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JAMY », 1M«.
SATURDAY MORNING,
ßtt- Sdward B. Foster,....
Wilmington, is aatberized to
tioas, advertissmenta, Ac. for
_
President Johnson
essential quality, atTêsiït, of« great
and that is, the power to analyse human
to lack one
" the proper study of aaankind is
to have panned his studies, in
that particular field of knowledge,'to very
little purpose. It was not ao with Jack
son, Napoleon, and other men Of historic
celebrity. They were good judges of men,
lie
and possessed a sort of intuitive percep
tion of Rie character and qualities of those
around them. The consequence was, that
they always put the right man in the right
place. With President Johnson it
to be different. Hr does not know the
men with whom ha is brought into closest
official contact. At least we are unable to
explain his blunders upon any other hy
pothesis. He retained in his cabinet
who were hostile to hia policy and whose
discordant views disturbed the harmony
of hia political household. And he kept
in important positions ander the govern
aaent, men who had the power and the
will to thwart hia pitas, or at least to em
barrass him. And when, at last, he
■ would have removed some of these imped
imenta out of hie way, hia hands were
bound by the withe« of the tenure-of-office
bill. Gen. Grant was invested with the
port-folio of the War Department, and
the President remained profoundly igno
rant of hia overreaching duplicity until
Stanton was reinstalled In his place. A
counter movement was then attempted in
the field of political strategy, by the
atiou of a new military department, and
the 'appointment of Gen. Sherman to
mand, with head quarters in Washington,
and the rank of Brevet General. But
Sherman spurns the proffered honor ; the
President did not know his man. The
•flau: has occasioned some stir in political
circles, and not a !$£« comment. A
friendly correspondent in Washington,
feeling the embarrassment of tho " situa
tion," stepa forward and puts the beat free
upon the matter, of which it is suscepti
ble. He says:
cre
oom
As ett&t surprise bas been expressed at thé ac
tion of the President in nominating Sherman as
brevet General withoutaicertaicing his feeling* cn
tbe subject, and much curiosity exhibited to Team
what the purpoee of the Presir
stated, upon reliable authority, that Mr. Johnson
did not consider it necessary, saying nothing of
it* indelicacy, to name to General Sherman ia
advance and consult Urn in relation to a nomina
tion designed solely aa a compliment to the Gen
eral for Ms military services.
K can also be stated that the propriety
salting the Qener»l, both aa to hi* nomination as
Brevet General and *s to the order detailing him
to the command of the new Deportment of the At
lantic, was suggested to the President by a dis
tinguished gentleman now in this city, who is a
relative of General Sherman. Mr. Johnson
replied to the suggestion, that so far as the com
pliment intended for General Sherman is con
cerned, it should be bestowed voluntarily and
without Lia knowledge; it being one which he
could not possibly object, and one to which every
true soldier must appreciate. Aa to hi* being or
dered to the command of tbe Department of
Atlantic, or any other Department, it was enough
for him to know that General Sherman was s pa
triot, and ready to serve his country in any offi
cial position to which he might be assigned. It
is believed this was the only conference held by
the President with any one on the subject of the
nomination or the order, and no one has been
more surprised than Mr. Johnson himself at the
manner in which General Sherman is reported to
have received the news, and the President expres
ses the apprehension that some one has communi
cated to General Sherman statements which may
have created taise impressions which will,
doubt, be dissipated when all tbe tacts come to be
knows.
the
no
Anothee Revolution.— The New York
Journal of Commerce, which hsa all along
been hopeful that the troubles which
beset the oountry, as the fruit of radical
poliey, would blow over, begins now to
take the alarm. So we infer from the fol
lowing note pf warning which it places
conspicuously at the head of its leading
editorial oolumn :
. " It looks as if the seal' of those who
care more for party supremacy than for the
most vital interests of the country, and who
would rather ruin the land we love than
resign their rule over it, was about to
plunge headlong into s course that must
end in revolution. Those who have hither
to been the most hopeful are now gloomy
and feapondent, for madness seems to rule
the hour, *nd the folly of our legislators
appears to 6* without restraint. If the
oountry must pre, through the fire before
peace and unity oaa be restored, perhaps
it may ss well come no»
now
as teer.
The Senate on Thursday, retread to ad
mit the Hon. P. F. Thomas to hi* m*l, by
•4 28 to 21- The Legislature of
Maryland,, new in session, ought to
a» x
elect hire mun i n mnaly, and refuse to
elect any one *1 m, until her choice- is se
spcctcd.
