The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-13 00:00:00

SPIRT' OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Irish debate will excite, in the opinion of the Times, a certain disappointment among all real friends of Ireland. It is of the highest degree of excellence as an exhibition of oratory and argument, nor would it be easy to find an assembly where three speeches of equal ability with those delivered by Mr. Horsman, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Mill could be heard. But it is clear that nothing can come of the debate. It will occupy three, perhaps four nights, hour after hour will be consumed in oratorical efforts, and the single valuable resnit to be expected is that every one at the end will be convinced of the inade quacy in all respects, the positive mischief in some, of the Government policy. That conclusion might be secured with less cost of time and labour. The House of Commons give a very decided opinion on some of the Government schemes. The proposed endow ment of the Catholic University was aptly described by Mr. Lowe as a mere pyrotechnic device, sent up into the air that men might gaze at it for a moment, after which it would disappear. it would seem, indeed, that this parti cular rocket is very likely never to rise at all. It is impos sible that the House of Commons, after such an exposure as was made of it by Mr. Horsman and Mr. Lowe, can entertain so retrograde a suggestion. There is but one ques tion, the Times continues, now before the House, and that is whether the consideration of the condition of Ireland can be postponed to a new Parliament. We have already adduced reasons which appear to make a reference of the question to a Reformed Legislature not merely possible but proper ; and the House of Commons is called upon to decide whether it will sanction the postponement. The Government have no policy. They advise, as Mr. Horsman says, inaction as to the Church, procrastination as to land, and reaction as to education. The last branch of their programme is already practically disposed of, and nothing remains but inactivity. Is this endurable ? The answer must depend on the question, `What alternative exists ? The front bench of the Oppo sition has made no sign, and the fair deduction is that they are as distracted as the Ministry. If they had any scheme of action ready, it would have been made public before this; and though it is at all times possible to submit a plausible resolution, the House of Commons cannot afford to make Ireland the sport of party devices. The solution of the great Irish question must be put aside as a task beyond the energies of the moribund Parliament, and the sooner this truth is recognised, the sooner the appropriate labour of the existing Legislature is undertaken and dis charged, the sooner it is remitted to its rest, the better will it be both for Great Britain and for Ireland. What the Daily News thinks to be the most satisfactory feature in the debate was the unanimity with which the speakers on the Liberal side—Mr. Horsman, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Jacob Bright, and Mr. Mill—denounced the sectarian scheme of University education which the Government propose, and their inaction in regard to the Irish Esta blishment. Mr. Gathorne Hardy defended the course of Ministers on the Church question by the language and conduct of Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone. A Ministry which seeks its rule of action in the phrases and excuses of its predecessors is self-convicted of incapacity. Mr. Hardy's logic is very convenient. Because he and his party were guilty of successful Tory obstruction when in opposition, they may [claim, he thinks, to be exempted from Liberal pressure when in office. They must not be humoured. The recognised leader of the Liberal party will on this point, we hope, use a language not less firm than that which its chief independent members employed last night. Strong as is the sympathy felt for Ireland, earnest as is the desire to relieve her, such speeches, says the Herald, as have during this debate been delivered from the benches below the gangway on the Liberal side repel that sympathy and render that desire less active and less hopeful. They tend to weaken and dull the feelings which at present pervade both the House and the country, and to inspire at once a doubt as to the sincerity and reality of Irish ,grievances, and a despair of satisfying Irish discontent, and are calculated neither to promote the cause which the speakers espouse, nor to improve the understanding between the two countries. • Mr. Horsman's speech was, the Standard observes, somewhat like his Irish policy when he was in office. Nothing about it will enable one to guess what he meant or means to do for Ireland. It was merely a criticism of the inactivity of the Government. He gave Parliament no idea of what should be done. Mr. Lowe's speech was of a higher character. Though there is much in it with which the Standard cannot agree, yet the manner in which he disposed of " cant" was most admirable. We are drifting again, remarks the Post. An uncertain hand is at the helm —or, rather, the steersman is not allowed to steer his course. There is little doubt that the new Premier has been outvoted in his first Cabinet Coun. cils, and he must regret the day when he exchanged the teachable Chelmsford for a successor far more difficult to educate. The present Government has broken down in its first trial. Instead of coming forward with large and determined measures, it has only to propose postponement of serious questions. The endowment of a Roman Catholic University opens up the whole question of Roman Catholic endowments. The help to Irish railways, in whatever form, points a severe contrast with the mode of dealing with English enterprise, while it distinctly announces that the Government is willing to bribe Irishmen and Irish votes if they can be had cheaply. The Irish Church question is postponed. The policy of the Government is a weak attempt at postponement and a puerile attempt at bribery. One of the most remarkable facts brought out by the blue-book of the Boundaries Commissioners is, the Tele graph observes, that a strong feeling prevails among the inhabitants of suburbs against extending the municipal areas. In all the Boundaries Report, from the first page to the last, there is no piece of information more impor tant than this—that the people themselves do not desire changes. It follows, therefore, that by disturbing the present landmarks Parliament will legislate against the inclination of the persons principally interested. It is not that the suburbans object to the 'enjoyment of municipal and political benefits of any kind, but that they would rather not pay for the privileges. Well paved and well lighted streets, a vigilant police, well-constructed sewers, and effective sanitary arrangements, are great blessings, but they are costly ; and the dwellers on the outskirts of large towns would rather not have them at the price demanded. Is it politic to force privileges upon people who do not want to have them. The Star confesses that it is of those who utterly refuse to believe that Prince Napoleon's expedition is without political object. It is very likely, indeed, that he )ias undertaken some political enterprise on his own respon sibility—some enterprise at least, which can be politely and decently disclaimed by the Tuileries, in the event of its coming to nothing or proving unsatisfactory. Formal and direct commission from the Emperor be doubtless has not ; but we think a man must be very credulous indeed who believes that there is no understanding on the sub ject, whatever it may he, between the two Imperial cousins. But whatever the object of Prince Napoleon's visit, we are convinced that it had an object, and that that object was entirely political. A growing conviction of this kind may be noted throughout the press of France and Germany alike, and it now only needs the positive and formal assurance of the Moniteur that there is nothing in the whole affair to remove the last lingering doubt inthe public mind that another little secret chapter of la haute politique is being prepared by the democratic Prince, whose marvellous likeness to the great Napoleon is just now the theme of •under and admiration to the populace of Berlin. Sir Morton Peto's appearance in the Court of Bank ruptcy has added, remarks the Standard, a notable chapter to the chronicles of Basinghall-street. His examination will rank among the classics of insolvency, and the smaller fry shrink into insignificance by the side of the great firm that stopped payment with liabilities exceeding th e nat i onal debt of a small State, £ 6,661,000 of whi▪ ch was claimed by a single creditor. The contrast between the present an d th e pas t i s a t once p a i n f u l and pitia▪ ble. Beyond all doubt, a few years ago the honour. able baronet andhispartneri were men not only of great, but of colossal fortune. They had made their mark and done their work. In every part of the empire they left the im press of their energy and skill. They did good service at the time of the Crimean war by ma ki ng a