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LETTER FROM VIENNA.
Embarrassment out the Government.—
'Diversity of lnterests--The looney of
Baron Beast.
IConeepondence of the Minds. Evening Bulletin.]
VIENNA, August 22d, 1868.—The Government
of Austria is evidently in a difficult and disagree
able position in regard to the, tulministration of
the different parts of the Empire. There is the
original German part of, Austria claiming that
any question which concerns Fatherland should
be taken into consideration by this Government
last as mach as if Austria still belonged to the
old German Btusd, formed in 1815 the sympathy
of those men for Pruss4 may not be strong, but
they feel themselves to be Germans--they
speak the German language, and they may have
a presentiment that Austria, as a German Power,
may have more influence in the council -of niss
dons than Austria disaoived' in Hungary, atui
losing her originally. German nationality.
It is difficult, at the present period, to foretell
the result of these complications. Austria may
exist and flourish under the present regime for
years; hut It must, neverthelese,be acknowledged
that the state of affairs,as It now exists, can only
be a temporary one; that dualism cannot exist
forever, and that either Austria must finally dis
solve in Hungary or Hungary In Aastria. Much
praise and credit is duo to the present Chancellor,
Baron von Beast, for his skillful administration
of the Empire, and his sagacity in evading all
the dangerous places which might be obstacles
to the nation's prosperity and progress; but he
would be a wonderful man, indeed, who could
unite ail the antagonistic elements, now thrown
together in the Austrian Empire,and appease the
dissatisfaction and jealousy existing among the
c zechs,for Instance who, after the concessions al
lowed to thellungarlans demand similar privileges
to be extended to them also. The Czechs have
threatened and do still threaten with making
common cause with the Russians; let them do so
and they will soon discover the benefits of the
Austrian Government, as compared with the Rus
sian Government. Not many years would elapse
before those who are now ready to render mag•
thin imons assistance to the Czechlans would
•impose on them such laws as the Poles have re
ek tiny been blessed with, viz.: the entire abolition
of their native language and the substitution of
the Russian Idiom.
Under such circumstances, and with the above
mentioned difficulties to struggle against, It is
difficult indeed for the Chancellor of the Empire
to observe a jute-milieu, and to extricate Austria
at the Inane time from that enormous national
debt which has been the curse of the country for
many years past. Unless Austria gets entangled
in a foreign war, however there is reason to trope
that her financial difficulties may be straightened
in the course of a few years; bat tne political
system of the Empire appears to become a very
difficult problem to solve, and all honor will be
due the man who possesses the necessary sagacity
and discretion to extricate Austria from the laby
rinth of vexed aide questions, which are still a
great drawback to her prosperous development.
ENGLAND.
The riatufalization Question.
The Pall Mali Gazette atys:
Lord Stanley's recent despatches to Mr.
Thornton will probably satisfy Mr. Seward, if tie
was not satisfied before, that the English Govern
ment are prepared to abandon the doctrine of in
4efessible allegiance, and to negotiate a naturali
zation treaty. There was no time during last
session to introduce a bill on the subject, and this
fact Lord Stanley brings to Mr. Seward's remem
brance. For the rest, the Foreign Secretary
assures the Government and people of the United
States of the sincere desire of her Majesty's Gov
ernment to dispose of this question in a manner
which shall be satisfactory to both countries.
The people of the United States already under
stand this, and hence nothing has been heard of
the naturalization question of late in the election
campaign."
American Actors In England.
The Pall Mall Gazette has the following sensi
ble remarks upon the actors who pass themselves
off as "gre at
. .American artists:"
"There Ls no necessity to damp the enterprise
of theatrical managers in London, but it may be
asked whether the introduction of gifted beings
from foreign parts is not being carried to an ex
tent which may render people very shy of such
performers for the future. Two or three Ameri
can actors and actresses have been puffed off like
the bearded woman in a country fair, and, upon
receiving a fair trial, their deserts were not
found equal to the descriptions given of them
beforehand. Then the critics began to sneer at
all trans-Atlantic actors—forgetting, probably,
that it is not so very long ago since 'Joe Jeffer
son' aroused the enthusiastic admiration of the
oldest playgoers in England. If third-rate per
formers are to be Imported from abroad, what right
has any one to expect more in them than would
be looked for in a third-rate English actor? Here
is a very eminent Mexican tragedian, with testi
monials from the cultivated and r efined Benito
Juarez in his pocket, failing utterly in London.
