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POLITICAL Nrourcvs.
wir GRANT AND COLFAXi•
TWELFTH WARD!
FLAG RAISING AND MASS 31EETTNGR
The itepilbllcan citizens of the q'tyclith Ward will raise
a Grant and Colfax Rag and bole a Mau rosetiM at
YORK avenue andtIALLO_WEILL stroaton BAT UnwAY
E-VEN LNG. Sept. sat 8 o'elmL The followieg geetielden
rill 'Weirton the mooting:
Hon. LEONARD MYRRIL
Pao, W. B. MANN
Hon. MAPLES GIBBONS.
Col JOHN W. FOR.'gErt
810888 A. DK' 4131 E.
ajor-Gen. RE'C'loft TYNDAIR
am! RAD S. GROVE,
Chairman of Ward Extends* Committee.
W. E' L rrarros. 'keret/ix?. eel .U• rsk.
nestr. ATTENTIO.N, SOLDIERS AND SAILORS t
SOADIERS , AND SalLtilitP STATE CENTRAL
*COMMITTEE ROOMS. Mod South Eleventh street.
l'amatizt.r nut. Seet. - 3.
Your comrades of the Army ot the Foto:rum the Janie&
the Tennessee, the Cumberland -.and the-Shenandoah
will assemble in this city on the Ist and 24 of ,Oetober.
Lot the "Boys in Blue" be preared to meet them in or.
,ganized bodies. Let every Soier mut Sailor him
Ward or Township Club a te n
ontre. and heip to swat the
ro.mber of rennsylranla 'Veterans who will turn oat to
meet their friends from the adjoining States. Do not
delay. Do it at mum. By order of the Committee.
CDARLES It. T. COLLIS* Chairman.
A. Rrssett. Secretary. sett mte 6trot
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THEATRES, Etc:
Im making an effort to bolster up. Offenbach's
xeputation as a Brat rat& musician, the Press can
find no stronger argument than the facts that the
composer is popular, and that after.the christen
ing of the last babe of- the Prince of Wales, "the
ten godfathers and godmothers sat down to a
merry dinner, with the music of Offenbach, - and
,then all went to the circus."
Either Offenbach's position is entirely--indefen
•sible, or he has unfortnnately secured a very fee
ble champion. Popularity does not necessarily
imply-excellence. The world, the flesh ' - and the
devil are popular, but even with the crit ic of the
Press as their defender, we sheuld Incline to side
:with their great antagonist, Christianity. If
Nve are to accept • the intellectuality
.cif the Prince of Wales as the
fulfilment of our ideal of the per ection of mental
power, we may be satisfied with, the second of
the Press's arguments. But Wales is a known
libertine, anct his intellectual tastetiar& as gross
-us his carnal appetites. Besides, he- is under
stood to be extremely partial to Mlle. Schneider,
Offenbach's best interpreter. The purity of his'
taste may be conceived from the fact that he first
indulged in Offenbach's music, and then went to
the circus and both. !after renouncing worldly
- things for 'his child, In the solernn rite of baptism.
.Appreciation of the circus is natural in an ad
,
acing of Offenbach.
AT THE WALNUT—TM/I evening Chas. Wade's
,drama; Foul Play, will be given.
AT THE CI ESTIII3T—The White Fqlll7l will be re-
Tented to-night.
E, A
AT THMERICAN—A ‘ lD.eeellaneelle enter
tainment will be given.
General Grant's Absencei'
The Washington correspondent of the Herald
says:
" From information received by a high govem
anent official directly. from Gen. Grant a day or
two ago it is understood that the OCIL meditates
making a much longer stay in the rural districts
than has been hitherto generally supposed, and
It is altogether probable that he will remain away
:from army headquarters until the end of October
The prevailing impression has been that General
Grant would leave Galena in a few days for a triP
to the Atlantic coast, and would return to this
city by the middle of the present month; but this
intention has long since been abandoned, and is
:superseded by another entirely its reverse.''
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EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
ODDS AND ENDS OF LONDON LIFE
(Correspondence of the Phila. Evening Bullethil
A V tto the Holborn Onion, or n ton
don Poor House.
" Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
I've been to London, to see the Queen.
Pussycat, pussy cat, what did you see there
I frightened a little mouse under a chair."
Lennon, August, 1868.—1 f seeing her Majesty
were the ultima thole of a visit to London,
Tabby's success and our own would be alike ques
tionable, we thought, the other day, up in the
rafters of St. Paul's, stumbling over beams that
might as well have been in our eyes, for we could
not see our hands, before us, while - down rat
tled the scampering mice, almost as much fright
ened as ourselves:
The Queen has gone to Switzerland, and we
have excellent reasons for not following her.