railway ; the nation was grateful, and they were popular. They were known to have, made much money, and were credited with from four to ten times as much more. Had they then thought fit to close their career they would hav e gone down to posterity as model men, without. wh ose biogra phies no future edition of " Self-help," or collection of the lives of successful traders would have been complete. The pity is that they have lived too long for thi s h appy . ending. They went into new schemes, and entered upon new contracts, but especially upon that almost intermi nable series which arose out of their connection with th e London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. The result has been the all but hopeless involvement of the li ne they made, the total wreck of their fortunes, and the irreparable damaging of their reputations. The decision of Mr. Justice Lush in the matter of trades societies is of mat value. As the Telegraph says, the members of a trades union were in all other respects en titled to the same protection as ordinary citizens. Ihe money embezzled must be taken to be the property of all those members in their individual capacity. The question was, Had the man committed forgery under the common law? The jury found that he had, and he was punished accordingly. Our contemporary notes the result with particular satisfaction. Mr. Justice Lush rendered a service to all the hard-working artisans of the country when, in passing sentence on the cowardly fellow who had for years systematically plundered his fellow-workmen, he warned him, " and all others in a similar position," that they need look for no immunity at the hands of the law. Next in importance to passing a new enactment, is an authoritative interpre tation which gives freer scope to the existing law; and on the present occasion we have to thank Mr, Justice Lush for perforating so valuable a duty. LORD STANLEY ON THE AMERICAN QUESTION. A deputation from the Peace Society has just waited on Lord Stanley, to present a memorial expressive of the deep anxiety felt "in view of the unsettled state of certain questions between the Government of Great Britain and that of the United States, which have arisen out of the civil war lately prevailing in the latter country, more par ticularly those relating to the depredations committed upon American commerce by cruisers sailing from British ports, and the alleged premature recognition by the British Government of the belligerent rights of the southern Confederacy." Lord STANLEY said that he thanked the deputation for the honour and pleasure of this interview. He could assure them that the Government, and he thought he might say any Government that might come into power in this country, was as anxious to maintain peace as they were. War, no doubt, was the great antagonist of civilisation, and, bad as war would be for any country, perhaps for no country is it of greater importance to maintain peace than for England. We are burdened with a very considerable debt, and our taxation, though not intolerable, will not bear augmentation without seriously affecting our pro ductive power. He was fully conscious of the magnitude of the interests involved in the question of peace or war with the United States. He must say that he never felt the same amount of alarm on this subject as had been expressed by some friends for whose judgment he had great respect. He had listened with much interest to the re marks of Mr. Newman Hall and the other gentlemen who had visited America, on the state of public feeling there. He had also been in America for several months, though that was twenty years ago ; and though no doubt they often used strong language, he found, to use a homely phrase, that their bark was worse than their bite. The strong language was perhaps their means of letting off the steam of popular discontent ; but when they came to the actual arrangement of affairs, he thought they were much more moderate and reasonable. And he thought they were not likely to be less so now, for they were now, like ourselves, bound in heavy securities to keep the peace. He felt, as the memorial said, that it would be an honour and happiness to himself and his colleagues to bring the matter to a satisfactory settlement. And while he agreed that it might not be necessary to be very rigid about the terms, still there must be a feeling of reciprocity. It is only reasonable to expect that that if concessions be made on one side, concessions should also be made on the other. If the demands were too exorbitant, it would render it more difficult to bring about the unanimity which was so very desirable. He could not state the precise terms on which a compromise might be effected, but he had little doubt that if they were met, as he hoped and believed they would be, by a corresponding spirit of con ciliation on the other side, means would be found to set the question at rest. With regard to the general ques tion as to the foreign policy of this country, there had been a great change of late years, and he thought he could congratulate the members of the Peace Society that their principles were becoming more popular. It is now known throughout Europe, and, much as other nations may have been puzzled by it, it is acknowledged as a fact that the policy of England is a policy of peace. Unfortunately, at the present moment it is not so over the world. Never, perhaps, was there a period when arma ments were so large, and the rumours of war were more frequent. But this cannot last always. Out of this state of confusion and transition there must of necessity come a better state of things. There are financial, among othe r reasons, why this cannot go on much longer, since military expenditure must nearly have reached its limit ; when there will come a period of comparative disarn ament, and, let us hope, of general peace. And then, gentlemen, con tinued his lordship, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that the ideas and principles you have been 4 propagating will have had much to do in bringing to pass this better condition of things. His lordship thanked the deputation for the friendly terms in which they had spoken of himself. (Cheers.) Mr. BAINES, on behalf of the deputation, cordially thanked his lordship for his kind reception. EMPLOYERS AND WORKMEN. A special meeting of the Executive Committee of the Working Men's Association has been held at the Associa tion Rooms, Bolt-court, Fleet-street, for the purpose, among other business, of receiving from Mr. Bass, M.P., a statement of his attempt to bring about an arbitration between the coalmasters and miners of Church Gresly. Mr. G. Potter occupied the chair. The chairman said he regretted to have to announce the failure of the attempt made by Mr. Bass, at the request of the association, to bring about a settlement of the long-existing dispute between the coalmasters and their workmen in Church Gresly, by arbitration. It would be recollected that the men had consented to refer the whole of the matters in dispute unconditionally to the arbitration of Lord Lichfield, but the masters, at a meeting just held, had positively declined arbitration. Ire had that day received the following note from Mr. Bass :—" My dear sir, Lord Chesterfield has written to me, on the part of the associated coalmasters of Church Gresly, a positive refusal to entertain the question of arbitration with their workmen.—Yours truly, M. BASS." Mr. Fairbairn then moved the following resolution :—" That while working men are chewing their desire to amend the rules of their trades unions, this committee deeply regret to hear that the coalmasters of Church Gresly district, after having locked out their men for joining the Miners' Union, have not only refused to receive any deputation from those men, but have also positively refused to submit the matters in dispute to the arbitration of the Earl of Lichfield, thereby precluding all chance of an amicable settlement of the long-protracted and lamentable dispute." Mr. Carter seconded the resolution, which was agreed to, and ordered to be transmitted to the Miners' Union and the Church Gresly coalmasters. The chairman reported that the arrangements for the conference between a certain number of large employers of labour in the staple and most important trades of the country and an equal number of representative working men, for the purpose of coming to a mutual agreement for the prevention of strikes and lock-outs, were progressing most satisfactorily. It was proposed that the number should be twelve or fifteen on each side. Eight of the largest em ployers of labour in the country had already con sented to take part in the conference, and replies of a similar character were daily expected from others who had been communicated with. The trade councils of Man cheater, Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield, and Glasgow had each been requested to appoint one delegate, and the iron, coal, cotton,.shipbuilding, engineering, and building trades, and the Amalgamated Conference of Trades had also been requested to appoint one delegate each. lie hoped the conference would meet within the next fort night. The secretary was instructed