On his heels there is to follow, for our delight
and improvement, a tremendously great •Ame.ri
can tragedian, who will be introduced by a gen
tleman who prides himself on outdoing Barnum.
People will, of course, say, In what state can
the dramatic art be in America when such actors
as this are called "great?'" What they ought to
ask Is, 'Who Is it that calls him great, and where
did he perform In America? What was his repu
tation there?' Before condemning the tastes •of
a people who first recognized the talent of Mdlle
Patti, and among whom Miss Cushman, Mr.
Bothell], Mr. Forrest, Mr. Owens, Miss Bateman,
and ethers were educated and trained for their
art, it would be as well to inquire into the cre
dentials of persons claiming to be eminent Ameri
cans."
Minister Johnson's Visit to Disraeli.
• The Cork (Ireland) Heralti,of August 27,speak
ing of Minister Johnson's visit to Mr. Disraeli,
says : The new United States Minister has gone
on a visit to the Prime Minister at his country
seat In Buckinghamshire. Disraeli, who is too
well acquainted with the foibles of human nature
not to gauge the potency of soft solder with an
indigenous 'Yankee, Is evidently bent on bottling
up Reverdy Johnson. America, because she Is
dreaded, is now, however, apparently in high
favor in courtly circles, and it is a marked tribute
to• her success that her representatives at the
present moment meet with as liberal hospitality
as that which awaited the Southern envoys in
those times when Mr. Glaastone Offirmed that
"the United States had ceased to exist."
FK&NCE.
M. Rocheforton the Reigning Dynasty
-"La Lanterne 97 !!peaking from
Brussels-Seizure of the Journal on
the. Frontier.
In the issue of La Lantern newspaper, No. 12,
published in .Brussels, but seized on the French
frontier when sent for circulation in the empire,
M. Rochefort publishes several article's, short
and stinging, on the reigning dynasty of the
Bonapartes.
One is headed "The Empress Abuses Her Posi
tion." The writer says : Being already on the
threshold of my second youth, my first having
been passed amid the tinsel of despotism, I was
extremely surprised at seeing the Queen of Belgi
um driving her own light carriage,drawn by four
small ponies;'and saluting in a friendly manner
all those who raised their bats: The simple al
lurements and-the- perfery modest bearing of
this young and charming Queen seem to express
that—l have no prote sions to be a political
woman ; I reign, but I do not ignore that others
govern for me, and I have no desire to take
their place. Ah ! here we are far enough from
the sovereigns who from the summit of their
PA B 8
false head-dresses preside at councils, select min
isters, organize distant expeditions, and, while
living sumptuously, derpatch soldiers to be
killed, in order to please the Archbishop of Gra
nada or the Sister Patrocfnio.
Another reads, "Absurdity of the French Cbn
stitntion," and runs:—"lt appears that the Brit
ish constitution forbids the Bovereign from speak
ing about politics. The French constitution is
less severe,and only refuses this privilege to news
paper editors."
A third is entitled, "Robbery of the Nation,"'
which" says:—"Monday, Anguet 19.—t3eventy
slx years ago to-day (In 1792) the people pil
laged the Tuileries. To-day it is exactly the
contrary."
A fourth M. Roefor "ripopari
the French Govern ch ment, t "
and heads
writ Wes: All ul thar
rests in the world will not weaken the• effect of
the lesson given t. the Tuileries. What revolu
tionary idea could have - r ossessed you to send
the hove of your France not mine) , to be directly
hissed by the students ? ou ought to have been
aware of your unpopularity, particular among
young people. If you had consulted me
you would never have committed that error
—that is, unless .you : ,.. intend It as a
provocation on your part; unless you cherish the
idea of recommencing the 2d of December with
children, under the pretext that yon have so
well succeeded with grown people. Yoursystem
is so Sympathetic that you have found means for
even Infancy to revolt, and you would do well
now to construct a Mazes for insurgents of the
tender age of three years and a half. And lam
prosecuted as being a dangerous man! It 14 you
who ought to be condemned for driving students
to hate each other.
