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CINCINNATI, Aug. l7.-Mr. hcLane of Boston
offered resolutions repudiarng everything looking
to a reputation OF the national debt welcoming i'm.
migration. and declaring that ali men should receive
the protection OF our laws, but denying the right Of
capitalists " import human freight for the purpose
OF essening wages and degrading labor; tayOring a
general adoption Of the eight.hour system protest.
Ing against further land grants 10 private companies
Tor railway and other purposes,
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THE KNIFE on A STEAMBOAT.
Drunken Fight in the Lower Bay-An En-
gincer stabbed in the Breast.

As the steamer Thomas Collycr was returning
rom tie lower bay last evening, having on board
The Boatmcn'S Guards, who had been ON their an
nuii picnic, frcc hght and drunken row occurred.
Ia 'ne melte Thomas Naloncy, au engineer in the
employ Of the Great American Tea Company, was
stabbed twice, he sd!s, by Dgticl Holland. Tue
knife tn,crcd tle right h east two inches above the
rippie Penetrating tle lung. The other stah Is In
the ti-hi size, ilc knife strsns tae ninth rib aud
aiJuc'ug upward. Malone was borne 10 the Centre
street Hospital and attended b. Df. Maisn, whu
po9ouncci his itJuiits ttTisas. TIE ass4u on
Aaloney was entirely uuprOVUSel, as STATED by eye
MIsnN.srs. No lIr,sia.
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LOSS ES BP FIRE,

Nearly dozen horses weie burned in fremont,
Eeb., yesterday.
Edmund NJ. tonnolys coOpcrage on Seventh ave.
nue. was burned ye'tcfany Lors, $1,000.
The Buildings owned by GeOr.e X. Davis, at
Knishtsyrlr. ca.- Ei2ateth were burned on Tuesday
Loss sl,VOl
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OBITUARY.

Mr. Mitchell, formerly Attorney General OF Ire
land, Is oead.
Henry c. Wright is to be buried in Piwtucket to.
morrow. VIM. Lloyd Garrihon and Wendell Phillips
will attend tue funeral.
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The German Despatches-LittIe Phil on his
Way 60 King Williams Headaunrters-
The Pailure Of tho National Prussian

The Paiiure Of tho National Prussian
Loan.
FRASKroRr, Aug. l7.-Gen. Sheridan, with
Consu-General Webster, has, through the good
ofces OF Minister Bancroft, been cheerfully accord
ell permission by the military authorities to follow
the campaign with the headquarters OF tho KinS.
MORE ov THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS
BERLIN Aug. l7,-ADother Prussian note diyu lg-
ns certain secret negotiations of France Is pub
lShed to-day. The contents are similar to those of
documents already mado public.
FAILURE oy THE PRussIAS LOAN.
LONDON, Aug. II Our special correspondent
writes from Berlin, Sunday, as follows:
The attempt to raise national loan Of 100.
Wn,WO talars has broken down. Up to ye.tor-
uny The subscriptions reached 6OOO,OD only.
but this loan did not pretend N oIer a
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Austria Denies n French Alliance.

vienna, Aug H.-1he AbendpO% denies the
correctness OF the statement made In the London
Times in regard to the friendly attitude of Baron
Won Beust toward French pretensions, and IL posi-
lively contfadcts the WD<s report that the Aus.
tran premier had offered TO form treaty OF alliance
with France.
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I,niv Declares that she will Remain Neutral

FLORENCE, Aug. 1.-THE Italian Government
has announced that It remains neutral during the
present war. Two classes of the italian army have
been called out the military credit has been In
creased forty millions, and the expectation OF horses
has beon prohibited.
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ENGLAND TO MIX IN.

The Times also declares that 1t is the duty Of the
English Ministers at the first possible moment to
discover tie common term between tue begerents,
and Tie eIict tenor OF the pretentions OF both.
Having thus asccrlaned tho nature OF the issues
involved IN the dispute between the two powers nov
engaged in armed fray, the next and immediate step
Of tue English Ambassadors should bo to make the
proper offers Of mediation to the soveraigns OF both
countries, and cautiously oring them to an agree
nent neither precipitate, immature, nor ephemeral
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English Dispatches -NiurHtRnd BcrnStOG In.
ieryicw Gladstone The Thundcrer',
Blows NJ Napoleon.

