The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-27

Red Sea- and might have its influence in India. What we
do should do ourselves If set the Egyptians Abys
sina shall merely be immoatng its Christian population
and opening the door for influence there not own,
one day. perhaps to be used adversely to
Another inference that have been advantageous
for to have had temporary measure since the
of the Abyssnian difficulty consular agent at
Iakka with instructions to visit occasionally Matemma and
Khartum ALSO since the abolition of the consulate there,
because cannot be doubted that these hostes about the
Abysslnlan frontier sympathzed in they by the
Egyptian authorities whom supposed by Theodors to
support against the Christians must tend to embitter the
feelings of Ihe0dorus against his English prisoners and
complcate in his mind at least, relations with him.
Such agent if active and intelligent would always have
found persons willing to give him information, and might
have found means of composing differences and above ALL
of preventing the slave trade which still in activity the
Egyptian frontier and in the Red Sea- in Cairo 1t is
difficult understand why should spend much British
money and life suppressng the traffic on the east
and coasts of Africa and yet neglect to take
within reach, fraction of cost for preventngit
in the of Ayssnia and the neghborng Theodos
might have been made powerful agent in suppressng this
traffic That there slave traffic. under Egyptian patronage,
will of be denied hee but let any of the mission
aries who have been lately at Maemma the White Nile
be questioned let any trustworthy information the
subject be obtained, and it will be what the
slave trade being carried and by whom and under whose
authority, and who profits by it.
MATRIMONIAL FE1c1TY.-The case of Forth o. Forth
nnder trial in London Divorce Court presents the married
state in its most uncomfortable phase The Rev. Mr. Forth
applied for judicial separation account his wifes
cruelty adducng the following instances of her misconduct
She had attempted to put of the petitioners children by
former marriage into the fire. she had thrown candlescks
him, had scratched his face had emped the of
had burnt the of his eldest child had fire to his
hair and whiskers with lighted match, had cut his
forehead with the heel of boot had upset fruit pie
him. had destroyed his papers, and books had
smashed his furniture had threatened fire his house,
and had in variety of other ways proved herself unde
srable wife Mrs Forth in reply declared that Mr. Forth
had starved her, and that he nder of the children of
his first marriage than he of her ownwhich if half the
altogether surprising. The case is still going
ENGLISH MoRA11rY-The following advertisement which
find in the London Daily Telegraph may perhaps suggest
to of the ladies who declaim passonately about
womens rights that it is not at the hands of the ruder
that they suffer the most cruel and odous insults
Wet Nurse Wanted in August next by lady residing
stating age and terms, q. H..
THE FOURTH JULY-The commonest explosives we
have the weknown Chinese recrackers, all imported
from China They not made in this country for two
reasons the first being that don't know how and the
second that couldn't do it if did of the
price of labor Even the Long Island Dutch girls could
afford to work on recrackers, and sell them at price
compete with the Celestial article 1t is only in overpopu-
lated China where live three grains of rice
week. that these vicious little explosives be made 1t
with of these mschevous little red rascas by the
way, that the great fire in Portland Maine occasoned
last year. boy flung one, accidentally, into pile of
shavngs; the shavings fire a carpenters shop the
carpenters shop fired the city, and that recracker which
cost the boy the twentieth part of cent cost the people of
Portland millions of donrs. These Chinese
crackers made of different from the one half an inch
long, big round quill, making noise like sick per-
cson cap to the foot and half long, big round
as mans arm, and with report like FOUNDER
1t will be good for the boys that these all per
cent cheaper IMAM last year. From Chna Also many
patterns of ornamental lanterns, which fold up flat like
adys FAM but open out into GLOBE vase other
graceful figure to be illuminated by piece of candle
stuck inside These have however, been extensively copied
here, and great many made here. Some smart
Yankee has managed to cut and fit the folding wires and
Stats and to cut and stamp the paper by machinery
and whenever machinery be employed beat the
hlnaman out OF his boots at his manufactures These
lanterns sold by the hundred from S. to $3.50 or from
five cents to a dollar and half apiece
A SCENE IN THE SoUTH-On the evening of the 22d of
January 1861 Jefferson Davis his way to Washington
where he had just delivered his last speech in the United
States Senate stopped at Chattanooga Mississippi
lie was accompanied by many other Southern Congressman
rmored that ne was coming large crowd of people had
assembled at the hotel to him. At this time the
cteme1t ran very high Tennessee however had refused