A Mormon Missionary, but no• Ito
emits,
Under the beading of "A Mormon at Beim
Etienne" the Memortai de la Loire relates the
following: "Our city has enjoyed the distin
guished honor of having bad during the whole of
this week within its walls a Latter Day Saint.
He came a missionary from the Great Salt Lake
City and was sent to France by Brigham Young
to recruit adherents for Mormonism and take
them across the Atlantic and the United. States to
the new Zion beyond the Rocky mountains This
delegate, named James Kimball, ie the brother
GI John Kimball, some time the under-Governor
of Utah, and who has lately died, second pontiff,
of the new religion. He himself also occupies a
high rank in the sacerdotal hierarchy of the State.
Mr. James Kimball has spent his time entirely in
vain at St. Etienne. Notwithstanding his elo
quent lectures, his promises of the grandest
miracles and the prospects which be held out of
a life of happiness, he has been unable to per
fUsele any inhabitant of this city, male or female,
to follow bim to the holy land of the elect.
Singular Experiment at Havre.
The Ilarre Journal gives an account of an in
teresting experiment lately made in that port.
An American, named Stoner, dressed in an aqua
tic costume of his own invention, and accom
panied by a friend similarly attired, jumped Into
the sea from a steamer, and moved about in the
water in an erect attitude, the water only up to
the breast. He and his friend ate and drank pro
visions which they had taken with them in a tin
tor, they tired off pistols, hoisted a flag upon
the box, lay down upon the water, and per
formed various other feats, apparently as much
at their ease as if they had been on dry' land.
After an hour Mr. Stoner's companion left the
water, the motion of the waves having made him
feel rather sea sick. Mr. Stoner remained longer
and went out a long way to sea When he re
turned on board be took off his sea-going ems
tume and the , sandals; leaded with lead, which
kept him In a vertical position in the water, and
appeared In his usual dress, which had not been
in the least wetted.
SPAIN.
The Independance Beige says : "The Diario
Espanol asserts that the possibility of an ap
proaching change in the general policy of the
country is vaguely spoken of at Madrid; some
people even fancy they can indicate the course
which the Government will take. These rumors
have acquired some consistency, and our own in
formation tends to confirm them. A new
Ministry is talked of, to be taken from that sec
tion of the Moderate party which makes the
nearest approach to the Liberal Union. Marshal
Concha and MM. Alonzo Martinez and Vaha
monde are spoken of as the
,principal mem
bers. It is very evident that ptiblic opinion would
not be satisfied with so little as thisi Such a
Cabinet might no doubt recall the exiled gener a
als, and the Duke and Duchess of Montponsier
themselves,udght proclaimgi complete amnesty,
make the elections more proclaims
free, and restore
some liberty to the press, but affairs have
reached the point at which all this would pro
duce no effect. At the present moment the few
partisans of the dynasty which still cherish the
hope of not seeing it sink, have come to speak
of the abdication of the Queen in favor of her
eon, with Espartero as Regent, and it is asserted
that overtures have already been made to the
old Pro silt thief. But that would, in all
nrobabilfty, avail nothing except for the mo
ment, and would not long retard the doom
which the dynasty has brought upon itself."
Incendiarism in et. Petersburg.
[l3t. Peteseburg (Auglet 18)..ColTeepopdenes of the Lon.
- don Daily News.)
While the fires, now so frequent in England,
are so often attributed to solar ignition, those of
St. Petersburg are, on the contrary, supposed to
be the work of incendiaries. 'There is much to
support such a theory; in the first place, the
great fires which devastated whole streets of
this capital some six or seven years ago
were proved to have been caused by members
of a secret political organization, which
was brought to light after the attempt on the
Emperor's life; and in the second place, there
is no doubt that threatening letters have been
received by many persons in St. Petersburg and
its neighborhood, warning them of its intended
conflagration. The Petersburgskie redomasti
gives a transcript of one of these "proclamations,"
as they are here called, printed on thin paper,
and bearing a seal with the device "Exaspera
tion." The following is a close translation of
it :
Tux CAUSE or THE FlRES.—Numbers of peo
ple have been kept or are kept in prison under
a kind of preliminary arrest, without having
been convicted of any crime. Of such victims,
ruined and emitted as they are, a society has
been formed, which has resolved for the arrest
of every innocent man to originate a fire, in
order by such means to rouse the oppressed peo
ple; robberies to be permitted at the fires, in order
to compensate those who have been ruined, and
also to provide funds for the support of the so
cloy. The above Is hereby made known.
