The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-09 00:00:00

THE CHELTENHAM ELECTION PETITION: ACTION BETWEEN ENGLISH AND lIINESE IN FORMOSA. Another missionary difficulty in China has ended in serious consequences. It appeals that peaceful negotiations having failed to obtain satisfaction for the recent outrages in Formosa, H.B.M. gunboats Algerine and Bustard pro ceeded to Amping, the port of Taiwanfoo, to take pcs session of that place and its fort, Zelandia, as a reprisal. The chief cause of this quarrel appears to be attributable to the opposition of the local authorities to the presence of European missionaries. Protestant and Roman Catholic chapels had been sacked and destroyed at Koi Kan and Pei-t'ou (twice at the latter place), a Chris tian convert being brutally murdered near Takao short time afterwards. In May a number of converts were assailed at Taiwan ; Dr. Maxwell and his assistants were accused of diabolical murders and infamous crimes, while Taiwan was (nominally) cleared of the Christians. In addition to these religious affairs there were commercial and political disagreements. No redress was obtainable from the local authorities, and it was decided that the Algerine and Bus tard should proceed to Amping, the port of Tiawanfoo, and take possession of that place ana its fort as a reprisal. After formally taking possession of Amping, Lieutenant Gurdon, of the Algerine, re-embarked his men, expecting to command the place by the guns of his vessel. On Wed nesday, November 25, the Taiwanfoo authorities sent down 500 men to re-occupy the place. This they did, and began actively to mount guns to defend the place. Lieutenant Gurdon, having been informed of this, sent a letter to the Chinese military commander in the place, that if within an hour he had not evacuated the fort and town, he (Lieutenant Gurdon) must proceed to shell it. At the same hour he warned the inhabitants to clear cut. His remonstrance was in vain, so for an hour and a hall before nightfall he cautiously and slowly poured in shot and shell into the fort. About midnight he landed with a party of volunteers, twenty-five in all, passing through the surf in safety themselves, but losing one of their boats in it, lay in wait behind a bank on the shore, until the moon was fairly down, and then, all undiscovered, sallied right into the place. Making their way to the Hiap-tai's yamen, they found it filled with soldiers. The lieutenant invited them, by an interpreter, to lay down their arms, but they refused and showed fight, and in self-defedco the assaulting party was compelled to fire. They did so, killing eleven men and wounding six others : the rest of the garrison took to flight. A few hours later, in the dim light of morning, Lieutenant Gurdon, while examining the approaches from Taiwanfoo, heard the noise of a large body of men in the distance, and having planted his men, they shortly descried a party, which was afterwards ascertained to be composed of 250 Honan braves. When at about 200 yards, the Algerines, with their Sniders, opened on the advancing braves, who stood for about five minutes returning the fire. After losing six men killed and ten wounded, however, they turned tail and fled to Taiwanfoo, leaving Lieutenant Gurdon and his blue jackets in possession of the prize. The terms de manded have been fully complied with by the Chinese, and the local authorities have been suspended by the Foochow Viceroyal Government. ,FRENCH MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE IN COCHIN-CHINA. M. Sorel, an "Apostolic Missionary" in the western part of Cochin-China, publishes an account of the shock ing massacre of some of his followers. He says : "A large placard was posted up in the village of Thudau-mot, announcing that a terrible epidemic was about to visit the country. The priest-prophet, or bonze, who originated it, mentioned as a safe precaution against the disease not to stir out at night, no matter what noise might be heard in the neighbourhood, and to carry a copy of the placard about the person. The French authorities understood that this placard was merely a preconcerted signal, a kind of 'watchword, which theyconceived to be the forerunner of an insurrection. All the heathen readily re sponded to the bonze's invitation, and repaired in crowds to the temples in order to receive the precious talisman. I prohibited the Christians wearing the superstitious emblem. On the morning of the 9th a large body of natives came down from Dong-po to Chan-thank, headed by Thac, the bonze who had drawn up the placard noticed above, a few leading men of neighbouring villages, and three Malays who had deserted from the French. They surrounded the guardhouse, butchered the Anna mite sergeant and three privates (one of them was a native), and burnt down Ale fort. All the natives of the village able to bear arms they compelled to follow them to Thi-tinh. Before they arrived there the work of destruc tion bad already commenced. The natives had attacked the fort, driven out the garrison, and captured a good many Christians, On Thac's arrival he sent a detach ment into the jungle to capture all the Christians they met with. During this time the fort was fired. A traitor named GiA, in the service of Duoc, brought to the bonze several of his brother workmen whom he knew were Christians. The first, named Hatt, bore on his visage the characters to-dao ' (infidel), with which he had been marked some years ago at Binhdinh. In answer to the bonze Thac, he replied that he was a Christian. An order was immediately given to bind his arms and legs, and throw him into a burning cauldron. The unfortunate man cried out, '0 my God, my God!' But the populace shrieked, in reply, It is useless ; your God will not come to save you ' Another Christian named Tieng was also given up to Thac, and suffered a similar fate. Tieng succeeded in breaking the cords which bound him, and fled to a little river close by. But he was soon recaptured and thrown again into . the flames. Three other Christians gave way before such fearful torture, and declared they were heathens. They received the talisman, and were put in the ranks o! the band. Two of these apostates related to me the preceding facts, which were also confirmed by the traitor This brut e was not content with burlln alive the two Christians menti one d above ; he killed v.)-itlgi his own hand two othe rs , one of whom was a wom, n with a child at her breast. R e i s at present in custody, On the day after the bonze ord ere d t h e rest of the Chris. tians captured to be beheaded. They were led one by one—men, women, and children —before a wait into which they were thrown, after having been decapitated. The list of the victims amounts to twelve men, four women, and eight children. Several of the children were impaled on lances before their parents' eyes. About twelve Chris tians managed to escape, but what has hes9a them is .6 eel Irneou.7) ltri. Baron Martin opened on Monday the inquiry intc the Cheltenham election. The petitioners asserted that Mr. Samuelson, the sitting member, obtained his place at the poll by bribery,.treating, and undue influence. But Mr. (Huddleston, Q.C., in opening the case, freely ad mitted that he was not in a position to establish the treat ing. Though there were numerous cases of bribery, he proposed to investigate first the charge of intimidation. This was a matter of personal interference. On the Thursday or Friday before the election, the learned counsel stated, a body of pugilists were fetched from Birmingham, and received at Chelten ham by Mr. Boodle, one of Mr. Samuelson's com mittee, and they were taken by Mr. Boodle and Mr. Dowell to the central committee-room of Mr. Samuelson, and there they were kept until the poll day. About eight male at first, and 12 more afterwards, making 20, on the Saturday. When they arrived Mr. Chesshyre intro duced to the room where these pugilists were all the different members of the committee, Mr. Lenthall and others, and they were then made known to the committee. 