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Another american Prima BonHa.

The Milan P1-1QOScelci0 of q recent
date has the following: Two words TO
mention the splendid success Of "D0u
Pasquale,o which since October -
has drawn good houses. There is q
prima donna, Miss Miles, a blonde
American, with bright ewes, and
fresh, rosy complexion; q Young girl
who is only just taking her first steps
in the musical arena, and makes her
first appearance here in Italy. She
has singular talent and vocal bowers.
and we do not err in predicting for
her a most brilliant career. To speak
in the technical language of artistic
Journals, she is very much applauded
every evening in her opening carat.
ma, and repeatedly called before the
curtain at her duet with the baritone
Aluca-PTONtG 10 SOa-aud also at the
magnificent QUartette ard at the
finale of the second act. Lively ap-
plause salute the charming young aE-
Ciste, also, at the Indifferent duet with
buftO in the third act, and almost
every evening she has to repeat the
dletinO with the tenor. Although q
d~ebUtdnte, Miss Miles acts with sucl
n~aturaluess and grace rs to make one
believe her long accustomed 20 the
boards. The baritone Alma the tens
or Hemming, and the bufiO Villain.
make a worthy crown to so delightful
and talented q prima donna. who
tread the boards of the8ters of
much more importance, secure of obs
in any place the applause Of
the INTELLIGENT
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Central and South Amsrica.

The New York Herald Of Wednes-
day says: When our mails arrived
by the last steamer from AspinWall,
we were informed that, with the Cen
trail American repubD 3 peace and
prosperity reigued supreme-that war
was not considered within the range
Of possibilities. Now, however, the
whole scene has changed, and a war
in which Guatemala, Salvador, Hon
duras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica will
all be engaged, is considered the most
probable event that ean occur. No
one who understands Spanish Amer
lean republic viii wonder at such q
sudden turn over of the situation
War and revolution is their chronic
condition; peace and prosperity the
exception to their rule; and 80 it goes
on year after year, and there appears
TO be no way to better their condition
and no stronger arm is stretched forth
TO exercise control over them. Coffee
and cakes must now give place TO
artillery and small arms, and we may
look for q struggle that, although it
may last for a few months only, viii
etfectually destroy the benefits that
have accrued from q few years Of
peace and tranquility.
Among the South American Re
publics of the Pacific coast Bolivia Is
the only one at present wherein the
people are at war among themselves.
The revolutionary party is certain OF
success Gt always is ia these South
American revolutions and the exist
ING legitimate government is certain
IN he OvarfhroWn. When this is ae-
comDlished. what nextP Why. before
Deaea Is established in the one ReDub-
lie. we shall have q row in another.
Peru or Ecuador win have their turn;
the routine must not be broken; the
ball Of internal STRIFE must be kent 4
on and no government must
be allowed to continue its full term. /
No; it must be Ousted by force as
soon as it Is considered that the MEM
bers thereof have had their share Of
plumber. Certainly tEese Re-
Dublios have remarkable recuperafive /
powers. They fight among them
and with each other year after
year, and vet they do not appear to
be impoverished. Surely they must
carry on war at q small expense to
them to prOlODg hOstiIities
and we cannot but surmiss that they
paw no one; that their officers and
men fgbt for nOthing-for the love Of
he pleasant little recreation. Wei
await, not with much anxiety, how
sver, the result Of these little unpleas-
illnesses, and when they are ended
We shall wait patiently for the nsxf' J
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TIE Standard, the organ Of the AT
rieaus at Washington City, speaks
piteo0sly Of the condition Of the
blacks Of that city, and estimates the
amount annually needed to relieve
Caeir necessities at a million Of dol
lars. Thousands live there in idle
ness, rejoicing in and celebrating their
freedom from day TO day-freedom
from labor included. Labor, with
good wages, is the demand Of the
country to improve its lands, to clear
its forests, to plant its crops and gather
It's harvests. Thousands and tens Of
thousands Of cotton and other crops
actually produced are lost and rot on
the ground, while the happy freed
men Gil the villages and cities, lounge
in the sun, tester with disease and
starve on freedom. They eXtermi-
nate themselves by a variety Of pro
cesses, and yet we have no national
vagrant laws, DO humanity, no regu-
Iations, no laws OF control, necessary
70 save them. We compel white va
grants to work. But these are free to
do as they please and live on Stree
DOM"
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assent thereto, as Of right they should
be counted; and
WHEREAS, The constitutional right
to regulate suffrage in case said Fiji
teenth Amendment shall have failed
to receive the necessary ratification,
belongs, under the Constitution of the
United States, to the States respect
lively, and is implicitly recognized in
the Fourteenth Amendment thereto;
therefore
Resolved 6y the General Assembly Of
the State Of Indiana, That the pre-
tended ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment proposed to the C0nsti-
tuition Of the United States, on the
part Of the State Of Indiana, was and
is null and void, and of no binding
force or effect whatever, and the
counting Of the vote of the State in
favor OF the same was done without
any lawful warrant or authority, and
that protesting against the same, this
General Assembly does now with
draw and Tescind all action, perfect
or imperfect, on the part Of this State,
purpOrting to assent TO and ratify said
proposed Fifteenth Amendment.
BeSOIUed, Further, by the authority
aforesaid, that Congress has no law
fI power, derived from the COnstltu-
ton of the United States, nor from
any other source whatever, to require
any State of the Union, to ratily an
Amendment to the Constitution OF
the United States as a condition pre-
cedent to representation in Congress,
that all such acts Of ratification 7
null and void, and the votes so OBJ
tanned ought not TO be counted to az
feet the rights of the people and the
States Of the whole Union, and that
the State Of IGdiana protests and sol
EMMY declares that the sO-called Fif-
tenth Amendment is not this day,
nor ever has been in law, a part of
the Constitution Of the United States.
BeSOIged, Further, by the authority
aforesaid, That the State of Indiana
does now propose and ask that the
Congress Ofthe United States may and
viii, as soon as practicable, call a con-
vention Of the States and the people,
according to the provision of the fifth
article Of the Constitution Of the
United States, for the purpose of pro-
posing amendments to said COnstitu-
ton, for the ratification Of the States.
BesOIUed Further, by the authority
aforesaid, That the Governor Of Indi-
ana be and he is hereby directed to
transmit an authenticated copy of
these resolutions, and the preamble
thereto, to each of the Governors Of
the several States of the Union, and
to each of our Senators and Represen-
in Congress.
Mr.. Hughes asked and moved that
his resolution be made the special
order for Thursday next, at two
o'clock pm.
Mr.. Brown moved TO amend that
two hundred copies of the joint resO-
may be printed.
Mr.. Hughes accepted the amend
ment.
Mr.. Dwiggins demanded a division
Of the question.
The Senate agreed to make the Joint
resolution the special order for Thurs
lay, by yeas, q; nays, %; and then
to the motion to print by the
same vote.
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Hapole0n'o Hopes.

