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MEXICO.
Change of American Ministry--A
nFERtI0n I'm pE0SDerf

Change of American Minfstry-A "a
neNRtIOn I'm Prospect.
HAVANA, June 22-The steamship Gle
opatrs, from Vera Cruz has arrived. Dis.
patches from the City of Mexico, dated on
the 18th inst, report that Minister Nelson
would arrive in the capital on the follow
ing day, and be officially presented 10
Juarez on the 10Th. Gen., ROSecraus was
to leave for Acapulco Immediately.
There was considerable excitement about
the arrival Of Minister Nelson. Foreign
ers expect either the annexation Of Mex
leo to the United States, or pfotectorate
over the Republic. Me0icsns are jealous
and fearful Parties concerning bogus
claims to lay before the commission to SIT
at Washington have been arrested, and
Americans suspected Of completely were
being watched.
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CINCINNATI.
celebration Of the Foursh.

tsEWEHtHUht U NHt OuEaH.
CINCINNATI, o., June 22.-The City
Council committee on the celebration of
the Fourth of July this morning invited
the policemen, military companies, all
civil organizations, and all United States,
State, county and city officials to join in
the procession, and ordered that one hun
dred guns be fired.
The New School Presbytery last
night passed resolution endorsing the
reunion.
The Buckeye trOtting races commence
to morrow.
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TnE New York Sun, referring to Mr..
Seward, says Before starting on his
present tour he stated, very explicitly,
that within year there would be Il break
up Of President Grants administration,
which he pronounced the weakest admin
istration the country ever had; and he
assigned AS one reason for going away
that he wished to be as far off as possi-
ble when the breakup takes place.
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TEhEGRAPHIG.
GTO N.
THE PRESIDENT AT HOME.
A Lively Time at The Executive
Mansion.
Negro Equality i'm Georgia Dis
cOuraged.
The Trial OF E. NJ. Yerger.
Talk Of Mexican Annexation.
Disturbed Condition OF Affairs
In Spain.
The Trial OF E. NJ. Yerger.
Talk of Mexican Annexation.
Disturbed Condition of Affairs
In Spain. d
WASHINGTON.

White HOuse DIstIngu IsheeI
Caiiers-The Niger JusIicIaIIy Con
st0ered- % '' %
WASHINGTON, June 22--The Whit
House wss lively to-day with callers
During the morning Senator Fenton, Hon
A Bingham, Secretary RaWlins, Hon !;
s A Hurlbut, United States Minister 10
Columbia, and others saw the President.
Gen. Webb has arrived. b-t3ts
At cabinet meeting to-day All The cabinet
officers we're present excepting Cox and
Boutwell,, who were represented by their
assistants. .t-. l -.a
The internal revenue receipts to-dsy
were nearly 5000 600. ~ i.gta...91.a's
This morning, in The criminal court, Eve
colored Den were sworn as grand jurors.
Among the petit ldrors summoned for to-
morrow are nine colored men. OF Oh e
three bailiis appointed by the court one is
a colored man. .-.......
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The Supreme Court of New York has
decided that if passenger on rail-
way train cannot find seat and gets in.
iured while standing, in consequence,
upon the platform, he is not to be blamed
for negligence; but that the negligence
must be imputed to the conductor. 1t is
the latter business to find seat for the
passenger, not the passenges's business
to look for one. This is arighteOus de-
nisinn
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A HIg.-The Troy Times says that
Senator Morgan gave his son $500. He
invested il at TitusvilIe, and made it
$6O,000 The names of the other gen.
clemens sons who invested their $60,>
600 at Titusville, and brought away only
5000 are not given. a'a. 10
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Ar "a social meeting Of negroes in
Baltimore,,a few days ago, the following
toast was offered: SOUR wives and
daughters-may the women of our race
never unsex themselves by becoming
strong minded What will the strOng-
minded white sisters say to this raspibg
from the race they have labOred to eIe-
yate2'
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GENERAL DIX, at his farewell banket
in Paris, cOmplimented the Empress
Eugene, in the words that Burke ap-
Piled TO. Marie Antoinette: Surely
never lighted on this earth, which she
scarcely seemed to touch, more des
light(al vision. " Pretty, if not new.
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Come TO VRGINLA.-The steamship
Isaac Bell sailed from New York on the
18th inst, with ninety passengers from
Vermont, Massachusetts, and Western
New York. There were also few
Swedes from Minnesota, who are forming
a colony of their countrymen some dis
taoee west of Richmond.
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PENNsYLVARIA.