The price:of Gold!—Oh, ye Bears and Bulls of
Third street! Could- you see the lines of care
and disappointment' on the faces of your coun
trymen abroad,as one readito the assembled com
pany at breakfast—" Gold, forty-seven end three
eighths!" you would certainly regret yeur part
in the matter. One takes out a list of "places
worth visiting," and he is more' industrious than
he has been since lie left America, crossing off
"places to be omitted." Another inquires "which
is the cheapest line between Liverpool and
New York?" His friend remonstrates, "but you
promised to go to St. Petersburg with me!"
"Very well, sir," replies the exasperated traveler,
''let us go up the North Pole, grease our clothes,
and slide down on the rainbow (!)" My money
will not carry me there. In the city , where Steele
and Goldsmith and their f mitten poured out
goblets of eparkhep, mirth for the world to
quaf, while their sown hearts were parched with
the fever of care, sometimes even hungry for
bread, one walks through St: Giles, pauses at
Seven Dials, where filth and rags radiate, then
turning at night-fall towards the "Holborn
Union," or almshouse, to see the paupers come
for shelter from the stormy night and a break
fast to sustain them through' another day of
wretchedness, and the question will rise, "Have
all the sermons of self denying men, the lec
tures of past and present Goughs, Thackeray'a
sarcasms, Dickens's expositions, the "Cry of the
Children," "The Bridge of Sighs," "The Song of
the Shirr—have all these been written and ut
tered in vain? In answer to this .question mem o
ory recalls the assurance of the good Obi
preacher Watts, who,after urging the Sowing of
the Seed," says:
"Thou cant not toil in vain;
Cold., heat, and moist and dry,
Shall foster and mature the grain
For garners in the sky."
But on both sides of the sirtset I walk through
are the solid substantlid proofs of all . these
promisee. "Hospital for Sick Children, sup
ported by voluntary contribution," stands out in
large, letters on a great brown-stone building,
and thirteen perambulators or children's hand
carriages are on the pavement waiting for the
poor mothers who have taken their sick children
to the skillful physician, tender nurse, and soft
beds, that their poverty denies them at home;
and one after another cornea out weeping, looks
wistfully at the empty coach, takes it back to
the place where she borrowed it, thanks God her
child is eared for,
and sobs herself to sleep.
"Night School for Tradesmen," "Homeopathic
Hospital for General Diseases," "Home for the
Aged kind Infirm"—all supported by voluntary
con tribuffens !
One qiestion answered, another rises.
"What is the moat powerful weapon •of
justice in the present day ?" A child
running before us drops the paper that is folded
round a loaf of mouldy bread. It settles down
on the wet pavement; the street lamp throws a
light on "Punch !" An old copy, in which Punch
says "I wouldn't give tupence to see St. Pate's!'
Do you know the effect of that pictare, reader?
The Board held a meeting and magnanimously
threw open the doors of the old Cathedral to
every one who chose to come in, without money
and without price. Until they were ridiculed,
these dear old fogies thought it very proper to
ask two pence for each person who entered the
Cathedral. Of course if you go into the crypt,
and employ a guide to conduct you to the tombs
of great men, amongst whom lies "Benjamin
West, cf Pennsylvania," you are willing to pay
a sixpence to assist in repairs. But if the sug
gestions are all noted, we will never get to the
••11olborn Union," or poor house.
With one of the Board of Trustees we entered
a long, wide passage, opening into a narrow,
dirty street, just as the vagrants,numbering about
three hundred, were crawling out, pale-faced and
dejected, without a home, or even a friend in the
world,
They had begged shelter at the door of the
Union the night before, were immediately taken
to the board room, their persons searched,and as
no money was found'suftlelent to pay for lodg
ings, they were fed, a comfortable bed prosided,
ifid = thefweredisidssed in the - morning: ----
did they go the next night? • In the daily papers
we read -kl Fannctdrowned, - " - " - Died - in - thelVatch
House," " committed for Theft," "Horrible Mar-
der," and we shudder—ind forget It I Going Into
the board room, we stood In an open door, look_
ing into an office through which a long linb of
men, women and children, seventeen 'hundred in
number,slowly moved, as their names were called
from a roll-book, and money and bread were
given to each according to the number of pan-
pers he or she represented
those laces every day, and see the want and woe
expreseed in eyes flashing with fever or dull with
despair, my place would soon be with the insane,
of whom there are ninety-two in the
wards. Oh, you who have wondered at
the power of Charles Dickens's "creations," if
you come to London - and witness -these scene;
will say, "how graPide are his descriptions!"
There Is noea character, not a scene he portrays
of London life that one cannot see every day.
He has originated literally nothing, not even
"Quilp." Last week old "Fagin"followed a lady
down Holborn, with his greedy eyes fixed on her
purse. Whenever she paused at a shop window,
he waited for her. Every five minutes he disap
peared, but WAS sure to turn a corner just as she
had congratulated herself ‘ on being rid of him.