There is, SAYS the New York Til
Dune, q serious and indefatigable effort
now making for the restoration of the
BOnapartes. There is a paper pub
Iished at London to advocate this OBJ
Jet. The messengers Of the rpstOra-
ton are continually fitting back and
forth with plots and propositions.
Louis Napoleon, apparently never
suspecttng the meauuess Of the figure
he presents, ID writing pamphlets to
prove it was France that forced him
into war, and the Republicans that
prevented the organization Of the
army. Serenely unaware that he has
become the most de~spicabieO OF men, he
is dreaming in his indOlent way OF
holding the destinie5 Of France
in his impOtent hands. We are some
times tempted to think he held hlm-
self at bis true value for q week Oh
two. between Worth and Sedan but
he has recovered his appetite and his
vanity in the luxurious retirement of
his palaee-prisGH, and Ggam longs for
The gilded shams Of the TuileriGs. we
nave enough faith in mankind TO les
Iiave that he WillnOt be given another
oDDOrtunity to break the peace of the
world or debaUch the general COM
science by the spectacle Of uupuu-
shed crime AS to France, if she re-
him. or endures him. she VIII
Prove thst all her 5uheTings were light
proportion TO her deserViugs.
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Things that AsiOnlsh German Sol
disrs.

There is something very suggestive
in the following paragraph from the
Versailles correspondence of the Lon
don Times. sit affords occupation
and amusement to the staff to read
the letters in the captured balloons.
The study has had a curious result.
In former letters 1 remarked on the
extraordinary ignorance which pre-
vailed in and among Germans of
French literature. it is not, Of
course, anything profound as the Boz
tian darkness OF the Gallo mind con-
corning the Germans and Germany,
but still remarkable on the part of
such a well-instructed people. When
we We're before PhalsbOuTg I found
no one had ever heard of Erckman-
Chartrain's novel. The study of
sacks full Of letters, which has been
forced on the staff, has very much al
tered their views of the character OF
their enemies. They are astOnished
to find that there are French hus.
bands who love their own wives, and
French wives who are devoted to
their own husbands. They are as
tOnished to discover evidences OF no.
bic qualities Of heart and head on the
part of a people whom they have des-
pissed as frivolous, false and evil, and
TO meet with an intensity OF dOnes-
tic affection and family lOve-a depth
offllial and p%aternal love which Ger
mans highly appreciate. They are
struck too by the heroic spirit-a far
feeling than the display Of
desperate and reckless Obstinacy-
which animates them in resisting an
enemy who appears to be irresistible.
The result is, I may safely say, that
The German officers of whom I speak
have S greater respect than they ever
had for the French nation.
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FOREIGN ITEMS.
Khedive has chiIIs.

