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Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-07-15
LATEST EASTERN DISPATCHES.

BY favor of Mr.. H. D. Van Wyck, who came
here in advance Of the stage yesterday, we
have the Sacramento Uiioa of July 9th from
which we extract the following Eastern news:
WASHINGTON, July SIN the House, Ste
vens and Williams, of Pennsylvania, both in
troduced Articles of Impeachment against the
President, which were postponed two weeks
NEW YORK, July 9.-Petcr Cagger and J.
E. Devlin were thrown from their carriage in
Central Park, July 9th, and Cagger killed
Devlin is in critical condition.
In the Soldiers and Sailors Convention,
Gen. Denver took the chair, Gen Franklin be-
ing sick. .E. a..-
Resolutions were adopted endorsing the Ma
tional Democratic platform, pledging support
to the Democratic candidates for President
and Vice President thanking the Presidentfor
removing Stanton, aud of confidence in Nc
Clellan. Gen Buckner, of the late COnfeder-
ate army, was invited to speak, and was heart
lily cheered Convention adjourned sine die
The New York Radical State Convention
to-day nominated John A. Griswold for Gov
ernor over Horace Greeley, and S. w. Ford
for Lieutenant Governor. "s1f
Groand was broken at Springfield, Mo-, to-
day, for the Atlantic aud Pacific railroad, to
connect St. Louis and San Francisco, via Al
buqnerque.
The vote in the National Democratic Con,
vention to-day, on the 18Th and last ballot
stood: Hancock, 144i; Pendeton, 564 Hen
bricks, 81; Doolittle, 12; Packer, 81; Hof-
man, 3; johnson, 1. The Convention then
adjourned till the 9th. He-
On the Democratic National Committee, tho
following are the members for the Pacific
California, John Bigler; Oregon, j. G..
Hawthorne; Nevada, j. w. McCorkle s
j. WASHINGTON, July S-The Senate Com
mittee will report favoraby on the con6rma-
tion of Evarts for Attorney General
"a The Senate Committee will report to fix the
salaries of Governors of Territories at $3.50
per year. nj aH sR raL r, st8-
An effort was made in the Senate to raise
the whiskey tax to So per gallon.
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jugatiOn of States, or the overthrow of tho
freedom of speech or the press. 1t declares
that, instead thereof, the Radicals have estab-
lished q system of espionage, in disregard of
the habeas corpus, have made the National
| Capital Bastile, and threaten now to destroy
the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court,
and have maligned its Chief Justice because
of his integrity on the trial of the President
The platform continues at considerable
length to reiterate these abuses, and in cOnclu-
sion declares the privilege and trust of suffrage
belongs exclusively to the control of each State,
and that Congress has usurped it in violation
OF the Constitution. %
The platform further specifically denounces
the Reconstruction Acts of Congress as usur-
patton, unconstitutional and void, and demands
that the pensions of soldiers and sailors shall
be faithfully paid and the public lands should
be reserved for homesteads It thanks An
drew Johnson for resisting the aggressions of
Congress-
Great cheers were given in conclusion of
the platform, which invites men of all parties
to unite upon this platform. 1t contains four
demands, as follows: Payment Of the public
debt of the United States as rapidly as practi-
cable; that all money drawn from the people
by taxation, except so much as is requisite for
the necessities Of Government economically
payment, and when obligations of Government
do not expressly state upon their face and the
law under which they were issused does not
provide they shall be paid in coin, that they
ought in right and justice to be paid in lawful
money of the United States.
The platform was theE adopted amid the
widest cheering.
The Convention then proceeded to nominate
u candidate for President
The Chair ruled that two-thirds of all the
Delegates shall constitute a choice.
The Convention then proceeded to receive
nominations.
Connecticut nominated Governor English.
Maine nominated General Hancock
New Jersey nominated Governor Packer.
New York nominated Sanford Z. Church.
Ohio nominated George H. PendletOn
Pennsylvania nominated VIM. T. Parker.
Tennessee nominated A. Johnson.
Wisconsin nominated James r. Doolittle
Each nomination was accompanied by
brief fspeech. which was received with applause
A delegate inquired whether nominations
could be made after ballotting had commenced! !
He was answered in the affirmative.
First Ballot-total vote, 317-neeessary toa
choice, 2I2. The result was as follows:
Pendleton. 105; johnson. Ga Church. "a
English, 16; Doolittle IA; Hancock, 335 q;
Parker, 13; Packer, 26. The balance was
scattering. Several other ballots were then
taken.
The sixth ballot stood-English g.; Han
cock, AZ; Pendleton, 1923; Parker, l3; Pack
er 81; Church, 33; johnson, 81; Doolittle,
y; Hendricks, 80 Blair, 5.
A communication was received from the
Soldiers and Sailors Convention, announcing
the adoption of a resolution, approving and in
dorsing the platform of the Democratic Con-
veGtion.
A motion for recess was rejected, and 4 mo-
ton to adjourn till 10 tomorrow was carried.
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JAS. IIEALY, VI. d.,

