The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-24
NUMBER l55.
wVsCELLANIEa.

/ tISS-DecemDer. MI, Illt.
| 1SOl-Mr Arlington.
! lSO4-Mr. Pitt, a second time; died
| lS09-Lord Greenville.
! lS07-Duke ofPortland, a second time
| IS09-MT. Perceval assassinated
| lsl2-Earl of Liverpool.
| IS27-April. Mr.. Canning; died
| I827-August, Viscount GOderich
ls28-Duke of Wellington.
! IS30-Earl Grey.
| Is34-May, Viscount Melbourne.
| 1S34-November: Duke of Wellington, tenn
porary appointment
| 1S34-December, Sir Robert Peel.
| Is&-Viscount Melbourne, a second time
IS4l-Sir Robert Peel second time
| Isi6-Lord John Russell, (now Earl Rus
sell)
IS5o-February, Earl of Derby.
| IS52-December, Earl of Aberdeen
IS55-Viscount PalmerstOn.
| IS55-Earl of Derby, a second time.
lS59-Viscount Palmerston, a second time
/ died October IL, 1865.
! 1t will be seen that the longest tenure OF
| office was Mr.. Pitts, and after him those of
Lords Liverpool, North and Palmerston.-
! As there have been twenty different prime
ministers since 1865, the average tenure Of
each has been five years. Only fve-Lord
Rockingham, Mr. Pitt, Mr. Perceval, Mr..
| Canning and Lord Palmerston-haNe dleo
| in office.
| Zen. washington, WIlllllS 10 hSidlu ilCu-
! Lee, August goth, l775, said:
Il have made pretty good storm among
| such kind officers asthe Massachusetts Gov
| eminent abounds iii since l came to this place,
| having broke one Colonel and two Captains
! for cowardly behavior at Bunker HUI; ana
| two Captains for drawing more provisions
and nav than they had men in their compa-
mics, and one for being absent from his post
when the enemy appeared and burned
house close by. Besides these, have at this
| time one Colonel, one Major one Captain and
| two subalterns under arrest for trial In
! short spare none, and yet fear II Will not
| all do, as these people seem to be only atteu-
! tive to their interests.
| There has been, says the Chicago Times,
no improvement in the patriotism of Massa
| chusetts since. During the last war she was
| attentive only to her own interests Her
| Major Generals plundered cities, and her
| reverend Colonels stole Libraries Her peo-
! pie took contracts, furnished shoddY, shirked
| their quotas, and hired as substitutes vaga.
| bonds and negroes
| Cor. MosBYs LIFH.-Some literary Bohe-
milan having lately published what he calls
! "A Life of Colonel Mostly" the latter has re-
| uuested the Baltimore Gazette to state that
he has no knowledge of the author. Major
! Scott of his old command, is writing an &C.
count of Mosby's career.
! DECLINE OF BosToN Communicable ap-
pears from the lament of the Boston Journal.
! that the commerce of that port has fallen of,
! during the last nine years, to the amount OF
| $22, 0O9 900 Upon which the Journal re-
marks:
! This decline in value has been graduated
! through the period indicated, and does not
| seem to have been greatly affected by the war.
With an unsurpassed labor, plenty of capital,
! and an active, enterprising and industrious
population, we are told that the position of
| a first class commercial city is slipping from
the grasp of its merchants.
Emerson, in his book on English character,
| speaks of an old town in England where .
| piece of bread and draft Of beer are given
to every one who should ask it at the gate
! About twenty call daily on an average. This
is paid for from a fund bequeathed for that
purpose in Il36, more than seven hundred
years ago. Considering the comparative
| ages of the nations, we can nearly mate
that in this country. About l775, the Hon
| Theodore Atkinson, of Portsmouth, n h,
| left legacy of Gl00O, the income of which
| was directed to be distributed in loaves Of
| bread to the poor of that town every Sum
day This has been done regularly for
nearly century; about $4,000 have been
thus spent, and the fund has not been i'm
paired Historical Magazine
| When Porus, after bravely defending his
country against the attacks of the invader,
was at last overcome, and led as prisoner
into tho prefence of Alexander, he was asked
how he ought to be treated. Like king.
replied the undaunted Porus lie met WITH
| q conQueror who was capable OF apprecla-
ting the dignity which was preserved amidst
misfortune, and was reinstated IN authority
over his hereditary dominion.
The "SANCY" DIAMOND.-The history of
this diamond (weight 81 carats) is very
curious Nicholas Harrat, Siegneur OF San
CIV, it's possessor, wishing to raise money
upon it for the benefit of his friend, Henry
", entrusted it to the care of a faithful ser
| want The man was beset by robbers and
murdered His master recovered the body,
and, calculating upon his late vassels tdel-
| ity opened the stomach, where, as he ex-
| pected he found his lost treasure. He then
!, carried out his intention, pledged II to the
Jews and was never afterward able to re-
deem it. In I649 it belonged to Henrietta
Maria, dowager queen of England, from
whom it passed to the duke of York. After
his abdication, the unlucky James sold 1T to
Louis ", for G25, 900 During the memo
rable days of September, 1892, it was stolen
| with the rest Of the regalia; it reapPeared IN
H"9 when the Prince Paul Demidof bought
an agent of the BOuTbons for E76O 900
It was on view at Messrs Gar
- 70 = and finally it has returned
i a from nt;n+er being purchased for
Tards in London,
to its native land,
100000 by Sir Jamsetjeo don
Bombay.
The Paris correspondence of the Lon,
Telegraph contains this remlniscence of
Count Cavour:
When that great man, Count Cavour, came
to Paris he was introduced to the best
clubs" and whist was the natural result.
He played whist well. There are several
persons at the Paris clubs who can hold
their own at that tournament of trumps;
but still Count Benso di Cavour could hold
his own and go n little further. The first
night he played double dummy" with an
banker baron, who is sup
posed to have a good deal of money, and
who prefers keeping that useful medium to
it. The end of night No l was
startler. The Count lost everything. He
had, however, a cool head, and was n liberal
partner Good" said he, 81 see the game
now. I've bought it and paid for it; per
after all" They played the second night.
1t was quite an event. Round the table a
gallery" of the best men in Paris. Dlplo-
matists forgetful of portfolios. hung over
the shoulders of the minister from small
country" who had literally forgotten more
than they had ever known. Swells of the
bowling" category dropped in from "over
the way" and watched with curious eyes
the cool calmness of the greatest master Of
fnesse that our day has ever seen. Great
speculators condeScended to look at that
count who played so high and so steadily"
That count was right-he did understand
the game, as his antagonist found out, to
the tune of 100000.
PHTRAoH's SERPENTs. Mercury. and sui
pho-cyanio acid, both deadly poisons, are
stated to enter into the competition Of thOsO
chemical toys; the remains OF the serpent
are stated to be poisonous; and the fumes
produced by the burning chemicals TO be
very deleterious to health.
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copy the following description of COM
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