to prepare a list of cases to be laid before the Trades Union Commission of those wholesale firms who, in restraint of trade, have combined against the retail dealers, as in the case of Messrs. Platt, of St. Martin's -lane. The committee then adjourned. THE TRIAL OF "CAPTAIN" MACKAY The trial of the Fenian Mackay for the murder of Policeman Casey has occupied two days at the Cork As sizes. The prisoner is described as a young man, 27 years of age, of middle height, and light wiry build, with a very determined expression of countenance. He was neatly dressed, and spoke without any American accent, though claiming to be an American citizen. He did not require a jury de medietate. The Attorney-General stated the case for the prosecution. It is unnecessary to recapitulate the facts, which have been recently published. The account. of the encounter in which Casey lost his life was sub stantially the same as the local journals have given. Geale, who had two constables with him at first, had his uniform on, and over it a great coat, which was partly open, so that it could be seen he was an officer of justice. He addressed Mackay by name, and said he arrested him for treason. The prisoner resisted, and was aided by Mannix, Spine; and Walsh. A struggle ensued, which lasted fifteen or twenty minutes, and in the course of it Geale fell, pulling the prisoner down with him. At this crisis Casey, the deceased, and four other constables came in, and Geale, supposing that the party would see the futility of further resistance, w as holding the prisoner with the left hand, while with his right he was putting back his revolver into his pocket, when Mackay, seizing the opportunity, stooped down, drew a revolver from his breast, which he had before been prevented from doing, and pointed it at Geale, who struck it down with his own. At that moment it was fired, and struck Casey in the leg while he was engaged in hand cuffing another man. After Casey was shot, the prisoner exclaimed voluntarily two or three times, " I did not intend to shoot Casey; I am sorry I shot Casey. I intended it for Geale." The examination of witnesses for the Crown occupied the court during the first clay of the At the close of the case for the Crown, Mr. Heron, Q.C., addressed the jury for the prisoner. He contended that the attempted arrest of Mackay was illegal, as he hail committed no felony, and the police had not the Lord- Lieutenant's warrant with them. He suggested that the pistol was discharged by the hand of Geale while endea vouring to strike it down, and that if there had been proper instruments in the infirmary Casey's life might have been saved. Witnesses were examined for the defence, who deposes to expressions of regret and sympathy by Mackay z and to a statement by Casey that the explosion was accidental ; also to an observation by the prisoner to Geale, that he could have shot him twice. Geale and another were recalled, Waters spokeand to th e positively evidence co nt contradicted thec t ed p t ri h s is on e e v i ! , de a n n c d e :s r M c r : co='LogelAlentherejpurliyed w fo h r o t , h a e fte C r ro a 7 b . ort M ci r e . lib J e us ra t t i l e; , o4ag sl an a st Int gliitY. THE SUN, LONPON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1868. A WOMAN 'SENTENCED TO DEATH. A married woman named Frances Kidder, aged 25, has been convicted of wilful murder at Maidstone, and sen tenced to death by Mr. Justice Byles, before whom she was tried. The act for which she will suffer is charac terised by such calculated malice and utter heartlessness that it will be remarkable in the annals of similar horrible crime. glie is the wife of a greengrocer, or hawker of vege tables, and resided at Hythe. Before she was married to kidder she had an illegitimate child by him, and hehad also another illegitimate child, a girl, by another woman. This daughter of his was named Louisa Kidder Staples. It was she whom her stepmother murdered. The child was 1.1 years old ; the prisoner hated her, often expressed her hatred openly, constantly ill-used her, and frequently threatened her. Sometimes neigh bours remarked that the child's pinafore was stained with blood that flowed from her face when the stepmother had been beating her. The woman was known to have a violent temper, and she proved to be unscrupulous in her cruelty. On the 17th August last there was a fair at New Romney, where her father and mother lived. She went to stop with her parents, and took with her the child Louisa, as well as her own child. She prolonged her visit till the 25th August. On that day, which was Sunday, her father and mother went out for a walk, leaving her at home with a brother and a sister of hers and her husband's little girl. She sent her brother and sister out for a walk with her own child, and so was alone with Louisa. She directly took the child's Sunday clothes off, and clad her in a poor ragged dress ; then changed her own apparel for commoner garments, and quitted the house, taking the step-child with her. When the others came back, finding that she was absent as the night came on, they became alarmed, and her father, with others, went out to search, but did not discover her. At about ten o'clock her mother heard Frances Kidder knock at the back door, and let her in. She said directly, " Oh, mother, lam so wet —I am wet through," and her clothes were wet. Her mother inquired where Louisa was. The woman at first made no answer'; then she turned her head, and, pointing out of the door, said, " There." She afterwards said that she and the child were coming across some fields, when they were frightened by two horses, and the child fell into a ditch from which she could not extricate her. Her mother and her husband, Kidder, suspected foul play; the latter sent for a policeman and gave her in charge. At the police-station she described the ditch in which the child lay. There it was found dead by drowning in water fourteen inches deep. There were evidences of struggling on the bank. Testimony was adduced that the accused had spoken of her desire and intention to get rid of the child, and that she had said she should never go back to Hythe with her. Other incriminatory evidence was given, and the case was left to the jury. After a retirement of ten minutes, the foreman brought a verdict of guilty into court, and the judge thereupon passed sentence of death. The prisoner heard her doom pronounced without any exhibition of emotion, and apparently was callous to the horrors of the position in which she stood. One painful feature in the case was, that the principal witnesses on whose action and testimony she was convicted were her awn father, mother, husband, and sister. PRINCIPAL BILLS INTRODUCED INTO CONGRESS. NEW CONDITIONS FOR ALABAMA, PROPOSED BY MR. BINGIIAM, OF OHIO. Whereas, a large majority of the votes given at an elec tion held in February, 1868, were for the Constitution presented by the Convention of the people of the State of Alabama; and, whereas, a certain combination of citizens within said State refused to vote, with the intent thereby to defeat the efforts of the friends of the Union to restore said State to its proper relation to the Union ; therefore, be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the United States of America, in Congress as sembled, That the State Legislature elect, under the new constitution of Alabama, be convened at the capital of said State as soon as practicable, by order of the United States military commander within said State of Alabama, andupon the ratification by said Legislature of the four teenth Article of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and the re-establishment by law of an impartial suffrage within said State, as authorized by said Constitution of Alabama, said State shall be admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, in accordance with the laws of the United States. NEW BILL FOR THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and in herent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for the protection of which the Government of the United States was established ; and whereas in the recogniti of this principle this Government has freely received emi grants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship ; rand whereas it is claimed that all such American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign States, owing allegiance to the Governments thereof ; and, whereas, it is necessary to the maintenance of the public peace, that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed ; therefore be it enacted, ezc., that any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision, of any officers of this Government which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the rights of expatriation, is hereby declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Government, and there fore null and void. Section 2. That all naturalized citizens of the United States, while in foreign States, shall be en titled to and shall receive from this Government the same protection of person and property that is accorded to native born citizens, in like situation and circumstances. Section 3. That whenever it shall be duly