1 They were taken out in small bodies on the Saturday to scour the town, and on the Sunday Mr. Gardner had ob tained the assistance of Field, the detective, and it ap peared that Mr. Boodle found out this, and he promised one of the men (Cookey) £5 if he would give him a good thrashing. A signal by whistle was to be given. The signal was given, and Cookey fell on him and gave him a most formidable beating. Cookey at once repaired to the committee-room, and skewed how he had beaten bis man, on which £1 was given him and a bottle of brandy for him and his friends. Mr. Huddleston further stated that for the polling day definite orders were given to the'pugilists. They were told to keep the " blues " from the poll, and to help the " yellows " (Liberals) to vote. This was done by order of Mr. Boodle and other members of the committee, and when the work had been done £3O was paid to the men, and they were sent back to Birmingham. Cookey, it seems, was dissatisfied because he did not get the X 5 for the thrashing he gave Field. There was some corre spondence between him and certain members of Mr. Samuelson's committee. Mr. Huddleston mentioned other cases of violence, and also some cases of attempted bribery. He stated that there were several cases of actual bribery. There were four cases of a peculiar character, in which members of the working committee were allowed the privilege of nominating youths on the committee, who were paid for doin' nothing. They were paid 11s. each, and being dis satisfied they applied to Mr. Chesshyre for more ; but he replied that he could do nothing until the election petition was concluded. There were also cases of the payment of sums of money by Boodle to a second party, which were passed over to a third party. Lastly, Mr. Huddleston came to the cases of payment of rates for voters.. Of these, he said, there were at least eighty cases. tie referred to the new Reform Act, which, he pointed j out, at section 4t provided for this class of cases. This section provided that if any person, either directly or indirectly, should corruptly pay any rate on behalf of any ratepayer, for the purpose of enabling him to be registered, he was guilty of bribery. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ANOTHER SECRETARY OF STATE. If every class had its way the Cabinet would soon grow out of proportion. There seems to be a general cry now for Secretaries of State. A Minister of Education is certain to be appointed sooner or later —and if sooner all the better. But the agriculturists also want to have their interests better looked after, and to have a representative in those meetings in Downing -street where such a large proportion of our history has been manufactured. Scotland comes forward, too, and begs for a Secretary of State. The Lord Advocate's position—like nearly all old offices whose functions have been altered to suit new require ments—is somewhat anomalous ;in theory he isa public prosec u t or ,i n prac ti ce h e represents Scotland in the Government, and the Ministerial policy as re gards Scotland in the House of Commons. The London Scotsman says that a Secretary of State would have been proposed by the Government, and Mr. Monereiff relegated to his proper office, wore it not that such a proposal would necessitate the resig nation by that gentleman of his seat in Parliament. THE REDUCTIONS. The reductions are being carried on with a vigour that even the partisan journals will admit. There are some slight difficulties, however. For instance, the Pest mentions that in one department, now con taining fifteen clerks, it has been officially reported that only two are really required. To aid Mr. Childers in dealing with personal interests of such magnitude, a committee of Lord Camperdown, Mr. Baxter, M.P., an d M r . W. G. Anderson, the assistant-controller and auditor, has been appointed, who will deal with individual cases. A similar committee, of which the members are Lord Northbrook, Mr. Stansfeld, and Mr. Anderson, will work at the War Office. This must be a time of great anxiety to sinecure-holders. By the death of Lord Belhaven the post of Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland became vacant. This official had to represent the Sovereign at the highest ecclesi astical court in Scotland, which meets every May. His duties were generally formal, and he was of no greater use than the Champion at the coronation. In all probability his office will be abolished, and 5.'4000 a year saved to the taxpayer. Not a large sum, certainly; but " many a little makes a mickle." NAVAL CHANGES. The Morning Post announces that the headquarters of the Pacific station are to be moved to Valparaiso, and adds that " considerable economy will be effected by abolishing the commodore of the South Pacific station, formerly at that port, and the com modore at the Cape of Good Hope, and by reducing the commodore on the Indian station to the second class." TIIE CONGREGATIONALISTS AND EDUCATION. A meetino• ' of prominent Cong rega ti ona li sts has been held at Halifax, to consider the question of the Government in its relations to education. The speakers included three M.P.s—Mr. Baines, Sir F. Crossley, and Mr. Morley—and, after five hours' dis cussion, it was resolved to promote the following objects :—" 1. That the aid granted for the education of the poor shall be granted impartially for the ascertained results of secular - reaching, in harmony with the views of the Royal Commission of 1858, which recommended to add to the schools already admitted to public grants any school which shall have been registered at the office of the Privy Council, on the report of an inspector, as an elementary school for the education of the poor.' • 2. That all schools assisted by par liamentary grants shall be open, on grounds of perfect equality and freedom, to the children of parents of all religious opinions." BISHOP SELWYN ON CHURCH RATES AND THE WEEKLY OFFERTORY. The Bishop of Lichfield has no faith in church rates. lie thinks that they did little enough for our churches in times gone by, and that where our churches are a credit to us they are so without the aid of church rates. Delivering an address at Stoke, the first address since his return from New Zealand, he said that if churchwardens were at all anxious because they were no longer able to raise rates, it would be a comfort to them "if they could go over the country and see what great improvements were being made in churches. It had been a comfort to him to see, instead of those green, mouldy, damp, tomb-like places, in which the squires used to sit in glass cases, while eve r yb o d y e l se was uncomfortable and liable t o take cold in all weathers—to find, instead of this state of things, that churches were being so improved that all could worship in comfort. And if any churchwarden thought that churches were going to fall into ruin and decay because compulsory church rates could not be levied, he would tell that churchwarden that voluntary efforts were much more to be depended upon. In the colonies they never had had any law on the subject; they had been thrown on voluntary efforts ; andw n hen he had introduced into this diocese synodical action, he had introduced an imitation of what he had seen successfully carried out under these circumstances in New Zealand, the clergy and laity associating together to carry out the won: God had given them to do. In New Zealand they never had church rates, but they felt that their real strength and power was in the offertory. At first, when the offertory was established in New Zealand, people saw quite clearly that the ministers of the Church there were going to the Church of Rome, because at that day there was just as much uproar about the offertory as there was at the present time about Ritualism. But New Zealand said nothing; they went quietly on ; and now the income derived, through the offertory, from a diocese in which there were only 30,000 English people, was at least £O,OOO a year. When he had first gone out, the whole sum available from a diocese then six times the size had been only £1,200 a year; after wards the diocese had been divided into six, and in one-sixth ,000 was supplied through the offertory. , These are brave words from a man who has the righ to speak them. FOREIGN LOANS. We are a funny people. English investors have ceased to have any confidence in their fellow countrymen —a circumstance perhaps not surprising after recent disclosures. But our simple faith, checked and dammed in one direction, is flowing with double force in another. We will not look at English railway debentures, but we scramble for foreign railway scrip. Everybody linows that Russia is carrying out an enormous scheme of railroads, in order that she may be able to transport her troops from point to point of her immense empire and so overcome the obstacle which, far in ore than French or British arms, prevented the Russian flag from floating over the towe rs and minarets of Constantinople fifteen years ago. Everyone knows that as soon as these com • munications are complete Russia - win test her strength again, and that unless England is prepared to assent to a conquest which she has from time immemorial resisted, she will have to try conclusions once more with the Giant of the North. Nevertheless, we go on pouring our money into the Russian exchequer. The Czar has only to ask and he has. One loan after another is floated success fully, and English gold is enabling Russia to prepare for a defiance of English steel. Egypt shares with Russia the popular favour on the English Stock Exchange, for within the past fortnight £400,000 of Egyptian bonds have been sold from Paris on the London market. Those persons who are acquainted with Eastern politics are very well aware that a perfect understanding exists between Russia and Egypt, and th a t i n h elping the second we help the t. , THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY. The new Brighton Railway with which we were threatened was the subject of very strong invective by the shareholders of the old line. Mr. Laing, M.P., at the half -yearly meeting of the company, was reported to have said that it was " got up" by speculators who wanted to get some 1 ;300,000 for their work ; they did not do it for the public benefit. For this statement Mr. Laing has been called to account, and he withdraws his aspersions —or, at least, says he never used the words attributed to him. THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. ~ . . The agricultural labourer is getting a great deal of attention just now, a n d th e most sit are given respecting him. Those n l p vphooeopinions believe rural felicity, &c., put down Hge od in very happy, contented, well-f e d kind of as einga fond of his cottage, and living i n happy ' inno cence and piety, bringing up his child ren i n the way they should go. Others remember him a s h eavy, igno rant, and stupid ; badly paid and fed, housed (if the expression may be used) in a hovel, and gradually sinking into pauperism. Sir George Grey, the late Governor of New Zealand, supports the latter view. A paragraph in the medical officer's report to the Privy Council seems to have made a great impression upon him :—" Unhappily, agricultural labour, instead of implying a safe and permanent independence for the hard-working labourer and his family, implies for the most part only a longer or shorter &rcuit to eventual pauperism—a pauperism which is during the whole circuit so near that any illness or temporary failure of occupation necessitates immediate recourse to parochial relief." Sir George writes a long letter to the Daily sews upon the subject. His picture is perhaps a little too dark, abounding in such expressions as " unhappy beings," " doomed beings," &c. ; but there can be no doubt that in some parts of the country the position of him who tills the ground is most deplorable. There is a great difference between districts. The report on the employment of women and children sheaved that in some districts home was pre s id e d over b y th e mo th er , an d th e children received a certain amount of education; but In others, home and school were mere comparative terms, referring to the sleeping place and the room iii- which - those tea Young ..to_work were_.harded FALSE COIN DETECTORS. London tradesmen have taken to adding to the false balances with which they cheat their customers, coin-detectors, in order to prevent their customers cheating them. One ingenious man had a machine which did its work too -AO, and bent good money as well as bad, thereby rendering him liable to an action for defacing the coin of the realm. He has now promised to erect an apparatus which is thus described. "It consists of a box covered with a brass plate, in which there are gauged openings of the size of the various coins, from a sovereign to a sixpence. Thus the size of the coin is tested. Under each opening is a small lever balance, ingeniously made so that nothing less than the . true weight of each coin will depress it and allow the coin to fall through." Does this very careful tradesman mean to reject all sixpences offered him which are worn light by use ? NEWSPAPER SECURITIES. Mr. Bradlaugh has recently been prosecuted and condemned for not giving securities to the Govern ment for the proper conduct of his paper. Some body has already been wicked enough to question the justice of selecting Mr. Bradlaugh's paper for condemnation out of a host of similar publica tions ; indeed, the prosecution has been thought by many to be an indirect stab at "Icono clast " because of his Atheism. But, this apart, it is perhaps worthy of note that the only time when these recognisances were attempted to be enforced was in the case of the Satirist newspaper. That attempt entirely failed ; why, then, should every paper he put to the expense and trouble of finding securities which are simply no security at all ? RAGS IN PAPER MILLS. A paper manufacturer writes to the Morning Post in answer to the statement recently made in that journal as to the dirty condition of the rags used in the mills. He says that they are generally cleaned by a process of " dusting," in order to ascertain that other matters are not mixed with them by the rag merchant. The paper manufacturer affirms that he has never known a case of cholera in the mills, and that few persons enjoy such immunity from contagions illness as the workpeople employed in them. He adds some curious statistics to his letter, sheaving that during eleven months there were imported 15,668 tons of linen and cotton rags, and the exports consisted of 3,794, leaving a balance of 11,874 tons for home consumption. During the same period the import of esparto, or Spanish grass, was 80,132 tons, and this is so useful an article that without it the price of paper would be seriously affected. As it is, the paper manufacturers complain loudly of the state of their trade, and assert that the competition to which they are subjected in the present treaty with Belgium is unfair and oppressive. FOREIGN NOTES, TURKEY AND GREECRO The situation at Athens is very grave. King George attempted to form a Ministry under the leadership of Zaimis—a politician of whom nothing is known out of Greece save that it will require an act of political regene ration to enable him to embrace a pacific policy. The paper Cabinet of Zaimis fell to pieces, and then the King tried the late Finance Minister, then Comondotros, and afterwards Bulgaris again. None of these could or would form a Cabinet, and the unknown Zaimis had again to be applied to. According to a Reuter's telegram he had succeeded in getting a Ministry together, but the Etendurd believes this statement to be a decided improvement on the actual fact. Nothing, how ever, remains but to await