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE on EAST
i side Of Montgomery street, three doors above
Wall, Idaho City. nltf
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II. ZIPF, NJ. ID ,
j. VI. BELTS,

DHYSICIAN. SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR-
L Usice on head Of Wall street Inl4tf
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
SINGULAR FREAK OF FLUNACY
Extraordinary Method Of Com.
mItting Suicide.

A correspondent Of the Hartsville u
dette, writing from Dixon Springs, Tenn,
says:
Oar community was startled on the
morning of the lst of Ootober by the in
formation of the suicide of Levi Pitts
Gregory, who lived some five or six miles
northeast from this place, under the most
extraordinary circumstances.
The deceased during the war received
fright from which he never entirely
recovered, and has at various periods sx-
hi5ited slight alterations of his intellect
which was noticed by his friends, and
some months since his reason became
completely dethroned. His insanity or
mania was that plan to hang him had
been cOncocted by his enemies, and that
they were constantly pursuing him for
that purpose.
On the day Of his departure, Septem-
Der 29th, he was unusually excited, and
told his wife to hang him, instead of his
enemies; after that he ran rapidly from
the house as il pursued, calling that they
were after him. He ran rapidly toward
thicket, followed by mis- wife, and dis
app peared in the thIcket. She then re-
TUNED to the house, and nothing was
seen Of him until the morning OF the
lst. There had been search made for
him during the interval, but without suc-
cess; and on the morning of the Ist it
had bsen announced that the search
should be thorough and complete. The
Deighbors were 20 rendezvous at his
house, and one in coming to that point
through the woods, discovered his dead
body. he was hanging in the fork of a
limo OF an tmmense sugar tree, sixty
three feet from the ground The trea
was three feet in diameter, and Iimbless
for forty feet from the ground. He had
climbed the body OF the tree and as
cended to the upper limb and crswIed out
fifteen feet upon that, and discovered the
fork that argled up from the main limb
and dropped himself into it, and so per.
ished. Taking it sll together, it is one of
the most extraordinary suicides on
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
RUSSIAN wOMEN,

The Paris Academy Of Science has con-
ferred the degree OF Bacheilere des-Sci-
sneeess on young Russian Mademoiselle
Goutehakoff. This graceful act vas not
undeserved by the lady, who appears to
have shared with her countryn1en COM
mendRble love of letters. The taste
which Russian ladies have eyineed for
studies hitherto confined to men is
worthy OF note. 1t is go well known that
the rumeTed establishment OF female
university in st. Petersburg was gene
rally credited. We believe il is not pro-
posed to found one yet, although public
classes have been opened for ladies. For
many years the lectures delivered in the
University OF st. Petersburg were open
to the public generally. and were at
tended in the session of Is59-'60 by three
thousand pupils. rhe disturbances which
led to the closing of the University in
1851, caused the exclusion of ladies st its
re-opening under new regulations. The
only subject that they could then study
was medicine, the medical school having
been separate from the University. Num-
bers.of them preferred to study the SCI
enoe abroad, and having done SO with
success are permitted to practice In st.
Petersburg, with all The privileges of
foreign practitioners. The German na.
pers represent that q I" petition" from
four hundred ladies requesting permis-
sion to attend the University lectures
was rejected on account of the nihilis-
tic F" tendencies of the measure. This is
not fact; firstly, petitions of the par
ticular form described are not recognized
in Russia; and nsxtly, IN answer to
letters from Individual ladies, the Unit
yersity authorities stated that they were
preveated by the rules admitting women.
but that sympathizing with the move.
meDr, they would endsavor to have these
regulations modified.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
Neither Man, Woman nor H1er.
maid.