made known to the President that any citizen of the United States has been arrested and is detained by any foreign Government, in contravention of the intent and purposes of this Act, upon the allegation that naturalization in the United States does not operate to dissolve obedience to his native sove reign ; or if any citizen shall have been arrested and de tained, whose release, upon demand, shall be unreason ably delayed or refused, the President shall be and hereby is empowered to order the arrest, and detain in custody any subject or citizen of such foreign Government who may be found within the jurisdiction of the United States, and the President shall, without delay, give information to Con gress of any such proceeding under this Act. BILL FOR RESTORING CIVIL RIGHTS. Be it enacted, etc., that the several persons hereinafter named be, and they are hereby severally relieved from all disabilities imposed upon them, or either of them, by the laws of the United States, to wit : William H. Holden and C. J. Rogers of Wake County, North Carolina; William A. Smith of Johnson County, North Carolina ; Calvin J. Cowles of Wilkes County, North Carolina ; T. Settle of Rockingham County, North Carolina.; Luke Blackmer of Rowena County, North Carolina ; Robert W. Flournoy of Pontotoc County, Mississippi ; Joshua J. Morrissey of Claiborne County, Mississippi ; James R. Berry of Little Rock, Arkansas; Victor C. Benninger of North Carolina; General James Longstreet of Louisiana; Robert B. Kings bury of Texas ; Thomas J. Mackey and James L. Orr of South Carolina ; and Joseph G. Brown of De Kalb County, Georgia. SENATOR EDMUNDS' BILL ON TEE VETO POWER. A bill reported ~in the Senate, by Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, provides that the ten days within which the President is required by the Constitution to return a bill not approved by him, shall be deemed the ten calendar days (Sundays excepted) next after its receipt, and shall be computed by excluding the day on which ho receives it, and including the tenth day thereafter. The adjourn ment of Congress, which shall prevent the return by the President of any such bill to the House in which it is origi nated, shall be construed to be the final adjournment of a session. In case of the adjournment of either House to a particular day, it shall ba lawful for tho President to return a bill with objections, or send a message announcing its signature to the office of the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House; and such return, or sending of mes sage, shall be considered to have the same effect as if the House in which the bill originated were in session. CLOSING SPEECH OF THADDEUS STEVENS ON IMPEACHMENT. I agree with :those gentlemen who have gone before me, that this is a grave subject and should be gravely treated. It is important to the high official who is the subject of these charges, and it is important to a nation of forty millions of people, now free and rapidly increasing to hundreds of millions. The official character of the chief executive of this grand nation being thus involved, the charge, if falsely made, is a cruel wrong. If, on the other hand, the misdemeanour and suspicions charged against him are true, he is guilty of as atrocious attempts to usurp the liberty and destroy the happiness of this nation as were ever perpetrated by the most detestable tyrant that ever oppressed his fellow-men. Let us, therefore, discuss these questions in no partisan spirit, but with legal accuracy and impartial justice. The people desire no victim, and they will endure no usurper. The charges, so far as I shall discuss them, are few and distinct. Andrew John son is charged with attempting to usurp the power of other branches of the Govefnment, with attempting to obstruct and resist the execution of the law, with mis prison of bribery, and in the open violation of laws which declare his acts misdemeanours, and subject him to fine and imprisonment, and with removing from office the Secretary of War during the session of the Senate, without the advice and consent of the Senate, and with violation of the sixth section of the Act entitled " An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices." There are other offences charged in the papers referred to the committee, which I may con sider more by themselves, in order to sustain impeachment under our Constitution. 1 do not hold that it is necessary to prove a crime is an indictable offence, or any act malum in se. 1 agree with the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania on the other side of the House, who holds this to be a purely political proceeding. it is intended for a remedy for malfeasance in office, and to prevent the con tinuance thereof. Beyond that it is not intended as a per sonal punishment for past offences, or for future example. Impeachment under our Constitution is very different from impeachment under the English law. The framers of our Constitution did not rely for safety upon the aveng:- ing dagger of a Brutus, bat provided peaceful remedies which should prevent that necessity. England had two systems of jurisprudence—one for trial and punishment of common offenders, and one for trial of men in higher sta tions when it was found difficult to convict before the ordinary tribunals. • This latter proceeding was by im peachment or by bills of attainder generally practised:to punish official malefactors. But the system soon degene rated into political and personal persecution, and men were tried, condemned, and executed by this court from malignant motives. Such was the condition of the Eng lish laws when our Constitution was framed and the Convention determined to provide against the abuse of that high power, so that revenge and punish ment should not be inflicted upon political or personal enemies. Hence the whole punishment was made to con sist in removal from office, and bills of attainder were wholly prohibited. We are to treat this question then as wholly political, in which, if an officer of the Government abuses his trust or attempts to pervert it to improper pur poses, whatever be his motive, he becomes subject to im peachment and removal from office. The offence being indictable does not prevent impeachment, but is not neces sary to maintain it. (See Strong's Commentaries on the Constitution, Madison, and others.) Such is the opinion of our elementary writers. Nor can any case of impeachment, tried in this country, be found where any attempt was made to prove the offence criminal and indictable. What, then, are the official misdemeanours of Andrew Johnson disclosed by the evidence ? On the second day of March, 1867, Congress passed an act entitled "An act regulating the tenure of certain civil offices." Among other provisions it enacted that no officer who had been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate should be removed from office without the con sent of the Senate, and that if, during vacation, a sus pension should be made for cause, such cause should be reported to the Senate within twenty days after their next meeting. If the Senate should deem the reason of the suspension sufficient, then the officer should be removed and another appointed in his stead; but if the Senate should refuse to concur with the President, and declare the reasons insufficient, then the officer suspended should forthwith resume the functions of his office and the powers of the person per forming its duties should cease. It is especially provided that the Secretary of War shall hold his office during the term of the President by whom he may be appointed, and for one month thereafter, unless removal by and with the consent of the Senate as aforesaid. On the 12th of August, 1867, during the recess of the Senate, the President re moved the Secretary of War, whose term of office had not expired, requiring him to surrender the office, with the public property, and appointed General U. S. Grant Sec retary of War, ad interim. When Andrew Johnson as sumed the office of President, he took his oath to obey the Constitution of the United States, and to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. This was a solemn and enduring obligation ; nor can he plead exemption from it on account of his condition at the time it was ad ministered to him. An attempt to obstruct the execution of the law, not a mere omission amounting to negligence which would have been a misdemeanour, but a daring and bold conspiracy was attempted by him to iaduce the General of the Army to aid him in defeating the opera tion of this law; and when he had suspended the Secre tary of War he appointed General Grant Secretary, ad interim, with the avowed purpose of preventing the opera tion of the law if the Senate should decide in favour of the Secretary, and he says that the General did enter into such a conspiracy to aid him in obstructing the return of the rejected Secretary, notwithstanding the Senate might decide in his favour. This is denied by the general, and a question of veracity rather angrily discussed has arisen between those gentlemen who consider that that question is one of importance to the public. In this they are mistaken. Which is the man of truth