the termination of this political Chancery case. The second period of eight days will not expire until next Monday. The Constitutionnel is autho rised to state that Count Walewaki will leave Athens at the end of that period, with or without an answer to the declaration of the Conference. At Athens the agitation is in part taking , the ominous form of " War cation." COUNT BISMARCK. Last year Count Bismarck narrowly escaped death by assassination in one of the most frequented streets of Berlin. This attempt and the fact that the Prussian Chancellor has more enemies than any politician in Europe, gave credence to a statement of the Cross Gazette, that a friendly Government had warned Count Bismarck of the existence of another design against his life. The statement appears to have been true. A Hanoverian student, instigated by political hatred, had formed a plot for assassinating the Prussian statesman, and the " friendly Government " which gave timely warn ing was Austria, represented by Count Beust. The Austrian has heaped coals of fire on the Prussian's head. To the man whom he openly abused, Count Bismarck is indebted for a good office of the highest moment. DISARMAMENT. Sweden promises to set Europe another good example. The Second Chamber of the Rigsraad has submitted to a commission a proposition that the aid of the King be solicited for the purpose of bringing about a general dis armament. This important motion was passed by 120 votes to 20. The minority argued that Sweden was not a State of sufficient importance to take the initiative in a movement of this kind ; but the majority wisely replied that the good which nations may bring about is not to be measured by their political importance. In another inter national question, the abolition of passports, the Swedes had led the way, and were speedily followed by their powerful neighbours. They will doubtless find that abolishing passports and standing armies are two very different undertakings, but the principle is good. never theless. . - AMERICA. The Americans generally are thoroughly satisfied with the Naturalisation Treaty concluded between their Ambasador and Lord Clarendon, and so they have reason to be, for it is simply an embodiment of American ideas on the subject. Nevertheless, there is nothing in the agreement which can cause dissatisfaction on this side of the water. Article 1 provides that emigrants to' or from Great Britain or America, naturalised according to law in the adopted country, shall be held by both Powers to be citizens or subjects of the adopted country, and so treated for all purposes whatever. Art. 2 gives any such citizens already naturalised in either country liberty to renounce their naturalisation and resume their respective nationalities by public declaration to that effect within two years after the treaty be ratified. Art. 3 provides that readmission to the original nationality may be effected by residence in the original country, with whatever other conditions the Government of that country may impose. Art. 4 provides that the necessary measures shall be introduced into Parliament to so change the British laws as to carry out the treaty. Such is the substance of the agreement designed to dispose of a rela . tion which is continually arising between the two countries. Germany has already concluded a similar treaty. INDIA. - - --- The Times of India has reason to believe that Sir Stafford Northcote's unsuccessful bill for amending the Government of India will be followed by a Liberal mea sure. As a preliminary, it is probable that the overgrown province of Bengal will be subdivided, for some purposes, if not for all. In particular, Assam, which is on the other side of the Bay of Bengal, will be made a separate district. This being done, it is proposed that the Imperial and provincial expenditure and charges should be separated, and each province should have the entire control of its own receipts and disburse ments, subject only to the general control of the Viceroy. Secondly, instead of a uniform system of taxation for the whole empire, each Government is to be at liberty to impose such taxes as may seem most suitable to the districts it administers. Certain sums, to meet such charges as military and diplomatic expenses, will be demanded from each province, it being only fair that all should contribute to the maintenance of that which is for the good of all. But beyond this each province is to be administered according. to its siwn nodal loot& Tin THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1E69 together while rather and mother were " out to field." LANDLORDS. There are landlords and landlords. Some are tyrannical, and, like those in the South of Ireland, have a discontented tenantry. But the kindly feel ing has not yet died out, and there are still men owning land who have what is commonly called " consideration." Witness Sir W. Capel Brooke, Mr. W. P. llerrick, of Beau Manor Park, and Mr. T. T. Paget, of Leicestershire. The two first named have remitted 10 per cent., the last named 25 per cent. of the tenants' rents throughout their various estates, the drought of last summer having seriously affected the crops. TELEGRAPITIC MESSAGES. It is very important that an authoritative answer should be given at once to the question, Are tele grams private communications ? We presume that no doubt was entertained on the matter until Mr. Justice Keogh insisted upon the production in court of certain telegrams which had passed during the Dublin election. The local manager objected to pro duce them, and the judge said that he, of course, did only what was right in objecting. Never theless, he overruled the objection, and messages which the sender and the receiver supposed to be as absolutely private as letters sent through the post office, were read in public. We see no essential difference between a telegram and a letter. The fact that the first is necessarily seen in transit by two other persons besides the sender and the receiver, in no way alters the secret nature of the message. This is proved by the fact that telegraphic clerks are pledged to secrecy. The ruling of the judge in the Dublin case seems to us impossible to be sustained. If it is otherwise, it will be necessary to provide for secrecy in the bill transferring the telegraphs to the Government. It will not be tolerated that Government should in a prosecution be able to give in evidence with which Government has no right to be acquainted. endless loss of time and sacrifice of efficiency in communl• eating with the central Government will be avoided, and in addition it is likely that a great impetus will be given to those public works and district improvements which prosper only under local administration. In brief, it is proposed to give India the most perfect form of govern ment known—local rule under the due control of the central authority. This policy is quite in accordance with the recommendations made some time ago by Mr. Bright, but which were thought to be so premature that he de clined to take the post of Secretary of State for India. The Bombay University is becoming more widely known and prosperous. The report of the past year chews that 600 candidates presented themselves for matriculation, whilst during the preceding twelve months the number was very little over 400. But either the examinations are verysevere or the candidates very ill prepared, for out of the total of 600 only 250 passed, Of these 182 were Hindoos And 47 Parsees. (Itom the Anglo-American Times.) WAsurNoToN, Jan. 22. The Inauguration Ball about which there has been so much fuss,:even occupying the time of the Legis lature, receives little encouragement from him in whose honour it was mainly projected. The general committee of management has received the follow ing letter from General Grant addressed to Mr. Tullock :—" Understanding that the committee of which you are secretary, met this evening for the purpose of arranging