There's something ludicrous and childish in
this "proclamation," but it nevertheless points
to a sore place in the Russian body politic,
which, notwithstanding a kind' of habeas corpus
law, is subject to much worry and detention on
the part of the executive and secret police, par
ticularly in the capital. Besides, these "procla
mations" cannot be a hoax, as some of the Ras-
Elan, papers profess to believe. Revolution and
incendiarism are dangerous games to play in any
country, andwone but the most 'reckless would
run the risk of printing and circulating such a
document as the above. The post-office has inter
cepted several hundred copies of it, and it is said
that the police master of St. Petersburg continues
to this day to receive them through mysterious
channels.
The Continental (Paris) Gazette says •
"Adelina_ Patti made her first appearance since
her marriage on Saturday last, in "Lucia," at
Hombourg-les-Bains. She met with a great,
very great success; a superb bouquet was thrown
her from the Royal box, and it literally rained
flowers from all parts of the house, so much so
that the stage was nearly covered. It was per
haps one of her greatest triumphs. It is said
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTE3IBED. 8, 1868
RUSSIA.
Patti's jEleappearquce
OUR. WHOLE COUNTRY.
that her voice has improved. Is this possible?
Never has any one created so ranch enthusiasm
st'Bombourg.- The theatre was filled to reple
tion with gay and dazzling toilets. The follow
ing aro a few of the distinguished• persons pres
ent: His Majesty the King and Prince, Royal of
Prussia; the Duke of Cambridge; General Ton
Molke; General Von Treskow, Chief of the Chid
net; Count .Lehndod, aide-de-camp of the Empe
ror of 'Russia; Baron Anthony Rothsebild,of Lou
don; Baron Erlanger; Baron lialsenecb; Count de
Reclamiand many distinguished Americans. Upon
leaving the theatre, a fairy scene presented itself
in the illuminations of the Kursiial, and every
' where the city was ablaze with Bengal light/34;c.
The peasants came from a distance of thirty
isilles to see the Xing, having passed the night
in their wagons. A supper was given to Patti
after the performance by M. Blanc. The ball at
the Xursital was a splendid affair; the Kittg e and
all his court made their entry in the ball-room
at half-past nine o'clock, and were received by
the Direction, at tile foot of the escalier d'horoteur.
A triple row of ladles surrounded the King, who
appeared much Teased with his reception. His
bust was placed 3911 the middle of the ball-room.
Be left in company with his suite at half-past
eleven o'clock."
"Desertions from the Papal Army..
The Correspondance Italienne states that de- ,
sertere from the Pontifical army are continually
passing through Verona. They are mostly Ger
mans and Protestants. The Cause of their de
sertion appears to be the non-fulfilment of the
promises made to them at the time of their en
listment.
Ile Visits the Wilmington Commercial
—Jae is In a Benzinian Condition.
[From the Wilmington Commercial of Yesterday.' •
Shortly before eight o'clock this morning Sena,-
tor Saulsbury called at the Commercial office. He
arrived In Wilmington last week, but had hitherto
neglected to see us. Up to sometime on Satur
day the Senator had maintained the newly-formed
temperance reputation of the Wilmington De
mocracy. At that time somebody persuaded the
Senator to take something. Since then the Sena
tor has felt that his toot was on his native
heath. Fun, frolic and familiarity inspired
his condition. The sports of his happy hours
upon the Diamond at Georgetown arose
in his recollection. The Senator has ruined the
whole Democratic party's'character. Its breath
smells. This we regret, but we cannot help. Mr.
Sault bury's appearance in the Commercial office
was to some degree unexpected. He came in to
put up the money in a little bet of one hundred
thousand dollars on the election. His dress was
respectable, his boots blacked, his hair rather
awry, and his manner sportive in the extreme.