To-day is the anniversary of rite birth
of tbs Father of, his- Country, sad if he
wen living bow, Me would be 186 years
old. He wm born «'Westmoreland conn
ty, Virginia, on the 22d of February,
1732.
The Notional Democratic Executive
Committee, Hen. August Belmont, ehsir
, will meet in Washington, to-day, to
select the tisse end place for holding the
next National Démocratie -Convention
Hon. Jeremiah 8. Black, of Pennsyl
vania, is mentioned as the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. Judge
Black is a very able man, and we should
rÄ$wl#*Cs§veÄi#&.
friends of Itr. Pendleton, of
of Mr. 8eys*our, of fjon)
o«t, should find him a very fermé
rival. They are all throe w
Ï3
Ohio
iti
ibl
worthy men,
and either of them would make a Chief
MlliMwW Mho would h»M tbebonor and
prosperity of this nation, and the liberties
of ite people, as dear as the apple (if his
•yn. -cW* believe that the
ny and enthusiasm will pervade ty* Con
vention, and that its candidate will unite
the friends of constitutional liberty in
great and mighty effort to rescue our be
loved oountry from impending ruin. Nev
er did so deep a feeling pervade the bos
oms of the democratic masses. Never
were they so terribly in earnest. Never
did the country pass through so fearful a
crisis, and never were its liberties in such
one
immi n e nt peril. . It is no time to differ
about men. Nor will they differ. Having
presented their standard-bearer and a unfurl
ed their banner to the breeze, they will
1 march forward, shoulder to shoulder,
seating an unbroken. front to the enemy,
to certain and assured victory. It cannot
pre
be otherwise, unless as a people
wo are
given over to judicial blindness, and
doomed to utter and irretrievable ruin.
Maryland oratory is called into requisi
tion in the spirited campaign which is go
iog on in New Hampshire. Montgomery
Blair speaks on one side, and ex-Senator
Creswell on the other. Both parties seem
» W 0—1» » ,b.
on acoouut of the bearing the result is ex
pected to have on the Presidential elec
tion.
Three State elections occur shortly :—
In New Hampshire on the second Tues
day of March ; in Connecticut on the first
Monday of April ; and in Rhode Island
the first Wednesday of April.
OB
Philadelphia, Wilmington end Unit. R. R.
The thirtieth annual report of this
road for the year ending October 31st,
1867, gives the following exhibit of
ceipta for the several stations on that read,
as well as on the Delaware Rail Road. It
will be-seen that Middletown is the most
important station on the line of the Dela
ware road, and pays more into the trea
sury of the company.
The statement of reeeipts ( exclusive of
Delaware State tax ) at each station shows
the following: Receipts at Philadelphia,
$295,564 45; Chester, $32,000 50; Wil
mington,$116,606 12; Elkton, $14,880,
60; Havre de Grace, $18,171 40; Balti
more, $182,545 68. This is on the main
road.- The receipts from stations on the
Delaware road were as follows : New Castle,
$9,166 60; St. George's, $3,619 80!
Mount Pleasant, $2,263 95; Middletown,
$16,718 40 ; Townsend, $2,340 50; Black
bird; $1,360 95; Clayton, $9,237 10;
Smyrna, $13,642 40; Moorton, $1,464,
50; Dover, $15,355; Camden, $5,454 36 ;
Felton, $6,835.60; Harrington, $7,443,
94; Milford, $14,699 75; Farmington,
$839,85 ; Greenwood, $1,046.05; Bridge
ville, $7,503 80; Seaford, $7,440-35;
Laurel, $6,82215; Salisbury, $11,799,
40; Princess Anne, $14,982 7o; West
over, $1,046 80; Kingston, $774 10;
Marion, $425,80 : Chrisfield, $5,691 20.
