The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-03-20


pamphlet is made up from extracts from the
Court Journal, September /, 1852, the I'm
perial Standard, October LIST, 1882, and The
Army and Nary Nelos, November l, 1882,
all published at Washington. Below we give
a few extracts, to let our readers see how i'm
perialism looks, as pictured by a prophetic
pen:
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY, EMPEROR ULYSSES J.
Fsosa he eoayt JolsAal Washington, Sept' l. iSss.
His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Ulysses
l., accompanied by the Empress, the Crown
Prince Frederick and numerous suite, ar
rived at the palace yesterday after weeks
visit to the Duke Of Pennsylvania at his pala.
tial residence, Cameron Hall, Harrisburg.
His Imperial Majesty, we are happy 70 an
nounce, is in the best Of health. The imper-
ial escort consisted ola battalion OF the Guards
and two companies ofthe Household Cavalry
THE PRINCESS YElIIE.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Nellie
will not return to England. We are in 20.
sitiou 10 state that the consort Of her Royal
Hiehness, Algernon Sartoris, Esq, is to be
raised to the peerage under the title Of Earl
Of Granton. We further understand that the
Eel of Granton is 10 DO appointed Governor,
with the title Of Lord Lieutenant, Of the Prov
ince ofIllinois, and that il is the intention Of
the Imperial Government To settle S2OO,OOO
per annum upon his lordship. A viee-regal
palace is to be built at Springfield, the Prlvy
Council having issued an order for the razing
Of the capitol of the former State OF Illinois,
and the residence Of the Lord Lieutenant will
be erected on the site.
LORD SIMON CAMERON, KARI. OF susSuEuANNA.
Ills with great pleasure that we are eDabled
to announce the arrival Of Lord Simon Cam
eron, Earl of Snsquehanua, at the Palace.
The venerable Earl and his sou, the noble
Duke of PENNSYLVANIA, will have the honor of
dining with his Imperial Majesty to- morrow,
when the Duke is expected 10 arrive in town.
As we have previously announced, Lord 81
mon was, some time ago, appointed by his
Imperial Majesty Earl Marshal, the title re-
naming in the House of Cameron according
to the law Of primogpiture.
SIR o. 4. BABcoeK, PRINCIPAL EpUERRY.
Sir o. L. Babcoek, whose devotion 10 The
| Imperial cause and whose conspicuous gallaR'
try at Albany, New York, when the Republi.
/ can army under Fenton was SO completely
/ defeated by the Imperial troops have desery-
eddy gained him so many marks OF Imperial
favor, is now. We are glad to state, quite con
valescent. He remains at the Imperial Wills,
| Long Branch, for few days more, when he
will return to the Palace TO enter on his duties
as Principal Equerry 10 attendance on His
Imperial Majesty.
BIAIgR sESTESCEp TO PUNISHMENT.
From he Iaperiql soaigrdi Eas4iHgtsa, Oct I, iSSl
An official telegram published elsewhere 10
this issue brings intelligence of the trial and
conviction by Military Commission Of James
G.. Blaine, Of Maine, and the sentence Of ban.
ishment passed by the Commission will in all
probability be approved by His Imperial Ma
jesty. We think the Commission erred in its
decision-not as to the guilt, bat as to the
| punishment Of the offender. The time has
passed for measures Of mercy. Justice de.
/ rnands something more Il demands stern
ret 3ution for such offences as this man
4 y Aine has committed, and the punishment
J lwarded should have been death Let there
: be no trihing with lraitorsl When twenty so
called Union Leaguers were shotin Cincinnati
! Il should have been warning to rebels that
the policy Of The Imperial Government was
not TO regard sedition as phild's play. OF
what use Is banishment il such men as John
Sherman, James g. Blaine and Rutherford
B. Hayes can concoct their plots and plans
against the safety Of the Empire on the Cana,
dian side of the border and send their emissa.