The Khedive has chills.
In Russia the POltava-K harkov
railway, which would play an impOr-
tant part in the event Of any active
movement against Turkey, is pushed
forward with all possible speed, and
now lacks only fifty miles Of compile
ton.
NJ. Kuhn, recently the Austrian
Minister of War, declared that ne
could place 10000 men in eight days,
and double the number within q
month, all armed with the bTeech-
loader and provided with an effective
and improved artillery.
The Austrian war budget for the
year 1871, will exceed that of 1870 by
more than s., 800, 900, to which are 10
be added fOE eXtraOrdinaries $1,000
600, and q supplementary credit Of
$50, 000, 900. The total war budget of
1871 will amount to something more
than S4l, 900, 900.
Before the surrender of Pfsisburg,
which held out from August l4th to
December 18th against the Germans,
1900 muskets, together with 500
rounds of cartridges for each, were
destroyed; $4,000, 600 pounds Of pow
der were flung into the moat, and all
the cannon spiked, and their wheels
and carriages broken.
The proposed flag Of the German
Empire is black, white, rel, and gold.
Black and white being the Prussian
COlOrs, take the lead in the new flag,
as symbOlical of Prussian leadership
in the German Union. Black, white
and red are the cOlOrs Of the North
German Bund. White, black, red
and gold are the cOlOrs OF the old Ger
man Bund.
"The early and imprOVident mar
OfJuniOr clerks" have greatly
vexed the souls of a London banking
firm, and they have ordained that no
receiving q smaller salary than
SS2j, currency, shall marry, hereafter,
under pain of dismissal. The girls
are threatening to ''gO fOr'' the al
denuded scalps Of the heart
less old f0gies with currycOmbs.
Some idea Of the literary treasures
lmperiled by the siege Of Paris may
be formed from the number Of vol /
ume5 in the chief libraries. The
Library contains l,lOG,O0 vol
1me5, and $4,000 manuscripts; the
st. Genevieve, 155, 200 volumes, and
1000 manuscripts; the MazaTin, $780,
boo volumes, and 1000 manuscripts;
the S~aTbOnne, $4,000 volumes, and 900
manuscripts; Hotel de Vile, 6j, 600
volumes.
Forty Of the most prominent French
Of Bremen are held by the
in retaliation for the deten-
ion Of forty sea captains of the Ger
nan mercantile marine in France.
The French government demanded
Orty officers of superior rank in ex-
for them; and, instead OfcOm-
the Prussian General seized
.hese forty French citizens, and COM
them to become hostages for the
rood treatment Of the forty merchant
.aptains,
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IL some late comments on the
Southern outrage Ku-Klux bill Of
Senator Morton, the St. Louis Re0tJ-
iicaa puts the whole case in a nut
shell as follows:
The Radical party, having ap-
pealed 10 the polls and been over
THROWN now appeal 10 the bayonet.
and pin their hopes upon that piece of
gltterlng steel which is the chosen
instrument Of tyrants the world over.
The President and his friends have
thrown Of the mask, and display the
real spirit and purpose which have
aCtuated them from the beginning.
We hear no moro about let US have
peace, a restored Union, universal
amnesty, or any OF that soft nonsense
which these gentlemen distributed Sol
lavishly 8 short time since. There Is
to be no peace, no union, no amues-
~. no Justice, honor or honesty in d
dealings with the South, until he
Doonle Of the country rise iD their
ruiobt and strangie a party which has
baau nothing bat an unmitigated
cgrse from the beginning Of its exist
ence.
But later intelligence from Wash
5.ofon indicates That the President
s1d bis friends shrink back. They see
tbeband-writing on the Wallanddare
net r;sk recoHstruetion. They yield
n un,zilliuely and from necessity,
not because they would not perpetu-
efs the euormity Il they only dared,
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Winnie Ream.

