boughs and flags, presented to the commander of
the fort, from whom ho received a gold watch,
the prize promised In such cases. He was then ?
carted back, and treated to a fete in tlie evening.
Appropo of the new Prefect of the Seine, it is interesting
to enumerate the several individuals who
have held this office since the division of France!
into departments, and the establishment of the
prefectures. Napoleon appointed Nicholas Frochot
in 1804, who held his place till 1812; Joseph
Gaspard succeeded him, and continued on, under
the restoration, till 1830. Under Louis Philippe,
Count Laborde, Odillon Bur rot, and Count Bondy
were prefects for a short time each, till June,
1833; then Count Rambuteau came in, and remained
till the 24th of February, 1848. Garvier
Pajes and Armand Marrast, who remained in the
office a month or two apiece, were called Mayors
of Paris. Trouve-Channel, who came in in July,
remained till he was succeeded by Recourt in Oc(nfuir
nnii l,v Ri>rtrpr. firm 11 v. on the 20th of Dfl
cember. And now, after five years' administration
of the office, Berger gives way to Haussman
of La Gironde.
It is worth while to visit the yard in this city
where the telegraph poles are prepared for their
duties. Oak poles are preferred; but a process
has been applied of late to cedars which renders
them quito as solid and durable as oak. They
are injected or embalmed with sulphate of copper,
which hardens and preserves the resin of the wood.
Every pole that has been put up in France is either
natural or artificial oak.
On Friday next the postage (if prepaid) on letters
from one part of Paris to unother is reduced
from three cents to two. Green stamps give way
on that occasion to bistre ones, which have thus
far enjoyed a very limited circulation, being employed
solely, I believe, to pay letters addressed
to soldiers on duty, correspondence with whom
was cheaper than with private individuals; except
of course when they helped to compose a
total only to be formed by a combination of
stamps.
You may be aware that St. Amaud, during
his stay at Hy?res, was cured of his ailments by
? tJitroioinn Tlifl F.mnflrnr rlo^irrd
I a. liuniucupauii^ l'JV Dlv,ia" ** ? ?
to see this wonderful doctor, and sent for him to
Paris, promising to cause a chaire of professorate t
of homoeopathy to be established at the Ecole dc
Medecinc. The doctor arrived in a high state of
exhilaration. But Paul Dubois, the Empress's 3
accoucheur, Valpcan, Cloquett, &c., &c., waited
upon his majesty and offered their resignations, to
take effect on the day when a homoeopathic prae- 1
titioner was admitted into the fraternity. The j
Emperor was forced to recede, and the gentleman
from the seacoast has returned to his border clients,
damaged in purse, and terribly disappointed
in hope and ambition.
Preparations have commenced, or rather plans,
ideas, projects, and suggestions have commenced,
for the national holiday of August 15. La St.
Napoleon, M. Visconti, the architect of the Louvre,
has been appointed Director of the Festivities.
No programme has yet been published; but ]
it is understood that there is to be a bombardment
of Algiers, in which that foolish little crafl, known
as the frigate Ecolc, is to bo the cannonading
party, and a wooden construction on the bank,
the beleagured city. Something is said too about
a colossal equestrian Napoleon, three hundred feet
high, in the middle of the Seine. Experiments are
making also with a novel sort of balloon, intended
for embarkation on that day. You may remember
that last year M. do Ravieu, Director of the
Beaux Arts, wasj tho ordonnateur ofthe/tffe; and
that the wind and the rain reduced all his efforts
and arrangements to nought. He fell, in consequence,
into disgraco with the President. He
il.? !??? Aivnv oavornlv nnH fillP of lli?4
lOll 111C 1UDO Ul IUYVI DWTViv.jr , ?
friends sent him a chocolate pistol to commit
suicide with.
The mayor of a country town called for sealed
proposals for the building of a school-house. The '
price below which the offers should be made was
fixed. Only two proposals were received; one offering
a reduction of zero, and the other one of one-fiflh
of a cent. The latter was accepted. The next day
the mayor, who thought there must be something
wrong, commenced an investigation, and found
out that the fifth-of-a-cent man had bribed all the
other builders of the locality to keep back, and
leave the field to him. He had signed an agreement
to pay 520 francs to those gentlemen. Ho
was handed over to the imperial procureur.
A letter trom aiyria says mat tnero is a supcrrtition
in that country to the effect that thunderstorms
and flashes of lightning may be conjured
by discharges of rockets and Chinese crackers;
that the fireworks of heavon, in fact, may bo
warned off by fireworks from below, feeling probably
that they cannot stand the competition and
contrast. A threatening cloud was some time
ago hovering over a wooden church, which the
inhabitants of the village were dreadfully afraid
ivould be struck and consumed. They consepicntly
got out all their fusees ami commenced u
annoniulc. One of the rockets lodged upon tho
oof of the church, set it 011 fire, nnd burned it to
he ground, together with the parson's house next
loor AI?oiit the snino moment that it eaucht
lie clouds broke away and dispersed, without. H
laving fired a singlo thunderbolt. 1 imagine I
hat there is one superstition less in the world
han there was several weeks since. I
The weather in France is extremely unfuvora- H
ile, and on all sides nothing is heart! but com- fl
>laints of the incessant rains anil of the overflow H
if rivers, and fears for the crop of breadstuff's and
he commoner sorts of wine. Prices are rising
very day, and the poor are really quite alarmed
,t the prospect. FRANCO.
Okra Hemp.?The Memphis Enquirrr, speak- H
ng of okra hemp, says:
'The fibre of tlie specimen before us is clean H
nd white, and between six and sevon feet in H
ctigili; while the cord, manufactured from it, in H
venness and smoothnoss, rivals any similar arti- H
le we have evor seen. Its relative strength with H
lat of Kentucky hemp is about as 7 is to 10. In H
noothncss and pliability it is superior to the Mn- H
ilia grass. We understand that about three H
lousand pounds can be gathered to the acre, and
mt the course of preparation is not more difficult H
r expensive than the common hemp." H