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peal. i4T, against. SOL, majority against re
peal, 2li.
EpRrNGF1ELD. ILL.,. January 8. while sleigh
riding yesterday Ex-Governor Mathison wa
thrown out on the curb stone. in consequence
| Of the horse becoming unmanageable. One o.
more ribs were broken. His surgeons appre
bend no immediate danger. The injuriesre
ceived can hardly be otherwise than serious
CoyrNGToN, KY. January s.-Mr. Jesse r
Grant is still confined to his house. and there
is but little probability Of his getting out thii
winter.
INDIANAPOLIS. IND, January 9.-Mr. Gay.
lord P. futile, an old and greatly respected
merchant of this city. died last evening aitei
lingering illness.
MEANWHILE, Pa, January 9.-Christian
Ballard, well-to- do farmer, committed sui
eide near this place yesterday, by hanging
himself in his barn.
BELLKyILLE, o., January 9.-Reuben Pene-
bobaoken. farmer living a few miles south
of this place. committed suicide yesterday by
hanging. He is supposed to have been in
sane.
MADISON, WIS.,, January 9.-Hon. j. b.
Quimhy, Senator ELECT from Sank county.
met with an accident not far l.sssn this place
on Friday night last. which was at first feared
would proved fatal. Alta late hour. in pre-
pairing to retire TO bed. he blew out the light
down stairs. and. in the darkness. mistook
the stairs opening on the cellar door for the
flight upstairs. and fell headlong into the
cellar, striking his head on the rock floor.
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FOREIGN.

LONDON, January s.-There is an interna
tional understanding between America. Eng
land and Germany regarding joint and sepa'
rate action by these powers for the suppression
of piracy in the Chinese waters.
The vessels Of the Spanish feet serving in
the far east lately attacked Gililo. on the
Island of Malacca. and punished the Sultan
of Temate for piracy. The Spanish war yes
sells demolished several Of the Sulten's forts,
some of the bombshells even striking his inn
perial palace.
Apprehensions that the indemnity demand
ed by the United States for the Alabama
depradations will exceed former.anticipation
is causing increased public discomfort and as
constituent. The press expresses much dis
satisfaction with the present aspect of the
matter.
VERSAILLES. January 9.-The trial Of Com
inunists for numbering the hostages held by
Paris commenced yesterday. Twenty-three
we're arraigned before special commission.
BERLIN, January S.--The quarrel between
Germany and Brazil has ended. and per-
fectly satisfactory understanding between
the two Governments is restored. The Ger
man squadron will probably be recalled.
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A shrewish wife, quite sick, called to
her husband to come and sit by her bed
side. "This is sad world, my dear, "
said the wife plaintively. Very" coin
cided the man. Were it not. for leav-
ing you, | would love to quit it. Oh,
my dear, eagerly replied the fellow,
how can you, think | would interfere
with your happiness. Go by all means"
The lady got well.
On one of the recent cold nights a
lady acquaintance of ours put her two
boys in bed in cold room, tucked them
up, and sat down on the edge of the bed
to hear them say their prayers. Johnny,
aged seven, got through all right and
cuddled up to Villa. eyed FIVE, who had
Just commenced his prayer. Presently
Willie began to hurry the words came
faster than he could distinctly utter
them, and the prayer ended thus:
pray the Lord my soul to keep-amen-
take your hand Off from me or I'll warm
your ear for you" Johnny was tickling
m.-Nashau Telegraph.
The Emperor of China is soon to be
married and has imported pair of ele.
plants to assist at the ceremony. His
future consort is undergoing careful
training in the etiquette of court life.
For three years the looms of Nankin,
Hongehou and Canton have been en-
gagged on the silks and satins for her
bridal trousseau, and just now they are
announced as completed, at a cost oil
nearly half million in our money.
When the bridegroom, who has the sun
for his emblem, goes forth in car drawn
by elephants, his bride, who represents
the moon, is to BE borne to her palace
in palanquin composed entirely Of
strings Of pearls.
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niously together and be the source OF
much entertainment to the theater-
going public. Two points in Miss
Thompson's Characterization were re-
markable. One was her Interpretation
of the song, (" His Heart was True to his
Poll, which was full Of an energetic
humor for which we did not give her
credit; the other was her personal APP
pearance as the shepherd boy" where
in she looked as though she had strayed
out of one of virgil's eclogues, with the
bloom Of the pastoral age upon her.
Blue Beard viii be presented again this
evening.
Brooks OPERA HOUSE. The Jeffer-
son street Opera House was crowded
last evening. Manager Broom has a
fine variety troupe, composed of strong
ballet corps and number of sensation
al vocalists. Tonight a performance
entirely new will be presented. Every
body is invited to be present.
OLYMPIC VARIETIES. Manager Lusk'
Washington stree, theater continues to
be one of the attractions in our city.
Special programmes have been arranged
for the week, consisting of negro conf
calities, fancy dances, songs, clog-danc
ing, and new edition of the Can-Can.
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NEW ORLEANS.
Peoples Meetfng-IndignatlO at
WarmOth's misused Power.