GeaTy's Chances for the Nomination.
PHILADELPHIA, June 22.-The Repub-
lean State convention indicates that Gov.
ieaIy be nominated.
John Bowen has been arrested and
ommittCd at Milford, Pa, as the party
Sho placed distractions on the track OF
,ne Erie Railroad which caused the terri
lie dissster at Cars Rock in GS, He con
, >sses bis guilt.
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ABRAHAM SLATER, who lives near Fos-
toria, Seneca county, illinois, is noe hum
bred and six wears old. He now living
with his second wife, to whom he has
been married about nino years. His
Youngest child is six months'old, and his
Oldest eighty wears.
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A PERUVIAN newspaper speaks Of an
extraordinary phenomenon discovered in
the road of Locumba, which appears to
have been caused by the late earthquake.
Every beast that reaches certain spot
Immediately falls dead. This has so
often taken place that immense numbers
of carcases are heaped on the spot.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-06-23

The Assassination Ofthe Austrian Gem
eral Coaat de Crenneville, at LeghOrn,
was the work Of the son of an Italian
patriot whom the Count had caused TO
be shot in 1S49. Count de CrenneVille
is the fourth Austrian General upon
whom so terrible a revenge has been
wreaked, IN consequence of cruelties
committed in Italy in 1913 and 1S49.
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The ResnaAee Talken Out Of an IneI
ssent Of the Invasion Of ssaFyians
by the "RebeIs.o tf5fHrf ~
The Washington correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune takes The
romance out of a very popular story
as follows :. 7ifi bp
The pretty poem with the above
title, which takes rank with Whit.
tiers other poems of Maud Null
Ter 7 and G The Slaves of Martin.
ique, " is proved to have been the
continuance, of Mrs. L. d. e. N.
Southworth, the novelette," writer.
She saw the fact in paper that old
Mrs, Freitchie had boldly hung out
her flag when Stonewall Jackson
passed through Frederick. Taking
this paragraph, Mrs. Southworth
hung story upon it, and sent it,
with her compliments, to Mr.. Whit
tier, saying that it seemed to her a
good topic for his particular style
of treatment Whittier replied in
letter, thanking her for the sug-
gestion, and the poem almost i'm
mediately appeared. Soon after
ward, Mrs. Southworth asked a
gentleman of Frederick, Mr.. Sam
uel Tyler, L.. l.. d., if he knew
anything about the incident. He
volunteered to find the exact facts,
and satisfied himself of them as
follows D.. UttfygiFl
i. Stonewall Jackson never
passed through Frederick at the
head of his troops, and never passed
through Frederick al any time,
with a single exception, when, at
A O'Clock in the morning, before
Mrs. Freitchis or any body else was
up, he rode up to the courthouse
square before the residence Of a
lady who had relatives living in his
town of Lexington, and tearing off
a white strip from the side of a
newspaper, he wrote upon it:
General f. j. Jackson is mwill-
ing to pass near Frederick without
leaving his compliments for Mrs.
-, but he finds her in repose,
and will not awaken her p go
This slip was hung upon the door
knocker. .'''.''f q 3 ''f'Fi
2. Mrs. Freitehie had two young
girls, relatives, stopping with her, 1
and these appeared with the old /
lady at the garnet window Of her
house, near the creek, and as the
Federal General Reno passed
through ON his way to South Noun
tain battle, these young ladies ran
out miniature flag and waved it,
while the troops raised a cheer.
This was the origin of the flag story,
and enthusiastic unionism trans
ferred it to Stonewall Jackson.
When Mr.. Tyler reported this ex
statement OF the case to
Mrs. Southworth, that Imaginative
lady said: "Well, if it did not occur,
it ought to have done SOP ha5.t 4
Mrs. Southworth lives ON a steep
hill street at Georgetown, and rat
Ties off her peculiar fctions at the
rate of twelve or fifteen columns q
week. Some time ago she was
taken with smallpox, and while
Ihe ulcers were hideously running
all over her face, she hired an
and plunged into the
of a serial romance. She
makes six thousand dollars year,
has engagements offered OF pending
in London and Paris, has spent two
years in Europe, and has educated
her children handsomely. She is
herself without education, and is u
native of this District, or OF the adj
Joining part of Maryland.
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A Minnesota gardner has tried the
Paris green and ash remedy for potato
bugs, and says it is effectual- The remedy
is compounded by taking two parts Of
Paris green to twenty parts Of ashes. A
common meal sieve wss used in putting il
upon the plants. Twenty-Five pounds Is
sufficient for one acre of potatoes.
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The last cartoon in Punch on the Ala
bama question is decidedly the best Of
the series The artist is MIR. Tenniel,
and the theme is q familiar scene from
Shakespeare. The Prince Of Wales
makes good Prince Hal, and Brother
Jonathan appears as Falstaf an incon-
gruOus combination which has evidently
given the artist some difficulty The in
scription is "Do owe you Thousand
pounds2 "a thousshd pounds, Hall a
hundred million; tlasiove is worth a hun.
dred million thou -owest me thy love "
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Republican state ConvenIio

