The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-18

came Mayor of Clermont, and in 1868 a
member Of the General Council. This same
year likewise witnessed his election to the
Corps Legislatif from the first oircumscrip-
ton of Puy-de- Dome, the election of 1869
resulting in his retaining his seat for another
term.
M. Charles Ignace Plichon, who succeeds
the Marquis de Talhouet as Minister of Pub
lie Works, is, politically speaking, a slight
improvement on the two other new members
of the Cabinet, although his mild opposi-
ton to the Government during the ten years
he has sat in the Corps Legislatif rs Deputy
from the Department of the Nord has been
tempered by strong conservative leanings
and vigorous advocacy of the occupation of
Rome by the French.
BY the withdrawal of Daru, Buffet, and De
Talhouet, M. Olivier has been separated
practically from the "Left Centre" party to
which they belonged, and the contemplated
reconstruction of this party, as announced
by the cable despatch, will doubtless place it
on platform of open and defiant opposition
to the present galvanized Imperial Cabinet.
THE REMOVAL OF THE NATIONAL
CAfDIIAL.
Two CITIES are agitated over the project for
the removal of the national capital st.
Louis hopes and wishes that it may be re-
moved, and to st. Louis, and Washington
hopes that it may remain where it is, now and
forever. Outside of the limits of these two
municipalities, nobody is particularly inte-
rested in the matter, and the arguments
hitherto advanced in favor of the removal are
not sufficiently forcible to convince the ma
jority of the nation that it is either necessary
or expedient, SO that it has not been possible
to get up any great amount of enthusiasm on
the subject. If the question of locating
the seat of government were now to be
brought before the people for the
first time, it is tolerably certain that
Washington would not be the place chosen,
and st. Louis would have as good if not a
better chance than any other city on the con-
tinent. With the facilities for travel that
exist at this day, however, arguments in favor
of placing the national capital at or near the
geographical centre of the country will have
comparatively little weight, especially as
there are many other things of more import
ance to be considered, and the mere fact that
no very decided objections can be urged
against Washington, and that q removal will
necessitate the abandonment of the present
costly public buildings and the construction
of others, are sufficient reasons why the capi-
tai should be kept where it is, for
the present at least. The St.
Louis people, however, are dead in
earnest about their project, and although
the national" convention held there last
October failed either to represent the nation
or to create any great impression, the Exe-
cutive Committee appointed by it have deter
| mined to call another convention, to be COM
| posed of delegates from all the States and
| Territories and the District of Columbia, to
! meet in Cincinnati on the 25th of next Octo-
ber. This convention is composed of three
delegates from each Congressional district,
six from each State at large, three from each
Territory, and three from the District of Co.
lumbia, to be appointed by the Governors of
the States and Territories respectively, and by
the mayor of the city of Washington. The
Executive Committee have decided that if
| for any reason the Governors should fail or
refuse to appoint delegates, the appointments
shall be made by State Conventions, called
for the purpose; but as they have proposed
no plans for the payment of the expenses of
the delegates, the prospects of very full
attendance at Cincinnati in October next are
at the present time of writing rather slim.