Blows nt Napoleon.
LONDON, August l7.-Count Bcrpstof and
Prince Murat, Marshal MacMahons aije.le camp.
lave haI interviews with Earl Granville and
Nr. Gladstone, at WImer CSte, in Kent
Prince Murat returned u Paris after the interview,
on his way TO the headquarters OF the Emperor Ma.
roloon. VI. Benedict, the late French minister At
Berlin, accompanied Prince Murat on his departure.
MESSENGER from the French Foreign Oace has
visited London md returned ;to Paris. The neA
rrussan loan is unsuccess III at Hamburg.
down oS NAPOLEON.
The Times continues to assan the Emperor Napo.
'eon for What II terms his evil ambition in precip-
tatinS the conflict with Prussia. Its article this
morning is n chronic attack upon the Emperor
France is quyering with emotion, and plssionl,e'y )
condemns the actual regime as decsiyey as 1t pro
tests against foreign invasion.
TIE justification OF the Empire passes away witA
the obstruction OF domestic peace and the suprema
cy abroad The Empire thus becomes an accident,
to be treated Of account, unless to be rejected
an outrage,
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the iron .csds, but 1t could not be discovered
whether tile moving figures were soldiers or sailors.
BLOCKADE RUNNERS NOT INSURED.
Alta meeting OF the Tyne Ship Insurance So
cieties yesterday, formal resolution was adopted
not to insure vessels bound to ports under blockade
the approach TO which has been rendered danger
Gus by the removal Of bescons, lights, and buoys.
FIGHT BETWEEN rus TWO rLxsrs..
Our special correspondent writes from Hamburg
on Sunday:
The second division OF tile French feet was seen
twenty miles west southwest OF Heligoland, steer
ing east The Germsn feet at Corhaven and VIII
nelmshsyen put to sea, and eannonading has since
The French delays are upsoceuntsbic. They
misht have taken CuSh,yeu, completely command
Ing the entrance 10 the Elbe, but Is now well for
The Eibe is rot beiag blocksded, and vessels ar
rive daily. merchant vessel In attempting to en-.
ter Wlilelmshaven In fog, was sunk by a torpedo.
vest has the start Of the war.
The reported subscriptions OF eighty millions a.
Hamburg was mistake for eight millions.
ruE WILLIE Ds PARIS At BRssr.
BnEsr, Aug. n, 1s7O.-rho steamer Vile de Paris,
OF the General Transatantique Line. arrived here
from New York At o'clock last evening.
The situation In Paris-Crowds on the Street
Thirsfy for News-Eugenie Want. to go
TO bngiand-be Bout said to be In Prison
In Nincennes.
PARIS, a. M-The CITY 10 greatly agitated
All night long great crowds surrounded the Ministry
OF The Interior and other places where news Is
posted. Many rumors are circulating, but without
the oiucia adviees they cannot be traced.
TRYING TO ABATE rHx POPULAR FEvBn
In view Of the public impanenoe to know the re.
suit Of tue late battle, the C0nsttionnei this morn.
ing publishes an ariclc, saying that the brave Gen.
erals now risfing their lives In the do.
fence OF their eountrya eannot, while thus
ENGAGED, know all the results gained le-
sides, II WIS tneonsidera'e In Wow OF opera
tions so multiplied ana complicated to give partial
details which might prove 70 be premature. We
engage that the citizens will await the result with
confidence. Tho Government viii bo aithfui TO Its
promise, and will communicate Immediately all that
comes to 1t. 1t will be more than ever promp, on
this occasion.
The other Paris journals have articles similar in
tone
RECRUITS yoR rux FRENCH wArrR.
LoSpoS. Aug. 17.-The Pari, jourpAl, confess
their inability 10 cxplsn the course of recent militia
ry events in conseouence of the confusion Of date.
and lack Of authentic sdyiees.
Three nephews Of Bern,do,,e. King of Sweden.
have Joined the ranks OF the French army The
Count de CI,amborJ. the Cou,,e., Mop,,lsr,or,
to the military authorities for hosptal uses
INpRisoyurSr n, lyrurr
Paris rossip has /, that Lebqur. v,r, il 4 pru..
sian. ,nd that the General ia confined 4, the pri.on
OF Vin,opnes
nj G3 The French Government las issued a po,,s.
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THE EUROPEAN WAR.
King William Retreating
on Paris.
The Emperor Napoleon Advancing
on Paris.
THE DISASTROUS FRENCH RETREAT.
An Engagement Six Miles South
west of Metz on Tuesday.
FRENCH SOaTlE At sTRAsBOURG
They are Driven Back with the Loss
OF Three Cannon.
Eugenie and Napoleon Preparing to
Take French Leave.
NAVAL FIGHT OFF HAMBURG