Finally she reached the foot of Holborn, and
therejire_ streets crossed. Stopping up to an of
ficer, she said aloud, "Will von kindly direct me
to London Bridge?" Fagin was fialighted, and
without waiting,. immediately took the direction
the officer pointed out to the lady. But the
lady said: "That man, has followed my
purse more than a mile." The officer
with one glance recognized the "old customer,"
as ho called him, and said, "Take the opposite
way to the one ho is going ; ; if ho comes after
you again, do not seem to observe it. Follow
ing these directions, the lady walked on. In two
minutes "Fagin" was behind her; in less than a
minute after the officer was behind "Fagan."
Two minutes after, turning to see her followers,
the lady's astonishment can better be understood
than expressed when she found both °nicer and
"Fagin" had disappeared as completely as if the
earth bad swallowed them ! In the middle of a
long square,crowds of people passing,boot-blacks
and newsboys strolling along, and yet no one
had seen the arrest! There was Dickens's . "Fa
gin " out-Fagined.
But to return to the Union. From the Board
room we were'conducted to 'a square yard, where
a number of 01.4 mtm sat listlessly sunning them
selves, vacancy or unusual alertness in their
countenances betraying the diseased or Worn-out
condition of the brain. Adjoining was a little
garden with miniature fountains of aquariums
and laird houses, grottoes and games provided for
the amusement and entertainment of. these doubly
infirm creatures. They occupied the garden
alternately with the female inmates on the other'
side of the bnllding., Ascending a short flight of
steps from the ground-floor we came to the sick
wards. There wertyno contagious diSeasea r but
every other form of suffering that could be im
agined was exhibited in those wards.' Eihrink-"
lug from contact with misery that I felt
powerless to relieve, I would,', have
escaped from the room; but a very aged
woman fixed her Oulu eyes on me and beck
oning me to her side, called out, "aome here,
my dear, I have something. to all yon !", Ap
preaching her, half afraid at her ghastly cild.vis
age, what was my horror when she raised
a light green veil that pastly covered her face
and laughing aloud said, "You see how I ta4
care of my complexion: they send me out in the
sun and my tender skin will not bear the exposure,
but this veil keeps It fair enough !" I left her,
wondering if vanity had led to sin, and sin to
poverty and neglect, and finally to destitution to
the insane ward of an Alms House ! A blind
woman sat with a deadly pale face, reading a
chapter from a book of St. John prepared
with raised letters. To our questions
she replied with remarkable Intelligence, and
said, as her face beamed with happiness, "They
are preparing a French book for me and I shall
be so glad to study it!" From what phase of in
sanity dots that woman suffer ?we asked. Only
periodical melancholy arising from entire lone
liness, having no living relation, and being to
tally blind! Further on we came to the echoed- I
room. The children were enjoying a temperance
song. Nearly every inmate, men, women and
children, belonged to a temperance band.' •They
organized it without any Solicitation on the part
of the managers, and often when declared
exempt from the pledge.by the house physicians,
refused to take stimulants as medicine. Who
can pub % the scenes , and experiences that made
even these poor outcasts dread the power Of
drink ! From the school-room we descended to
the oakum room. Yes, Mr. Dickens, we saw
everything there just as you described it
in David Copper: field. The blackened bits
and ends of tarred rope, the bench and
table stained and hacked with pen
knives, the rusty nail that had torn - the flesh
from David's hand while he pulled the knotty
rope over it to ravel it into shreds, of which a
great pile lay on the floor. As nothing was said
about pmaishment, I ventured the remark,_.L
suppose only those who are in disgrace for bad
behavior are ma de to pick oakum." "Yes," was
the reply, "and those vagrants who are able be
unwilling to work, have to pick oakum before
they leave the house in the mottling : and it gene
rally insures their not coming back again." A
bell rang, and we were conducted,to the refee-
tory. At a large table a man was carving meat,
a boy weighing it for each plate that was placed
In a wooden tray on the shoulder of a boy, who
counted the dishes till the tray was full, then
coverinz it over with a lid, rushed off to a sick
ward. Ten boys were employed in waiting on the
wards, and five were weighing the potatoes and
bread, and measuring out the soup. Long,narrow
tables were arranged for both males and females,
so that they occupied separate paris of the room
but facing each other. Presently the children
came: One hundred and fifty, from two years of
age to twelve. May I never again see the know-
Ledge, canning, sadness, stupidity and weariness
that want and vice had stamped on those poor
little faces! Next came two, hundred women
and young girls. They were stronger types of
the little ones. Then, saddest of all, over a hun
drtd men and boys! Strength and manhood
utterly obliterated. At the tap of a ball, all rose
n d sting a hymn. Above their sad voices I
beard my own heart beating. I cried out in my
Eltul, "Oh God what wretches we are to waste
m ans that might prevent, but can never heal
such woe as this." E. D. W.