! Paris Correspondence Boston AdVertiserl
Her robe does not rise above the lower
! extremities of the shoulder blades, her
form is fiexile, her feet tiny, her hand iu-
hnitesimsl and shock of cork screw
riDglets shake about head which can
be compared to nothing but that of che
rub suddenly possessed by . host of de-
| mons. This creature, gloved In dogskin,
booted like Puss in Perraultis tales, who
drives with mastery skill the sorrel
horse that whisks her pheton along this
divine imp who smokes her cigarette SIS
she looks cut at the corner OF her eve for
an adventure who wears the masculine
hat and paletot, aud sports the cane /;
who hunts, shoots, boats, trOtE and trav-
els by herself frOJl France to Germany,
and Germany to Stockholm, cannot be
OF the female sex. And yet she is not q
man. She is the PIrissienae neither
man, woman nor mermaid; the degene-
rate offspring OF this generation, who de-
spises man and yet devours him vors-
ciously; who rObs him under e hundred
disgu;ses, and fl0g5 daily in one form or
another to make him sweat out gold to
her at every pore. This is the PARIS 77tc
sailing falsely uedeF the fsg of mar
risge, the wife Of fortune hunter, the
mske-sbift mother for whom a baby is
an excuse for coquetry, q thing to be
worn as al ornament, to be paraded in
the front seat OF the open carriage side
by eide with blue-eyed poodle. This is
the PdTiSfenne who by way Of pastime
has accepted the challenge of those
narneless ladies who enshrouds herself,
and her followers along with her, in
clouds Of tariatane and lace, and coils
round them her tails of satin, silk and
velvet; who long for the brooch and
earrings which Mile. Cora or Leonide
Lsblsne were on such e night at the
opera, or the c2leche OF the Barruchi,
which she intriguss night and day to get
hold of.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
SPANISH BEAUTY.

A correspondent of the Church Union
writes as follows:
had heard very much Of the beauty
of Spanish women, but indeed the half
OF the truth wRs got aad cannot be told.
Sometimes, heretofore, when standing
half entTaneed before MuriIlo's pictures.
l have wondered whence came his ideal
or inspiration but his Msdonnss and
MagdGleas only walk the streets of Mad
rid and other cities OF spain. He had
but to paint the portrait of his friends.
Often have l stopped in utter astonish-
ment at such rayishing beauty. The fea-
tures, the form, the movement, the ex-
preston, are Roman dignity combined
with Moorish grace; the stateliDess of
Zsnobla with the veluptuousnesso Of Cleo
patra. Can it be,that such summer even
ing twilight OF repose can ever give
place TO the dark, stormy night of de-
mOniac passion That vice, treaek cry.
falseh0od, lurk under that az gelie exte-
ricr ?
The statue OF the Venus de Milo, In
the Louvre, at Paris, and the Istatue of
the Venus de Medieis, in the Tribune. at
Florence, have divided the admiration
Of the world. They represent two types
Of wOmanhood, differing as night and
day; the former strong, sensu0us, affee-
tiOnai, devotional and faithful friend, the
constant wife, the devoted mother the
latter, light, volatile, spiritual, brilliant,
impqislve. The first typifes the Eng
lish woman, the last the French. A
combination of the two constitutes the
perfection Of womsnhood, az found In
the Spanish Sonora. Sac is evidently
the result OF many generations of the
finest culture, The climate, the scenery,
the romance, the ohivalTy, the grand
sBd stirring scenes OF Spanish history,
have perfectly matured and developed
the Roman and Moorish blood that flows
in her veins, into being finer than poet
or painter ever conceived. Those brill
liant, dark eyes and raven hsir, coral
lips, pearly teeth, the delicate complex
ion, the shading and penciling Of her
eyelashes aud brow, the shapely features,
the expression Of affection and warmth.
the repose and dignity blended In her
expression, the grace of manner, are in.
describable. Her flowing black dress.
mantills, veil, and the fan, set off her
beauties OF person, and her ease Of move
ment seems without effort and more ike
gliding than walking. She is not seem
ingly offended or affected by the extrava.
CANT fiatteTy or compliment paid her.
but accepts ii in apparent innocent un-
consciousness Of its being anything i'm
proper, any more than IL it had been adj
dressed to the lily, the rose, s picture, or
any work Of art. II she be artful, she
possesses the higher art Of concealing It,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
THE NEGRO.
Wkat his Northern Friends Saw
Of Him.