He addressed the Commercial in familiar style,
alluding to it in terms not complimentary, and
proposing to devote it to uses which its fair
pages do not deserve. He Waffled his apprecia
tioof it, however, by offering to subscribe, and
professing his readiness to draw a check for fifty
dors In payment.
A considerable number of people having
gathered around, the. Senator invited them up to
our counter to take a drink, and to the scandal
of all good people. called on Mr. Hersey, a prin
cipal pillar of the Good Tempi - ars, to set out the
bottles. This conduct of the Senator was pain
faL It indicated, how completely the Tempe
rance spirit of our Democratic opponents has fled.
Several gentlenien, fearing that our visitor was
troublesome, asked him to • accompany them to
his hotel. This, however, he persistently de
clined, and expressed his intention to remain
some time. Our young friend of sixteen years,
Charley Wiggins, having suggested a doubt as to
whether the Senator had so much loose change
in his pockets as the beta he was offering to
make, the Senatorial wrath was greatly excited,
and the Senatorial language was far from that
high level 01 politeness which we should naturally
expect from the ruling classes of Dover, and
below. He further intimated a desire to chastise
Charley, and shook tne Senatorial fist in a very
menacing manner. Gentlemen, he said, always
had money—plenty um-money.
We have no objection to people expressing
their views on political topics, but we think the
Senator meant to insult us, when he swung his
hat and said:
" Error, boys ! Lea ,giv6 thr-cheers rDemo-•
crate party, right here in Cmercial of's."
This was too much. It was more then spor
tive. For Senator Saulsbury of Georgetown to
come into the front office of the Daily Commer
,-ial, at an early hour on Monday morning, and
in the presence of a large and excited crowd, to
swing his hat and , propose three cheers for the
Democratic party, ' right here in C'mercial of's,"
is too much. We don't mind a little,prpfanity,
and we can stand a good deal of — vulgarity, when
we consider the speaker is only the representa
tive of Delaware, in the Senate of the United
States, but there is a point, as the Dechtration of
Independence pertinently remarks, beyond which
endurance ceases to be a virtue.
The Blair Family—The Father and
Two bons.
[Washington Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.]
If it should ever be your lot, walking in the
streets of Washington, to see an idiotic-faced old
man of a singular parchment ugliness, wearing a
Quaker-brimmed hat of felt or straw, his mouth
ajar, his eyes vacant, wrinkles like a withered
apple extending across his face transversely, his
sandy hairs frost smitten—a being altogether to
whose physiognomy that of Horace Greeley is
the bright and morning star—conclude the por
trait of the stranger by writing beneath It Fiank
Y. Blair.
This old man, very nearly as ugly as now, was
brought to Ibis city from kentucky by order of
Andrew Jackson, who liked the sheet lightning
way in which he "lit" upon his volitical enemies.
He was received by the whole Cabinet at dinner,
who looked at him and experienced poignant dis
apaointment. .Jackson set him at his left hand,
opposite the suave Van Buren,and he munched
through his dinner in a speechless, verdant way,
transfixed' with the wild egottsms of
old Andrew, and from that hour his
willing worshipper and eulogist.
When he got away from good society and
lifted his quill, it was seen, however, as Mr. Jack
son remarked, that he was no "smooch." What
Jackson could swear, Blair could barb and are
straight to the mark, and for all that administra
tion Blair was the daily and confidential literary
Secretary of the President. He carried his proofs
to the White House every noon, and read them
to Old Hickory, who wiped out and swore in sen
tences with a savage gluttony for adjectives and
a manifest repulsion for elegancies; but on the
beads df Blair and his partner, Rives, Jackson
poured moneys and benefits; till the one died rich
a little while ago, with one fortune here, and, it
is said, a.hundred thousand gold dollars besides
in the Bank of England, while the other, past
tbreescorwand ten, lives en in the neighborhood
of this city, and finds one of his boys a candidate
for the office of .Calhoun.