Discontent is apparent among the lower classes
in Rome. - There has been a strike of the bakers,
followed_by-a strike of-the-fish-venders iL antLnow_
ouahe printing office of
the Apostolic Chamber, where the workmen,
hitherto proverbial-for their loyalty, are said to
entertain revolutionary sentiments. The authori
ties are very uneasy, and the Roman police daily
make arrests in the suburban osterias, or public
houses. The other day they pounced upon a dozen
of the lowest of the people in the Ripetta, and
carried them-off, including, in the number a
Corsican named Griselli, who, however, on de
claring himself a French .subject, was released
and allowed to carry away some revolvers and a
dagger found on his person. The man is be
lieved to be a spy of the .French government. In
the provinces the 'brigands continue their rava
ges. The Pontifical
_g. gendarmes . have just cap
tured four of the band which made the attack on
the villa at Frascati occupied by an English
family, and one of the miscreants was found in
possession of the pocket-book of the porter,
whom they had assassinated a few days before.
In Frosinone the gendarmes have. had a combat
with another band, which was put to flight with
one killed, several wounded,and six or seven cap
tured.
11 I had to look at
Threatening Aspectof Affairs in the
The Vienna Prase of Aug. 19 says : "In view
of the threatening aspect of affairs in the East,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, actingin concert
with the Cis-Leithan Minister for the defence of
the country, has laid certain restrictions upon
the transit of arms and ammunition to Bervia,
Roumania, and Bosnia, and has ordered that in
case of any despatch - of - considerable quantities
of arms and ammunition to these countries, a
permit of exportation is only to be granted after
consent given by the respective Governments."
The New Free Press contains the folio wing para
graph: "Our letters from Moldavia confirm the
rumor that a new cal:edifier( forr crossing the
Danube into Bnlgaria, and for promoting another
OUR WHOLE ; COVISiTRY.
Trouble6' in Rome.
AUSTKIA.
outbreak of disturbances in that province, is be
ing organized under tthe eyes of the Roumanian
Coven:mat:zit."
The rata] Accident at Chamounix•
The following is a faller account of a terrible
accident to which we alluded briefly yesterday:
The statement that Miss Stevens, who recently
lost her life on the Mer de Glace was climbing a
mountain at the time, and was crushed by the
rolling down of
.`a larg e rock, which she had
loosened with her staff, is contradicted. A cor
reepondentrtays that she was quietly sitting with
her sister at the side of the Avegron, near where
It issues from the Mar de. Glace—too near, un
happilr—when a_ small stone wait started from
its, place by the slight, but constant, movement
of the glaelet, rolled down to the lowest point,
from which it bounded, striking Miss 'Stevens
upon the top of the head and tostantly killing
POLITICAL.
=OBE ABOV? TUE "CHASE MOVE
The Democratic Platform that was to
Have Seymour Accepted
Negro Mittrage.
Cohinel Brown; whose interesting speech in
Kentucky, concerning the "Chase movement,"
and account of Mr., ileymour's nomination, has
already been made public, gives some further and
important particulars in , -a letter to the Cincin
nati Commercial, The-letter-.will interest many
NetrYork pendant's.' Colonel Brown writes:
"AB the speech I made at Frankford the night
of the 20th of this month has attracted great at
tention,' desire that It shallgo'before the public
accompanied by the fall weht of authority to
which It !saddle& It has fallen likes wet
blanket upon the democracy, and none of the
papers of thatparty except the New York World,
have had the temerity to controvert my state
ments: I - eagerly embrace the opportunity
afforded by the - World to cite myproof..
* * * '!'llte World says : 'Of course
Brown is Ignorant of, the inside _ of the Chase
movement, and of course he maligns Governor
Seymour, AS to my ignorance of the 'move
ment,' I beg leave to refer tam for information,
first, to the Chief Justice himself ; second, to
General J. S. Whitney, of Boston, Hon. Alexan
der Long, of Cinemnati,llon. Hamilton Smith,of
Cannelton, Indiana, Hon. John J. Clfieo and Col
onel John D. yan Buren, of - New York. ,it is
in the power of these gentlemen to verify every
statement In my ,speech concerning W. Sey
mour. `I also refer the. World to , an article
signed 'IL,' and wide-it-appeared in the West and
South day before yesterday. 'R.' is a better dem
oerat ands better newspaper writter than the
editor of the World, and hie long connection
with the Cincinnati Enquirer secured for that
paper much of its circulation and influence. He
sustains every position taken by me ; goes even
further, and says things which my sympathy for
Mr. Seymour's misfortunes forbade me to Utter.