-. ets
The Chicago Standard of October 1st,
which is the organ OF the Baptists of the
Northwestern States, and is, OF course,
sufficiently Radical In its politics, says:
We doubt seriously whether ii has been
for the interests of the colored race them
selves TO excite among them such expec-
tatiOns as they seem now TO cherish, or
to encourage them in putting forward SO
prominently, and st so early an hour,
their claims to political equality. What
ever may be true, abstTactly, OF the es-
sentisl equality, in their condition, is
what no one will assert. Nor was it to
be expected that the Southern people
would be prepared at once to welcome a
change SO radical and so immense as
when ne who was so recently a slave be-
comes not only voter, hCt 4 legislator.
There Is reason In what they urge,
that the colored people are, as a body,
wholly uGprepared, in their present cor
ditiOn, either to vote inteliigentiy or to
make laws. We believe that they carry
their views In that direction to an ex.
treme; but we believe that negro, like
white man, is not to be held competent
for the right exercise of all the rights of
citizenship, simply becsuse he is a man.
OO VIC OCltOFCg fu2b upon Inc Oln6r 6t06,
S5 well, extreme views have been held
and measures adopted which, in their
earliest operation, may be crude and
even dangerous.
The emancipation of four millions of
colored people 10 the South, afforded the
grandest possible opportunity for the
practical application, at least in degree,
Of such principles in this great question
of political suffrage and ths other rights
of citizenship, as would have prepared
the way FOR thorough correction OF ex-
isting evils. We fear that considerations
of party interests, and the wish TO use
the oolored population of the South for
certain ends, have led to legislation
which, however We might wish the coun-
try, and especially the South, ,swere pre-
pared for 1t, nevertheless is premature,
crude, and likely to embarrsss its own
ends. -
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
JAPAHEsE AND CHENEsE.


Americans generally have quite con.
fused and erroneous notions OF the
everyday lie OF the inhabitants of esst.
/ ern countries, particularly that OF China
! and Japan. Our notions ere to too great
an extent derived from the personal ap-
I pesrRnce Of ChinRmen who sell poor
cigars in our streets, and from the labels
on tea-chests and Japanese trays. Those
vino have seen them et home think Gis.
ferently Of them. The traveller Drum
mond says that the Japanese ladies are
the most fascinating and elegant women
that be ever saw In any quarter of the
globe. Music, dancing, the theater,
tumblers, mummeTs, and mountebaDks
abound t0give them pleasure. "Punch, -
who, many people think, is a means OF
aunusemsnt peculiar to the English, an
pears in China, and has been traced la
Tartary, and all through the Asiatic
Continent, to the BOsphoTus and Con-
stsntinOple. The Japanese are fond Of,
aud excel in, private theatrlcals. Their
public theateTs have three rows Of boxes,
in the front ones Of which sit lha Young
and pretty ladies, or those who fancy
themselves such. Printed programmes
and books OF the playn are always at
hand NJ. Fischer says the ladies who
frequent the theatre make 8 point Of
changing their dress two or three times
during the representation, in order TO
display the richness OF their wardrobe /;
and they are always attended by servants
who carry the necessary articles OF d ress
for the purpose" The young ladies in
their social gatherings, employ them
selves iD making pretty boxes, artificial
fi1wers, pocketb0oks, ETC., and in paint
ing fans, birds, and other trinkets to give
away as presents. P0Bderous books OF
etiquette have been written TO teach
them how 70 conduct themselves at tea
parties, where they chat about current
topics, talk scandal, and otherwise con-
duct themselves after the most approved
"soresis" manner. When they die they
so to the eternal rest OF NirwaDa.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
GRAssHoPPRRs.
A Living Cloud of Them i'm
Texas.
rom the Dallas TEXAS, Herald. october 81


