White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-08-08
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Excitement
Paris over Maximilian's e1ecssion is ye,v
great. It takes o singular course. Napoleon
is not blamed for leaving Mexico and .b.n.
doning Maximiliaa to his fate, bot the Amer;.
can Government, that obliged him to do 80.
Then. 1t is said, America might have saved
him il che had really wi.hed IL. When one
earnest word would have saved his life she has
allowed him to perish. whyi A reason must
be found, and they have discovered that Rus
sian influence is at the bottom of il all Rus.
sia. for her own purposes in the East, wishing
to embroil France with America.
u The history Of the veto of the 6rst Re-
construction Act has come 70 light, and IL ap-
pears that Mr.. Stanbeny wrote q veto in mild
terms, at the Preside, IS request, but Demo-
cratic members were not satisfied With it, and
Jerry Black was employed to d, the work in
more smashing style. Mr.. S,anberry. IL In
reported, was much offended, but ANDY p.ci-
fed him by an exercise Of his accustomed
suavitv. The opinion recently promulgated
by Mr.. Stanberry. he claims. takes the sane
grounds as the veto he had prepared On The bin.
IL The death of the mother OF Hon. Css-
sius NJ. Clay, widow Of the late Major Jepsha
Dudley, is announced As having occurred In
Madison county. Kentucky, on the 6,h ult.
The deceased was aged about ninety years and
was twice married. Her first husband vas Gen.
Green Clay, and the issue Of her marrige with
Gen. Clay were Geu. Cassius N. Clay, pre,ent
american Minister to Russia, Hon. Brutu, +.
Clay, Mrs. John Speed Smith and Ms. wp.
Rhodes. She had no issue BY her marriage
with Mrjor Dudley. n
p Horace Greeley Is q regular attendant
upon the Universalist Church, of which tho
celebrated DR.. Chaplin is pastor. He some
times speaks IN the congregation in the alb
sence of the pastor, though not presuming to
dignity his remarks BY the name Of sermons.
daughter Of the veteran editor attends tho
Roman Catholic convent at Fordham, aud i.
said to be greatly attached to the faith So the
largest liberty in religious t,aining at Acme
permits the adoption Of the closest creed and
most rigid formalities in the church.
Dr Since the seat of government was estab-
lished on the Potomac, there have been started
and perished in the District Of Columbia no
less than one hundred ewspapers. The names
of the papers now published there are as fol-
lows {: The Daily Globe, the National Intelli.
I genccr. the Chronicle, the Express, the Star,
the constitutional Union. the Times. the Re-
publican, and the Georgetown Courier.
p Mr.. Greeley says Of his nomination to
tho Austrian Ministership: 1--WE do no believe
Gov. Seward is the author Of this practical joke
If intended as surprise to everybody. it can
hare been successful with no one more COM
pletely than with him who is its subject. lie
is much obliged for the compliment, but could
not be induced 10 leave this country at present"
&c In the Connecticut Legislature, . bill
has been passed providing that murderer
shall not be hanged in lees than twelve months,
nor upon day beyond eighteen months after
the time of his conviction. So that Il will re-
ally rest with the Governor to exercise, or not,
his official clemency in such ca.es without the
forrHality Of pardon.
II The Savannah Daily Republican gives
the following "a its platform:
Let our laws and our institutions speak not
oil white men, not Of red men, not of black
men, not of men of an, complexion but ike
ihs laws Of Gnd--the Ten Commandments,
and the Lords Prayer-Iet them speak of the
people.
uT thinking contemporary suggests new
idea in regard to extending the right Of suf.
rage to women. He SAYS that for some ycars
past he has spent 80 much money to haul lazy
men ts the polls for the sake Of having their
votes, and that it would be infinitely preferable
to take lot of pretty women to voting pee.
cincts.
" The New York World remasks: Tho
senior editor Of the Herald is said to be grow
ing very obese, but We hope there 10 no grousd
for the apprehension evinced in the declaration
OF the Herald yesterday morning. that the ne
cessty is daily becoming more impsrious thst
steps be taken immediaie!y to hare Hell Gate
effectuslly opened up
IL Andrew johnson in 1865 n ouoted
against Andrew Johnson in 1867 One Of that
gen'lemans usteranee. in the former year reads
thus Whenever you hear man psasing
about the Constitution. rpot him-he 10 q ,.a..
tor"
T One Of the editors Of the Sandushy Reg
ster, Just returned from the Gulf States, ,spesks
IF intemperance rs the bsne Of the South. and
- being fearfully Increased since the defeat Of
he Confederacy.
u In the period OF half ceasury shsre
have been. IL is estimated. upwards Of seventy
Executives, EN-, erors, Presidenss and Dsess-
'ors in Mexico. and no les than two husdsed
revolutions.
O A man at Pitss6eld dug up junk botsls
n his garden the other day. which contained .
i've toad at least four times as large ss tho
mouth Of the bottle, and luge family Of Htsis
Dads.
p A Phiiadelphian says that the iuvissdess
" Jay Cooke. the Government banker, 70
'arty lately given BY him. we're a. follows:
Guests received at $40; dancing commences
Il 7:3o; supper as l0:40." ~
u The Washington correspondent ef the
Newark Advertiser names Cor. Word, Of New
Jersey, as the next Rspublican s.,didass for
he Vice Presidency.
u Jesse D. Bright Is in pursuit Of the Ken.
ueky United States scnasoship. siee osthrie.
Tho will probably never be able 10 rsssns kss
eat. str Tie SKI
b Dan Rice, the oshss eveaise. b HI cir