With the many compliments Miss
Ream received in Europe from her
own COUntrymen and women and
from foreigners of distiEgI0u-IUm
Gustave D0re, Cardinal ABt0neLIi,
Pere Hyaciuthe; from story, EeeIv,
and other American artists abroad
her manner shows no citation, no sue
perciliousness. She is composed, and,
while her beautiful dark ewes ana
very attractive face are evidently the
brighter for her success, there is mo
note OF triumph or ggItiHaJ vanity i'm
her voice. She wins attention TO tle
story Of her sOiOuTn in Europe by her
evident e-aFnpstness in regard TO- her
work and thorough sympathy with it,.
She is evidently determined To- win
and the stpSdf5st worker is alive the
worker who gains universal 81 mus-
thy.
Among the souvenirs of her travels
are three canoes handsomely set, gifts
from Cardinal AutCuelli. Miss Ream
is q Mason, and is the only woman iu
America who has taken eigI-deg~eea.
Before going to Europe she was given
a certificate of her advancement end
q HG4L ALLAaH..AAA- --a#|a.A. .aa-.H
Catholic countries are not friendly Co
Masonry, ard Cardinal AutOueli,
noticing the medal hanging from p
thrown around Miss Ra1u's
neck, asked what it was. She told
him, and said she believed he disap-
proved the order. "Iu your country
he replied, "the society does good
deeds, but in ours nOt.' One OF the
he afterward gave her was p
head of Christ, which he said her Pro
testantism would not prevent her
wearing. Subsequently he gave her
the two other canoes, each having
heads of the Virgin Mary. 6us-ava
DOTe presented her with an original
of Judith holding up the head
Of HOlOfernes, and Pere Hyaciuths
wrote a very beautiful eXhOTtatiOu 0u
he hy-leaf of her Protestant Bible
,~Ommending the contents of the book
o her careful study.
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TIE editor Of the Cincinnati Gazette
tells Of a Southern gentleman who
declares that " Ethe DemOcTaticp8rty
should gain power, ne could not live
ia bis native State, and even now it is
as much IS he can do TO remain" He
IS represented az " prominent man
DO the South" The excuse for not
giving his name is in keeping with
the 6lseho0d Of the story. 1t IS that
il would make his danger greater.
Nov, we Of the South know no such
reason for fear in any one exists, Men
Of sentiments the most odiOus are
unframed here and free from
danger. And any one who could put
forth sach a story must be either
a lunadc, a liar OK a thief
"A the Radical party has fur
ther use for such cattle, we COM
mend the discretion Of the Gazette in
Withholding his name. Itmight weak
en- his power to do mischief; because
Il Is true that IUnstics, liars and
thieves lose their influence in honest
communities pretty much in proper
ton az their true characters are found
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The Fighting Bishop Of Paris.

From ths London Telegraph
MOnsigneur Bauer, who is common
" known in Paris as "the fighting
Bishop is a Hungarian by birth, and
as accomplished a hOrseman as most
other sons of that h~Orse-lOving cOun-
try. The BishOp-whO, although
called Bishop of SumatFa, openly
avOw5 that he has never beheld, and
hopes never to behold, his See, which
he describes vaguely as situated iH
DGFtj6Us jnfdeJitD3-is one of the least
tight-laCed ecclesiastICs that in any
country it has been my fortune to en-
counter. 1 should say that, thOlOgi-
cally, he is a NOltarian, and socially
OF Usthetically a cosmopolitan. Heis
never SO happy as when ~careering
along a stony road, his reins tightly
grasped, his hands down, and with a
seat in the saddle which would be
noticed even at Newmarket. Behind
may be seen what ne calls "his staff
consisting of some ~hall-dOzen young
~eccIesiastics and two or three CORES
pOndents of the English press.
With a hat like that OF Don BaSiIiO
in the 4" Barber of Seville" and close
fitting violet and black tunic, be
shows on the field of action very diff
ferently from Bishop LeOnidas Polk,
the fighting Bishop" of the COnfed-
crate States during the American
civil war. But in one respect he Is
filter to take part in the bloody game
of war than the Protestant prelate Of
Louisiana. MOnseigneUr Bauer is
always ready to administer absOlu-
ton to the wounded or dying upon
the shortest notice.
" Mon f5S," said ne, grasping the
hand of a dying Mobile, "yOu are
about to die; do you desire absoiu-
If so, squeeze my hand"
A slight pressure of the dying mans
conveyed assent.
e" A6SOEUO tc 6B ROmiHe SGnctB
MdTie," began the Bishop; the re-
naming words were drowned as a
,aisson hurried by.
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Russia and England in Asia.