FeUDIe-H NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IIUH 1T
WarmOGh's mfsused Power.
NKw ORLEANS, January "a large meeting
was held al Lafayette Square yesterday to ex-
press the indignation Of the people at the
high-hsnded and illegal attempts Of War
moth to psrpetuate his misused power. The
meeting was called by the Democratic Parish
Committee. but the common oppression Of all
classes made It common cause. and 50 the
Republicans attended and took part in large
numbers. Among the speakers were two col
ored Republicans, ]. Henry Bureh and 7. d.
Tucker, both Of whom nobly vindicatsd the
claim Of colored Republicans to a share in
the public councils. Fully Il, 600 persons were
present, and the sentiment was unanimous
that the Improvement Of Warmoth could
be endured no longer.
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The Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune (Radical) declares that
when Morton encountered Schurz,
some time ago, he presented dreadful
picture of modification and rage, some
what akin to that of the hedgehog when
poked up by the boys"
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WASHINGTON.
Excitement About Spanish Affairs
The New Loan.

The New Loan.
WASHINGTON, January 9.-The recent ex-
element about Spanish affairs is much talked
about, especially among Senators, and many
express the opinion that the action Of the
Spanish Cabinet in removing Senior Roberts
was not calculated to cut the friendly rela-
tions between the two nations.
The banking firms of Rothschilds and Jay
Cooke have perfected the purchase from Sec
rotary Boutwell,, through Jay Cooke. Of $780,
900, OnO worth of the new loan. They take the
remaining $500 200. 900 Of the new FIVE per cent.
and the $500 ,OOO. 900 of the four and a half per
cent. This leaves only O.OOO. 900 of four
and half per cent. loan in the market.
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A STRONG effort is making to induce
the Smiler, Colfax, to serve another
term as Vice President. We do not sup
pose a particularly strong effort is nee
essary. Mr.. Colfax has been struggling
for years to retire to private life, but
they won't let him. Consider Colfax in.
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THIS week Congress will take up the
amnesty bill. twill not pass in any de-
cent shape. 1t will exclude some great
men of the South, and operate as an in
suit to the Southern people. This Con-
gress is not capable of just or a gene
rous action. Its members are afraid to
meet the great men of the South in de-
bate. Their coward lips would from
their color fly at the sight of them.
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A NOVEL method of reconciling
Grant and Greeley is proposed Grant
is to write work to be entitled what l
Know About Senaca Sandstone which
is to be sent to Greeley in exchange for
What | Know About Farming"
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
specials 20 the Ledger.
AMERICAN PREss ARTICULATION. VIA g. P. A.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
NEW YORK.
stokes. the Murderer-Arrjva val OF
Ffsk's Remafns at BrattIebOrO'-
The Report of COnnOlIy's Flight

