The Tamworth Examiner and Working Men's Journal. — 1876-01-01 (Tamworth, Staffordshire, England)

AMP.I:ICA  THE PRESIDENCY-MR. BRADLAUGH ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP TIIE MOSEL.  -THE  The Hamburg-American mail steamer, arrived on Sunday at Plymouth, brings New York papers full of excitement in reference to the proposed third-term election of President Grant. A Congress of Methodist Ministers iiaveenphaticallydeclared for Presdt. Grant's re-election, and this is represented by opponents and by supporters as riving importance to the movement. The House of Representatives, however, on the 15th inst., by 232 votes to 18, passed the following resolution :--" That in the opinion of this House the precedent established by Washingh la, and other Presidents of the United -'ates, in retiring from the presidential office after their second term has become by universal concurrenee a part of our Republican system of govenmient ; and that any departure from this time-honoured cu st on i would be unwise,unputritic, and fraught with peril to our free institutions." On the other hand, a Mr. Randall has proposed, and the New York Herald and Tribune both support him, that "after the next Presidential election the President shall hold (Alice for six years. nrel that neither the President nor the Vioe-Presiderl, when the &lice 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 mI the notice which was vigorously worked agair.st 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 hie engagements, and his immediate return to Europe. The attempt to -blow up the Mosel had caused great excitement, in America. and it is recalled that a similar attempt was made to burn, when at sea, two caees of esi disant silks on board the Vanderbilt steamship Arid, sailing in ISFeI 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 the agents, Messre. 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 happered to be on board, he did stop the chip, and the two went to the lighthouse, where they soon received the news from the Bremen agent. The , two cases dect,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 orrangeine,it to net them on fire when the ship was at sea. On searching, the cases were found. and were as described above. They were sent to Bremen, where the:: served to convict the guilty parties. who soon afterwards were found and arrested. The mechanic employed to make the boxes and clockwork became conecience 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 arreet, and the son is now in prison in Bremen for life. The mechanic lives now on Stern Island.  FATAL Ft RE.—Karly onMonday morning the shop of William De Groat, fishmonger, High scrert, Woolwas di...Toyed by fire, and on examining the premises after the flames were extinguished the body of Bridget Bryant, aged twenty, the servant, was disc.ivered horribly burned,