On the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore railroad, the total number of
local passengers carried from Philadelphia
to all stations was 267,586; to Philadel
phia from all stations, 265,222 ; from Ches
ter to other stations, 109,977, of whom
84,991 went to Philadelphia; to Chester
from other station«, 102,561, of whom
85,254 eame from Philadelphia; from
Wilmington to other stations, 112,778, of
whom 81,138 went to Philadelphia, 8,095,
to Chester, 1,136 to Linwood, 1,181 to
Claymont, 1,264 to Newport, 1,215 to
Stanton, 4,664 to Newark, 2,967 to Elk
ton, 2,287 to North East, 4,806 to Balti
more, and the remainder to other stations ;
to Wilmington from other stations, 119,
322, of which number 81,820 were from
Philadelphia, 8,417 from Chester, 1,053
from Linwood, 1,181 from Clàymont, 813
from Newport, 912 from Stanton, 4,478
from Newark, 2,775 from Elkton, 2,157
from North East, and 3,644 from Balti
more ; from Baltimore to other stations,
86,211; to Baltimore frem other stations!
87,999.
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Prrtsstakt Cksnkes I» te. Hatred Stares.
The report of the state of religion in the
United States, prepared by Rev. Henry B.
Smith, D. D. of the Union Theological
Seminary, and presented to the Grand
Conference of the Evangelical Alliance,
and recently in session in Amsterdam, is
s document of great interest and value,
containing within a small compass a. vast
amount of information in regard to the
state and progress of religion in this
try. We condense from it the annexed
statistics which will be found convenient
for relkrenee:
coun
Churches. Communicants.
10,460 2,000,000
lt,220 1,690,000
5,000 700,000
V900 »23,800
• 367,400
. 2,300 161,200 '
. 1,160 ]jo ooo
Dutch Reformed- 440 60 000
United Brethren about 3,000 Societies ; Moravi
ans about 12,000 Communicants ; Unitarians
about3,000Churches; Univamatjutsinclndeabout
600,000 of the population ; Quakers, Orthodox
about 54,000 Members; Hicksitesabout 40,000. '
Baptist.
Presbyterian.
Lutheran. . .
Congregational_
Protestant Bpisoopal
German Reformed—
Hon. Cbssihe M. Clay is ex peered to re
turn to his home in Kentucky * Miry.
There are 8,000 servhit girls out of em
ployment in New York city.
> Trantcript.
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lisps,
Messes. Editor* : — "Come let ns rea
son together," for crimination and recrim
i? mt igo jmBgt accomplish it," these are
feh Plus Ultra employs in
rate article wherein he ad
Ip his own satisfaction per
Jhe minds of Plummet, Ob
liges Point. One must in
f assume the position of dic
and mter in matters pertaining to
mooted general topics, and hold a sceptre
of infinite power over, the heads of those
who differ essentially from his channelled
tW« gM r * l ' BlB I' W É B y IHUn lftsafeM.Tn*
adveutiadyeivMfd by an apology charac
teristic of maiden coynéss.' ' We bow htlm
W s h e art felt ash n sw l edgemcnts and-greet
right royally the voluntary adviser who
courteously makes his devoir.
Plus Ultra is a gentleman of broad phi-,
lanthropic views, a political economist es
chewing legal tender*, seeking a system of
trade Where the husbandman
nerate the manufacturer directJy by the
growth, and pay of crude material. Mis
construeing literal language by verbosity
of stylo, he conveys the impression that
Georges Point denies to his brother a right
of traffic, and tends him words, with
mendabte gallantry, which were not found
or ever «thought of in his vocabulary .
Turning a point, and travelling
unexplored from the legitimate avenue in
which Plummet, Observer and Georges
Point ever trod, with slight praise, and
considerable censure, this chivalrous ei
quire lofty and proud with scrutinizin
glance surveys those more ignoble,
with rare astuteness unfolds a plan whereby
all may seek wealth and emolument.
Following the beaten track of dispara
gers, taking the' stand of a manufacturer,
(if he is hot one) ho chsts a stigma
agriculturists generally, when he gives
vent to the assertion that the farmers
quire tinkering, and conveys unmistake
ably the idea that they are a set of uni
versal botchers. ' ' There is more tinker
the
ver
be
so
can remu
eoiu
a road
an<
, ,
the line pf the Delaware Railroad."
"Comelet us reason together." The for
mer part of this quotation we acknowledge
to be true, but the latter we deny in tote,
wherein he alludes to new work, .i
Thousands of dollars are annually ex
pended for the purchase of new machinery,
which would pass directly into the hand of
the manufacturer here, but which because
of his inertness, bt for want of capital to
build, goes into the safes of paid agente,
the salesmen of ^ity contractors, who stand
ever ready to furnish implements requisite
for the cultivation of a generous soil and
production of cereal crops. From a gar
den hoe to a steam thrashing machine,
more new machines are yearly bought and
sold here, we venture to assert, than in
any other town and country on the Dela
ware Railroad, pr Railroads called by
other naines. , The tinkering suggests
several thoughts; it js partly owing to the
negligence of farmers themselves who de
lay thp supervision of implements till the
very moment they are needed, hurrying
the mechanic to complete a job in a short
time which requires more careful notice,
and greatly to the foot that machines put
together are not properly constructed at
the start to stand that severe strain, and
wondering rush to which they are driven.
