The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-12-31 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

AMERICA  TIIE PRESIDENCY-MR. BRIDLAMIT-THE  ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP TIE E MOSEL.  The Hamburg-American mail cleanser, arrived on Sunday at Plymouth, brings New York itapers full of excitement in reference to the proposed third-term election of President G rant. A Congress of Met hodist M Mist ers I lave emphatically declared for Presdt. C ranCs re-election, and this is represented by opponents and by supp•rters as giving importance to the movement. The House of Representatives, however, on the Mx inst., by 212 votes to IS, passed the following resolution:-- That in the opinion of this HOU, the precedent established by Washington, and other Presidents of the United States, in retiring from the presidential office after their sec mid term has become by universal concurrence a part of our Republican stein of government ; and that say departure frwn this time-honoured custom would be tmwise,unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our free institutions." On the other hand, a Mr. Randall has proposed, and the Nen, York Herald and Tribllne both support hint, that " after the next Presidential election the President shall hold Mike for six years, and that neither the President nor the Vice-President, when the office of President devolves upon him, shall be eligible for reelection." This would involve the extension of the President's term by two years. but get rid lf the notice which was vigorously worked tigailist his re-election formerly. The Presidential election excitement seems to have fully set in. Mr. Bradlaugh, in consequence of illness. announces his abandonment of all his engagements, and his 1111111 . diate return to Europe. The attempt to blow up the Musel had mitts.' great exetement in America, and it is recalled that a ' similar attempt was made to burn, when at sea, two cases of dint's t silks on board the Vanderbilt steamship Ariel, sailing in 'KS; from the same port (Bremerhaven). Captain Ludlow. who then commanded the Ariel. received, as he passed the lighthouse on his way to sea, a telegram front this agents, Messrs. Ruppel and Son, saying simply " Stop the ship." He intended paying no attention to this quasi absurd demand, but on the representation of the European agent of the line, who happer ed to be on board. he (lid stop the ship, and the two went to the lighthouse. where they , soon received the news from the Bremen agent. The . two cases &el, red as silks, of which the marks were given, were stored in the after-hold, and instead of silk were filled with combustibles and a clockwork arrangemet it to set them on tire when the ship was at sea. On searching, the eases were f mind. and were as described above. They were sent to Bremen, where they served lo convict the guilty parties, who soon afterwards were found and arrested. The mechanic employed to make the boxes and clockwork became conscience stricken, and at the last. moment "peached " on his employers, who proved to be a father and son, whose motive, after insuring these cases heavily in Vienna and elsewhere, was to recover the amount of insurance. The father committed suicide soon after his arrest, and the son is now in prison in Bremen for life. The mechanic lives now on Stern Island.