East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-01-24
A case OF Horrible Barbarlty.

iiuS iSSVht u itiu1't"tNo iiio 2ttochuicni
to tho great principles of hiiman free
dom BY proposing an enquiry, doubt
less With q xiew To. nlterior measures,
into certain acts of>fbe Emperor OF
Mexico, inthe form following:
..Resolred, That the President com
municate to this House, if IN his opin-
ion not incompatible with tire .pablie
interests, any correspondence or other
information in possessiohl Of the Gov
ernment in regard to the kidnapping
OF child Of an American lady in the
city of Mexico, by the usurper of that
Republic, so-called Emperor, under
the pretense,of making such child a
prince, and whether the United statos
has been asked to interfere with a
view to have the child restored to its
parents, and what notion, if any, has
been taken upon the subject"
A design against child so cruel as
that of turning him into, prince
ought certainly to awake our. pro-
foundest sympathies; and we do not
feel surprised thata Republican House
of Representatives should feel itself
required to second the call for infor-
nation. TO kidnap any body is bad,
and calls up ideas OF savage cannibals
killing, roasting, eating, yea, literal
ly, my lords, eating, the mangled vic
tins of their barbarous battles;" but
TO kidnap poor innocent child for the
purpose Of transforming him. into a
prince, peradventurc into an emperor
what human clay, be it green, or even
blue, could tamely bear such an accu-
mutation of horrors? e5ar
How old this child may be, where
he was kidnapped and by whom, OF
how far he was a free agent in his
capture, does not appear. He isIrcp-
resented as a native of Georgetown,
and as Mad. IrURBIDE, after the exc
cution Of her husband, settled in the
District of Columbia, if he is entitled
to the name of lTURBIDE, he is proba-
bly, her son. Now, IruRBIDE was ex-
ecuted on the 10TH Of July, 1924
consequently, allowing the child to be
posthumous,. as he must be if born in
the United States, he is not far from
forty-one years of age; tolerably
wcli-advanced infant; but as, probably,
the bigger the child the stronger the
sympathy, we ought to feel very in
tensely for his sad condition and dread
full prospects, On. Eng.
The Russo-American Telegraph.
Mr.. T. G. Collins, the protector OF
the overland telegraph by way of Rus-
STA, recently delivered an interesting
lecture in New York, in which he gave
the following particulars regarding
the new line: irt
"Between Capc clear, in Ireland,
and the great Amoor River. in Asia,
there is an unbroken line of commu-
nica,ion; also, between Frazer's River
in British Columbia, and New York
These lines are about fourteen thous-
and eight hundred miles in length,
leaving gap in the belt of com
munication around the world of about
six thousand five hundred miles
The Emperor OF Russia has agreed t.
complete the line through Asiatic Rus
sin to Behring's Straits, and if rem6in.
ell for the Northwestern Union Tele.
graph Company to complete the line
10 that point. The basis of union be-
/ tween the lines. has already been
agreed upon. Mr.. Collins proceeded
to speak of the character of the coun.
try through which it is necessary to
construct the line. Although many
1 obstacles would be met with, still the
route was practicable On the Rus.
sian side there is only ono tribe of ma.
tons not subject to Russian authority
Repeating instruments will Toe intro.
duced every three or five hundred
miles, which, without the aid Of hu.
man touch, will transmit message Z,
! London. The new batteries give the
original force to a message to carry il
along. The lecturer referred 10 the
capacity Of various instruments &c
transmit messages, vary from 900 tc
$500 words an hour. The sun vii
shine on the proposed liuc 81 hour
and II minutes n day, so chat fair
idea can be formed of the amount o.
business the proposed company will bC
able to perform. The capital stock ol
the company is ten millions dollars
( fiiteon per cent Of which has been paid
in. During the past year four hun.
dred miles of the telegraph, lines have
been laid ON this continent, and it is
expected that five or six hundred miles
additional will be completed during
this year. Mr.. Collins read letter
which he had just received from the
Minister of Post-telegraphs in Russia
stating that vessel had been placed
at the disposal of the company, for the
purpose of making surveys on the Pa
cifc coast The lines, he said will b.
completed in 1862 a., a
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