The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-07

Farnsworth may have roughened that dulcet
baritone for the time.
As to the late civil war, Beecher thought
no more of that than of the Declaration of
independence, or squaring the circle, or 'any
other man.
''Drat your civil war, he exclaimed in sub
stance lit wasn't much of shower after all.
Measure it as much as you please, make the
diameter coequal with that of the earth's,
then double it, and it was the least part of all
that was done in that great four years that
elapsed; for while we wers fighting this coun-
try was enabled to unfold an example, and to
make demonstration of Government which
it never made before, and could not have
made except under some such pressure as
that"
How tire demonstration" aforesaid was
made, our rolicking clergyman next went on
to illustrate q IL Dibdin, with a ''yo-heave
no, and that general air of hitching up ones
waistband, shooting out ones quid of tobacco,
disappearing ones eyes, and generally ram
ming the jib-boom slap-dash through the bin
nacle, which is characteristic of the true tar on
the boards of the Bowery. ''Any yacht will
stand weather when it is moored in New York
harbor; put it out to sea- where the tornado
catches it, and then she is brought to her
moorings, and she shows you how she is
made and what stuff she is made of.
We should rather think So Stand by with
the moorings when the wind chops through
the windlass, my hearties, and don't give up
the ship! Nautically, too, did Beecher illus
trate the dealings of the Almighty with this
people. ''The Government was saved"
quoth he, ''and the great line of longitude
that God put around the North and the South
to hold them together was not snapped. "
From which it may be inferred we suppose,
that hereafter these United States will do for
the destinies and the divinities and things
supernal generally to tie to-"
Because as our exclusive and extraordi-
nary preacher went on in like manner to
show, it was ''all serene with our army. AS
thus, lucidly: 1.-The snow that melts on the
hillsides fails not to leave freshet; nor is it
possible for the storm which bursts over the
mountain not to upturn banks and undermine
some trees; but yoE are witnesses that in the
disbandment of this army, in no CITY or
county or town in these States was any COM
plant made that any one suffered by the in
cursion or by the misconduct of our sol
diers." Which naturally brings us back to
Great Britain. Beecher, you see, doesn't
care about the clicking" that outrageous
power got from our fathers. But he rather
''spiles for fight with her herself, because
she was disturbed at our magnitude, and
wanted to see us cut in two;" and
he has a mind to punch the head of
France, who SHIELD the babe (that u.s. these
United States) in one hand while England
raised the sword to sever its head from it's
body;" and punched the head of France would
no doubt have been but for the winking and
blinking of some lewd fellow in the mob,
who suddenly pulled up" the Brooklyn
Pegasus after this wise:-'T see man carp
ing ere-(pointing to man in the crowd
and it puts me in peril. 1 will shut up. If
linger any longer shall give the untruth to
what said in the beginning about General
Butler, and know already by advance that
he is getting impatient at this long speech of
mine; and therefore, proud as am to be
associated with General Butler on this plat
form, and joyful as should be to stand on
that platform he one day expects to reach
Qaughter)-I do not think it is fair for me-
as have got profession already, and have
got along pretty well in life, to stand in his
way. want to have fair hearing and a
good chance, and 1 will stop now, although
the most eloquent part of my speech was that
which was yet to come.
Will some one kindly discover that 'Ecarp-
ing" man and duck him in the Connecticut
river? For assuredly nothing but the very
improbable reconciliation of the Presden-
tial presence with an extraordinary altitude
of the mercury can ever put the locomotive
intellect of the Apostle to the Pilgrims again
upon this miraculous track. Meanwhile, let
Superintendent Jourdan take note of these
| circumstances. FOR IL tnlS be the effect of
extreme heat in Connecticut upon SO grave
and important a parsonage as the Reverend
Henry Ward Beecher, of what avail will it be
to keep the iquor-shops of New York closed
during the heated term against the savage
hordes of the metropolis
THE SPANISH THRONE QUESTION.
From the N. Y Herald.
Our Spanish news of yesterday was
more than usually interesting 1t was
rumored that Prim had offered the vacant
throne to Prussian prince, of the Hoaen.
zollern Sigmaringen line. The name of the
prince is Leopold. He is a descendant OF
Murat, the brother-in-law of the First Napo-
leon, the brilliant cavalry officer and after.
wards the unfortunate King of Naples. His
father is the chief of the house of Hohenzol.
lern-Sigmaringen. His mother, who was
known as the Viscountess de Beauharnais,
was an adopted daughter of the first Napo
| leon. The Prince Leopold is a Catholic and
was born in 1885,. A later cable despatch
states that the excitement was great in Mad
rid, the people denouncing the Government
and declaring that no descendant of Murat
would ever wear the Spanish crown. 1t is
added that the Government had officially
denied having made any but confidential
overtures to foreign prince, whose name it
was not yet proper to divulge 1t would seem
that at one time the excitement was almost
as great in Paris as in Madrid.
This news, it seems to us, is valuable only
| in SO far as it affects the very macmillan diff