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( ance Of Teshipping at m0uth of Red
river. The crop Of this year Is good,
and will bring more money than last
year; 20 per cent. less cotton raised,
{ but more corn, grain and cereals.
Texas papers represent that in one
! week the Mexicans Oh the Rio Grande
border stole cattle valued at 500, 600
in Texas. and which would have been
worth double that amount in Kansas,
the nearest market. They want to
know whether troops would not be
4 more usefully employed protecting
I that border than in protecting negroes
from imaginary Ku-Klux Klans?
Approximations are expressed by
Il some Northern journals that this con-
1 tinent is threatened with another
visitation of the Asiatic cholera. The
fact that the pestilence has made its
J, appearance In Poland is considered Of
Il significance, when taken in connection
with the first general Eruption of the
cholera in Europe, in 1929, which first
Il developed itself In Southern Russia.
The tornadOes and floods which have
distinguished this and the last season
are asserted to have always preceded
visitations of cholera.
Judge William Leigh, an eminent
jurist of Virginia, died in the county
Of M~eeklenburg, in that State, on the
18th inst, at the age of eighty-eight.
He was the brother Of the late Ben
Ijamin Watkins Leigh, and, as the
executor of the will of John Randolph,
of Roanoke, he personally ~superin-
tended the removal of RandOlph's
emancipated negroes to Ohio. Judge
Leigh was chiefly remarkable in that,
though a distinguished Virginian, A."
he never filed a political Office.
Last Friday, in Gadsden county,
near Quincy, Florida, an alteration
occurred between Messrs. Johns and
Edwards, resulting in the death OF the
latter, his throat being cut from ear
to ear. The parties were relatives and
friends. They travelled together from
near Aspolega, where they lived, to
Quincy, where they had been sum-
mOned as witnesses in a case in a JUS
tees court. During the day they got
to drinking, and on the way home
had a quarrel, which resulted in a
fight and the killing OF Edwards.
All the workmen at the Vulcan
iron works, in southeast st Louis, ex-
cept the new laborers, have stopped
work and the operations of the mill
have ceased for the present. The
men state they have taken this eOurce
as a consequence of their dissatisfac-
ton with abraham Reese, superin-
tendent of the works, who, they
allege, is very O~verbearing in his
manner, and has not supplied them
with sufficient material to enable
them to earn full wages.
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Democratic administration with pre-
tended Radical principles, just as we
have now a Presidential despOt with
pretended republican:principles. We
confess, if we must have a govern
ment Of fair and false %pretenees, we
are for ''letting well enough alone"
We fear the new converts viii out
herod Herod, and make matters
worse. 1t is better to risk those who
VIII make some pretense to integrity,
with all their m~alpractices, than TO
risk those who know the ~pernicious
character of false principles, and yet
unblushingly avow a determination
to put them in practice. The honey
ing process of pleading for peace by
unanimously entering on the down
ward road of generalization, I'M
der the black anti-republican
flag, which force, fraud and tyranny
filings to the breeze, viii ruin the
country by bringing a common con-
sent TO the demolition of public viz
tue, by destroying all its standards
and guiding stars. If we cannot main
tain the flag of our fathers, with all
its sacred principles standing out in
the blaze of day, we can maintain
nothing Of service to the country, and
liberty must be surrendered with the
accomplished fact of desertion by its
votaries. When,the Democratic party
abandons State 5rights, and consents
to the accomplished fact Of military
usurpation, we have no longer any
use for it, aud consolidation viii be
finally accomplished. We shall
have liberty for a mess OF pot
tage, for the whistle of the
spoiIs. And, perhaps not with
out intervening anarchy, we shall
have consolidation Of power, and a
national despotism firmly established.
We ask the patriots Of the country,
north and south, whetherit is not bet
ter to stand firm, and resist while we
can and so long as we can, by the bal
lot and all legal means in u power,
what has been accomplished and what
is proposed 10 be accomplished by the
ambitious and grasping enemies of
American institutions. What we can
not avoid and cannot help we may
succumb to and surrender. But to
the surrender OF a long-loved and
dearly priced groundwork and foun-
dation truth of popular sovereignty,
| so long as there is a freeman in the
land, there will be resistance. And
so long as the Democratic party of
this Union retains its integrity,
so long it will never sue
cumb to an accomplished villainy,
so long it will never fail TO raise its
voice in national convention for those
principles It has never for a lifetime
abandoned. We have confidence in
the Democratic party. And the more
we see OF the clamOr of new departure,
the more are we convinced that its
leading advocates are rather IN the
Democratic party, than Of it, in any
sense of true patriotism and member
ship.
