The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-07

Another Northern patriot has been
"ostracispd" in Virginia. Mr.. Edgar
Allen, Commonwealth Attorney, and
known all over Virginia rs "Tankee
Allen" has been indicted by the Grand
Jury of Prince Edward county for com
plicity in numerous frauds committed
ut the county election in May last. He
Is tho leader Of the party in his district,
aud has served as State Senator.
1t is now announced that the
Blaine and Morrill, factions in Maine
have had II conference, and that the
result is IN end Of the contest over Mr..
MOrrill's seat, accompanied with an
announcement that Mr.. Blaine never
coveted the chair ut all. The meaning
OF which is supposed to be u hnrm0ni
Gus Diatne delegation from Maine ut
the next National Republican Conven-
ton.
Lady Anne Noel Blunt, n grand
daughter OF Byron, mas written to Mr..
Disrnei protesting againt the proposal
to place Il tablet in Hucknall Torkard
Church in memory of the poet. Lady
Blunt thinks, very justly, that as Eng
land refused to honor Byron with II
resting piHpe in Westminster Abbey,
it should he satisfied with the memo
rial which his friends placed upon his
grave.
The total arrivals of Chinese in the
port of SIAN Francisco in thirteen years,
i. ginning 1852, was 1904, OF whom
only 4,l72 were females. For the past
three years the arrivals have number
ed from $1,000 to 10000 per annum.
During the current year II still larger
influx of Chinese is expected. All the
steamers and sailing vessels from
China, bound for the Pacific during
this season, will be crowded with i'm
migrants, the most of whom, like those
already arrived, belong to the lqwer
classes,
Dion BoucIcault has explained
himself in the California Alta, as fol-
lows: "If critics mean by the term
originality that my works are transla-
lions in any sense from foreign works,
they are mistaken. If they mean that
like Shakespeare, Sheridan, Bulwer-
| have accepted II formulation, taken
into the womb of my mind incidents
and characters which have been found
elsewhere, and built up and elaborated
spOh materials, ! profess TO have FREE
1uent!y done so. Such is the function
and art of the dramatist, and no dra-
matte poet, from the earliest days of
the drama, from those of Eschyius to
the present time, has done otherwise"
The New Orleans Times says
"Longstreet seeks permission to over
haul records and documents ia the
War Department ut Washington in
order to rectify errors and vindicate his
conduct at Gettysburg. He had better
trust that to the future historian and
turn his attention to bis subsequent
pnraer and RECORD AZ o soldier he
Was meritorious, able, truce and stOi-
cally brave, As a citizen he has since
deprived his countrymen of the pleas
uro of praising him." So there are
''none so poor as to do him reverence"
This is the natural effect, however, of
being found in bad company-that of
Kellogg, Casey and Pinchback.
lit is proposed to havo Moody and
Snnkey preach aud sing in Washing
ton city. This is right, If these evan
gelists postpone their crusade in that
quarter until winter, when Congress
Will uc III StSSNiIt blh tiiV
and Cabinet will have returned to the
winter capitol, Then Washington will
BY one al the best Hslds IN America for
Tie efforts OF these missionaries, IT
til. "rugged eloquenoe" of Moody, or
the sweet singing of the modern Jesse
who accompanies him, can reach and
soften the hearts of the SOlons and
sages that most do congregote In WASH
ington in the winter, then shall we be-
ljeve that these eyangalists posseae
Something more than hplnap power,
Il Philadelphia Times. '''''' J
"A fai; and square test case under
the civil rights law will now be made
up in Indiana. In direct violation of
the State statute Frank Miller, white,
hg3 may,isl Mary "A, Gina, csiorsd,
and is ip Jail for so doing. The mar
fiase license WINS regularly Issued by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Clark
county, and the ceremony was regu-
larly performed by u Methodist clergy
man of New Albany, who has been in
dicted together with the iRcarepvataa
G1gesrfG .r af is trm IS seI q ri br e.
has been in this country about six
years, aud declares that lie loves his
wife, and would rather have her than
any white woman he ever saw" She
is described as "decent, honest w0-
man. and both announce their inten-
ton Of fighting the matter 70 the end.
-Abont the breakfast organ in the
country at the present time is the Ros-
ton Traveller. 1t u az doleful as an old
10 a .lnxv In Of i, N
Centennial aud the good feeling it has
caused North and South, the Traveller
is dreadfully afraid Of another rebel
lion. il thinks the Confederate sol
diers afe safo, be9Bpss they have had
enough Of war, but II has grave fears
of the "rising or just risen generation,
the new youth of the South, who are |
not yet to be blindly trusted as the
friends of peace" 1.-THE Democratic !
patty Is replaced In psYeh the venera- |
Bile organlthinks at Is much to be
feared these new men would be found |
as ready as were the young men of 1861
to have resort to arms to overthrow the |
existing order of things In their
The organ should cheer up,
and try to take q mole cheerful view
of things Such continuous despon-
denoy has a bad effect upon the liver.
The greatest orator of the nine
teenth century Is not appreciated in
Iowa. 1t is only short time since
Senator Harlan's organ at Washing
ton informed rs that h. Ess Tie equal
Of Webster and Clay aud that he had
demolished Summer and Schurz In the
Senate; yet in the face of this astound-
ing intelligence, The Mdscatine Jour
nal, al old friend efths sissi Senator,
lat the heEftliness to Say: "There
Has not been a time since it was
Known 10 Iowa that Harlan, while
OF The lhtetlar, accepted
80, 900 fom DuTaut OF the Union Ia. /
cifc Railroad, that he stood the ghost
ofa chance Of being United States
senator again. The people Of Iowa
VIII BeyeF ipdOrse anything OF that
kiada Christian Statesmen are evil
IDENTIFY not Appreciated in Iowa,
If they are Of the Credit
sort.
The Supreme cnurt OF the United
states in a recesDf case DECIDED that the
laws passed b, the Confederate State