and which is the man of falsehood is of no more public importance than if it occurred between two obscure individuals. If Andrew Johnson tells the truth, then he is guilty of a high official misdemeanour, for he avows his effort to prevent the execu tion of the laws. If the General Commanding tells the truth, then the President is guilty of a high misdemeanour, for he declares the same thing of the President, denying only his own complicity. No argument can make this point plainer than the statement of the culprit. If he and the General told the truth, then he committed wilful per jury by refusing to take care that the laws should be duly executed. To show the animus and guilty knowledge with which this law was violated, we haw only to turn to the proceedings of the Senate notifying him of his illegal and void conduct, and then to consider that he has since persevered in attempting to enforce it. Indeed to show his utter disregard of the laws of his country we have only to turn to his annual message, in which he proclaimed to the people that the laws of Con gress are unconstitutional and not binding on the people. Who after that can say that such a man is fit to occupy the Executive Chair, whose duty it is to vindicate obedience to and see that those very laws are faithfully obeyed ? Then the great beauty of the remedial and primitive process is clearly demonstrated. He is dull and blind who cannot see its necessity and the beneficial results and purposes of the trial and impeach ment. By the sixth section of the act referred to, it is provided that every removal, appointment, or employment made or exercised contrary to the provisions of this act, or the making, sealing, countersigning, or issuing of any commission or letter of authority for or in respect of any such appointment or employment, shall be deemed and are hereby declarOd to be high misdemeanours, and upon trial and conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $lO,OOO, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both, said punishment in the discretion of the Court. Now, in defiance of this law, Andrew Johnson on the 21st day of Fehruary,lB6B, issued his commissionary letter of authority to Lorenzo Thomas, appointing him Secretary of War, ad interim, and commanding him to take possession of the Department of War, and to eject the incumbent, E. Is!. Stanton, then in lawful possession of said office. After further stating the grounds upon which the charges against the President rest, be said, "As we deal with the first great political malefactor, so will be the result of our efforts to perpetuate the happiness and good government of the human race. The God of our fathers, who inspired them with the thought of universal freedom, will hold us responsible for the noble institutions which they projected and expected us to carry out. LAW AND POLICE. ENGRAVING THE NAME OF A FIRM WITHOUT AUTHO RITY.—Vice-Chancellor Malins has' had before him a motion on behalf of the Fore-street Warehouse Company (late Morrison, Dillon, and Co.), for an injunction to restrain Messrs. Johnson and Co., engravers and printers, from printing copies of a plate for invoices of goods in which the plaintiffs' name was used. The plate was engraved pursuant to an order given by Mr. Alexander, manufacturer of gilt and plated jewellery, Birmingham, in the ordinary course of business, but no copies were printed from it, because it struck one ,of the partners that it was strange that an order for invoices of the plaintiffs' goods should have been given by a person not belonging to their firm. Messrs. Johnson communicated with the plaintiffs, and this suit was the result. The Vice-Chancellor made a per petual injunction against the defendant Alexander, and ordered the plate to be delivered up for the purpose of destruction, and that Mr. Alexander should pay all the costs of the suit. The bill was dismissed against Messrs. Johnson. _ _ _ THE DROYLSDEN MURDER.—At the Manchester Assizes on Thursday, Timothy Faherty, a labourer, was charged with the wilful murder of Mary Hanmer, at Droylsden, on Christmas Day. The prisoner was courting the deceased, both lodging in the same house. A disagree. ment took place before Christmas, and then Hanmer persisted in breaking off the match. This gave the pri. Boner great umbrage. On the evening of Christmas Day he saw the deceased in the kitchen of the house. What took place is not known, but the landlady's daughter was roused by hearing a noise, and the deceased ran into her bedroom with her face bleeding. She was followed by the prisoner, who struck her on the head with a poker until she fell down, dying. The moment after the prisoner gave utterance to the most extravagant protestations of love, and fondled the corpse of the dead woman. He was found guilty, and sentenced to death. AN IMPOSTOR RESTORED TO LIFE.—A poor man on crutches went to the Mansion House, on Wednesday, and asked forrelief. He said he had fallen from a scaffold and broken three of hi; ribs, and had been discharged only that morning from the infirmary of the East London Union. He received an order for re-admission to the union, sixpence for his omnibus fare, and a shilling to get a dinner. He limped out of the room, and had no sooner left it than he complained of a pain in his inside ; an officer got him a little brandy, and he left the Mansion House ; a minute after he was found writhing on the ground in front of the European Tavern. He was at once put into a cab and driven to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in charge of an officer. On the way he stretched himself out as if for the last time, and the officer thought him to be dead. On arriving at the hospital the doctors ordered him to be strapped to a stretcher, and applied to him a galvanic battery. On receiving the shock he said he could talk now, and begged them to desist. He pretended that he could not put on his clothes, whereupon the doctor gave him another shock of the battery, which had the effect of making him put on his clothes in two minutes and run off. The policeman caught him and took him to the station, and finally brought him before the Lord Mayor, who sentenced him to bard labour for twenty-one days. .A. POLICEMAN SENT TO PRISON.-At the Bow-street Police-court, on Thursday, a police-constable called Wool lacot, was charged with assaulting the wife of the landlord of the Sir Paul Pindar public-house. The complainant some time back was crossing the Strand, when she was impertinently accosted by the defendant. She resented his conduct, and was thereupon shamefully assaulted. He turned the lady round by the arms, pushed her repeatedly against the shutters of a shop, threatened to kick her into the road, and used "fearful and beastly expressions.'. The clothes of the prosecutrix were much torn, and her arms very much bruised. Mr. Vaughan considered that the case was fully proved, and refused to allow any arrangement to be made. He sentenced him to one month's imprisonment with hard labour. THE BEER SOLD TO PUBLICANS.-Sir Thomas Henry had before him a brewer, named Williams, of Kingsland, who was charged with having infringed the law by selling to a publican a quantity of saccha- rine matter to he used as a substitute for malt. It appeared that the defendant was a dealer in vinegar and spruce. He held a license as a brewer, and under colour of brewing beer he was in the habit of Manufacturing an article which he called " maltheine," but which really contained but little malt, and sometimes none at all, for the purpose of supplying it to publicans who used it in the adulteration of porter. He also manu factured and sold under the name of " hydromel," an article of similar character, but thinner in consis tency and lighter in colour, for the adulteration of ale. A supervisor of excise visiting a public•house at Newington found bydromel and maltheine in the cellar. Mr. Williams had told the keeper of the house that the was quite at liberty to sell the beer, there being no legal difficulty. No concealment, therefore, was made of the liquor. Mr. Williams had previously been cautioned. Mr. Banister, the official analyser, proved that these mixtures consisted entirely of sugar and water, and did not contain any malt whatever. It was contended, not withstanding, that the composition contained malt. The usual plan, it was stated, was to brew the malt by itself and the sugar by itself, and afterwards to mix them. The prosecution, however, laid down that the article was manufactured entirely for adulteration, and Sir Thomas Henry, concurring in this view, inflicted the full penalty of £5OO. DRUNKENNESS AND HOSPITAL STOPPAGES IN THE ARMY. —We understand that the military authorities are about to introduce a different method of repression for the crime of drunkenness in the army, and one which appears to us both more in accordance with the suggestion of medical knowledge and the dictates of common sense. Instead of trying the drunkard by court-martial, and send ing him regularly to prison, with risk to his health, it is thought expedient to withhold from him his pay for all the time that the country is deprived of his services. As it is at present, a good-for-nothing soldier, when suffering from repeated attacks of disease of a self-ixiduced character, may both escape his military duty and save money by going to hospital, and get a good-conduct badge and pay besides. If the drunkard has to forfeit something of his pay, by a parity of reasoning so ought the other. The steady, well-conducted soldier, who has been discharging a share of the duties which belonged to both these classes, in addition to his own, and contracted, it may be, disease in doing so, has to forfeit exactly the same sum whilst in hospital as his comrade undergoing treatment for a self inducted affection.