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Rev Papers with Queer flames.

After nearly a years interruption,
says GaIignGni, M. Garcin de Tassy
has resumed his public and gratuitOus
lectures at the College de France, on
Hindostan, its various dialects and
literature. During the disastrous pc
riOd Of the siege, the learned professor
stayed at Caen, the seat of an academy
of literature and science, which imme-
diately elected him a member. There
he wrote a letter on Hindostanee lit
erature during the year 1870, from
which we CLEAN the following items:
The old dispute between the partisans
of the Oordoo and Hindee dialects
continues, the former being patronized
by the Musulmans, and the latter,
which is the old language of the mid
die ages, by the pure HindOOs, SO that
the struggle is more OF a religious and
political nature than literary. This
rivalship has penetrated into the sys-
TEN of public instruction, so that the
candidates for examination at the
school of Lucknow find questions pro-
pounded to them like the following:
"Explain whether the tribunals OF the
province of Dude ought to use 0ordOO
and Persian characters, OF Hindee,
with the Nagari writing" The for
mer seems, however, to enjoy prepOn-
deranee, for during the year 1870 eight
new Journals made their appearance
in that dialect, and only three in Hin.
dee. Some of the titles of these news
papers are characteristic. One is called
The Am6roSid Leaf The Market an
other, The Rays of the Sum- then we
have The PLnjau6 Bird of Good Omen,
The Sun of NeICs, etc.
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The Ex-EmperOrs Conduct at Sc
dan

The GGlGLOiS publishes a long letter
from NJ. Paul de Cas5agnac in defense
of the ex-EmperOr at Sedan, OF which
the following are extracts: At IL
o'clock in the morning the battle was
lost. Penned up, and led like so many
sheep in ravines and hollOWs, without
any order, food or ammunition, with
out a plan; pounded incesSantly by
200 guns, which opened on US from a
distance of 1000 and 5000 meters; sur
rounded by 4OO, 900 men, who kept
behind their guns, protected from our
bullets and b~ayOnets, we found cur.
selves forced back into the town. l
had the grief Of witnessing the pre-
liminaries and the conclusion of the
capitulation. Philippe de Massa, Lau-
ristOn and l were sObbing in front of
the room where our dishonor was
signed. Well, what was the Empe-
ror's conduct before, during and after
the battle? Before the ca%pitulatiOn
he was not in command, and did not
give a single order. Marshal McMa-
hon is too honest not to admit that.
| Accepting to the bitter end the mel
anchOly part of a parliamentary SOW
ereign CD, the Emperor was present,
but took no directing part. Since the
10Th of January he vas like a bullock
stunned by the butchers pOleaX;
he tOttered on until he fell at
Sedan. No longer having the right of
interfering in anything, he went about
the battlefield, escorted by a few
friends, displaying admirable but
barren courage. After the hattie he
remained unchanged, retaining his
neutral attitude-that position which
is called parliamentary, but which
means nothing but impotence and
~abdication. Then the Emperor COM
mitted the blunder-the enormous
blunder-Of meddling with a capitula-
ton which concerned Others than
himsel-thOse who had so madly
led Us to the shambieS. Seized with
deep commiseratiOn for the army,
PROSTATE while yet alive in this huge
graveyard, ne did What-nO matter
who was about to be compelled to do
he gave orders to hoist the white flag.
For ignorant and impassioned people
that was quite sufficient. Everything
was thrown on his shoulders, and he
became the scapegOat laden with the
want of skill of Mcmahon, the insane
rashness of Wimpffen, the want o.
foresight OF the commissariat, all the
iniquities of the towards, the ineapa-
bles, and the traitors-he was driven
from Sedan to Cassel, from Csssel to
Chislehurst. Had he stuck to his part,
and not meddled with anything; if he
had allowed an additional 10000 men
to perish beneath the crumbling walls
Of Sedan, he would not now bear the
burden OF a capitulatiOn for which he
may be responsible, but which can
not in any way be imputed to him IS
q crime.