" That there is less new machinery used,"
we need not appeal to a very high order of
intelligence to refute, for the most casual
observer knows that the former who does
not own a wheat-drill, reaper, or thrash
ing machine, is the rara avis of the com
munity.
But Plus Ultra wants the mechanio to
forge hia, horse shoes, with butter, and
mould his castings in egg baskets. While
he admits that the old system of long
credits has been abolished, he denies *to
Plummet and Observer time for relaxation
or mental culture, grinding them down
honestly to the sobriquet of hard-fisted
mechanics. This laconio gentleman "to
the manor born" gives seasonable advice,
and clothing his asperity with musical
acceut, tells the agriculturist to give undi
vided attention to bin form, makes Obser
ver drop the pen by press of business,
while he, the leisurable one, monopolises
the trade and drives the quill with
geance. Pleasant homes, rural landscapes,
rosy faces, bounteous harvests, and cloud
less skies, loom up through the misty mir
age of his fertile fancy, while credit
mains where she first made her debut,
viewing the mortal throes of anguish which
convulse old mountain laboring tor the
production of her mouse.
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a ven
re
Geokge's Point.
For At Middletown Trunteript.
Messes. Editors: —From present ap
pearances there can scarcely be a doubt
but that a Hail will be erected in Middle
town this year, which we expect to be
ornament to our town, and will doubtless
reflect credit upob the originators and
movers in the enterprise. While we con
gratulate ourselves upon this improvement
we turn our eyes in another direction and
wonder why it is that the Rail Road Com
pany has not provided us with better and
comfortable
an
accommodations at its
passenger depot here. That improvement,
radical improvement u necessary in that
quarter, no one will doubt; but why it
Has not been mode we presume no one out
side of the Company can satisfactorily ex
plain, and we doubt if any one inside con.
We observe in travelling up and down
the rood that buildings suitable to the com
fort and convenience of passengers have
been erected at other -Stations npt any
important in point of revenue to the
Company, and which in feet contribute leg*
in ' number of paagenger* and tons of
freight than Middletown does.
This fact con be proven by extracts
from the Company's report for the y
1867, by referring to which we find tn
were transported to and from Middletown
14,570 passenger* ; to aqd from Smyrna
11,806, sud to and from Dover 11,450.
By these figures it will be seen that Mid
dletown b » excess of Smyrna 2,764 pas
sengers; and in excess of Dover 8,120
passenger«. Daring the some period there
jwere transported to, and from Middletown
9,711 tons of freight: to ana from Smyrna
7,261 tons; to sod from Dover 2,946
tong ; Knowing Middîetowh to be in excess
of Smyrna 2,450 tons, load in excees of
more
more
ear
ere
Dover 6,766 ton». These figures are given
in round numbers leaving off the decimal
part of a ton in each case. Of this freight
there were of grain from Middletown 876,
070 bushels; from Smyrna 287,704 bush
els ; from Dover 28,424 bushels ; showing
that Middletown exceeded Smyrna in ship
ment of grain 88,866 bushels and Dover
847,646 bushels.
Notwithstanding these facts the present
aeoomssodations at this station an con
temptible—yea, horrible. They consist
simply of a building noticeable for its sise,
erected as if to serve the requirements of
a granary above, and far the storage of
freight below.
The oustomary arrangements for the
comfort of passengers are in this skeleton
of a building entirely neglected. Two
dirty, cold, comfortless rooms, perfumed
with guano and phosphates, destitute of
furniture, except a few rickety settees,
constitute the waiting rooms; to reach
these passengers have to cross two Kail
Road tracks and ascend a doien steps, in
order to obtain tickets ; recross to the
platform at the imminent risk of being
crushed between the cars of tho freight
train, that with itsunmeaning changes is
one of the standard arrangements for pas
senger train time ; frequently in an agony
of fear while the long freight train passes
I before being able to cross and eaten the
passenger train by mere merit of
uch is the present state of affairs
at our Rail Road station ; but we hope
fully look for ' * something to turn up" for
the time to arrive, when the spirit of im
provement may penetrate the inmost re
cesses of "the powers that be," when a
building suitable to the oomforts of pas
sengers and worthy of our patronage,
shall find itself among the things that are.