tn, .foQoioing are The latest dsspdtches re-
sic,d IN The Sun office dozen 10 3 o'clock this
morning. Later despatchts, u any, ,0iA be
printed IN a postscript.
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the iron -olads, but It could not be discovered
whether tile moving figures were soldiers or sailors
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Chalons towsad Metz, down to Saturday pisht,
when the trains were stopped and fred into at Pont
AMousson.
On Sunday the Prussians found the French still In
great force under tile walls Of Metz, Since Sunday
no considerable battle is known to have been fought
anywhere, but the Frenen reports Of checks to the
Prussians west OF the Moselle, whether true or
false, coincide with
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-21

THE TIME FOR AMNEsTY.-The Lynchburg Vir-
giian presents the following forcible argument for
the favorable action OF Congress the subject OF
universal amnesty, without delay:-"The Southern
States are just now reorganizing the various de-
partments Of their government, under constitutions
that have been accepted by Congress, aud which
provide enectual guarantees against any reversal OF
the public Judgment pronounced in their accept
ance Besides, Congress has reserved to itself the
right asserted by Mr. Morton in the Senate, If the
States should prove fathess to their obligations to
deal with them hereafter What more be neces-
sary? But, as we have said, the States are now
organizing all OF these departments and judicial
officers are to be elected for long term OF years.
This being the fact and 1t being necessary thas the
people should have the largest possible field OF seec-
ton, 1t is important that Congress should do what
ever 1t may intend to do speedily. 1t should, by a
general law, relieve all disabilities, that the best
talents and the largest experience to be found In
tho States may be made available to the people.
This is the opportune moment, and the healing
measure can be applied with more advantage to the
Southern communities now than at any time In the
future. Six months or even three months hence, it
will come too late to serve the benefcent ends that
might be accomplished by the application OF such a
measure now"
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was placed on the reserved list, with full pay.
The Scorpion bore two long guns, one carry
ing q 32-pound shot, and the other 12-pOuud
shot. When the British aud American fleets
encountered each other, about noon the ScOr-
pion faDked the Lawrence, Perry's flagship,
upon the left. Barclay the British commander,
opened the battle with shot from his flagship,
which, falling short on account of the
distance was answered by shot from
the Scorpion, and the battle soon be-
came general. Champln maintained his
place throughout the entire engagement
near the Lawrence, which, riddled with shot,
was abandoned by Perry early in the fight.
When all the other British vessels had struck
their colors, two of them the Little Belt and the
Chippewa, attempted to escape, but they were
pursued by the Scorpion and the Trippe, and at
ten o'clock at night the final shot of the engage
ment was fred by the Scorpion, in answer to
which the Little Belt capitHlated and the battle
was at an end
Champlin was placed after the battle in COM
mand of two of the captured vessels and in the
spring of 1914, in command of the Tigress, with
Captain Turner in the Scorpion, he blockaded
the port of Mackiuac, and afterwards cruised
about the upper lakes for some months, cutting
off the supplies OF the enemy. In September,
1914, party of British and Indians
were sent from Macklnac in five
boats to raise the 1ylockade The enemy
surprised the Tigress and the Scorpion on
the I'd ofSeptember falling upon the former
first about O'Clock in the evening. The dark
ness was so impenetrable that the enemy were
within fifty yards of Champlin's vessel before
they were discovered. The attacking party
numbered one hundred men, while Champlin's
force numbered but thirty, and, although he
received them with heavy broadside, his vessel
was quickly boarded and captured. Every Off
Ger on the Tigris was wounded, Champlin so
severely by cannister-shot that he never fully
recovered from Its effects
In the year 1916, after the close of the war
and his release from captivity, Champlin was
placed in command of the Porcupine, his wound
however, incapacitating him from much active
service. In 1S45 he was ordered to the steamer
Michigan, and made his last cruise in March,
1S48, when he was placed on the retired list
with full pay. On the establishment of the
higher ranks in the navy, after the outbreak of
the Rebellion, he received commodores COM
mission, being the ninth in order on the retired
list
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OBITU AIRY.
Commodore Stephen Champl,n, I