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We call attention to the able and
unansWeFabIe extract from a speech
Of Judge Craddock, to be found in
this days issue. His suggestions are
not merely theoretical and right in
the abstract. They are practical,
adapted to the occasion, and practical
bic. No answer viii be attempted.
Mr.. A. ID. Stephens says Of it: 1.-THE
whole question touching the Ualiday
or 5qraAdify Of those sO-cailed amend
ments, Judge Craddock clearly shows,
depends upon the fact whether they
were regularly proposed to the States,
aud properly ratified by the requisite
number Of States, as required by the
Constitution. 1t all turns upon this
mater Of fact. nthey were proposed
and adopted in the mode and manner,
aud by the authority cO1stitutionally
appointed then they are valid-not
only dc facto but de jIe'e parts Of the
fundamental law; but if they were
Motif they were proposed by a mi
nority faction in Congress, with the
denial Of the right Of ten States to be
heard upon the question Of their pro-
posal, and il, after that, their r%atiica-
ton in those ten States was carried by
'5rlae force'-Men they are utterly UOid
aud Of no effect.
uT,.7~a raooonfnu unon
this subject is unanswerable, His
position, also, that this matter Of fact
cannot be decided or aditdged by the
Secretary Of State, or the President,
orlOongress, or all Of them combined,
is equally conclusive. Inquiry into
this matter Of fact in any judicial pro-
ceeding that may be instituted in any
a S arising under them, or either of
them, cannot be preclttded by any
statement by The Secretary Of State, or
proclamation of the President, or res
olution Of Congress, for none of these
officials have any rightful power to
decide and pass Judgment in this ioay,
upon this subject.
"The people 81 England, in the
days of the Stuarts, were taught by
the Bourbons Of those times that
'royal proclamatiOns' were not laws.
This great truth the people Of the
United States received from their an
o%estors, and viii not appreciate 1t the
less highly because It is advocated by
the 50 called Bourbons Of this day"
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nrlnln Of Pawa in churchas.

Not many people are aware that the
''pew" is a recent institution in the
Christians church. In the days of
primitive piety they were unknown.
There is not a word said about them
in the Bible. They were first placed
in English churches by the Norman
mobiles; but it is certain that, for msny
generations, these private boxes tor
public worship were neithernumeTous
nor allowed to persons of inferior
grade or gentility. But though peWs
were introduced before the Ref0rma-
ton, they were preserved even so late
as the opening of Elizabeth's reign for
persons of undeniable quality. Be
fore the close of her Majesty's life,
however, they had become compare
lively common; and in James the
First's time, the church warden's
pew of st. Margaret's Church
had become so unclean and so
pOpulous with .fieas that six
pence was paid for its publication,
The seventeenth century, which wit
messed so many changes in eccleslasti-
cal matters, saw peWs come into such
vogue that a modish person would as
soon have gone to church without his
proper garniture of pointiace, as have
sat out a service on the old-fashioned
stool or more modern bench. estate
ly peWs," remarked Bishop Corbett,
protesting against the innovation by
which wOrshippers in velvet protected
their gentility from personal contact
with Worshippers In h0mespun, ''are
now become tabernaeles with rings
and curtains to them. There wants
nothing but beds to hear the word of
God on. We have easements, locks,
keys and cushions-I had almost said
holsters and pillows; and for these we
love the church, l will not guess what
is done to them; who sits, stands or
lies asleep at prayers, communion,
etc., but this / dare say-they are
either to hide some vice or to proclaim
one; to hide disorder or to proclaim
pride.n
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less inimieal to the leaders of German
politics than many Others OF the ga
cred College. His own people reyer-
eDce him almost as they do Pic Mono,
and that is saying a great deal. And
when / speak OF his own people, 1 do
not allude to those who have under
stood his character from that which
his enemies IN the press or in the
Riband lodge have said OF him, but
Of those who know him as a Catholic
prelate, a ruler in Israel. In fines ter
rae eriUh sonus eiRs. Perhaps no man
living has done as much to diff
fuse the Catholic religion through
out the globe as Cardinal Cullen. he
has stocked the world round with
bishops of his selection, and in their
diOceses, quite as much in his own
province or county, his selection
would be hailed with a joy which
would diminish the universal grief for
the loss of Pic Mono. But this letter
is already too long; its length forbids
a statement of the many reasons
which lead to the belief that Cardinal
Cullen will be the next Pope, and
therefore for the present / limit my
self to indicating the thew departure
and its probable direction, ~reserving
a statement Of the claims Of Cardinal
Cullen for another occasion. Should
this departure be taken there is one
ruler, and perhaps a second, who will
be dissatisfied with it. But the feel
ings neither of Victor Emanuel nor of
Amadeus will weigh much in the
dicision. Should it be as this letter
indicates, would it not be strange?