Micawdkr.
Middletovm, February, 19tÄ, 1868.
mornm
limb.
Startling Fact*.
In a speech at Mansfield, Ohio, Hon.
A. G. Thurman, United States Senator
elect, stated some facts which are well cal
culated to impress the North with the di
rect interest which they have in restoring
the peace and prosperity of the South.
Speaking of the taxes derived from inter
nal revenue alone, Mr. Thnrman Bays that
the amount paid by the whole ten of the
Southern States for the last fiscal year was
$19,098,749; in the same year Ohio paid
$26,081,409, so that the Southern States,
wich formerly paid their full share, if not
more, of the taxation of the country,
now so reduoed that, in the last fiscal year,
Ohio paid $5,887,000 more than them all.
Senator Thurman then undertakes to de
monstrate that the taxation of the people of
this country is far greater than ever was
imposed upon any people. In the last fis
cal year, hve hundred millions were col
lected in taxes by the general government
alone. The taxes oollected by the States
amount to not quite two hundred millions
more, making the entire taxation, in round
numbers, seven hundred millions of dol
lars. The gross annual production of the
industry of the United States, according to
the census of 1860, was two thousand mil
lions of dollars. Allowing for the dimin
ished production of the South, and for in
creased prices, it is not supposed to be
greater now. Thus more than one-third
of the whole annual produot of the indus
try of the country ia absorbed by taxation.
Mr. Thurman then proceeds to inquire
what ia the net profit of the production of
this oountry, and taking as a standard the
average
borrowed
are
rate at which money istaaned and
i, that being a rule laid down by
every writer on political economy to obtain
an approximate idea of the net profits of
the production of a oountry, and assuming
ten per cent, as the average rate of inter
est in the United States, which is certain
ly high enough, the net profits of the in
dustry of the United States, os the produc
tions of agriculture and manufactures of all
kinds, would be two hundred millions of
dollars. Thus taxation draws from the
people five hundred millions a year more
than the net profits of all tho producing
industry of the United States—a great por
tion of the non-productive employments,
those engaged in buying commodities and
selling them again, who, though securing
large individual gains, do not increase the
wealth of the country a particle. Yet the
startling fact remains that one-third of the
gross annual product of the industry of the
country is absorbed by taxation. Such
is the price which the
to pay so long as a policy is pursued which
renders necessary large military establish
ments and freedmen's bureaus, and which
hands over one of the largest and formerly
most productive sections of tho country to
increasing impoverishment and the pros
pect of ultimate ruin .—Baltimore Sun.
must continue
Wm. M. Swain, one of the founders of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, died
Sunday morning last, after a long illness;
aged 59 years. He was one of tho propri
etors of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Swain
was a native of Onondagua county, New
York. He was one of the most thorough
masters of the printing business and suc
cessful newspaper publishers in this coun
try, being the first to recognize the great
value of Hoe's rotary printing machine,
and the first press of that kind was used by
him and his partners in the Philadelphia
Ledger office. For eighteen years he was
President of the Magnetic Telegraph Com
pany, and for many years a director in the
American Tolegraph Company. He
lorgely instrumental in organizing, perfect
ing, and increasing tbe telegraph system
of the United States ; and was a man of
great intellectual ability and force of char
acter.
on
was
The Delawabe Fisheries. —At the
meeting of the City Council of Philadel
phie, on rite 13th, a petition was received
from sixty-seven residents of Penn's Neck,
Ni J., who are interested in gill fishing in
Delaware, asking Councils to adopt
some plan to protect the interests of the
fishermen. Tne petitioners say that the
refuse matter from the Gas Works is de
posited during tbs winter season in im
mense quota titrés at the mouth of «fee
Schuylkill, where fe lie« until the spring
freshets wash it «ut inte the Delaware
The shad draw this substance into ' their '
gills, causing their bodies to become im
pregnated, and unfit for use.
the
The State af Karape.'
