The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-25
CLIPPINGS.
Brigham Young Again.

From this mormonitc genius we have another
characteristic remark. He doesn't know how
many wives he has. Hear him:--
IA great many ask me how many wives /
have; but, to tell the honest truth, / never
thought enough about it to stop and think. But
/ will get up the facts in the case and tell every
body, so that they may stop asking me these
questions. / suppose ! have dozen or fifteen
that am taking care of; perhaps q few more l
do not know, and care nothing abeut. l try to
do good, and try to save the people; and say,
do not let a lady come to destruction"
Il The Other Side.
The result of the visit of Hon. James Watson
Webb, our late Minister to Brazil to this city,
and his recent interviews with the President and
Secretary Fish, has been that the latter has ad-
dressed letter to the Brazilian Minister of
Foreign Affairs fully approving of the course
pursued by Mr.. Webb and notifying the Bra
lillian authorities that this Government reserves
unto itself the right to send instructions to our
Ministers abroad without first consulting repre-
sentatives of foreign Governments in reference
to the matters upon which opinions are to be
given The u. s. Legation in Brazil is in charge of
the Secretary, awaiting the arrival of Mr.. Blow,
who will sail from New York on the 23d inst.
In view of the complicated turn which matters
have recently taken, it is highly probable that
the instructions of Minister Blow will be mate
rally supplemented Mr.. Webb leaves here to-
day for his home in New York w dshinton
Star Of last e0enifg.
r lIazzini at His Franks. n
i
ring up the Italian bile? Our dispatches from
Florence indicate that the authorities of Milan,
Turin, and Naples have taken precautions
against outbreak. Is it the old jealousy
which centralized at Turin about the time of the
removal of the Government archives to Florence?
Have the shopkeepers of the former city deter
mined to execute the vengeance they threat
ened when the change was made, or what on
earth's the matter? We fear the attempt to
make homogeneous nationality out of Italian
stock is uphill work So thriftless, improvi
dent, and lazy race do not offer the best mate
rails for the building of a nation. majority of
them exist to-day upon the bounty of strangers.
The works of the grand old masters and the
historic charms of Italy draw pilgrims from
erery quarter of the globe, and to them is the
country chiefly indebted for the little vitality it
possesses.-N. r. Post. ~ 49, 10 .-,,-.s. -
BnlIooning Extraordinary.
new and daring experiment is noted by the
Pail Mall Gdzette:-"The invariable failure
which has hitherto attended nautical expeditions
to the Arctic regions has induced two French
men, Messieurs Tissandier and de Fouviele, to
undertake the enterprise of reaching the North
Pole in a balloon. The machine in which the
bold adventurers are about to embark on their
perilous journey, and which is appropriately
named lie Pole Nord,' is now being completed
| in the Champ de Mars, which the government
have placed at their disposal for the purpose
| The monster balloon, beside which even the
| famous Geant would seem mere toy, will con-
tain over 10000 cubic metres of gas, and is COM
| caoutchouc which will allow of great expansion
! in the rarefed strata of the atmosphere, the
seams uniting the different pieces for a total
| length of three English miles. The car, mar
vel, il is said, of strength and lightness, is
structed to carry ten passengers, 1000 pounds of
| ballast, and provisions for month. We can
| only hope this bold enterprise may be attended
with better luck than the aerial flight of the
| Geant in 1868"
Annexation Feeling In Canada.
An eminent Canadian letter-writer to the Buff
1 falo EIpress:-"You ask, is there feeling for
| annexation in your neighborhoodY ? / answer
| yes. The larger part are decidedly In favor of
| 1t, and large minority strongly opposed to such
| q measure. Like your own adopted country,
there are some settlements nearly all in favor of
! same manner as the Scotch and English opposed
| their union with each other.
| i am aware that anneXationists are looked
/ upon by many disloyal, but cannot believe
| they are. On the contrary, annexation will be
| the means of rendering war next to impossible
| between England and the United States; they
| could not occupy either country by hostile
| army; their navies could little more than de-
| stroy each others trade and commerce, and
| would be disastrous to one almost as the
other. II would compel every possible dispute
to be settled by diplomacy.
If England conceded to her natural ally her
| own child, the Canadas, or, which might be
more constitutional and proper, Ii the Canadas
deliberately, and of their own accord, united
| with the States, then should we be convinced
| that we also as we'll as England have no oppo-
site interests? United as they would be a match
| for the world, while O quarrel between them
would not only be fearful injury to themselves
but 10 the best interests af mankind