Republican State Convention.
COLUMBUS, o., June pa large
crowd Of delegates to the State Republir
can Convention, which meets tomorrow,
ave already arrived, and been busy cau-
cusing this afternoon and evening. Gov.
Hays and Lieut.. Gov. Lee will probably
be renominated
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The Bowling Green (Ky) Democrat
says "The board of directors Of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad have
at last determined not to build any
works at the Memphis junction. They
will go Immediately TO work on the en-
largement of their round>h at this
place, which, we understand, is the only
improvement or addition proposed TO be
made here at present i-E -assf
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JACKSON.


JACKSON, Miss, June 22--In the case
Of Yerger for shooting Col. Crane, it WAS
-hown to day ihSt the piano seized was act
the property Of Isrger, aud Crane knew
the fact, but ordered the officer to mske
the seizure no understanding. IT Ia further
shown by spondenoe that Yerger bad
offered 10 cancel the claim Of the CITY
agsinst himif the city wuuld settle a claihi
be had against II for dsmages 10 property
csustd by the neglect Of the city govern
ment. An order of restitution had been
issued by Judge Peyton in the high court
aud served un Crane previous 10 the dIt6
Guilty, but IL had not been obeyed.
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The renowned Peter Cartwright, whO
is now closing up his fifteenth year Of
presiding elder in the Methodist Episeo-
pal Church, and the sixty-sixth year Of
his regular ministry, will have q jubilee
entertainment given him by the minis
tiers Of the Illinois Conference, at Lincoln,
during their session in September next.
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vi EN-


MEMPHIS June 22-The Virginia
dropped down here to-day for repairs.
The scenery and baggage Of WhiteS
mans so.called opera troupe has all been
seized 10y the attaches Of the concern
and pToprietors of hotels The press
here has also been swindled by him, and
denounce him IN unmeasured terms.
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ALABAMA,

Democratic Nominations for Congress
MOBILE, June 22-Tbe Democratic
convention of the First Congressional Dis
trict assembled to-day. Ex-Goy, John. A
Winsson wac elected permanent chairman,
aud w. ID Mann nominated cor Congrezs
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) Il want to be q statesman, ut
And with the darkies stand;
A carPet-Sag beside me.


The whole performance will con-
clude with prayer on the flying
trapeze by Henry Ward Beecher,
accompanied by fusilade from ten
thousand Sharpe's rifles. There
will also he grand banquet in the
evening, at which twenty thousand
people will partake of hasty pud-
ding and pumpkin pie-the spoons
for the occasion having been gen
erously loaned by Gen. Butler.
won't even so much as allude to
the little side shows which will be
in progress On the Boston Common
during the festival. These will
offer such minor attractions as a
Champion Eating Match, by Rev
erdy Johnson and a distinguished
Connecticut amateur; a grand his.
torical painting, showing the Brit
ish Ministers in the act of launching
the Alabama, which is intended to
arouse the hatred of all honest men
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GEN N. L. FORREST, President Of the
Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad,
has project on foot TO secure one thoa-
sand Chinaneu as laboreTs on this road,
al ia sanguiue Of success.
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Hersehel v. johnson was rejected by
the Swedanborgian Convention, in New
York, Saturday, ia the election Of an Ex~
eeutve Committee, on the ground that
lac was a Rebel
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Havana adVices state that Gen. JoT-
dams flibusters have been eminenIly
successful since landing liz Cuba,
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TriRInAl COarl

The term has not yet terminated, but DO
business of public interest is being trans
acted
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The case Of James A. Yergan rs. w. D.
Parks Is now being heard BY Chancellor
East. Ii will probably reach its termina-
ton to-day.
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Oar New CelOred Minister Snubbed in
Advance what Reception Ne will
Get from SainaYe-HOw Negroes Love
Ono Another
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n Node, Farm.