It is rumored in England that Lord
Stanley will shortly succeed Earl Derby
at the head of the government. The lat
ter is fast failing in health, and the pres
sing and stirring events of the times make
it necessary that an active and vigorous
statesman should be at the helm in order
to guide the Ship of State oleitr of tho
breakers by which itj| surrounded. Kng
1 —J :- passing through a political crisis
at this time. On the Continent her power
and influence are in the " sere and yellow
loaf." Jt culminated during the Crimean
war, when France
assumed the lead in
military matters, and held* it in the face of
the world. Since that time the position
Of England among the Great. Powers has
been advisory rawer than commanding.
At home, changes of a vitally important
character have taken place during the past
year. The elective franchise has been
altered, enlarged, extended, and
than a million of voters have been added
to the elective roll. Tho reform bill
wide step in the direction of popular suf
frage, mid tho new Parliament may yield
to the popular demand and push on the
column still farther in that direction. It
has been said revolutions never go back
ward, and this may be tho case in Eng
land. Discontent in Ireland, murmnrings
in England, the bold doctrines proclaimed
by Bright and other reformers, and the
evident leaning of some Of the hitherto
leaders of the anti-reform party, towards
still more radical changes in the political
system of the kingdom, are signs presa
ging a revolution in England that will
take power from the favored few, and place
in the hands of a more diffused constitu
ency. This is the futnre Which England
must face, and it is no wonder she is cal
ling upon her young and capable states
men to assume the roins of power.
France the semi-official journals deny
that there will be any immediate change
in the Ministry, and contradict the report
that the government contemplates impor
tant alterations in the Constitution of the
Empire. The fréquent recurrence of such
rumors is Some proof that they are not to
tally without foundation 1 . As systems
changé in Enrope, Napoléon miist change
with them. Hé canfiot make the laws of
France like those of the MCdcs and Per
sians—unalterable. Bismarck has
lutionized the whole of Central Europe,
and in Russia the Czar has perfected some
important reforms. These are indications
of a movement in the Old World with the
view of meeting whatever there may be
in the future. France cannot ignore these
facts, especially when it is certain that the
Bourbons are conspiring with a view of
claiming the sceptre of that kingdom at
the death of thé present ruler, if not be
fore. If, therefore, Napoleon would per
petuate his dynasty, be must follow the
example of Englaqd, and meet the change
of the current witfi^a new set at the helm.
The present year will be an eventful
in Europe, and the beginning of the next
may find a new condition of affairs in many
of the leading nations .—Philadelphia Age.
If nations, like individnals, derive a
certain oonsolation from the misfortunes of
their neighbors, the United States ought
to be very cheerful indeed in contempla
ting the difficulties under which France la
bors just at present. Jealous of Prussia,
bothered about Rome, having to contend
with the ill-will of foreigners and the dis
content of its own citizens, with a deficit
in the budget, a press that has to be
zle by force, and an army that, has to be
increased by most stringent means, Louis
Napoleon, who weara his crown bv the
Grace of God we suppose, as most
rors do, must secretely confess
most thorny one.
Of the actual condition of France and of
the feeling of the people, we know littlo.
One is not likely to learn much of a coun
try where a book is suppressed before it is
issued, if it contain any satire upon the
Government, and where editors, not only
have to sign every article they write, but
are liable in addition to heavy fines and
imprisonment for commenting freely even
upon the debates of the Assembly. It was
but a few weeks since that we received
news of the incarcertion of several of them,
and it is not to be wondered at that the
revision of the Military Laws and the dis
cussion of the Law of the Press have edi
ted, little or no comment. Still the debates
are very important aB giving some indica
tion of the true condition of France and
the feeling that pervades society. It is
not probable that a nation can be threat
ened with a draft of 400,000 men, and
still be perfectly indifferent to it. Russia
has now 1,440,000 men, effective force
a war footing. Austria has 1,200,000
men, independent of her National Guard.
The confederation of Northern Germany
has 1,300,000 men. Italy has 900,000
men, including National Guard and vol
unteers. These four Continental Powers
can put 5,000,000 men on a war footing
at a short notice. France, which had
800,000, has determined to raise its effec
tive force to 1,200,000. It has to be done
and Louis Napoleon docs not wish to have
it discussed .—Baltimore Gazette.
A special dispatch from Madrid to the
New York Herald, states that the Cariist
leaders have commeneed a revolution in
the north of Spain, against Queen Isabel
la's crown, and fighting has already taken
place between the insurgents and the civil
officers of the government in Navarre.i
Revolutionary manifestoes were printed
headed with a wood cut likeness of a grand
son of Don Carlos, the young man being
styled Charles the Seventh, of Spain.