"I knew thea, after all was over Mr.• Seymour
cried for hours like )measly-weane d haby; bit
appears to me really unkind and cruel that this
shameful, disgraceful weakness of the poor man
should have been made public. As to the state
ment of the World, that I have maligned Mr.
Reymonr, ' I denounce It as an infamous lie.
There Is not a Democratic editor or speaker in
Kentucky of my` acquitintance, - whe would say
such' a thing of. me: L lave mbre personal
friends among the rebels thausidong the Union
men of this State. In the Social arcle in:which
I Move, I da ll y meet men who 'fought for the
Confederacy. Many of them are the old school
mates and friends of my boyhood. They are gen
tlemen whom I respect, and whose friendship I
esteem and•honor. • •
"The less the World Says of Mr. Seymour the
better. I can prove my every statement by good
Democrats, and gentlemen whose social position
Is equal if not superior to that of Mr. Se moor.
I spoke of him as tenderly and gently as I could,
consistently with the truth; for
.'I pitied his mis
fortune, and would as soon think of maligning
an inmate of an institute for the care of feeble
minded persons
"I can tell the World that I have In my posses
sion a copy of the platform submitted to the
Chief Justice by the progressloniets of the Demo
cratic party, and that platform was seen, read and
approved by Horatio Seymour before the Con
vention rod, and that it acceps negro suffrage in
the following language:
"
"The American democracy, reposing their
trust, under God, in the intelligence, the patriot
ism and discriminating justice of the American
people, declare their fixed adhesion to the great
principles of equal rights and exact justice for all
men and all States.'
"'That a wise regard to the altered circum
stances of the country, and impartial justice to
the millions who have been enfranchised, de
mand the adoption of all proper constitutional
measures for the protection, improvement and
elevation of this portion of the American people.
" 'That in a land of democratic institutions all
public and private interests repose most securely
on the broadest basis of suffrage.' * *
"This platform has fifteen planks, and is at
the service of the World, if that paper will pub
lish it. The provielons are more liberal than
those of the Chicago or the New York platform
as adopted.
"J/r. Seymour approved and urged Hr. Chase's
nomination on the pla tform from which I have just
quoted, and if lie den ies it prove it on him.
Bow does Mr. . Seymour reconcile his approval of
this platform with the declaration that the 're
construction acts of Congress are unconstitu
tional, revolutionary and void,' with the letter of
Gen. Blair to Colonel Brodhead, which , secured
his nomination, and with his own letter of accep
tance ?
"As a weeper I regard Mr. Seymour as fully
the equal of Job Trotter; as a man of moral
courage he rivals Bob Acres; but I do think
that the attempt of a few designing politicians,
in whose hands he has always been a suppliant
tool, to foist him upon the American people as
In any - senses - Statemtnvisetke -- granderSt fake
ever attempted in this country. When our na
tion so far forgets its pride, its admiration of true
courage, the martial glory and warlike spirit of
our race, and the memory of the dear heroes who
died on the field of battle to make us what we
are, as to elect such a man as Horatio Seymour
as President, then I shall expect to see the eagles
meet in convention and elect a buzzard as their
king. Yours, most respectfully,'
" WILLIAM Eintrwsr."
THE VERMONT VICTORY.
They Promise a Larger IttajOritylii
November.
The Montpelier Watchman says: "The sound
Republican State of Vermont did nobly yester
day. not only answering the hopes of her warm
est friends, but happily disappointing them by
this grandßepublican victory. The gains in the
towns which we give below indicate an increase
of from 7,000 to 10,000 over Governor Page's ma
jority of last year which was then 20,182.
The vote is the irgest east in the State
for many years, and shows what Ver
mont can do when the Republicans
make an effort. Some of our friends in other
States thought we should do well to hold our
own, but we desire them to understand that Ver
mont has not now'even done all that is possible
in the way of majorities, bat could have added,
If the canvass had been opened a week earlier,
5,000 to the 'majority now reached. Now let other
States imitate ,our example. Senatorial returns
from eight towns in Franklin county give Barlow
341 majority over: Atwood, , insnring Barlow's
- election, and snaking the Senate unanimously
Republican."
Speech ot Richard Yates.
Senator Yates addressed a large meeting of Re
publicans in Springfield, 111., on the 22d nit. In
tae course of his remarks he said: .
After nine months of weary absence I come
back to Sou with the same principles and the
same faith with which I left you. You , hat%
known me for thirty yearn and more; yon have
known all of my faults and all my weaknesses,
and you have stood by me. Rat now lam to
vindicate myself in one regard, and that is thls:
That whatever may have been those weaknesses
or those faults, however much I may have faild,
yet on all occasions, in the Legislature of your
State for eight years, in the House of,Re
presentatives for four years, as Gdvernor of
your State, and as your Senator in Congress, I
bay° been ever true =to the principle of human
freedom. 1 have been forever true to the undr!
