Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-10-25


The expedition to Mexico like Beau Brnm-
meI's rumpIed cravat-, threatens to turn out
one of the Emperor's failures" With all his
genius gem Tor politics. Napoleon III has, since
le6o. been three times guilty Of blundering.
- He was led into Mexico in a will.
o'.the-wisp chase after that most mythical of
conceptions, the Latin race. BY this time the
Latin rnce ls the bete noire Of the steady vete-
rams ofthe French Foreign Once; and when
their august master prepares to mount his
hobby horse, all the old s,agers, who never
heard of the Latin race till within the last ten
years, begin to shake their heads. The truth
10 that Napoleon III would never have ven.
tnred on the rash enterprise of founding a
roe doctrine and under the guns of the
United states, If he had not disbelie we'd
in american unity. and speculatsd on
This was blunder, and a very serious blum.
der, because it sho wed an Ignorance of the in.
teTnal strength and vigor Of the people OF the
with several other acute thin ksrs: but there
Was this difference between the two cases,
/ that private gentlemen and ladies can afford
Half measures were thus once more the baue
of French policy. The Immediate coroliary
Of the Mexican sxpedltion was naturally the
Iecognition Of the Southern Confederacy; but
II NapoleoE III was not tmprudSnt enough to
be decOyed into such hazardous proceeding. he
ought not TO hare committed himself to con.
temporary move which was sura TO be check.
mated unless Southern Independence were as.
spred. The shockof the downfall OF Richmond
was felt, accordingly, up to the very palace Of
4aximilian. From the moment that the North
had crushed the South the retreat OF the French
from Mexico became a mere question OF time;
and the French Emperor, whs has 10 wered his
spear excessively to Cavour and Count 8.
mark, Is compelled, last OF all, 70 lower IT to
the noisy Mr.. Seward too. II the story has a
moral, as all such stories out TO have, its moral
for the French Emperor should be that il is
movements, or ~ know where they will STOP
Italy. Germany. and America have all discon.
hted Napoleon Ill, simply because all three
nations ,nl whsa, greater in their resources. and
idea than he thou.ht.-7Sdturdas Rsrfesc.
that although every possible precaution has
been taken to prevent the spread Of the chol-
era In England, the epidemic seems to be
agricultural districts between Liverpool and
Manchester. 1t RACES with violence at New.
castle, Gateshead, North Shields and Sunder-
diminished, the average, mortality being but
three deaths every two days. y : gtss ; ~
~The New York Sun, in speaking of Mrs.
Stanton running as an independent candidate
for ConRess in the Eighth District, doubts the
propriety OF sending ladies to Congress, as 1t
might induce the members to "pair or too IRE
quently. 80 4 s1la-a Il - ,-as 90
~Warmouth, OF Louisiana, saws there are
one hundred and ninety thousand loyal white
men in the South who will take mp arms to
prevent Johnson from being dictator. Why
didn't they take up arms to present Davis from
being dictator. /
ga Vermont dry goods merchant thus I'D.
vertiees: 1.-THE female who carried on q pair of
black kid gloves from our store, took also
by mistake, doubtless, half Of another pair.
She 10 respectfully req uestsd TO return the odd
glove or to come and get the one left, a. Q sin-
gle individual 10 poor stock until mated"
~ Bishop Whippls states that he has been
in Minnesota seven years. and has ssen much
OF the Indians there, Of whom there are About
$4,000. He gives them credits for many virtues,
except in districts corrupted By the Whites
ga litlle con Of Joha Morrisssy, OF New
York. was lately bitten BY Q monkey belong.
Ing to An organ grinder. 1.-The 10 never bitten
by one OF his 'spapab" 'stigsrs" he'll be Yortu.
Bste. s5s4~s
~ While the celebrated giant Ching fheight
ab0st eight feet weight twenty stouel was on
exhibition 1T Worcester, E. gland, the prodigy
stumbled, and ont rolled two living bodies, one
Of whacA had been hoisted 20 top o. rother."