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Rev. Me. Tyno's Teial.— The trial of
Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr. was brought
to a conclusion in New York on Tuesday.
Judge Fullertou made an argument for the
defense, and Mr. S. P. Nash mode the
dosing argument for the presenters. The
court then recited the canon directing them
in the further proceedings, and adjourned.
This ends the cose for rite present. The
next step will be the report of the court's
decision to the Bishop, who will then be
called on to act upon it.
tion!
'
The New Jerecy Senate bee passed rite
resolutions withdrawing the ratification, ef
the fourteenth amendment of the- Conatitu
A t>oy fifteen and s girl of fourteen hove
been married in Cincinnati.
States a# News.
There has bee
lyi squabble in the con
stitutional convention of Florida. Five of
the members of Urn convention tjere noto
riously ineligible, one«f them being a col
ored British subject, Mgd,the dteEjiavi
but recently arrived in the Stele from (
s
North. The President of the noAventipn
ruled that foreigners and
were eligible to Seats, and
peal from this deoisiolf without« two-third
vote. A majority of the convention, con
sisting of twenty-one whites and four ne
groes, all eligibly, thereupon seceded. leav
mg a minority of twenty-one, oomposed of
negroes and the ineligible members. A
constitution was then adopted by this mi
nority in secret session, and it now awaits
instructions from General Meade before
adjourning.
The President has received a letter from
Gen. Sherman relative to the brevet rank,
and the new military department, giving
his reasons for declining- both. The Pres
ident has revoked the order assigning
Sherman to the command in Washington,
but he has not revoked the order establish
ing the new division. He will probably
assign some one else to this command.
Judge Underwood, at Richmond, has re
manded Churchill Coombs to the custody
of the military, deciding that Congress not
having yet declared peaoe, the oourts have
no right to take prisoners from military
custody. The case will be appealed to the
Supreme Court.
On Monday the 10th inst. Mr. Paine
offered a resolution in the House of Rep
resentatives, to the efiect that the seat of
Government of the United States ought to
be removed to the valley of the Mississip
pi. The vote on it was strictly sectional,
and stood ayeB 77, nays 97.
Mr. Burlingame, Chinese Ambassador
to the United States and to the Powers of
Europe, will leave China on the 25th inst.
with a suite of thirty persons to proceed to
the execution of his mission, it is said
that the mission will be permanent.
Advices from Hayti, by the Cuba cable,
state that Salnave'a army has been defeated
by the Caco rebels on the frontier. Gen
eral Alexis committed suicide, and Gener- 1
al Nord imeurredthe mistrust of President
Salnave, who deprived him of his rank and
honors.
Admiral Bell, of the United States Na
vy, Lieutenant Reid, and ten sailors
drowned at the mouth of Osoca River, Ja
pan, on the 11th of January last, whilst
attempting to cross the bar in an open bout.
In the South Carolina Convention, after
a long ciicussion, a resolution has passed
asking Congress to appropriate one million
of dollars to purchase lands, to be parcelled
out among the poorer classes.
The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia
is to make a visit to his daughter; the
Queen of the Greeks, in the spring.. Eu
rope is somewhat alarmed to observe that
he is to be escorted by a strong squadron,
which is now fitting out.
The Grand Jury in the city of Philadel
phia, has found true bills against the deal
ers recently arrested for selling indecent
illustrated New York papers.
General George B. McClellan
offered by President Johnson the mission
to England, as successor to Mr. Adams,
resigned.
The Florida Conventionists are still at
issue, General Meade has advised them to
settle their differences, expunge their re
cords and commence ahew.
It is thought that the Philadelphia Con
ference will be divided at the March ses
sion, or by the General Conference in
May, and most likely by State lines.
The latest advices from Japan state that
a serious revolution has broken out there.
The Kansas Legislature has passed
act permitting women to practice law.
Mr. Sullivan, the editor of the Dublin
Nation, has been tried in Dublin on the
charge of publishing seditious libels, and
found guilty.
The English Government is about to
bring into Parliament an Irish Reform bill.
It is officially announced that the Brit
ish Government intend to purchase all the
telegraph lines in the kingdom.
The Conservative State Convention of
Tennessee, met at Nashville on Saturday
last, and adopted resolutions in support of
the President's policy and declaring Mr.