Immortal principle of rmiveraal and undlvi
ded human liberty. I have never concealed my
opinions. I have never willingly or knowingly
turned my back neon a friend. I have never
dodged a question. When I have been asked
whether I, waa for suffrage or not I have spoken
for myself; I have answered that I am for equal
rights, for Atnerican citizenship .for every man
twenty-one veers of age,' from whatever country
or wherever born or of whateter color, I am for
the enjoyment of equal rights by every man and
by every American citizen; I am for-suffrage in
the South, and the • North and everywhere. Ido
not stand back bullied and frightened; ..I do not
intend, to let Wade Hampton and • Seymour and
Blair snatch from us that loyal vote which Stood
by us during the war, and which fleshed two
hundred thousand bayonets in tbe face of Jeff.
Davis and his hosts. Ido not regret that in the
providence of Almighty God I was called ripen
to be the Governor, of the State of Illinois from
the commencement to almost the end of the war.
Ido net. regret, fellow-clazens, that raised
258,000 troops in the moat sacred cause of
God-given li be rty : and humanity—troops 'who
covered themselves all over with glory' upon
more than . five hundred battlellelds of the
war. Ido not regret it, fellow-citizens, that I
myself steal with. General Grant amid the roar
and thunder of battle. Ido not regret it that
I called upon the citizens of the State of Illinois,
upon her noble matrons and' her beautiful mold
er's to midi° the brave soldiers in the field all
the comforts and Imo:tried within their reach.' I
do not regret it that I went to the field of battle
and brought home tbe sick and wounded; and I
do not regret it, fellow citizens, that when trai
tors assembled in the Capitol of the State and
passed resolutions against the war, I sent them
bowling to their homes. There is another thing
I do not regret. In the Executives chamber
up there, which is now so ably ' tilled by
your gallant and glorious Governor Oglesby,
and which is soon to be filled by your no
less distingrtished, able and gallant soldier, Gen.
John K. Palmer, Ido not regret that there I is
sued my proclamation appealing to the patriot
ism of the people of the State of Illinois, after
our flag had been Bred upon and we had' been
forced into , a war which we could not avoid and
which we were bound to fight for our ,national
preservation; for after we had been struck we
were forced to strike back again; I do not regret
that in that Executive chamber where I issued, my
edict against traitors and copperheads this feeble
hand signed the commission of the world's great
est commander, U. S. Grant, the next President
of the:United States.
Political ' Items.
—Fort Pillow FOrrest has had a talk with a
newspaper reporter, in which he spoke ha fol
lows of Gen. Grant;
- "I regard him as a great' military commander,
a good.man, honest and liberal, and,lf elected, he
will, I hope and belleve,exectite the laws honeitly
and faithfally. And, by the- wan:a:report,' has
been published in some of the papers, stating
"that while General Grant and lady were at
Corinth, in 1862, they took and carried off farni
tore and otht.r property. I here brand the
author as a liar. -I :was at Corinth only a short
time ago, and I personally investigated the whole
matter, talked with the people, with whom he
and his lady lived while there, and they say that
their conduct was everything that could have
been expected of a gentleman and lady, and de
serving the highest praise. I am opposed to Gen.
Grant in everything,but I would do him justice."
—The Ann Arbor Advocate speaks of Ex-
Governor Blair, of Michigan, in the following
remarkable manner :
"The earth may quake to its centre, the rocks
may be rent asunder, and mountains sink to the
plain; but while the continent of America lifts its
proud head above the ocean; till every trace of
this broad and glorious land will melt away; til
that awful day when blazing planets will crush
on blazing planets, Sand the sky one broad sheet
of flame; when, amid the wreck of empires and
the crash of worlds, and convulsions of nature,
this beautiful sphere will be consumed into a
black cinder, and drop forgotten into the ocean
of nothingness and night; until that dreadful
hour will the black and dirty lies uttered by
Austin Blair shine enscrolled in burning letters
upon the gates of hell !"
—Hon. Montgomery Blair is stumping West
'Virginia for Blair. A letter from Fairmont to the
Wheeling Intelligencer says; "Poor Blair made
his debut at Fairmont, yesterday. The most pkir
feet, flat out that was ever witnessed in the moun
tain counties." The correspondent suggests that
"if Belmont has not money enough to keep Blair
in West Virginia, the Grant men should at OLICA
make him up a penny purse and keep him among
us. He is sore at having the duplicity exposed of
his coming to West Virginia among a people
whom he sought to prostrate during the
war. by writing a long opinion advising Mr.
Lincoln to veto the bill for the State of West Vir
ginia."