—Tho Lancet. TEE PARIS THEATRES. The Paris theatres are never more resorted to than during Lent, and I do not remember any careme more pro fitable to inzpressarii than the current one. On the night of last Saturday dillettante,s, hunters of strongly sensa tional dramas, amateurs of Marivaudages, all had their way; the first besieged the Opera to witness the general rehearsal of Hamlet ; the second had stormed the doors of the Chatelet Theatre from daybreak to witness an histori cal drama, entitled Le Vengeur ; the latter strutted in large array at the Theatre Frangais a good while before the curtain rose to enjoy Un Baiser Anonyme, a comedy in one act, by Alberic Second and Jules Blerzy. The pink and silky threads of the plot roll during - nearly an hour around that Sybilian kiss, according to the facon of Marivaux, with a touch after Watteau. The Sybil turns out to be Madame de Marsac ; at a bal masque, and under cover of a domino, she gave that baiser to Gaston de Marsac, her own husband, to try his constancy. Gaston fancies that he received it from Madame de Chailly ; you will easily g uess the development of the intrigue. Still, the bluette has had un reussite of esteem, as they say in France—in Eng land we would say a quiet success. And while Le Vengeur was being engulfed at the Cha telet Theatre to the frantic cries of " Vive le Republique,' Mdlle. Nilsson, humming the sweet notes of Ophelia, w as throwing herself into the traditional river in which she met with death. Of Hamlet I will speak to you anon. Let us first dispose of Le Vengeur, a drama in five acts and ten tableaux, or pictures. A few words about the more or less historical episode of Le Vengeur. On the Ist of June, 174 Admiral Villaret- Joyeuse was attacked by Howe, who, taking advantage of a thick mist, and also of a wrong mancouvre of the ship La Montagne, broke through the French line, cut off its flank, and overwhelmed it with all his forces. The battle was long and desperate, and the French version of the affair has it that the conventional Jean-Bon-Saint-Andre had himself tied up to the foot of the mainmast, there en couraging the crew by word and gesture. It was in the midst of that infuriated action that the ship Le Vengeur, dismasted and half destroyed, refused to haul down her colours, and, after having hoisted the French flag and fired her lower battery, already on a level with the sea, she went down to the cries of " Vive la Republique!" Alas ! I am afraid that history repeated itself last Satur day, and that the modern Vengeur foundered again at the Chatelet Theatre. The authors, MM. Brisobarre and Blum, had achieved an immensesuccess in writing such pieces as Blue Beard and the Duchess of Gerolstein ; but their efforts in the heroic line are saturated with parodies. The Vengeur is but a pretext for a profuseness of scenery; there is jut a bit of plot to connect the parts; all the rest is a succession of costumes, official fetes, details of manners and customs, ballets, fights, detonations, picturesque epi sodes charming the eye without trying the mind. Politics are eschewed from the enormous fiasco ; every shade of party has in it a fiche de consolation. The Republicans have applauded the episode of a Royalist chansonnier, whom the people castigate in the way the merry wives of Windsor treated Falstaff; the Bonapartists extolled the episode of Sergeant Junot, who is advised to seek a powerful and illustrious protection ; the Legitimists were all joy at the sight of the conspirator de Lussan, very brave and very loyal ; the Clericals were all smiles at the appearance of the sworn priest, whose devout attitudes can but delight the Christian souls. Withal, Chauvinisme is paramount from the rise to the fall of the curtain. Albeit, I do not remember having seen such a tumu or heard such hissings and hootings. For instance, there is a tableau said to represent a cortege of the fete of the Supreme Being returning from the Champ de Mars ; a ball of fish-fags and market porters ; and then an agricultural cart, with a Ceres pouring lazzis from her throne of sheaves. Egad ! She interrupts her Billingsgate dialect to ask for her pocket-handkerchief ! That bacchanalia has not been relished by the public, and the spectators were still less de lighted with the apostrophes of Mother Barthelemy distri buting to the populace sausages seasoned with apinch of this Attic salt—" I ant not sure the meat is of good quality, but it comes from the heart." A dreadful storm of indignation burst over the ballet in the third act; the nerves of the first danseuse received such a shock that she fainted, and then vanished, and the voice of Madame Desclanzas, when singing a love song to Captain Richard, was completely drowned by thousands of COCOriCOS, uttered from all parts of the house in every sort of diapason. You know the cocorico is an imitation of the cries of animals of both zones, and at that moment ono would have fancied being in the Zoological Gardens. As to the foundering of Le Vengeur, th 3 scenic effect was far from being marvellous. But the cries of "Viva la Republique" accompanying its disappearance were rather Stentorian. I suppose you know that Dante Censure wished to expunge those ominous words, or, at least, to replace them by more palatable ones, and that they were retained at the special request of an august personage. When the matter was referred to him ho answered, "By cutting out the First Republic you would cut out the most glorious pages of the history of my house." From the Chatelet to the Opera the transition is simply delicious; from a nightmare you pass into Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." And while those Echoes are in the compositor's hand the Opera in Paris will give the first representation of Hamlet, put into music by Maestro Ambroise Thomas, and translated, or, rather ar ranged, by Michel Carre and Jules Barbier. Hamlet operatised in French is most certainly a grande hardiesse, a veritable tour de force. Yet the libretta is passable, and the music excellent. I even think that the Prince de Dane mark will be the great musical hit of the season. "How do you know," say you, " since Hamlet has not been given when you wrote your lucubrations ?" Rever berations, if you please. Well, in the French theatres the last rehearsal of a new lyrical or dramatic piece of any worth is a solemn affair ; and as rumour had spread about on its thousand wings that Hamlet would turn out a tre mendous success, la fleur des pois of the high life in Paris has flirted for weeks around the lessee of the Opera to obtain admission to the general rehearsal. But the elect were few, and the rejected ones consoled themselves by telling their friends, "You could not gain entrance either for love or money." In Paris a general rehearsal may be called a private but a first representation; wilt all it has something of the forbidden and much of the early fruit, and the only difference botween a general rehearsal and a public performance is, that the players do not wear their theatrical dresses. The general rehearsal of Lianalet took place last Saturday night. The house had a very peculiar aspect. I repeat that the cream of the cream of the Faubourg and of the Chausee was there, witho4 speaking of the political and artistic accompaniments, as M. Rouher and his family, Count Walewski and Countess Walewski, Secretary and Maslame Pinard, Prince and Princess Metternich, Prince Ponia-, towsky, ilossini, &c. The unanimous impression was ex ceedingly favourable to Ambrose Thomas, and amongst the artists who interpreted the maestro, two names shine as stars of the first magnitude—Mdlles. Nilsson and Favre, whose exquisite singing and acting will propitiate the admirers of Shakespeare for the audacity of having noted in French music the untranslateable parts of Ophelia, Hamlet, and the rest. Madame Gueymard is the Queen ; Behal acts Claudius ; Colin, Laertes ; Ponsard, Polonius ; Castelmary, Horatio; David, the Ghost. The Gravediggers are there, but they do not come up to Comp ton's style. _ Many parts were applauded, but methinks the most deli cious jewel of that precious casket is the ballad— " Pale et blonde Dort sous l'eau profonde," which Ophelia sings in an unspeakable way at the moment of throwing herself into tho water—by a delegate. As to scenery, it is splendid, gorgeous ; and I am told that the musical editors, Mengel, gave £4,000 for the copy right of "Hamlet" This is the fairest criterion, and the most practical too. Nous verrons.