From the Dallas Texas Herald, october3I
We have many rumors of the appear
ance of grasshoppers in the counties west
of US, within the past month, but, up to
the time of writing this notice, none
have been seen nearer here thar Man.
fiel in the southern part Of II ant
eoa.aty. as -rrF
We have heard Of them at several
places on the fFoatier-at the SulpAur
springs, on the Brszls in Hood county,
q gentleman informs us, they appeared
in clouds on Monday, the 2lst uit., and
ate up every kind Of vegetation. When
they first appeared, it was thought by
the campers around the springs 90 be q
cloud, and preparations were made for
rain ; they made noise In their flight
very similar to storm of wind and rain;
when they came nearer, however, they
began TO descend and covered the earth
iD every direction, consuming all garden
stutfs and other green vegetation they
could find. -
/ The following extract of ; privzteie let
ter from onr former townsman, John II.
Cochran, ESD, dated at BeIknsp, on the
10th of last month. describes the first sp-
pesrance of the pests:
On yesterday, the 18th, / saw q sight
which hope no mortal man will ever
see sgain. About o'clock D. m., I went
to the door, and observing that the sun
shone but dimly, looked for the cause.
| saw In the distant west what took to
be the smoke OF an immense fire, but on
looking closer / perceived that it was
not smoke. What was it was the in
quiry of every one, both old and young.
1t continued TO approach, and in about
two hours came near enough for US to see
that it was dense mass OF moving OBJ
iects. Nearer and nearer, DINNER and
DINNER the gun shines-we see what 1t
is-my Lord! the Egyptian plague
From the ground upward, as far as the
eye could see, on account Of their dense
ness, was an almost solid macs of living,
moving inseets-grGsshOppeT
All who saw the sight agree, for every
square inch of surface over which they
were flying, there must have been no
less than one bushel Of grasshoppers.
This body of insects were moving ahead
Of northwest wind. They were some
three miles wide and as long each way
as the horizon WAS to US this could be
seen before they approached near
enough to distinguish what they were
after they reached Us the view was very
limited on account of the densenes5 of
the mass. They passed over in north
east direction i still We have millions left
OF the frat coming. This is no exsggera-
ton. You may show 1t to Mr.. Swim
delDs? What will become of US?
P. S.-Since the above was written we
learn that the gTasshoppers have been
seen returning west.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16

A pastoral letter from Archbishop
Spalding has just been published, in
which we lind the following paragraph /;
eln their pastoral letter TO the faith
ful, ths Fathers of the Council admonish
them to abstain in future from certain
fashionable dances, commonly called
walt2es, round or German dances,
which, as recently practiced, are shock
ing TO every sense of delicscy and DAN
gerous TO morals. The more effectually
TO csrry out this warning, and to oremove
all pretext for viewing such dances SIS
harWless, We have strictly enjoined that
they be neither taught, nor even prac.
ticed for recreation among those OF the
same sex, in any OF our colleges, acade-
mics or schools, whether conducted by
Catholics or placed under Catholic aus
pices.p ~
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-10-16
STOLEN.

d" ORSE STOLEN.-On last Tuesday night,
about IL O'Clock. from my lot, my riding
HORSE. i failSwed him q S far as Holly Springs
and LaGrsngtD The thief offered him for sale
in both the livery stables at Holly Springs.
am inclined TO think he wiz make for the Mo-
bay, l71S hands high, very broad across the
hips, little larger on the lett hip than lhe
walks and trots ven, and a No.1 loper, very
short body for horse OF his SIS; on the left
shoulder IS brand NJ, and j. p under a., and
q J. p. on the ieft hip; saddle and harness
marks around his gfrth, a scar on one Of his
ankles, don't reccllset whLca Insaoe q Little
worn by collar. I VIII give Fifty Ollars for
the recovery OF the horse or any information
20 tnRt / viii get him again, or One hundred
Dollars for the thief and morse.
FL. EOTDT.
sardis, Miss, October !, 1865. oo6 I'm
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WEDDING IN A 1HEAlTlER.
A woman Performs the Cere-
EnOny. k4tsss
From the Alta Californian

From the Alte Calif0Enian.I
Maguire's Opera House in its palniest
days never contained a greater thropg
than on last evening. They convened to
listen TO q poem and a lecture, aud TO
witness the nuptial rite, the leading
spirit being lsdy-and that lady Laura
Cappy. The fsirer portion of creation
outnumbered the sterner. The first part
of the programme consisted OF the read
ing OF apeena on "Fhe Beautiful Land"
Next followed an erudite but brief essay
on RadieaIisIn, y in which the lords of
creation got some hard hits. Madame
Cuppy invited the audience to remain
and witness, II they go desired, the mar
riage ceremony, which should be per-
formed by herself, she being, as teacher
la religious organization, clothed, le-
gally sud legitimately, with the right to
carry out the rite. Inasmuch as this was
what the crowd was there for, nobody
left the thester.o Thersupon young and
fine looking couple advanced from be-
hind the scenes, and at this most novel,
hymenial altar were they united I'VE
hope for life) by q female. The cere-
n1ony was brief but impressive. You
do solemnly swear, Abigail, in the pres
ence," etc. :" TO take" etc.-Our readers
know the formula better than we "a
bacheior) can give 1t. AT the conclusion
.of this very newell entertainment, the
parties retired beyond the scenes, the
groom not forgetting to drop g liberal
amount of coin in the purse of The fsir
functionary VINO had made himself and
his so happy.
Love lighted in the bosom's shriue,