for the Inauguration Ball, I venture to drop you a line to say that if any choice is left to me, I would be pleased to see it dispensed with. Ido not wish to disarrange any plans made by my friends in the matter of the ceremonies at tending the inauguration, but this matter will be agreeable to me, if your committee would agree that the ball is unnecessary." Bits of history are constantly cropping up having reference to Grant, some intended to detract, some to exemplify his great qualities as a general, but all to satisfy the craving of American curiosity regarding the idol they have set up so high. The last is the produc tion of General Banks, and occurred in the year 1863, when that officer was investing Port Hudson and Grant, Vicksburg. The ultimate success of the operations at that time gave no sign. Indeed the success was considered here so pro blematical that Grant stock fell, and for a time he was anxiously discussed in the Cabinet, the re sult being that Banks was ordered to proceed to Vicksburg and relieve Grant. This the volunteer officer declined to do, answering that the investment of Port Hudson was necessary to be carried to a success, as in the hands of the enemy it would endan ger the Federal garrison in New Orleans. This did not satisfy the authorities in Washington, who sent a still more peremptory order for Banks to take over Grant's command, which he treated as he did the first, drawing on his head a severe censure. While Banks and the Cabinet were thus squabbling, Grant was vigorously pushing on the siege of Vicksburg, which to the confusion of the Washington wise acres fell while they were in the midst of this business. The correspondence was then an ever awkward fact, but not a word of it had been breathed to Grant. That portion of it, there fore, in the department whence it issued myste riously disappeared, but there are two ends to a correspondence, and one end was in the pocket of Banks, who treasured it up, and is now using it as a means to secure a political end. It is said that Grant was quite surprised when informed of what bis dear friends at Washington intended for him. The General is now at Baltimore, but he is ex pected here to morrow. He has been visiting the Peabody Institute, where a concert was given him. Mr. Sears, the agent, in the Session held yester day, asserts that education is rapidly advancing throughout the South, fostered by Mr. Peabody's gifts. One-third to one-half the funds are sup plied by the inhabitants, the balance coming from the endowment, and thus spurred the num ber of school houses will indefinitely increase, for the most cheering part is that in most of the larger towns the fund will only be required to set the machinery in motion, when the schools will be self - supporting, and thus the benefits may be mul tiplied and spread abroad over the country. There is to be a great reception at Barnum's hotel, where the majority of those who welcome the General will be those who opposed him in arms, or at least sym pathized with the rebellion. A new War Office is to be built here, and the plans and estimates are now before Congress. A military board—General Meigs being president—approved that of John Crump, of Philadelphia, for which the cost would be, if Congress sanctions it, $1,500,000. Wilcox and Porter, of Buffalo, came in for the second prize, and Schulz and Shun of New York for the third. The Secretary a l so submitted to Co ngress General Har ney's report on the Sioux Indians of the Upper Missouri, showing that he had expended $485,781 in excess of the sum placed at his disposal, relying on the deficiencies being passed by Congress. Sherman approves his course, and advises that the opportunity be given to Harney of person ally explaining in Washsngton his plans and justifying his outlay, Which it is asserted, would greatly benefit the Sioux, and early this year set them to work. The appropriations for army expenditure are likely to be further cur tailed, and the committee are taking evidence about consolidating the staff corps, examining for this object Quartermaster-General Meigs, Commissary- Gen. Eaton, and Paymaster-General Brice. Great efforts are being made by Secretary Seward to get the bill passed for completing the treaty with Denmark for the purchase of St. Thomas. Gen. Raasloff argued the justice of completing the purchase, b u t w ith what result cannot be foretold, except that the House is dead against such appropriations. Indeed the Alaska affair has been fatal to schemes of this nature, as people cannot fail to be disgusted when men, bribed for the purpose, spout ultra-patriotism, and stand convicted of having done so. The charges made by Martin were inquired into by the Alaska committee to-day, but he could give little testimony, and completely failed to substantiate any of his charges. He fixed, however, the clerk in the State Department, from whom he received them, who was immediately summoned, and will be examined. To-day and to-morrow are given by the Supreme Court to the ease involving the Legal- Tender Act. The Court adjourned over from last night until Monday to consult on this matter, and commenced their consultation early to-day. Fears are entertained that the dezision will be against the Act, and there is no small trepidation among the financiers of Congress on the subject. John Scott, the Senator just elected from Pennsylvania, ap peared in the Chamber yesterday, and the mem bers of the new Congress are arriving in numbers to secure quarters. The National Woman's Rights Convention, assembled here, has adjourned, after having appointed a committee to memorialize Con gress, in behalf of female suffrage, &c., and to pre pare an address to thepeople of the United States. NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Scarlatina, I regret to say, is raging around Sta pleton, Staten Island, at New Brighton, and Edge water, where the schools lave been closed ; and typhus fever has been announced in East Thirteenth Street, near First Avenue, four deaths having oc curred there within a few days. The danger of peeple dosing themselves with chloroform has been further illustrated by the death of Mrs. Oliver Dyer, wife of the man wbo created the latest sen sation in the " Wickedest Man" papers. She died in her house at Westchester, from the attempt to assuage the pain of an attack of neuralgia by an overdose of chloroform. This recalls the case of poor Halpine, who fell a victim to a mistake in the strength of the opiate sent to him. There has been a heavy fall of snow, and some very severe wea ther, many vessels being detained, and the ferry boats somewhat retarded by drift in the North River. Still the weather continues mild, and ves sels have been able to get up the Hudson River, as far•as West Point. The recent thaw has made the ice unfit for cutting, just when ready, and a short supply is predicted if a change does not soon occur. The Rogers murder case continues to be the sensation. All manner of rumours are circulated. On the 20th a telegram from Waterbury, Connecticut, announced the arrest of an escaped convict from Sing Sing, Tom M‘Gibney. Tom is the name on .the envelope. found in the pocket torn from the assassin, and it is this clue by which eventually people hope to effect. his arrest ; a fac..simik of the superscription of the mysterious envelope was posted up on all the dead walls, and excited much attention ; but, it is feared, for the present at least, that the ruffian has escaped. Stephen Downs must have been a nice boy, for he committed suicide because his mother refused to mend his shirt, and Joseph Waggoner, a Ger man, blew his brains out because he bad a quarrel with his wife. Angeline Shrayer shot a man dead, named Patrick Crotty, in Wisconsin, and Margaret Bowen shot Upton Murray, and has been sent to Sing Sing for three years, both ladies committing the crime for reasons best known to themselves ; but the fre quency of these acts on the part of