This term we have no hesitation in
applying to the homestead of Mr.. l.. S.
Drew, of South Burlington, both on
account of it's location and the general
appointment of it's buildings and sur
rOundlngs. 1t is beautifully located on
Shelburn Bay lake Champlain), about
three miles south of the city of Burling-
ton, commanding fine view of the
Adirondacks on the New York side of
tle lake, and picturesque and romantic
scenery OH the opposite shores of the
bay, the waters OF which latter afford
to Mr.. Drew and family, who have their
own boats, de .ightful fishing and sail
ing in the summer, to say nothing of
skating in the winter.
But aside from the scenery and sur
roundings, we wish to speak Ofthe iarm,
its luildings and its stock. The dwell
ing of Mr., Drew Is large and cOmmo-
diOus, modernly built, with all desired
for cOnveniences; and in full sight #
Lake Champlain and the scenery before
alluded to. His farm, or rather farms,
for his lands are really divided into two
separate lots, consist of 306 farms, zig
of which are in what is known as the
homestead, and the remaining 80 lie d.
rectly east, and are used principally as
q dairy farm. OF the whole amount oil
land, but Az acres are wooded, the re
mainder being under cultivation for ve-
getable, root and cereal crops, q fair
proportion BENZ reserved for meadow
and pasturing purposes. And when Ne
say cultivation we mean 1T in the full
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who wiH plcdgc Themselves to do no such
thing.
Why should we all sh the Council
Of Censors? Has not Vermont a Con-
stitution quite as good as any State Of
the Union? Is it not better to be sure
Of a Constitution for seven years un-
changed, than TO adopt plan by which
he public mind would be liable to fire.
luent agitation of fundamental princi-
pies =? Is it not much cheaper plan to
select Is men to consider such questions
than to employ Legislature, at an ex-
pense of thousand dollars per diem?
Taxes are heavy. Would it not be
the best plan to choose a Council # Cen
sors who would meet simply to be dis
solved and so let us rest anoth II seven
years?
What is there i'm our present Constitu-
lion under which We cannot live COM
fortably another seven years? Some
want the Council itself abol shed, some
desire the basis of representation chan
ged. Our large towns desire more pow
er. Some would reduce the number OF
Representatives with what end n view
[ know not, unless to increase the pow
err of our villages, o. to have a Leglsla-
lure more easily managed and bought
than large one. The Legislature OF
what State is so VIGOROUSLY corrupt as
that of New York? How much ca Ter
to bride fer Than mdny.
do not see as we are in distressing
need of any change in our constitute IN
unless to give the suffrage to women.
1t is proposed to leave out little Grand
Isle in the choice of Censors, and the
other Counties nominate, each one fol
it elf. Well, go ahead We had e
Censor in the last Council, but don't
deny us the privilege of voting.
o. G. w.
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For the Transcript.
People, LOOH out!