Rome sent an apostle to Ireland four
teen centuries ago, and since then has
received everything from her in re-
turn. The little island has sent the
great city gifts, martyrs, armies OF
soldiers and Of saints, but is it not re-
served for her to send now a Pope?
II it is, perhaps it will be remembered
that Malaehy, an Irish saint, who
long ago preceded Paul Cullen in the
see OF Armagh, fOretold that to this
martyr Pope Pic Mono there would
succeed one whose reign would be a
slight from heaven"
dill ROMANO SCATTOLICIZZATO.'
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10 discuss issues as to whether a
particular thing is right or wrong.
legal or illegal, in view Of the Consti-
tuition, and as to whether If ought or
ought not to be done, or supported
after any more than before il is done,
hss been den0minated "Hourbonism''
OF late by some people who are more
anxious to hold the reins Of power
than serupulOus about i.he means Of
obtaining them. 1t may be well in
Ibis view that there are some "Bour-
bOns." It may be vel in the midst
of a prevailing decentralization, that
there are those who viii not bow the
knee to Baal. 1t is the Illy hope for
the rescueEof any genuine republican
principles whatsoever. The original
leaders ofsihe Departure would have
accepted the whole Radical platform.
II that would have given taem success,
as readily as tbs Fourteenth and
Fifteenth planks they have taken.
II, =then, they led the Democratic
party to victory, we should have a
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For the SUNDAY APrEAL.l
LOVES LAST ADIEu.


FARE THEE WE'LL thus doomed to sever,
Hearts that once together olung,
Happiness viii bless them never,
since the knell of love is rung.
Lille were death to me without theei
What, If such a fate we're timer
Yet, It's uorse than death TO doubt thee,
Or the hope of thee resign.
Fare thee welIi the spell is broken,
Let the past as nothing be;
Fatal world but be 1t spokeni
Since It's SO decreed by thee.
Love hath perishedl Hope ascending
To her native home on high,
Leaves within my bosom blending
Madness with-despRir to diei
Yet, though parting thus, remember
stm The glad, the happy day
That made the cold and bleak December
Fairer b the brightest May;
Happiness, almost eiysiani
Decked that hour with radiant bloom
NolD, the lovely, peerless vision
OF that scene decides my doom.
The die is cast-my fate decided
Faded is the roseate bloom
That frightened life, and now, derided,
Sinks my soul in rayless gloom.
Silent is the voice that thrilled me
With Its music in the past,
Blighted are the hopes that filled me
With & Joy too sweet to last.
Bleak the futurel OH lis shrouded
With pail of voiceless wOe;
| Where, beneath a sky so clouded,
/ Shall a fafad RO2
Not where smile loves blushing roses
Not where Hopes faif tresses wave
| But where the stricken heart reposes-
In an unlamented gravel
| Happiness and hope have left me,
Left my heart a shLyered wreck;
OF all flowed hath fate bereft me,
As the tempest sweeps the deck.
Yet, one memory remaining
Once again may sooth my breast
That, though YolO my o disdainingi
SIN, by thee, / hare 6sen blestl
I One sweet thought thy bitt'rest scorning
WI nOt-cdnR0t-drive away
Not, at su observation-disclosures
Ever-in my breast shall stay
| Love of thee who now hast spoken
| MOrus tuAb uOOm mc " ~ AAoH
And hy name, though ties be broken,
Shall be breathed with LIES last sigh.
Vain are words, and vain, appealing
To thy e~old-once loving heart;
Vanished is The glow OF feeling
That did heavenly bliss impart.
Yet, one word, my fond heart, breaking,
Feels with woe no tongue can tell
One whose softest sound is making
Of paradise a hell.
Yet, 1t mzst TO thee be spoken,
Though its breathing be my last
Uttered, though 1t be a token
That sI love and hope are past
In Its sound the deepest sorrow
That e'er loving heart befel-
Dark'ning every coming morrow
Fatal ord!-FAREWELLi-FAREwELL
SOLITARY
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Gnna ExamnIa.