women is at tracting attention. The Fenton-Morgan fight over the Senatorship has left behind it a very bad feel ing, and may lead to a split between the rural and metropolitan Republicans of the Empire State. The Commercial Advertiser continues its attack, and there are some very bitter articles in the weekly press, as you will see. Governor Fenton spent Thursday and Friday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he was heartily congratulated by his nume rous friends. Governor Hoffman was also here during the week with his staff. The Alabama Convention is eagerly discussed in this city, and naturally so, considering the interests involved. To the nation at large feelings of indigna tion at the conduct of England, a desire of an opportunity for retaliation, and such consider ations may exert some influence, but those whose ships were destroyed, and who really suffered, pre fer the British gold they have a chance of getting to the gratification of any such feelings. When a telegram from Washington announced that the chances were the Senate would not approve it, im mediate action was taken in New York by the shipping ',interests, and a deputation was to be de spatched to Washington to lobby the Convention through the Senate. In South-street the in terest at stake being large the anxiety is in pro portion, and it will not be the fault of the mer cantile community if the treaty fails. The House Committee on election frauds in New York have before them fifteen hundred pages of manuscript testimony for consideration. The Com mittee expect to report finally next week. The general opinion of members is that the report will recommend some material alterations in the natu ralization laws. Emissaries front the insurgents at Cuba have been endeavouring to obtain the recog nition of our Government. Colonels Augusten, Castellanos, and Ricardo Pimentel, and Captains Lorenzo Jirviener, Abelardo Trico, and Jose An tonio Cuitra arrived by the steamer Star and Stripes in Philadelphia, and proceeded to New York. Sym pathisers with their cause will be welcomed at rooms Nos. 15 and 18, Metropolitan Hotel. Some Polish ladies and gentlemen assembled at No. 7, Delancey-street, to celebrate in a fitting manner the anniversary of the Polish insurrection of 1863. Mr. W. Kryzauowski presided, and delivered an eloquent address, during which he was frequently interrupted by bursts of applause. We have a Crete recognition society here, and a newspaper published in the Greek interest, besides hordes of Fenians, .so we have enough ou our hands in the " Distressed Nationality" line, if it is pos sible to satisfy our naturalized citizens. The jury in the Blaisdell-Eckel case has found a verdict o: Guilty, which gives satisfaction to the public, who feared a miscarriage of justice, and knew that such a result would be but to strengthen the ring tha sit on the shoulders of the nation like the Old Man of the Mountains. The confession of Arnold, one of the conspirators of the murder of Presiden Lincoln, _is published. It substantially says that the original design of the conspiracy was to abduct the President, and exchange him for all the rebel prisoners then in the hands o the Government ; but that Booth changed this plan on the eve of its execution, and that Arnold had no share in the murder. It implicates Surratt. Full details were given of the mad scheme by which the President was to be seized, tied, lowered to the stage, the lights being extinguished, and when there he was to be carried off by these madmen. If Dr. Mudd is not implicated, the state- ment shows he was intimate with Booth. The Hon. William M. Evarts will preside at the banque of the Yale Alumni, to be given at Delmonico's next Friday. ROME, Jan. 25, 1869. Dear Sir,—The Roman season is nearing its liveliest period; hotels and private lodgings are full to overflowing. At this moment we are expe riencing the greatest degree of cold remembered for half a century. My servant this morning told me that a wine cart from Tivoli was found outside the gate of St. John Lateran, where the horse had drawn it without a guide, the driver having been frozen to death on the box. Longfellow's presence is another excitement. Tasso was crowned with laurel on the Campidoglio ; Longfellow has been receiving ovations .„from . pilgrims to Rome from every nation. I should prefer this to the leaves on the mad Tasso's brow. The sculptors solicit sittings to perpetuate the poet in bronze or marble ; the painters entreat him to allow them to transfer his picturesque silvery locks and remarkably fine head to canvas ; the photographers also beset him for his likeness. A few days since an aeronaut endeavoured to persuade him to take a place by his side in his , balloon, an offer, I believe, he gently declined. Much feasting has taken place this season in the capital of the Czesars. A recent entertainment was given, somewhat in imitation of Lucullus, but some of the ungrateful guests (one, I think, a retired courier) complained that the peacock was tough, the American oysters not over fresh, and the parrots' tongues crimped in quantity. No pearls were dissolved, but all acknowledge that a great amount of gold was melted away to create some of the dishes on an original plan. The host departed the following day, leaving all the consequent negociations to be looked after by the professors of the medical art; this art and that of the cook have benefited by the rich travellers at present here. The American Club is another novelty in Rome; it was born late in autumn, but is already old in club life. It gives a fancy ball next week, and a few days after the ladies will hold in it a Fancy Fair for the benefit of the , poor in Rome. Apropos of this fair, this is a good place to say a word in honour of the American and English resident ladies here. The poverty of the Roman poor could not be seen by our Saxon women without evoking compassion. They have clubbed their resources and accumulated a good supply of articles for distribution. In the evening they meet at each other's houses, and ply their needles, in spired with the hope that thereby there may soon be fewer rags among the Roman mendicants. As to critics, dear Mr. Editor, let me give friendly warn ing against a species of the race who are teazers themselves of canvas and clay, and, above all things, beware of them if they profess to be literary. One of this genus once asked me if I had read Horace in the original. I had not. " There," said he, " you are done for." He wrote up Spikes as a better landscape painter than I, because he under stood the classics in a feeble manner, and myself he wrote down as Josiah Cuyp. I shall soon have finished my large view of the volcanic glaciers of the Ilimmalayah, taken from a balloon. I start for Naples to-morrow to commence my grand pic ture of the interior of the crater of Vesuvius. Science demands it, art will achieve another triumph, and enterprise be honoured in the success of my work. The commission as agreed will bring me $1.0,000 in gold. CUYP. Gov. Chtflin, of Massachusetts, has promoted Judge Pitman to the Superior Court, vice Judge Vose, de ceased. Ire is now practising in New Bedford, and derives his title from having formerly presided over the police court of that city. Ile is a strong temperance man, in deed he leads the prohibiting party of the State. ADVERTlSEMENT.]—llulloway's Pills.