There is no better authority, saws
the New York Tribune, on the poll
ties of Central Asia than the distin-
guished Hungarian traveller, Arminius
VambeTy, Of whose views of the pro-
gress and prospects Of Russia in the
East a correspondent sends US to-day
4 careful and interesting account.
The impending conflict between Brit
ish and Russian civilization in Asia
has long been fOreseen by everybody
who has watched the movement of
the Car toward the HindOstan, but
few realize how far that movement
has gone, and how difficult it now
must be for England to meet and
check it. Practically the rival pow
ers are only five days march apart.
Russia has no facilities yet for the
rapid concentration of troops on the
Oxus, but her advanced posts are
surrounded by friends and allies;
she has acquired a complete
assendenCy in Persia; and
on no part of her Asiatic frontier is
she especially vulnerable. England,
on the contrary, is open to serious
attack in her Northwestern provinces
of HiudOstan, where she holds in
more or less %precariOus subsection a
disahected population who look upon
Russia as their predestined deliverer.
English statesmen undOUbtedlyappre-
ciate the danger which they see not
how to avert, and the settlement Of
the questions of Luxembourg aud the
Black Sea will be governed in a great
measure by considerations OF the
chances of a campaign in Afghanistan.
The sudden moderation Of Lord Gran
tone may be accounted for by
suppOsing that between his first and
second notes to Prince GOrtchakof
he took an opportunity Of looking at
the map Of Asia.
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M

Madame LEGITIMACY is singing in
German opera in Boston.
Miss Kate Fisher has been riding her
horse Mazeppa in Toronto, Canada.
Miss Clara Louisa Kell0gg's recent
concert tour has been very success
fuL.
Mrs. E. L. Davenport is engaged at
the Chestnut street theater, Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. L. W. Lander has been per-
forming in Washington to crowded
houses.
Miss Mary Wells had a benefit at
the Opera COmique, in Portland, Ore
gOn, on the 18th ult.
Miss Virginia Howard, Dollie Pike,
Mrs. T. A. Creese and Mrs. MontfOrd
are performing in Harrisburg, Pa.
Miss PhiIlis Glover, recently from
London, is announced as part of
the Chestnut street Theater Company.
Miss Maggie, Miss Belmont and
Nellie Taylor are singing to the great
delight of the citizens OF Indianapolis.
Mrs. farley, who it would seem has
fallen heir to Artemus Wards wax
figures, is exhibiting them with con-
siderable success.
Mrs. D. P. Bowers, who is a sister
of Mrs. Conway, of the Park TheateT,
Brooklyn, is playing at McNicker's
theater in Chicago.
Miss Maggie Mitchell is at Woods
Theater, in Cincinnati, fulfilling a
successful engagement. She is assist
ed by Miss ~Crampton.
Mrs. ImOgene Brown, who Is rep
resented as being one of the sweetest
vocalists il the West, gave q concert
in Chicago on the 18th inst.
Little Lolita was in Buffalo last
week. She is not only the "pst Of
the p~etticOats," but is the cause Of
'E3miiy jars in otherwise quiet
households.
The English Opera Troupe viii be
In Washington next week, Mrs. /
Caroline Riching5 Bernard, Mrs. Zelda
Squires and Mrs. Annie Bowler are
the principal lady singers.
The Lisa Weber troupe of bur
lesquers are in Montgomery, Ala.
Miss Hattie O'Neal, Miss Cassia Troy,
Miss Nettie Hicks and Miss Marie
Norris form part Of the troupe.
A Western paper reports that in a
Washington theater, General Garfield
was so excited over the sleep.Walking
of Janauschek as Lazy Macbeth, that
he vehemently grasped the back of
the chair before him, and with il a
portion Of the curl5 belonging to an
elaborate chignOn. The consequence
that when the fair owner, at the
end of the scene, threw forward her
head, the whole structure came tum-
bling down, Curls, braids, hair, pins
and all,
The New York HeraIdcOmmenting
upon StrakOsch's suit against the
Rochester Union and American says
'Bpt if StrakOsch can fill his house at
'Out or five, or ten or twenty dollars
'Or a Nilsson ticket, why not? What
has Jenny Lind to do with it, or Bar
mum, or anybody in the way of COM
Darison? On the other hand, we
night ask the question If Mr.. Sta
1Osch has really by this Rochester pa
Der been damaged to the extent Of
more than a hundred thousand dol
ars, and answer il, too, if it were not
the court. "NilssOn sWindIe,"
We grant you, is a strong expression,
)ut four dollars to a country editor is
big sum of money. Lastly, we pre-
ume that this trial, whatever the {
ssue, will BET warning to country ed s
tors for the future in their criticisms
N Max StrakOsch and his pretty s
bird, whatever may be the
rice of his tickets. NILSSON
WindIe," even from a country news /
is a little too much for Max. 8