Senator Wilson was in London,
July 4th. In aletter published in the
Natick Bulletin he says of the south
ern part of Ireland: "The rags and
poverty that met my sight, and the
importunate cries of the beggars that
thronged around me, made me feel
that if l were a resident of that land
1 should be a most radical reformer,
if not a revolutionist." Whisky
drinking he found almost universal,
and yet, he says, he had not seen a
particle of fighting or rOWdyism. He
adds: 81 have not heard a prOfane
oath since L landed, on the 18th of
at Queenstown, eighteen days
ago. l have seen hundreds of thou
sands of the people, from the Queen
down to the ragged beggar5 of the
slums of this wilderness of houses,
and l have yet to hear the first pro-
fame word. This has surprised and
gratified me much. / trust the time
is not distant when a stranger can
travel hundreds Of miles in our cOun-
and mingle with hundreds of
thousands OF people without hearing
an OATH"
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lost life of a Dauphine can not be
good. Besides, sashe added, L
am. for the present, no longer Dau-
phine. 1 am only an ordinary nurse"
She had ten times the courage of the
nan over whom she watched so brave
ly and so tenderly. 1t was not ETH
Guette to tell him the nature of his
complaint, nor did he want to be told;
yet he had a fearful curiosity to know.
And here comes a story OF wifely love
and idelity-thus:
One day he asked for the Gazette de
Paris, a paper in which the nature OF
of his malady and the bulletin Os his
health were sure to be printed. But
see what a 7 was taken of the nerves
OF princes! A copy of the paper was
printed in anticipation of his re-
quest, in which the uoly quality Of
his malady was not alluded to. Still
his suspicious rendered him uneasy.
On another occasion, he asked for a
silver plate and q napkin. When these
were presented to him, he fsebly pol
ished up the surface of the plate, ana
gazed into it as II Il were a mirror, Tor
which he was probably afraid to ask.
Ashis room was dark, and the curtains
of his bed WeredraWn he was unable to
discover any reflection ofhis faee1 In the
silver, His supreme tact was selfish
and detestable. He was at his worst
when he asked the Dauphine, VINO
was sitting near him, to kiss him.
Without hesitation the brave woman
stopped to that repulsive face and
kissed it heartily. The act dispelled
his suspicious, bat it put a dearer life
in double peril. There wa no office
asked of her which she was not ready
to perform with eheerfulness, more OF
less assumed. When the patient was
out Of danger and fairly convalescent,
the Queen, to whom the announce
ment was made, kissed, not the Dau'
phine 0drde-mGJGde, but M. DumOu-
lin, the physician.
Marie Josephe lost several Of her
children in their infancy, and sympa'
thiZing Parisians remarked: 1.-THE
loss may distress the Dauphine, but il
no way interests the State" The
three sons were the Duke of Berry,
and the counts of Provence and
Artois. These little princes were
afterWard known as Louis XVI,
LOUIS Will, anu CHdIloc A. VI CAe
| twelve children of Marie JOsephe,
five survived. The death of the Dau-
phin, in 1865, left her a widow at the
age of thirty-fOur. Nine days after
his death she wrote to her brother
! Xavier a letter, which contained these
words: SIT has been the will OF God
that / should OutliYe him for whom
would have given a thousand lives.
hope that God will give me His grace
that 1 may employ the rest of my pill
grimage in preparing myself, by re-
pentance, to rejoin my husbands soul
in Heaven, where 1 do not doubt that
he is putting up the same prayer fol
me-" In a short time she followed
her husband to the grave. Her chill
dren persisted on the scaffOld OF in ex-
lie. Her great grandson, the Count Of
Chambord (Henry W, has been forty
wears a Wanderer. He is now family
yet fondly hoping that he may yet be
enabled TO plant the Bourbon lilies
az ain in that France where every
thing happens and nothing lasts!
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FOREIGN PARAGRAPHS.

The prohibition of the right TO pur.
chase commissions in theBritish army
up to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel
will very sensibly increase the ability
and efficiency of the officers, who have
heretofore been appointed by money,
and not by merit. OF these it is sup
posed there are about $4,000. This
practice OF purchase is an old one, GO
ing back to Queen Anne's reign, near
ly two hundred years ago. To us in
the United States, with our West
Point and merit system, it seems al
most impossible that such a system of
filling the army with officers could
ever have been adopted in a great and
civilized country. Here are said to be