—Sick Headaches. —Thousands suffer from this worrying annoyance, when the body and brain are depressed by warm damp weather. Holloway's purifying pills present a ready means of cure for indigestion, biliousness, faintness,.and flatulency. In debilitated constitutions and nervous habits these pills are the best restoratives ; they correct all the unpleasant con sequences of torpidity of the liver ; they remove disten sion, and never fail to obviate all obstructions of the bowels and to induce their regular action. In all abdominal ail ments Holloway's pills are the safest possible medicine ; they at once give ease and comfort and naturally strengthen the Ivholo series of organs concerned in the powers of di potion, and will 1e :quad useful in every household. AMERICAN LITERATURE. (From the Anglo-American Times.) (FIRST NOTICE.) My Adventures Afloat in the Sumter and Alabama. By Admiral Raphael Semmes. This book will furnish pleasant reading for the British public about to pay the bill for the de predations so boastfully described. We must bear testimony to the consideration of Admiral Semmes for those to whom he has proved so costly a caterer, and John Bull will perhaps treasure all he gets from the gallant officer (this book) when he learns what an expensive animal he has been to him. IVhether these two square flat volumes will prove a balm of Gilead under the cruel cir cumstances we do not predict, but if abuse of " the Yankee," " the vile Puritan breed," can console, the English reader will here have it to his heart's content. The author is the Admirable Crichton of the seas—he is the Bayard sans pear et sans re proche of the waters ; and it is interesting to gaze upon the features which adorn the frontispiece when one knows the amount of chivalry there em bodied. We are not, however, about to follow the Admiral's lead, although nothing would be more easy than to write in his sneering and abusive strain. What strikes us most is the intense conceit of the man ; a shield whie'l we have no doubt has proved of inestimable value against the.. darts of his enemies, while it is a good conductor of the flattery of his friends. His preface is dated "The Anchorage, near Mo bile, Dec., 1868," so we presume he has written in America all this abuse of Americans, and he fur nishes us, just as the Irish demagogues do, with a complete answer, in the impunity with which they write and speak to the allegations made. There are always two sides to a question, both of which, if we want to understand the subject, it is necessary to see. Such books, then, do good, as, not without literary merit, they help to show the ruling party in America, as well as the world, not only what can be said against the North, but put forth another view of the particular matter in dispute— the Alabama claims. Nay more ; they teach Ame ricans the danger of accepting partizan statements of foreign quarrels ; for what is to prevent other aspiring nationalities from following in perverting and misrepresenting the other side, as does Admiral Semmes, who makes a war which freed four millions of islaves appear to have been dictated by the vilest motives. But the author has the best right to tell the story of his own proceedings, because he knows most about them ; and those who desire to follow him in his cruises will do well to skip his first brief historical retrospect, his second brief historical retrospect, and all the other retrospects and arguments which intervene and follow, proving, if they prove anything, that Semmes can come out in another character besides sea captain, that of a sea lawyer. Yet, while he so readily takes up the role of the pleader and the historian, he denies the power of any but a sailor bred to arms to write the history of the Alabama. Neither in feeling nor in profes sional knowledge could any other be competent, though the Admirable Crichton himself is equal to any occasion. It is not therefore surprising that he declares all previous efforts " miserable failures," not excepting that of the London house of Saunders, Ottley, and Co., to whom he lent his journal, ex pecting something better than the trashy produc tion of which no one could suppose him to have written one line. In his preface he says, " The people of America being sovereign, they are like other sovereigns ; they like those best who fool them most, by pandering to their vices, and flattering their foibles. The author, not being a flatterer, cannot expect to be much of a favourite at the Court of the Demos." As might be expected in the historical retrospects, &c., &c., we have all the old stock arguments of the South, and all the in consistent resolutions of the North. It never seems to strike these people unless indeed they desire purposely to conceal the fact that resolutions will change as the quarrel progresses, and in the nature of things must so change. We all desire to play the game—" Heads, I win ; tails, you lose ;" while we strongly object to the little game being played on ourselves. The resolutions taken by Congress, and announced by President Lincoln when the war commenced, were those of men who desired to avert the enormous bloodshed which en sued and which some foresaw. But if the mild con ditions the one party offer be spurned by the other the propositions are cancelled ; and it is absurd for the defeated to revert to such resolutions as proof of dishonestintentions and great inconsistency, who re jected them when passed with disdain and fought the fight to the bitter end. Having lost, it would doubtless be pleasant to go back to the early inten tions of many timorous Congressional leaders. After describing the fitting out of the Sumter in the early days of the war, the author thus alludes to England's part in the blockade then instituted and her recognition of the South as a belligerent : " Indeed Great Britain could do nothing less (than declare a strict neutrality of the unequal ope ration of which he complains elsewhere). In re cognizing the war which had broken out between the sections as a war, and not as a mere insurrec tion, she had only followed the lead o f Mr. Li nco l n himself. Efforts had been made, it is true, both by Mr. Lincoln and his Secretary of State, to convince the European Governments that the job which they had on their hands was a small affair —a mere family quarrel, of no great significance. But the truth would not be suppressed, and when at last it became necessary to declare the Confederate ports in a state of blockade, and to send ships of war thither, to enforce the declaration, the sly little game they had been playing was all up with them. A blockade was an act of war, which came under the cognilance of the laws of nations. It concerned neutrals as well as belligerents, and foreign nations were bound to take notice of it. It followed that there could not be a blockade without a war, and it equally followed that there could not be a war with out at least two belligerent parties to it. It will thus be seen that the declaration of neutrality of Great Britain was a logical sequence of Mr. Lin coln's and Mr. Seward's own act. And yet with sullen and singular inconsistency the Northern Go vernment has objected, from that day to this, to this mere routine act of Great Britain. So much was this considered as a matter of course at the time that all the other Powers of the earth, of sufficient dignity to act in the premises at all, followed the example set them by Great Britain and issued similar declarations, and the four years of bloody war that followed justified the wisdom of their acts." Alluding to the escape of the Sumter, for which ' Captain Poor of the Brooklyn was blamed, the author says : " He had only permitted his cupidity to draw him away from his station. He had chased a prize in his eagerness to clutch the prize-money a little too far—that was all. But in this he sinned only in common with his countrymen. The thirst of gain, as well as the malignity of hate, seemed, from the very first days of the war, to have seized upon the majority of the Northern people. The army and the navy, professions hitherto held honourable, did not escape the contamination. They were soon found, first plundering, then maliciously burning, private houses. The spectacle of cotton-thieving was more than once presented by the highest digni taries of the two services—the admiral quarrelling with the general, as ignoble rogues are wont to quarrel as to which rightly pertained the booty." Thus he describes the first prize : " Resuming our