You are so busy that important steps
may be taken seriously affecting your
privileges without consulting your will.
A Council of CenGOrs is to be chosen
soon, and now what are yon going to do
about it? DO ) on propose to preserve
what our fathers have left us, or is there
better way? There is room for an
honest d. Inference of opinion.
The last Free Press says "the one
and Indispensable qualification, to which
we would have regard, Therefore, in se'
lecting Censors for the next Council,
would L e to choose men who are pledg-
ed to recommend the abolition Of the
COmcH."
Now, if this is wha. we want, let us
go in for it. If we prefer to retain the
present system, then let us vote for men
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THE WOMEN OF New YORK, &C
cording to the Round Table. are SC
beautiful that all the attempts offashion
to make them grotesque and ugly do no.
succeed. That journal begins an article
on the Grecian Bend with the following
remarks:
We have come to the conclusion that
the women of New York are the
NEST beautiful women in the world
for there is no civilized place within oul
Knowledge where the women 60 to sc
much trouble and expense to make
themselves hideous, and with so little
success. We don Equality our opinion
and say young women, for of course the
sex is ever yOung-yOuthful in charms
rs youthful in innOcence-frOm the
bashful maiden with her borrow I'd curls
and painted brows, to the stately grand
mamma with her artistic fronts anO
dark-dye. bands. Their beauty is un.
quenchable. Their charms defeat al
efforts to smother them for their ra
dance shines out in brilliant flashes
through all the artful devices of the
odistes. IL spite of inelegances, are
they not elegant? In spite of ever
conceivable outrage upon the rules Of
art, are they not fascinating? In spite
of all the powers which millineis cal
raise to make them ugly, are they no
charming.
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NesCS and O her Items.

Hartfor,.'s amusements cost SIS, 1872 in
1868.
Two Rochester editors are to have a
skating match.
Guizot's political pamphlet is to APP
pear in January.
The latest gold discovery is in Suther-
land, England.
A New York firm project new thea
ire at Rochester.
A Christmas goose. sent by kind
friend 10 two prisoners in Canada
jail, was stated with files and saws.
According to Figaro, there are more
than 20, 900 persons in Paris who never
wash then selves.
The extensive and valuable library OF
the late Emperor Macmillan is adver-
tsed to be sold soon at Leipsic, Ger
many.
TIE Richmond AID Petersburgh pa
pers announce the arrival of Northern
capitalists in Virginia with view 10
purchase lands.
A double wedding party recently ar
rived in Dayton, Ohio, consisting of
father and son and their brides, two SIS
tiers, of whom the father married The
younger.
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Correspondence.
IH0t Romantic story.
Editor transcript:

Editor Transcript.
1t is seldom, very seldom, that l read
novel stories CT the cheap yellow
covered kind, but must confess that
your correspondent was eXcee iingly
interested in the romantic story
published in the TRANSCRIPT last even
ing. " no is this Alonzo Halves, who
corresponds through the st. Adams
L. o. box so? The tongue of Madame
RumOr is not always to be relied upon,
yet the tickle dame tells us that box 90,
st. Adams Post Office, is the property,
Tor the time Icing, of William Andrew
Huntley Sieourney, the foreman of the
st. Adams Messenger. This being the
case, it is but reasonable to suppose that
Alonzo Halves, late of Hartford, Conn.,,
is personal fliend of Maj. Sigourney,
of the Messenger is a member of his
family, or, perhaps, tor the occasion,
personificates the Majo himself. Alonzo
has an elevated idea of Andrew, and
writes gushingly of his fine qualities, as
friend has perfect right to do. Alonzo
says that Andrew is loved aad re-
spected by all who know him." that he
is a perfect image of his mother (the
late Mrs. L. II. Sigourney), and he also
possesses his mothers talent, that of
writing poetry and prose. To the cor
rectness of this photograph likeness OF
him, the Messenger of last evening tes-
titles as foil )ws =
We don't know and cannot hear OF
any such person in this town as AlOLzO
Halves, but we do know of man
by the name OF VIM. Andrew Huntley
Sigourney, and he is foreman in this
office. In most respects he answers the
foregoing description, but he knows
his early lite, and if the foregoing
story (Which is doubtless sensational
should t4rn out to refer to him, he viii
be as much startled as any one.
To Captain Albert Clark has been
given the credit of editing that paper
of late Though his name has never ar-
peared in the Messenger as belonging
to its editorial staff, and no doubt tn,
readers of that aper will be SURPRISED
to learn that they have been enter
tanned by an angel unawares, in TIT
, person of the son who possesses hi
. mothers talent, that of writing pros,
and verse"
, am of the opinion that the mothe
} would smile. could she be permitted t.
read the following selection from tn
sons New Years Greeting" pub
lished in the Messenger, Dec. 3lst:-
The Printers of the Messenger leave
{ With those whom they have daily sought
This Offering. which they fain would weave
With feelings deep, and food for" thou sht.
Perhaps the mother could understan,
, it, but as 1 am no judge of verses,
l cannot. WATER WHEEL.