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the United States. 1t can only perceive dan
ger in the refusal of the members Of the Cath

ger in the refusal Of the members OF the Cath
Ollie church to vote with party whom they
know to be bent on reducing them on account
Of their religion to the political condition Of
free negroes. In view Of the fact that not q
Catholic clergyman, from Maine to Oregon, in
terfered in the late political contest, Though
both the Republican and Know Nothing par
ties are made up for the most part Of persons
bent on depriving members of the Catholic
church of their political o-equality) and Of
the further fact, that it was in great measure
$50 called) religious crusade against the
Catholics on thepart of hundreds of thousands
of tho opponents of Buchanan and Breckin-
ridge The impudence of the Comrier's arti-
Gle is amusing.
Courts-Martial, and Their Result Tho
court of inquiry, of which Brevet Brigadier
General Churchill was president, not long
since in session at Carlisle Barracks. Pa, has
entirely exonerated Brevet Colonel Chas A.
May, major second dragons, of the allegation
of unoficer like conduct, brought against him
by sundry citizens of Carlisle, in the circum-
stances growing out of a squabble between
some recruits and persons belonging in that
neishborhoOd.
The court-martial at Fort Clark, Texas, Of
which Brevet Lieut.. Col. Andrew Porter, cap.
tain of the regiment of mounted rifemen, was
president, having found Private Anthony
Welsh, company 1, first artillery, guilty Of
numbering Sergeant Dennis H. Moore, of the
same company and regiment, on the 3l,t of
May last, and having sentenced him to be
hung, the, President has ordered that he be
hung on the fourth Friday after the receipt CT
the order at the post where the prisoner may
be confined
The court-martial recently convened at
Fort Stanton, New Mexico, Major Jefferson
Van Horne, captain third infantry, president,
have found private Joseph 7. Forrest, of COM
pany b, first dragons, "a native Of Anne
Arundel County, Maryland,) guilty of at
tempting the life of Sergeant Patrick Hade,
Of the same company and regiment, by firing
pistol at him, and having sentenced him to
be shot, the President has commut.d his
sentence to confinement for the bala-ce Of his
term Of enlistment, at hard labor, with ball
and chain.
The Knights Of the Present Tims.-The
New York Times thus spicey-ly criticises Vic
| toria's last knighted ones:
The last batch of c. BIS created in Eng.
land is in perfect match with Sir Richard
Airey, Lords Cardigan and Lucan and Co.,
and goes far to Justify tho public opinion in
England that the Order was invented as a salve
fer sorrow rather than q reward Of success
OF Mir Champions knighting we are deferred
from speaking by the reflection that We could
not speak of the Individual without reopening
certain circumstances now most happily closed
We cannot help, however, in justice, asking
why, in this list of lovely companions, is the
name Of Mr. Secretary Stanley not to be found'
Why, when Mr., Champion is knighted, should
tho real hero of the splendid enlistment botch
go uDribboued and C d? MI Crampton's
companions were Hon J. Bligh, of Hanover,
and Mr. Magonis, of Stockholm. The former
gentleman il son of the uncle Of the Earl Of
Darnley, near relative of Sir Henry Parnell,
and connection of many past and present whig
and tory people Of family and note. He has
been subordinate or chief to many missions for
many years, without ever being heard Of
special virtue in the foreign department,
which does not encourage energy and zeal
Had NJ. CranptoHn not Exchanged IL. delight
Of catching salmon for catching SOihtsrs, he
| rould haze been looked upon as a safe dipIo-
nsatit and sort of Talleyrand in his way. Mr.
Bligh 1--WE desire to mention these triHes, as
there are 80 many admirable young American
gentlemen looking out for embassies Jus: now
has been, as we'll as We remember, Ambassa-
dor at Hanover since tho beginning Of 1888,
with salary of f3 900 a year, a secretary at
$500, and extras at f500-making in the
eighteen years some 72,000-snd this for alb
soIutely doing nothing The embassy at
Hanover, as every diplomat knows, is even a
greater absurdity than Grand Falconer at
At fl 200 year. Victoria may some day or
other take to falcOnry. But what on earth
has an Ambassador at Hanover to do? The
other knight, Mr. (now SIR Arthur Magennis,
Of Stockholm, has won his ribbon with better
desert. He has been, in rather stormy pc
RODS, attached 20 the embassies of Berlin,
Stuttgart, Vienna, and has necessarily ac-
Quired in experience which should be Of con-
siderable service just now. The expense OF
the embassy at Stockholm is precisely the same
as that of Hanover, but the service rendered
is somewhat different"
Counting his Checkers before they are
Hatched-The point of this venerable, If
hOmely, adage was never better illustrated
than by the following letter which we find in
one IF our California exchanges. The writer
of course deserves to be ranked forever after
as one Of the prophets:
NEW York, Friday, Sept. 10, 1856.
my Dear Sir: You will see by the result
Of the Maino election that really we do not
know our own strength in the North, for Ham
lin himself did not claim over 1000 ajprity,
and MY own opinion was that we could get
about 10000 You may set down New York
at 30, 900, and Pennsylvania at least 50. 900,
Massachusetts, at least go 900 l have not
seen one honest Democrat, since the result in
Maine, but gives up all chance for Buchanan,
and they are leaving the Democratic party by
thousands The entire american" vote in
Pennsylvania will 60 with the Republican"