Commodore Stephen Champlin, u. =. N.
Following close upon the death of "Old Iron
sides" comes the announcement that another of
the heroes of our early naval history has
breathed his last. Commodore Stephen Cham
plin, the last surviving officer who participated
in the battle of Lake Erie, died at Buffalo, N.
Y, ON Saturday at the venerable age of eighty.
He was born at South Kingston, Rhode Island,
ON the 18th of November, 1889. His father had
been Revolutionary soldier, but his mother
was sister of Commodore Perry's father,
and he selected the sea for the scene of
his career, becoming a sailor at the age
of sixteen. At the age of twenty-five he
had already become the captain of mer-
hant vessel. The war of 1912 diverted him
from his peaceful calling, and on the 22d of
May In that year, he was appointed a sailing
master in the United States Navy, under Com
modore Perry, and soon after was placed in
command of a gunboat at Newport. He was
subsequently transferred to the Lake Erie
squadron, and in the celebrated battle off Put
in-Bay, on the 10th of September, 1918, COM
manded the schooner Scorpion, which led the
advance Of the American line and fred the first
and last shot on that memorable occasion.
Sailing Master Champlin was among the officers
commended by Commodore Perry in his official
report of the action. The supremacy of the
United States being fully established on Lake
Erie by the results of this battle, the deceased
was ordered to the scene of active hostilities
on the upper lakes, and was once taken prisoner
by the British, after sustaining severe wound
from the effects of which he never fully re-
covered Al the close of the war he was placed
in command of the Porcupine, and remained in
active service, holding various commands on the
lakes. until 1849, when, at the age Of sixty he
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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 81, 1870.
INDEPENDENCE SQUARE.


An article in the Sunday Dispatch of yester-
day contains quotations from acts of the old
Colonial Assembly and the State Legislature
which prove that a distinct understanding
was established, more than a century ago. that
the ground lying Immediately south OF the
State House should remain "a public green
and walk forever" and that this understand
ing has been repeatedly confirmed and re-
affirmed by competent authorities. The Dis
match also directs attention to the remarkable
fact that the city has no legal title whatever
to two lots of ground in the centre of the
Walnut street front of Independence Square,
which are ninety-nine feet front by two hun
dred and ffty-fve feet deep, running back
one-half the distance of the square, and it
alleges that ''some day the heirs of the real
owners may turn up"
In the present state of public opinion, and
the absence of appropriations by Councils,
would be totally wrong for the Building
Commission to attempt to either cut down the
trees on Independence Square or to lay the
foundations of new buildings there, even if
no legal difficulties arising from defective
title existed. In all justice and fairness, the
people who are 80 deeply interested, and who
are to foot the bill for the magnificent struc-
lures contemplated, should have an opportu-
nifty of saying where their money is to be ex-
pended. 1t would be an unpardonable outrage
to take snap judgment against them on this
question, and to proceed to incur heavy debts
i n their name, before appropriations had been
legally made. The Building Commission
have gone to the verge Of their power in
awarding contracts, and it would be the
height of folly and injustice to take single
additional step before their proceedings are
fully and finally confirmed alike by Councils
and the tacit or formal consent of the Legis-
lature. Under the most favorable circum-
stances, it will be an extremely doubtful and
proceeding to erect buildings in In
dependence Squar e in the face of the exist
ing restrictions and in defiance of the absence
of a clear title to large portion of the land
that will be occupied. And if any new
movement is attempted, we hope the oppo-
nents of the Independence Square project
will make prompt application for an in
junction.
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AT last, after full and protracted delibera-
University of Vermont, has declined the Pre-
sidency of Michigan University. The Burling
ton Feee Press makes the announcement by
authority and in italics. We trust, therefore,
the matter is now settled.
AT q religious meeting at tAllanburg, Canada,
on Sunday night week. an old man arose, and
calmly said he had but a short time to stay. and
was determined to live in such manner as to
secure an entrance to heaven. He sat down,
but in few minutes again arose apparently ill.
friend near him caught him as he was falling,
and In few minutes he died.
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has disgraced and made TO serve out ter m
in the penitentiary besides. Discipline must
be maintained on board men-of-war, but the
laws prohibiting cruel puuishments are
stringent, and some measures more efficient
than courts-martial should be adopted
for their enforcement and for the
protection of the sailors. The officers of
the court that imposed this absurd sentence
on Mr.. seely became participants in his
crime by not Furnishing him as he deserved,
and the reprimand to all parties concerned
given in the general order published on Satur-
day is far from being an adequate condemna-
tion of the outrage. ..I
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THE CASE OF LIEUTENANT COM
MANDER SEELY.