Johnson the choioe of the Democratic and
Conservative people of Tennessee for the
next Presidency.
The Washington correspondent of the
radical Chicago Republican says that Mr.
Washburne wrote all General Grant's let
ters to the President.
The Annual statement of the Chester
county prison shows that the total expendi
tures for the last year were 89,868.80, of
which $4,265.82 were paid by the labor
of the prisoners and $6,600 by drafts from
the County treasury. The principle arti
cles manufactured are carpeting, cheeks
and tickings.
In Buenos Ayres, at last accounts, the
cholera wae raging. During December,
ninety persons died of tho disease in the
city of Buenos Ayres in a single day, and
forty thousand persons are said to have left
on account of tne epidemic.
At the charter election held in Reading,
Pa. last Friday, Dr. Heister M. Nagle,
democrat, was chosen city auditor by a ma
jority of 336, a democratic gain of 355 on
the vote of last year.
The State Capitol of California has cost
to the present time $800,000 in gold, and
will require as much more to complete it.
One man was killed and three others
were injured by the explosion of a locomo
tive at Lowell, Mass, on Tuesday.
No less than twenty-four ships loaded
with teas are now due in New York, from
the East.
The Episcopalians of California have
raised $100,000 to found a college at San
Jose.
The Fenians of the Pacific coast are re
ported to be preparing for a raid on the
British territory.
The fruit growers thsoaghont Indiana
ort that thus far no one peach bud in a
undred has been injured by the frost.
Milliard Filmore has just been elected
one of the curators of the Bnffalo Acade
my of Fine Arts.
A young woman is walking from New
Lisbon, Connecticut, to Pittsburg for $500
and a husband.
The democrats carried Watertown N. T
on Wednesday, the first time for fifteen
years.
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Mgnanu of the OateaaraUa Party.
In all parts of the nation the Democratic
party is united, vigilant and full of spirit,
TiM^grmmiMuea naStake are fully appre
'■le mßses, und they will battle in
e Union, the Constitution, and
>aw||^«fef republican form of
rsss has prepared a po
bdjpE for the Radical party which
"le Democracy. The
an entire ohange in
the vital principles of American nationality.
Under tbg w yiti nr 'aa established by our
fathers, the States were free mid equal,
subject only to the restrictions of theuon
stitution. Maine was the p^erotLouisiana,
8r i. d - i jT^\ Va v n l a 00uld „ clai f"- "° Jj*ht
which cua not belong to Georgia, or Flori
da, or South Carolina. Th« Radicals have
broken down that system. They have de
stroyed States, obliterated the authority of
officers elected by the people trader- State
laws, and now rule one portion of the
Union by the sword alone. Congress also
domineers over the other branches of the
government with absolute sway. The Ex
ecutive is treated with disrespect, and bills
are introduced for the purpose of preven
ting him from exercising those functions
conferred upon the President by the Con
stitution, and the Supreme Court is threat
ened with a reconstruct ion if that body dares
to thwart the will of the men now in lffgguo
against the perpetuity of the Union, and
the rights, liberties, and franchises of
white men.
In opposition to this conspiracy to found
a military despotism upon the ruins of this
Republic, stands the Democratic party.
They have announced their platform to be
a speedy restoration of the States to their
constitutional relations with the Federal
government, the supremacy of white men,
and the restriction of each branch of the
national government to its constitutional
rights and duties.
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This is the line marked
upon which the Democratic party is to
move, and in all parts of the nation the
signs of activity are visible.— Age.
out
The United States at the Paris Exiii
.—The Secretary of State has just
received from Commissioner Beckwith a
.table which has been carefully calculated
and verified from official data, at Paris,
and which shows that, with all the draw
backs and obstacles which tbe;Ujiited States
representation labored under, they are
number one in grand prizes, and exceeded
every nation except France in the general
proportions of awards to exhibitors, and in
the proportion of gold and silver medals
and • * honorable mentloiAustria, Prussia
and North Germany sligjitly exceed us in
th< ir proportion pf WtOAC. medal* In thei
number of exhibitors. In the general
average,we are just ttouNe#*rat«cf Great
Britain und hér colonies. Taking all
things into consideration, this is consider
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at a competitive trial of the results, of the
inventive and industrial energies of the
American people ; yet we were for from be
ing fully and foirly represented. : Taking
these as a criterion, however, the national
pride may well be flattered by the evidence
of our capacity to compete with the wqrljl.
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