Denied.
NEW YORK, January 9.-Stokes, the muir
derer of Fisk. was in more cheerful spirits
last night, and is evidently reviving from the
depression which seized him Immediately af-
ter committing the deed.
Miss Mansfield, and Miss Williams, her
cousin, remain secluded at their residence on
Twenty-third street. The house Is still guard
ed by the police.
The question of selecting new colonel for
Fisk's regiment Ninth Regiment National
Guard is being already discussed. Colonel
George Hooker. his brOther-in-law, is men
toned.
A dispatch received here from Brattleboro,
Vermont. at midnight, states that special
train, with the remains of Fisk. had arrived
at that place.
Ex-Comptroller Connolly has left the city,
but the report of his flight to South America
is denied. He left the city Friday afternoon.
His friends refuse to disclose the place of his
retirement.
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The Grant Government remains az
peace with all the world except the
South. With it he never intends to
make peace. He has it under his feet
and intends to keep it there.
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THE Philadelphia Ledger has sensi-
BILE article on Simplifying Legislation. !"
We don't think orr modern Legislation
can be simplifed 1t is as simple as it
can be. already.
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GRANTS Washington organ is throw
ing cold water on the carpet-baggers.
II had better throw hot water on the last
rascal Of them.
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OIL COMPANY.
COTTON REED.

UlHE MEMPHIS OIL COMPANY WILL
Il furnish good sacks TO all responsible per-
sana, and pay elesea dollars per ton for All
good sound seed, By wagon, river " railroad.
and 81 all times will pay the highest current
prices. ]. y, BARTON, sup't.
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Fresh Savannah shad, first Of the sea-
son. just received at j. D. Edwards,
headquarters depot, 278 Second street.
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Boyle 4 Chapman, 2793 Main street,
have very large and complete stock of
blank books of every description; also a
very superior grade of their own manu-
facture. Stamped checks and every va
riety of mercantile blanks. Diaries for
1872. BOYLE d CHAPMAN,
Booksellers, Stationers and Fine Print
ers, 2794 Main street. llS
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turn up

PEOPLE who think that Grant is vul-
nerable to public opinion commit a
grievous error. Witness the following
from a Washington telegram; Gov
ernor Bowie, in his annual message to
the Maryland Legislature, follows in the
footsteps of the Governors of Illinois
and Pennsylvania, and arraigns the
present administration for its interfer-
ence in local elections in that State, and
also the unconstitutional acts commit
ted by various Federal officers. He pre-
diets that unless the American people
rebuke these audacious acts and usurpa-
tons the republic will be soon under
military despotism.
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Blank Books a Speciality.

Buy your wood from G. H. johnson,
III Poplar street. CIT
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1t has moi even determined y
hold national convention and
contest the next Presidential cleo
ton Meantime its strength, for want Of
concentration, is wasting away, while the
administration is moving, step by step,
in the devilish programme Of overthrow
ing the liberties of the people. AS things
now appear, Grant is to have no oppo-
sition. Fortunately for the country, the
philosophy of Micawber lives. That, at
least, has not been swamped by the po-
litical cyclone. Something may yet
New-York tribune., 1872-07-01
THE BRITISH BALLOT BILL.

The passing of the Ballot bill in England
is another important step IN the developments
of democratic institutions in that country. 1t
is not long since, with apparently hopeless
persistency, Mr. Berkeley annually divided the
House of Commons on a resolution in favor
of this principle, and was as strenuously Op-
posed by Liberals as by extreme Conserva-
tiyes. The project had at length the good
fortune to become a Government measure,
and after the inevitable rejection of the House
of Lords, was reintroduced this session.
The Peers no longer resisting the popu-
lar will, it has become a law. Its
passage has been Immediately due to the
extension of the suffrage which increased the
popular power; to the exigencies of the
Liberal party who have everything to gain by
inroads Oh TOryism and to the example Of
several great nations, including our own, who
have an been in advance of England in
adopting secret voting. Sustained by all these
elements of strength, Mr.. Gladstone has been
able to overcome the timidity of many of his
own supporters and the active opposition of
the Tories. 1t is thought by many of the adyO-
Gates of this act that it is destined to effect a
slow but radical revolution i'll the political
affairs of Great Britain. They insist
that it largely destroys landlord in
huence-the great bulwark of Toryism ;
reduces the cost of elections, and removes
many obstacles which have practically pre-
vented men of moderate means from contest
ing large constituencies. 1t may possibly
also, in course of time, cause the American
system of nominating conventions to be gen
orally adopted, as candidates will prefer the
open support of an organized body rather than
appeals to unpledged and irresponsible voters.
The most important reform, however, which
the ballot system will promote is the distnbu-
tion Of members on the basis of population,
as is done here and in France AT
present, British boroughs returning one
member have constituencies ranging in voters
from 300 to 5000, while those enti-
tied to two representatives exhibit such
disparities as, for instance Maidstone with
5,s96 actual voters, and Blackburn with 1926
In the shires as glaring irregularities exist
the ancient. irregular limits Of these district,
New-York tribune., 1872-07-01