—Standard. HEALTH OF SCOTLAND. In the month of February the deaths of 2,170 persons were registered in the eight principal towns of Scotland —Glasgow,Edinburgh, Leith, Greenock, Dundee, Aberdeen, Paisley, and Perth. Allowing for increase of population, this number was 265, under the average mortality of the month during the last 10 years. The epidemic and contagious class of diseases proved fatal to 469 persons, con stituting 21.6 per cent. of the total mortality. This rate was exceeded in Dundee and Leith, from the fatal prevalence of measles in the former, and scar latina in the latter town. Of 113 deaths by fevers, 54 were from typhus and 50 from enteric. Scarla tina and whooping-cough caused each 87 deaths, measles 69, croup 30, apoplexy 42, paralysis 37, diseases from inflammatory affections of the re spiratory organs 381, besides 268 from consump tion. Seventy-one deaths were registered from violent causes, two from delirium tremens, and five from intemperance. Of the 2,170 deaths, 943, or 43 per cent.,were those of children under 5 years of age ; in the smallest of the eight towns—Perth— the proportion of these early deaths was only 28 per cent. of the whole mortality, but in the largest Glasgow—it was 50 per cent. In Leith it was 48 per cent., and in Dundee 44 per cent. Eleven of the peisons who died during the month had passed their 90th year ; the eldest was the widow!of a millwright, aged 101 years. The births registered in February in the eight towns were 3,003. Of these, 300 were illegitimate, being in the proportion of one, illegitimate in every 10 births. The mar riages for the month numbered 493, which was 20 below the average of the corresponding period of the last 10 years. The month was characterised, in a meteorological point of view, by a disturbed barometric pressure, unexampled high mean tem perature, large amount of rain, great force of wind, and continued westerly, strictly W.S.W. direction, beyond parallel. The highest mean temperature was recorded at Leith, 44 deg., and the lowest at Aberdeen, 41.6 deg. The large number of 26 rainy days out of the 29 occurred at Glasgow, at Paisley, and at Greenock ; the depth of rainfall at Greenock was 11.74 in., or nearly twice that of Glasgow and Paisley. E liuburgh was at the head of the mean pressure of wind column, with 7.401 b. on the square foot ; while Paisley was at the foot, with only 1.031 b. on the square foot—a curious fact, if true, seeing that the wind was blowing from Paisley to Edinburgh. THE SILVER BEND REPORTER. 10 , -- The newsapers of a country are the best reflection of its people. They give a far truer idea of pro gress than books and pamphlets intended to en lighten those who know nothing of the land. Works relating to territories and colonies are often published with the object of attracting emigration, and being addressed to persons ignorant of the country the authors permit themselves a considerable latitude in drawing on their imagination. A news paper, on the other baud, is for circulation among the inhabitants, and if not truthful, it is worse than useless, and would have but a short existence. Each may " crack up" its own district, yet it must con fine itself in the main to facts. The Reese River Reveille may proclaim the superiority of Lander County generally, and the Reese River district in particular ; the Silver Bend Reporter may stand on the merits of Nye County,,and of its own district of Silver Bend; the one may portray the glories of Austin, and the other the coming greatness of Belmont, but each will truly indicate the progress of the territory of which it writes. The Reporter is a weekly paper, and on the Ist February it had reached the Number 45. It commences by stating the terms of subscription and rates for advertising. For a year the charge of a posted copy is two guineas; for a less period, 4s. 21 a month : a good indication of the low value of money in the mining States, as on the Atlantic seaboard a penny not a shilling would be the price of a copy. Ad vertisements are calculated by the square, that is, ninety-six words of solid reading matter, which for the first insertion, is 16s. Bd. ; and for each additional insertion half that sum. A district court summons for three months is ten guineas in advance, a justice's summons eight guineas ; four squares are allowed ; above that the charge is extra. The first advertisers are the doc tors, those who follow are lawyers. This shocks English ideas of propriety, but we cannot see in new settlements why such professional gentle men should not take the best means open of making known their address, information which cannot fail to be of use to miners scattered over the country who may suddenly require the services more especially of medical men. The reading matter commences with a touching little poem, suggested by the death of ETHAN ALLEN'S daughter, who asked the sceptic in her last moments, in whose faith, his or her mother's, he would have her die. JOE BILLINGS, on Cocoa-nuts, is an excellent piece of humour, after the style of ARTEMUS WARD. " Tha gro as a negro's head duz, with a grate deal of skull to them. A kokernutt, after it has been skalpt, resembles an old ten-pin ball, only a little more round one way than tother." This is followed by a piece of homely advice, termed Begin, which winds up with what should be the epitaph of exactly five-sixteenths of civilized mankind. " Here rots the useless carcase of a creature born with mortal powers, and blessed with rich and varied opportunities, who existed without living, and died unmourned because he was a lazy soul, and never had purpose enough to begin. ' An Important Decision of Secretary Browning, con cerning the withdrawal from the Market, of public lands within 25 miles on either side of the Union Pacific a ßailroad and its branches, is touched on. It will defeat the intention of many persons who have arranged to secure the most valuable timber and mining lands in favourable localities along the line. A story is told of an occurrence at a lighthouse on the evening of November 22. The keeper was then startled by a deafening crash, which sounded as if the tower had been burst asunder. On examina tion he found that the glass, 36 inches by 24, and half an inch thick, had been totally shattered by three large black ducks, who were lying dead under the debris, one with its neck broken in several plt ces, and its bones crushed to atoms, as if propelled against the window with the force of a rocket. An account is given by Mr. CIIARLES KENT of the deso lation in the valleys of California by the overflow of the Upper Sacramento• Hundreds of farmers had been completely ruined, their horses, barns, and fences carried away by the floods, and their stock drowned, and he considers they will require several years to recover these losses. Alluding to a labouring party at work in one of the districts, it is observed that out of the six men composing it no two were of one nation. There was a Frenchman, Spaniard, Mexi can, Chinaman, Negro, and Yankee, all speaking English. A subject of great interest to Nevala is next noticed ; the temporary railway bridge recently erecting over the river at Omaha being completed, an unbroken communication is in operation be tween New York and the base of the Rocky Moun tains, a distance of over 2,000 miles. In Montana, near Red Mountain City, there are three craters, so deep that the light is entirely excluded from their depth, and no sound is heard when a stone is thrown into them of its reaching the bottom. The politics of the Silver Bend Reporter are very distinctly marked. " The unterrified of our town," says the editor, " met last Wednesday at the Court House, and had a jolly reunion. A committee was ap pointed to draft resolutions for the government of a Democratic Club, to be organised at a meeting adjourned to the 12th February. Some of the Radicals met on Monday and organised a club, named the Belmont Union Grant Club—president, John Bowman, who was empowered to call them together." Speaking of the weather, there is a para graph which might be recommended to the daily paper in the North of England whose proprietor adver tises for an apprentice, and undertakes at a mode rate premium to initiate the young gentleman in newspaper paragraphing. " Though that topic," says the editor, " was threadbare more than a year ago, we are still scratching away at it as though Virginia was the only place where it weathered. We shall not attempt to say anything on the subject, but merely remark by way of parenthesis that it has been weathering here for the last three weeks, but shows some signs of letting up in the course of three or four months." Apropos of weather, the Reporter observes—" This is splendid weather for picking ice, and we know of no one engaged in preserving it. A man might do well by putting up a few thousand tons for next summer. We would have embarked in that business long ago, only we were fearful that we might get nipped, or that some cuss might freeze us out, or set fire to our stock-in trade ; we are more cautious than we used to be." E. LAZARD is noticed as having " removed from the old stand in Belmont-street to the cellar adjoining this office, where he is ready to minister to the wants of the thirsty, or discuss - politics with