ONE of the inconvenience of being staff
present condition of affairs is the liability of
being court-martialled and punished for what
appear to be heinous offenses against disci-
pline in the eyes of the line officers, but
which to the untutored eyes of civilians would
seem to be highly meritorious actions. One
of the advantages of being line officer is the
privilege of committing outrages that on
shore would subject the offender to term of
years in the penitentiary, but which a naval
court-martial only thinks worthy of nomi-
nal punishment. The difference between the
status of the line and staff in this respect is
fully exemplifed in the cases of Assistant
Surgeon Charles L. Greene and Lieutenant
Commander Henry B. Seely. DR.. Greene de-
clined to take from the sick list the name of
q man whom he considered unfit for duty,
when ordered to do SO by his commanding
officer. For this he was tried by court
martial last August, and sentenced to be sus-
pended from rank, on furlough pay, for two
years, and to be publicly reprimanded by the
Honorable Secretary of the Navy. The Hon.
orable Secretary of the Navy tacitly acknow-
lodged the injustice of this finding of the
court, while confirming it, by remitting the
major part of the sentence, and simply CIV
ing DIR. Greene mild reprimand. The up
shot of the affair was that DR.. Greene
promptly resigned his commission as an Assist
ant Surgeon in the United States navy, as
any man with the instincts of a gentleman
would have done under the same circum-
stances.
Lieutenant Commander Seely was tried last
September for permitting the inhiction of
unlawful and cruel punishments and tortures
upon the persons of certain seamen under his
command as executive officer of the Pawnee,
and also for falsely representing the facts of
the case to the commander of the vessel. For
this little irregularity Mr.. Seely was found
guilty, and the severest sentence that the
Secretary of the Navy could extort from the
court by sending its findings back to it seve-
raj times for revision, was that Lieutenant
Commander Seely should be suspended from
duty for four years on furlough pay, with loss
of rank for that time, and be publicly repri-
manded by the Honorable Secretary of the
Navy The Honorable Secretary of the
Navy confirms this inadequate" sentence
because otherwise Lieutenant Commander
Seely would escape all punishment
These two cases need no comment, as they
speak plainly for themselves, and illustrate per
fectly the difference that exists between the
line and staff officers, difference that the
latter are endeavoring to have equalized by
asking Congress to grant them positive rank
which will place them in some measure on al
equality with the men who now domineel
over them. Both of these sentences wer'
outrages that deserve emphatic condemnation
and in the case of seely, especially, justic'
has not been done, and will not be dom
unless he il dismissed frQp the service b.
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The BEDFORD STREET MISSION, as we have
often insisted, is doing a good work, and
doing it as well as possible with the means
at its command. Yet it is always in strait
ened circumstances, a ready means for outlay
being found for every cent that finds it's way
into its treasury. On general principles, we
are opposed to the State stepping outside of
its legitimate sphere by contributing to the
support of charitable institutions of any kind,
but there are exceptional cases, in which the
peoples money can accomplish infinitely
more good in this way than in almost any
other. In the general appropriation bill,
recently reported to the House of Represen-
tatives at Harrisburg, few worthy institu-
tions are set down for sums varying bet tween
$1,000 and $4,000. The name of the Bedford
Street Mission is not included in the list, as
it should be. We trust that some member of
the House who is familiar with the condition
of this section of Philadelphia, and can ap-
preciate both the necessities of the Mission
and the good results that flow from its labors,
will at the proper time secure an amendment
to the bill placing this worthy charity on a
footing of equality with those already named
in the bill.
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