Fiss TO spread disloyalty in every part Of the
coantry7 Weare not apologists for the course
thus far pursued by The Imperial Government.
We have been aud are nov rs advocates.
We have, and must continue TO have sts0gg
government, and yacillation or timiditv, be
they in what quarter they may, must neither
be coBdoned nor tolerated. The lessons of
the past must not be forgotten.
EXECUTION or THOMAS VAST,
Bg Imperial Telegraph 10 ne SdBddnt
NEw 1ORx, September 30. The last OF the
eighteesn prisoners condemned 10 death by
the Imperial Military Commission which clos.
ed its sitiings at Governors Island on the 10Th
was executed at daybreak this morning.
The condemned man, Thomas Mast, who was
a earieaiurist on Hdyper's Weekly before that
disloyal sheet was suppressed in June last was
accused Of high treason by plotting against
the crown and dignity Of His Imperial Majesty
and by circulating . so,palled cartoon repre-,
senting His Imperial Majesty as Nero. The
execution was private, but il is understood
that the death was painful, the wretched trai.
tors life not being extinct for several minutes.
MALONE, MARQUIS OF Blue RIDGE
WHEELING, West Ga, September 3d.
| Major General Mahoue, now in command oil
| the Army OF Ohio, received from Washington
yesterday IN Imperial decree announcing hi.
elevation to the peeraga as Marquis Of Blue
Ridge. The noble Marquis, it will be Femem,
bered, gained great honors during the earlier
days Of his Imperial Majesty's reign BY en-.
listing in the cause Of the Empire the service.
and influence Of many of the first families oil
Virginia.
DANA UNDER IMPERIAL DlsPLEgsURE.
Rumors were current in the capital yester
day that Charles A. Dana, Of New York, Iht
/ disloyal and yirslsnt Unionist, whose opposi
ton TO the Imperial cause gas 50 pronounced
during the caudidature Of His Imperial Ma
iesty 10 1880 has been arrested near Buffalo.
Dana's disloyal sheet, the New York Sun, il
will be remembered, was summarily suppress.
ed and two Of its editors transported for life
when the Imperial troops entered New York
city.
BEECHEa An IMPERIAL CHAPLAIN.
The Right RsV. Henry Ward Beechsr, Bsh.
OPP of Brooklyn, whose conversion TO the
Methodist Episcopal church was simultaneoa.
with His Imperial Majessy's accession 10 de
throne, arrived at the palace yesterday. His
Lordship will enter on his duties as Imperiai
Chaplain without delay. and will preach be.
fore the Imperial family at the NJ. L. Cathe.
dral on Sunday next.
THE IMPERIAL ARMY.
ff0a nc IraF and Nary .NeIrs
IL has been officially decided by the Minis
ter Of War that the new uniform Of the saynlr,
OF the line shall be somewhat similar to those
OF the German Uhlans. The Imperial Guard
viii be uniformed after the style Of the Roya
Life Guards Of the British service, and ihs
Household Cavalry will retain their present
| picturesque and distinctive style. II is under
stood that the strength Of the army in time O
peace has been decided on after a conference
Of the principal officers Of rank, at which Hi,
Imperial Majesty presided. The effective
strength OF the line including infantry, cavalry
and artillery, as well as the engineers, sigma
corps, etc., will be 100000 men.
PLOTTING TREASON.
As we 90 to press we learn that DISPATCHES
have been received by the Minister Of War Ia
the effect that several officers Of the Imperial
service, who have been for some time past
suspected Of plotting treason, and Of being ia
correspondence with the enemies Of His In.
perial Majesty, were placed 10 arrest at AL.
bany, New York, last week. The arrest was
kept secret but an investigation left no donbl
Of the existence of dangerous plot to over
turn the Imperial government, and at sub,
seqaent cosrt- martial, which finished lis sit
tings yesterday, Eve Of the officers were found
guilty on ell the charges preferred agansi
them. They viii be shot at daybreak to.mor
row morning.
journalistic.