and there were two reports. The majority
composed of thoroughbred Administration
men, commended everything Babcock had
done; the minority, consisting of Senator
Schurz Senator Ferry of Connecticut. and
Senator Vickers, took very different view OF
| the case, and recommended the President to
demand of the Dominican Republic full re-
paration for MI Hatch's sullerngs and losses.
OF course the President did nothing of the
kind, for he had been fully informed of Gen.
Babcock's behavior, and he tacitly if not ex-
pressly approved it. Major Perry testified be-
fore the Committee that when he returned tO
Washington lie had conversation with Bah
cock in May, 1870 about Santo Domingo; and
this is a part of it:
"IIe said that it was a great pity that had had that
man Hatch released told him that had direct orders
from the State Department to secure bis release Then
he said could not help It, having received those orders
but il was mistake. and that the President CaS vey
much disDleased about H."
Incredible as it may appear it is strictly
true that the President was displeased, for we
have that on the authority OF BabcOck him
self The instructions to Major Perry had
been wrung from the reluctant State Depart
ment by Senator Ferry Of Connecticut, and
sent without Gen. Grants knowledge. This
is what BabcOck told the Committee:
90 You said that the President expressed surprise at
the fact Of Mr. Hatch having been released by order of
the State Department. A. / did not say that. said
that the order for the release Of Mr. Hatch went without
the knowledge of the President and that no was dis
pleased at that That was what said | did not say
that he made any objection to the release Of Mr. Hatch
This case will be warning to American
citizens in foreign parts that the pecuniary
interests of the great military ring are para
mount TO the rights and liberties of all private
persons, and whoever wants the protection OF
our flag must be careful not to interfere with
the speculatOns of the White House. For the
present Administration holds (o quote the
amazing language of the majority report on
the Hatch case) that " the Imprisonment of an
" American citizen by another government Is
"iustiiable on the presumption that that
"citzcn, if at liberty, might exercise an
"inhuence preiudicial to the success of
great national project which not only that
government but his own was striving to
" accomplish ~
New-York tribune., 1872-07-01

vented IL from being construed into evidence
in any court Of justice; and it was a blhnder
for the prosecution having such strong case
TO offer it, and unjust in the Senate TO accept It,
II gave McCunn and his lawyers an opportunity,
which they could not have been expected to
neglect, of appealing their case 20 another
tribunal. No amount Of foul language from
The Times will make any one believe that
Judge Sclden, Mr.. Dcylin, and Mr.. Davis could
be guilty of improper or unprofesslonal CON
duct in this or any other case. Our regret
is that the mistake was made of furnishing
them this advantage. As for the friend OF
McCunn, whose letter we publish elsewhere,
the same answer as above applies. His con-
struction of our language is absurd, and his
opinions of the Senate are not entitled to
greater respect.
In reply generally we simply reiterato that
it is of the utmost importance that the Senate
should assume the strictest impariiality. To
betray anything like unfairness in rs de-
cisions, or TO let these trials take partisan
appearance, such as The Times in its blunder-
ing zeal has striyen to give them, will be
most unfortunate. The impeached Judges nat
urally endeavOr to give these trials the color
Of political persecution. They should be
so conducted as to show the falsehood of this
prctense. Beside this, it is never wise, on
general principles, to remove any official, how
ever corrupt, by illegal or doubtful means.
Justice never gains anything by wrong The
Bar Association have strong case against
McCunn, and a stronger one against Barnard,
but much of that strength may be frittered'
away by just such Overreaching as we have
spoken of. And in view of the important cases
to follow that of McCunn, let us again warn
the managers and counsel and Senate against
doubtful evidence and unfair rulings such as
that Obtruded in the McCnn case, as we
think, most unnecessarily and unfortunately.
For the rest of The Iimess idiOtic talk about
political alliances with the Judges whom we
exposed many months before it could be in
duced TO say a word against them, we have
nothing but contempt. If these unjust Judges
are convicted and removed they will accuse
THE TRIBUNE for it. If they escape they may
thank the hcadlOng and unreasoning spite of
those new zealots who try to make up IN tardy
clamor what they lacked in energy when the
fight began.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-01
rBF TRIRUL1TJONS OF SETTLE.

