The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-07-17
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The following important manifesto of the
Count de Chambord was published in Paris
on the 3D.:
GKNTLgMEs: You have required temporary ex
pedlents OF safety The country now seems o. be
on the verge of fresh dangers France has need
OF royalty. My birth ma ie me your king
would be wanting In the most sacred OF duties il
neglected TO make u supreme overthrow OF in
terposing barriers OF prejudice. am aware of
the accusations against me | have renamed 81
lent in order not 10 add to the difficulties of the
lllustrious soldier who protects you. Because OF
the accumu alton OF errors and falsehoods silence
Is no longer permissible. Persons have pretended
10 understand from previous declarations that |
placed royal power above the laws and dreamed
of unheard-of governmental combinations based
upon absolutism and arbitrary ideas. The
French Christian monarchy is a limited mon
archy in Its very essence. II borrows nothing of
governments OF fortune which promise bound
less prosperity, and lead 10 ruin. This limited
monarchy admts OF the existence of two cham
bers- nominated by the King and the other
elected by the nation. according 10 legal
tablished suffrage The union OF the people and
king enabled the ancient monarchy To Illustrate,
Tor centuries, the calculations OF those seek
ing To dOmineer over the people hy cOnttnding
against the King IL il untrue that my policy l.
al variance with the aspirations of the country
We both desire the strong reparatlve powers
which durable alliance with a monarchy alone
can give. wish the representatives Of the
hon 10 he vigllant auxiliares for the cxamina-
uon OF questions submitted 10 them, bat will not
have barren pari Elementary struggle from
which the sovereign often Issues pOwerltss and
weakened. In rejecting the foreign and im-
ported formula ola King who reigns, but who
does not govern, feel myself in harmony with
The immense majority. am now as before
ready. The House of France H. sincerely recon
eIled. Let there be "A truce 10 our divisions. L.
i not time to restore prosperity and grandeur 10
France with the venerable royalty?
Five persons were killed aal several in
jured by a collision on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway, England, on the IN.
An important vote was taken in the French
Assembly, on the Sth, being upon resolution
expressing confidence in Marshal MacMahon
and resolving energeticaly to uphold the
septennial powers conferred upon him. The
molten was rejected by vote of 3Ol yeas TO
3Gs nays. Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the Assembly a Cabinet council was
held, at which the Ministers rendered their
designations. President MacMahon peremp-
toriiy refused to accept them, and the Minis
try remains constituted rs before The Pres
ident will send message to the Assembly i'm
a few days, il is stated, in which he will an
nounce his determination to retain the pow
ers conferred upon him for the time assigned
by law, and will insist on the necessity for
the complete organization of his powers by
the Assembly.
A Madrid dispatch of the sth saws that the
Republican army has been reorganized. 1t Is
divided into two corps. The first, under
Mariones, will operate in Navarro, and the |
second, under Caballos, will watch the Ebro
district. The strength of the combined army |
exceeds 10000 men, with seventy-nine guns.
and its general headquarters are at Tafala.
II is stated that the British Government |
ss,0o0.ooo from Spain for the mas
'acre of sixteen English subjects, captured
IN board the Virginius, and executed in San
iago de Cuba.
Postal Congress will be held in Berne,
switzerland, Sept. ID. Fifteen States will be
including France and Denmark.