—The Press this morning says: "William
O'Brien, the man who struck General Grant in
the face as he was sitting in a railroad car on the
way through Carlinville. 111., has been promoted
by the Democracy for gallant and meritorious
service. Hid promotion consists in a nomina
tion tor Congrei3s. Illinois has one Congressman
who le elected not by any one district, but by and
for the whole State, and this is the gift proposed
for Mr. O'Brien,-the lowest man in Illinois.
—The Richmond Dispatch (Seymour and
Blair) says of the Vermont victory _ ; ___
"The — result of the election in Vermont signi-
fies nothing Vermont is a land of political
heathen. Its a land of men cut off by their po
sition from the great world, and as impenetrable
to outside influences as the monks of St. Ber
nard.
The End of the Opera Bonito in Paris.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Tribune speaks as follows of musical and drama
tic matters,and announces the end of Offenbach's
popularity :
Preparations for the opening theatrical season
, are promising. Mere indecency and buffoonery
the Parisian public seem to begetting wearied of,
and are quite ready to turn ,these over as cast
clothes to the second-hand public of New York.
Mr. Gran is 'anticipating a fortune from the ex
hibition to your citizens of the indifferent voices
and prostitute legs and worn Jokes and by-gone
'buffooneries of a troop of mimes and sol-disant
'arth)ts thathe has engaged for. your delectation
'this Autumn. H,o would have added to their
second-rate quality the attraction of
the Schneider who, having been applaud
'ed by Czar,. kings, and English heirs appar
ent, had a pre-emption of the enthusiastic ap
planse of a democratic republican audience of
New 'York snobs, but the Schneider demanded a
price for such exile as frightened away even the
enterprising Gran. Apart from her promised re
appearanp on the Paris stage, these is promise
of a return to something literary, if not legiti- .
mate drama here. There are comforting marks
and visible proofs of a tendency toward some sort
of intellectual stage entertainment, of a revulsion
from the mere spectatular and "leg pieces" that
haWbeerrserved up for the last few years, higher
and higher till 'fbaully, ad nauseam. ..
.The
Marchioness Patti-Caux is singing at Hainburg,'
honestly and honorably gaining five thousand
francs per night. Other of our female compa
triots, as correspondents from that famous
gambling . place write me, are playing at a much
greater nightly expense. Hoping they may have
respectable Connections at home, I omit mention
F. I. MIUMSTON. Publigbint,
of these silly American females names. A theatri
cal newspaper notes•tlust the Chevalier de la Mai
son Rouge,ono of Dataas's dramas taken from one
of his novels,wherein Mario Antoinette MU a chief
role, is to be permitted at Havre. It
thebiden
at Pans, as probably would be Masonic
Congress which is called, and, it Ls
andl be
suffered to meet, at Havre on the 18th l9th
of next month. This safety in one , (townland
danger in another of letting this or.fiat'Pis* be
played on the stage, Is cleverly satirized by the
mot of some ono the other day, who 'said that the
Cathedral of Notre Dame Was to - .,be demolished
because of g
Vlctorliuo'snovel of Metairie nae.
You think the joke is too absurd to be wito ?m A
drama drawn - from Hugo's novel, acted 'formerly
in the Paris theatres, utterly free from any in.
trlnsle political sense or albsion, is forbidden to
be reproduced to-day, under thisregime of strong
government, impported, acchdtded - as It isr nithe
overwhelming majority of an enthuslas
devoted people. -
F*vT AND FAXICUM.
—Wheatley's fortrine is said to be 1 1400i000'.
---Wagner has written a.book on Genius),
and Polities., • •
Badtrht. Wagner I= quarreled again with the Krug of
• . ,
-Bismarck is an opitun-eater by medical ad
—Den-clad boots and shoes are among, ;the
latest productions of Lynn, Diane.
• —The Egyptian 'lottus„ witbhlossonnia font in
dismeter; blooms on Lake Erie. '
Mitchell has appeare4. in a new
pathetic eccentricity, called "Lorin." . • .
- -Ullmann is to take Carlotta Patti thrones
Scandinavia.
—When is a bow not a bow? Whoa it's a bow
knot. •
--Stump-tali cows ought to glvegood ,
for
all milk is a lack-tall fluid.
—Ohio has 830 miles of canal. The longest are
the Ohio canal, 342 miles, and the Miami and
Erie, 316 mile&
—lt is now forbidden the singers at the Vienna
opera house to respond to encores etcept be
tween the acts.
—During the coming theatrical season there
will be twenty-one theatres in full blast in New
York.
• • •
—General Fremont la soon to publish a letter
on the political issues , of the day. He Is an ar
dent advocate of Grant.
—Mr. Rice, of Stetson, Maine, who has one of
the chief dairy farms in the State, has amill-pond,
and a mill-wheel to drive his butter-churn&
•
—e ) Irma, the heroine of Barbe Bleueila the +l'
Mil
wife of M. Colon and the happy mother of
,two
semi-colons.