aspirants for Legislative, Congressional, or Senatorial honours. Call and see him in his new place ; he is polite, affable, and never flops." The Report4r is very indignant with the officers of company F - 14th United States Infantry, who ordered their men to carry water in their camp kettles for 70 Apaches to wash their faces. We are surprised at this new move of the Apaches ; and as cleanliness is next to godliness, they ought to be congratulated on having advanced even so far as to wash their faces. They sleep in the centre of the camp every night, and, in consequence, the men are not permitted to take off even their shoes. As the Apaches eat their own sugar upon their bread, the soldiers had to give them theirs to sweeten their coffee. " The fatted ox had just been killed to please the wretches," writes the correspondent ; and on this the Reporter exclaims, "To the dogs with all such officers! and such modes of treating the red devils. The only Government officer who knew how to fight Indians was General CONNOR, who, if left alone, would have prevented the depredations and murders committed by the Indians on the Overland route. We have come to be a firm believer in the doctrine that the only way to establish a permanent peace with the red-skins is to send them to ' their happy hunting-ground.' The idea of officers of the United States army compelling their soldiers to carry water for a lot of these hellish Apaches to wash their faces • in is disgusting. Better treat them to a dose of cold lead.* These officers, too, richly deserve a ball and chain, and a twenty years' imprisonment in the Dry Tortugas for such base conduct." What would Exeter Hall say to the Christian sentiment 3 of the Silver Bend Reporter? It is severe on Con gress, which it terms a sweet-scented body, for the bill depriving the Supreme Court of Jurisdiction in cases arising out of the Reconstruction laws, and suggests that they pass a law declaring vacant all the civil offices of the Government other than that of their own body, and constitute themselves the appointing power to fill such vacancies. llr. PRYOR lets double stalls in his stable for half 3 guinea a night, but he will treat parties from Austin handsomely, provided they do not kick too many boards off. A merry party is describe as having " quite a good time." "It con sisted of a horse sleigh loaded with townspeople and a quantity of recently imported calicoes, chig nons, broadcloths, &c. Coombs, the driver from whose stable they obtained the turn-out, is a bully JEHU, and manipulates the ribbons as if an old hand at the biz! One smarty' from Hot Creek swear° that the corks from the champagne bottles went through the ceiling of the room, and knocked half a-dozen shingles off the roof." The origin of the cry "Ho ! JOE ! have youseen DAWLEY?" is SO Wel l told that we regret we have not space for the accoun t of an exclamation that at one time was incessantlf heard in California. " A Plea for Mean Men" l° equally good, and this ends the reading matter of, the number before us. Such newspapers are 01 great use to those desirous of obtaining some knob' edge of the progress of States so little known , though destined soon to take an important place. Few even of the latest maps give otherwise than a°, blank the Great Basin in which the rising city of Belmont is situated. We have already discusse d the Press of Virginia and of Austin, the chief Clti e° of Nevada, and we will, as opportunities offer, Wu' inue our notes.—Anglo- American limes. * We have heard of cold steel being administered, 1311 t certainly not cold lead, for the action of the powder b.' the effect of making the lead hot when the bullet is d ir charged. THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. —An acci •a el 3 occurred on Monday night at East Fortune station, on the North British Railway, whereby considerable damage • ro, done to plant, and the traffic suspended for several 'la.., A goods train from Edinburgh ran into a similar t ra in which was standing at the station, throwing several vre o gons off the rails, and blocking up both lines. The Loud ° express was due, but fortunately it was a few minutes I °' t which allowed warning to be given in time to pre /ell lr° t another collision. Had the train not been overdue - , results would in all probability have been very serious, at that point it goes very fast. Information of the accicl °ll was telegraphed to Edinburgh, whence a train was Septt; East Fortune to bring in the passe nger s. Aft e r some d e '" ,, passengers and luggage were transferred from the ton do rain, and Edinburgh was reached shortly after 12 o'cl° ° " after a detention of about three and a half hours. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pl",;$0 The family medicine chest that is furnished with powerful remedies needs nothing more; indigestion, g e „"del, ral debility, liver complai n t, eru ptions, sores, vfo u "„se , ulcers, tumours, &c., are infallibly cured by their Is l e They purify the blood, and give tone and vigour W t he whole system. The ointment when well rubbed into ao cl parts affected enters the flesh just as salt enters meat , if the pills are taken as an auxiliary the cure is sln,• thorough, and permanent. These medicaments are coil/ posed of rare balsams, without the admixture of a g of mercury or any injurious substance. They are I/ 3 0 ai liarly mild and gentle in their action, and are as 00' they are efficacious. . 1 0 1° • [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Henceforth no one will doubt the IT - , u piO, properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of ble , w et' it has already received from Invalids whose position had co pe , deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the :„" 0 whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirtyi;ott f of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " ati , 11 du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21 , 1866 . — " The laer, d 0 ,, the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoelZirpl other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Proe l ,:i Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P u ' e oevi o at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly„ 1,1 iD o r effect on his health., and his Holiness cannot pr's' ou t y q excellent food too highly." We extract a few °vie more than 68,000 cures :—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marcia 4 de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all oN'9'. fi e digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerauwvfii; vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Deeies49,Bo'6, Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. r 4 °' 00 5 0 4 " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervo,, s, 0,, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, siclon:oefa, vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James P i , pie> of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting liver derangement, and partial deafness Important " it olo o y Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy runt to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is We' ; 1 0 i ciously attached 5 11°' 11 1 1 ' in tins at is. W. ; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d,; Po; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Do BARRY and 1 - , .., 0 :,,,c 11 , 4 „4, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, r n ' and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 1 5 `. 1 ! Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and cherol. Births. 4 0 ..scil'' DAVIDSON—On the 11th inst., at 26, Porchester' Mrs. Madgwick S. Davidson, of a son. 0,11 )/ SMITH —On the 11th inst., at Brighton, the wif° ° tain Kincaid Smith, of a daughter. 1 1 ° STEWART—On the 11th inst., at • 21, Gran ville -11 Portman-square, Mrs. Mark J. Stewart, of a soi l ' Marriages. Aoploar COVELL —DEAN - On the 10th inst., at Upper 09 - niti s i v e o Alfred Covell, youngest son of te late Mr. Tl l °' - olt , „ a t yell, of Lower Sydenham, to Rosa Elizabeth, t4B daughter of Mr. William 'Dean, of Blunt Housel itP Sydenham. Trio d FAULKNER —Cmoss—On the 11th inst., at 11011 sely Clapham-common, Rosalie, eldest daughter of (:)`' Faulkner, of Clapham-rise, to John W. Cross, naught-terrace, Hyde-park. Deaths. terrace, BARNETT—On the 10th inst., at 4, Dav idge-t 'lf nington-road, John Barnett, aged 5 0 . 10 DAWE—On the 10th inst., at Stoke, DOVOnpOI 4 7 3.°5 Dawe, Esq., aged 82. MACPHERSON—On the Gth inst., at ViONVOIOnt, lAT erl , t ei Robert Macpherson, Esq., of Glentruim. V47Or ee° lll MEREDITII—On the 10th inst. at at St. John's , • Cap Br Colonel John Isaiah Meredith, late 4th Mado s ,„Te one of the last survivors of the battles of As' - ' ' ;re Baum, &c., aged 85. SetSD WOODLAND—On the 10th inst., at Williton, Sol9el. W. S. Woodland, aged 35. Ar London : Printed and P ublished b y WILLI 9,- go g i of No. 112, Strand , Printer, at Tan SUN Offo°,ooo3:i Strand, in the Precinct of the savoy, in t ile Bliddloos.--Friday, March 13, 18GS. A~ Aft Loath)] LIIN( Mgt &c. p CENT 0 On a P.m. to This Prize AI It isi Sold t he Ago Obser L G R . 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