course, we now stood for the other sail, which, by this time, there was no mistaking ; she being plainly American, although she had not yet shown her colours. A gun soon brought these to the peak ; when, as 1 expected, the stars and stripes unfolded themselves gracefully to the breeze. Here was our first prize, and a most welcome sight it was. The capture, I find, on looking over my notes, was re corded in a few lines, barren of all incident or re mark, except only that the doomed ship was from the Black Republican State of Maine.' When I had fired the gun as a command to the stranger to heave to and show his colours, I had hauled down the Englishand hoisted my own flag. The stars and stripes seemed now to look abashed in the presence of the new banner of the South, pretty much as a burglar might be supposed to look when caught in the act of breaking into a gentleman's house ; but then the burglar had been my relative, and had erg been my friend—how could I fail to feel some pity for him, along with the indignation which his crime had excited ?" Semmes then gives a glowing pictu re of the destruction of the Golden Rocket by fire; High-flown terms abound—" the devouring flames , eating up the Golden Rocket, and " the grim black sides of the Sumter, like some great sea monster, gloating on the spectacle—the intricate net-work , 3 pencil of fire, and many threads of flame, twisting and wreathing like so many serpents that had re ceived their death wounds, while her captain looked calmly on." Then lie tells what was done with the flag, and bags of other flags taken from v essels afterwards capt ure d ; " h ate ' s polluted rag, " w hich i now rots beneath th e waters of the English Channel on board the sunk en pi ra t e—we b eg the Admiral's pardon—ship of war , th e Al a b ama. Touching that word " hate," so frequently and indiscriminatelf used by the South as applicable to the North, sge may observe that it is not unlike the drunken man who insists that his neighbour is intoxicated. Zb this day a New Englander cannot understand th e feeling of the South against him, and never really believes it till h e exper i ences i t. The hate WaS on one side, but th a t s id e was certainly . not that f the North. The Fourth of July, which Semme s claims by right as more a Southern than a Norther° day, was not kept as is usual in American men-nt , war, when the captain dines with the ward-roer° officers. About that time he was singularly WV in his pencillings of fire, for he managed to captur e seven unfortunate mercha n t men . N o book 00111, be written more c a l cu l a t e d t o di sgust the wo rld with privateering. The night made hideous with 0 00 ' flagrations at sea ; the dangers which it has ahead); pleased Providence t o mu l t i p l y on the deep Ile only increased, but the property —aye, the lives" even of neutrals placed at the disposal of aef • scoundrel who, having sufficient means and enter prize, can fit out an armed vessel, and get a letter of marque or commission, or whatever they may call l it, from some pseudo Government, not recognize' by any other on earth. We do not apply th ese remarks to Admiral Semmes and the Administra- tion he served, for we desire to be just, and not to exaggerate, and we allow that in all the attributes of force, and the extent over which for a period i ts sway was acknowledged, it was a great Govern ment. But it is the principle and the examP le against which we contend, and Admiral Semmes may do a good he little intended in showing us the interior working of such a system, himself sitting in judgment on what may, perhaps, have been th e means of existence of those who never saw Americ 3 or knew anything of the quarrel, and the. merciless way in which he decided on questions of interns' tional law, and applied the torch in the hope tbav even remotely he might injure the enemy he hatel s ° much. We desire to ask this simple question- 153 man steeped to his neck in malignity to be set as 5 judge and a ruler on the high seas ?—a n d to eice' cute under theaattery of his ship his decisions with out reference or appeal ? That England should ba le applauded the hateful and contemptible work, for which Admiral Semmes so glorifies himself, is 8 shocking instance, not so much of moral depravity as of folly. Never was a precedent established s ° dangerous to herself, and it is a l mos t i ncre dible tha" , the mass of the nation could not see it at the time, but required the just, calm judgmeh of a Cobden to point it out, blinded as FilV laud was by prejudice. If Admiral Serow e° imagines that his book will receive . any e h; thusiastic welcome in this coun t ry, h e is M°s, lamentably mistaken. .Tho se d ays, thank God' have passed away, the ill us i on i s dispelled, and Englishmen are better able to appreciate the abus e of the hated Yankee," the " vile Puritan," B ' ;° ' The first volume treats of the cruise of the Sumter' and the second of th a t o f th e Alabama. Of t"- latter we purpose to give a separate notice. Foreign Mail Packet Lisf. MAILS DIIE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb 27 ' Ditto, via Yarseilles Ditto, via PIA ama ......... ....... ......... eb Brazil, Buenos A y res , an d M onte V ideo mar. I Ditto, by French paokut . Feb, 'l t. Cape Verde. by Brazil paozet Cape of Good I lupe. Ascension, anti St. Helena, Feb. 1 ; China, Penang, and Si ngapore, via Southampton Feb. P Gibraltar, via South ampton Feb 13 ' Endia, via South ampton ...... .......... ..... Feb I,' 1- , 1 ito, via MarseiLes Malta, Egypt, &o. Feb 1 Ditto, Marseilles. F. b• ' w Haitians, Cape of Good !lope, and Natal, via Sc utlianq ton Litt), Marseilles , b. I Newfoundland . Fe ................ ....... ....... F. b l 6 Portugal .... ...... . gar. Z United States , la nada ... , California, &e., by ..... ..... British packet Ditto, by C ana di an packet Ditto, by L. aited States packet Ditto ditte (Balti more ) West Coast of Af r i ca, Madeira, and Teneriffe - .• • • •:Fbb 10 F e e F eb• 1136 West Indies and Pazifio (except Mexico and Baba-Feb 13 mas) ...... F alkland Islands . ••••• . 1. Cuba and M ex i co .... ••• • . gar. Bermuda, via H a 1if ax .......... Feb. --' Bahamas, via New York Commodore Ri c h ar d W. M ea d e i s f - suffering Ar oni a severe stroke of paralysis, and his family fear a 1.3' resu: One effect of the Amnesty Proclamation hid been been that Mr. Evarts, under direction of the Pres r has directed the r e l ease o f es -C on f e d erate nava l 01.fle° , Braine, so long in confi nemen t i n N ew Y or k on 0- bare of piracy. Professor Geo. David son h as assume d the sup er intendence of work belongin g t o th e. Pacific Depart rae of the Coast Survey. Edward J. Jones, of Boston, chief of the Stat a g police, has been appoi n t e d by M a j or -G en. B . F. Tiotier, 01 Major of Militi a on hi s s t a ff , and assigned to the p os t Inspector of Artillery. [ADVERTISEMENT I—Consumption, and all bilious, n- o te stomach,and liver complaints in every stage are only agg ra ecal and accelerated by dr ugs o f every d escr i ption, but pe rt voocl e i curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Reval en t a Arabic. s ;, e re as proved by th ousan d s o f cases which had been cons:',oo hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthlntac sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhces, all gastric d e ns oefiA ments, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervo, o, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, c°' joy fiuenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, got ss ess: rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sl ee paroP''; acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility', or cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregas neJ che7 sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shouldV,ird' i We quote a few.--The Pope's health r es t ore d by DO Food. 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