—A son of the Duke of Cambridge, hag come
on to Canada. A pretty Canadian is said to be
the attraction.
—liefore - Miss Menken died she said—"l have
lived longer than a woman of a'hundred year
and it is time .I went where the old people go."
—Train is growing tired •of . the liforaludses
priso te n. He ' says the sensation is nearly e.T
boosd. ' • • •
—"Gabriella di. Vergy,' , a posthumous ober%
by Donizetti, is to be fptodueed at Naples. No
faint is given as to whOher , it is worthy the com
poser's fame.
—"Why don't you ask me how I awe"
'ugly said a lady visitor to a 'four year old
„girl.
"I don't want to know," was little innocent's
-:Sotahone in Paris *rites to the Evdrtement,
that, be thinks ho ought to have the cross of the
Legion of Honor because he has lived sixty-rive
years in the city of Paris; and has never been run
over.
—Sketchley's book hientitied "The Great Coun
try: Impressions of America." The prevailing
impression of Mr. . Eiketchley probably, is that
America is a poor place for a British humorist - 10
make money in. • _
—The New London, iWisconsie, Era . has fro.
pended publication, and a neighboring journal
dlves as a reason that one of the publishers weal
etected in stealing from a money -drawer and ran
away.
—The Catholics are laboring among the:
freedmen in Baltimore; in, their schools 'and
churches white and Neck sit -together, the
prit ate openly declare the doctrine thet "On),
makes no distinction, and the Church cannot.'?‘.
—Mother Goose In 1869:
Seymour and Blair went on a tear,
To get the public plunder;
Blair fell down arid brokehis crown,
And Seymour went to thunder'.
—George Francis Train writes novi for the
Revolution, as the World no longer publishes his
effusions. His letters are chiefly extracts from
English papers, with his own comments there
upon.
—A gravestone at Litchfield, Conn., has the
following inscription: "Sacred to the memory of
inestimable worth, of unrivalled excellence and
virtue (then the name), whose etherial parts be
came seraph on the 25th day of Kay, 1867."
—The recent visit of the Orleanist Princes to
Geneva, Switzerland, caused the French Govern
ment some uneasiness, so quite a small army of
secret agents were despatched to watch and. re
port every - movement.
—lt is the intention of Archbishop McCloskey
to summon, at an early date, the clergy of his
diocese to assist at a'solemn synth:. The prin
cipal object of this synod will be the promulga
tion of the decrees of the late Plenary Council of
Baltimore.
—Here is a peculiarly French description of
the people of Bavaria :—"The Bavarians are a
happy people. They have money which brings
happiness, and-a king who makes music. They
drink much 'and often„and snioke as, they drink.
They sleep lonk, eat five times 'a day, and make
hiveldtween - theirmealiK”
—One of Marshal itelifahon's aids is an excel
lent officer, brit lazy beyond expression. Stime
mornings ago his servant entered his tent at the
Chalons camp, and said: "Colonel, the General,
is up and dressed." "Really? the General la up,
dressed, and lam still abed! I'm a wretch, un
worthy to sae the light—so draw the curtains,
boy."
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton is very savage in the
last number of the Revolution on men who give
It ctures on Woman's Rights.. She says that'ther
fate of the Sir John Franklin, has not been more
melancholy than has that of the Ameri—
can Trippers who have lectured and writ
ten on this subject. They have simply made'
themselves ridiculous. When J. G. Holland went
to Vassar College with his twaddle ; the girls
laughed him to scorn." , , •
—A contest is going on in Louisville, Ky.,',
tween a physician named McKinley and the
patter of the Ursullne Academy in New Albany,
Irdiana, for the possession of a girl, Mon years
of age. The Doctor alleges that the child is his "
daughter,. the Superior of the Academy. that she,
is not. What gives point to the controversy is
the fact that the girl's admitted to be heiress to a
fortune of a million of dollars.
—The-editor of the BititimoreEpss" copal Metho.:
dist has recently made a Vialt 'to' Boston. He
tells us through his paper, that the amazing
crookedness of the streets is of advantage to a
stranger, since he cannot, well losehimself, for if-
he will keep onward in the street he starts on he
will be very likely to get back near, to his starting
point. The narrowness of the streets isniao ad
vantageous—it, enema. current .of air to- pass
threugh them. ' 'He went to the "Old 'South"
Church, where he-heard. music which made him
wonder how, he got in without a ticket. "It was
so fine and-so eminently, out of place. We would
enjoy these quartette cholm very much if we •
vould get over our prejudicel Sunday
amusement," says he, naively. 'Ve are," he
82 3 T, "no parallel streets in Boston—they are all
unparalleled."