We must not be so prompt hereafter in
crcditing reports Of Southern Outrages upon
Grant orators. A few days ago we commented
with some severity upon dispatch from North
Carolina stating that a speech of Mr.. Settle
had been the occasion of some riOtOus disturb
ances 1t is impossible TO regard Mr.. Settle
with any special respect but we condemned
the reported attack upon him rs a violation Of
the freedom of speech which is the right Of
every one, and which must not be anywhere
infringed. But the outrage vanishes when the
details of the affair are received. A Grant
paper of this city gives n full account Of the
occurrence, which reduces to nothing the thrill
ing tale of the imaginative telegrapher.
Mr.. Settle began an account of his steward
ship at Philadelphia and elsewhere, and " the
"Ku-Klux began asking impcrtinent questions
This is certainly not an unusual occurrence in
political meetings. Some of the questions,
however, were only too pertinent. One de-
praved villain interrupted the loyal flow of the
Judges eloquence by asking: where were
"you when Secession beganr The Judge re-
torted by sarcastic reference to the Interrupt
ter's stature, and the little man suggested that
if Mr.. Settle would come down from the stand
they could promptly decide their relative physi-
cal value. Mr.. Settle declined this ordeal,
which was a proper and prudent thing to do,
and there was no further disturbance except
loud cheers for Greeley at the close Of the
meeting There is nothing in this story to curdle
the most susceptible blood. The " "ku-Kluxn
might have asked stin more embarrassing ques-
tions of the Grant orator They might have
gone to inconvenient lengths in their catechism
as to his Rebel record. They might have put
to him unanswerabe queries as to the services
he rendered for the $4,000 he received as
Minister to Peru, which Office he held for n
year or so, and never left the limits of his
own State. We hope no one will have the
cruelty to touch on these facts when Mr.
Settle next rises to harangue the chiyalry of
North Carolina about the success and the
purity of the Administration which has given
him so tidy retainer. Such an outrage as
this would probably result in putting the State
under martial law.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-01

General at Havana only exists by sufferance of
the Volunteers.
This is a lame and impOtent conclusion
after so much eloquence, 30 much gunpowder,
and so much diplomacy have been wasted
upon the subject. There seems at present no
prospect of any amelioration of affairs In
Cuba, unless by direct and forcible foreign
Intervention, or by some dynastc revolution
in Spain which shall sever the connection
between the authorities in Madrid and those
in Havana. 1t seems too hideOus to be true
that the crimes against humanity and civillza-
ton which are every day committed in the
island should continue for years to come.
But they have continued now for more
than three years, and the disgust and
horror of the world, instead Of Increasing,
have been gradually growing fainter with use
and fatigue. Spain can do nothing to check
them; other nations will do nothing. The
robbers and p.underers of Havana grow rich
by their crimes. The financial situation is every
day growing worse, but lis still capable OF
indefinite deterioration. A change of COM
manders accOnplishes nothing If COrdOya
should succeed Valmaseda, the Volunteers
would either s1bdue him or exile or murder
him. There ia no visible escape from the
fatality which embraces alike the tyrants and
their victim. The best government possible
for Spain can give to Cuba nothing but raplne
and murdpr