Brought up in Washington, in the prevalent
days of political way-laying, weekly and murder
ous duelling, Sara Houston sitting on a fence by
the Capitol to club an ex-(;ongressman, and one
ex-Cabinet officer driven out of the city by an
ther's cow-hide, the old man Blair himself , prac
ticing with the rifle every morning before break
fast, and capable of covering the bullet of Rives
with another at fifty yards, shot for shotwhat
wonder that the'young Births have grown up
revolutionists and. semi-savages, proud of their
unforgiving natures, and ready to upset Congresa
or rout StaWmilitia with equal brilliancy.
"What do you think'of young Frank 131airrq
said to-day to an old, - Jacksonlan Democrat, al
most as old as Frank ,Blair, Sr., himself; "you
knew him from boyhood."
"Re's a rale grit. He was alwayri lighting at
school. • He believed in the code, air; so did the
old man stand by the code; they, were all on the
code. They were good shots, and proportion
ately proud of their honore."
POLITICAL.
SENATOR SAULSBURY.
"la Faulk the equal of .Montgomery in abi
lity?"
"Smarter, sir; not so good natured, but more
popular. He'll fight quicker. Bless you! that
Frank would make no bones in cleaning out the
whole Congress, hoes, foot and artillery. He's
like the old man. He's a great reformer
Old Mr. Blair, resident at Silver Spring, a farm
which he purchased many years ago, near the
Maryland line, has mingled for fifty years in ac
tive national politics. Ho has trained his boys
for flights of cavorting, Montgomery to- be the
suave and oleaginous diplomatist, and Freak to
seek fortune *here she flies. The former has
been brought np on the model or Van Buren,.ffte
latter on the example of Jackson. The atilildee
of both are apparent, but Frank Is essentially a
feudal creature, believing according to
his vanities, flushed wltltoti compliment, the eon
of: Pallier° at a slight, while, Montgomery has
an.uneatrY jesuitry, that will:not let him be ein
cererand all of them are indbrultable,deep divers;
sure to come vp. and neither htur ever been a
a Northern man" in any fondness of heart. Thep
live now more honestly . than-they have professed
for seven years, at the bosom 4f 4 the Democracy.
Old Mr. Blair receives people at Silver Spring
with effusions of Bourbon andivolttmes of remi
niscence. He entertained Andrew ; Johnson for
two weeks after his intoxicated inangaral speech,
and there the second Andrew, imam house of the
steward of the grst, submitted to-be gently stim
ulated, fed on woodcock, arid fetched' up
to a Vice Presidential stomach at Mat. . The
whole family work together for advancement.
Their general luck has been surprising. It was
Montgomery, Blair who brought abwn to news
paper row that letter of Frank which got him , the
nornination,,and possibly the old man suggested
the time for it. Montgomery Blair is now
stumping Maryland, announcing himself as "a
mem ner of the Cabinet of President Lincoln."
To him Mr. Lincoln addressed the most per
emptory document of his Chief Magistracy, "It is
time."
The Pennsylvania Colfee-Pot.
Mr. William A. Wallace, Chairman of the Penn
sylvania Democratic State Committee, whose ex
ploits in the campaign of 1867 we have already
recorded, who' seems to have been the original
genius by whom the XXlst Senate District, con
sisting of six counties, was carried by one of the
most shameful frauds upon record, has turned
np with another address. How Wallace operated
in 1867 it may be well briefly to remind
our readers. The notion was to in
troduce into the counties of Blair, Hunt
ingdon, Centre, Mifflin, Perry, and Juniata,
sham voters enough to elect Shugart
over his Republican opponent, John K. Robin
son. How this was done with forged natural
ization papers, sealed with a stolen seal and
soaked in coffee to give them an air of antiquity,
our readers will also remember. They Will
also remember that Chairman Wallace. of the
Democratic State Committee, was proved to
have written to the County Committees a se
cret and confidential circular. These were ad
vised to employ agents to drum up and manu
facture voters. "Pay them," said Mr. Wallace),
"for their' time in warning the dilatory - and
for election day, and provide the means to
haul the slow men to the polls. It is better to
spend money in this way than in meetings. *
* * In very slow districts I would suggest
a special contract with active men, thus: In 1865,
the district polled 100 Democratic yob* in 1866;
120 Democratic votesi , now, for every Democratic
vote over 110 polled we will pay a fixed- sum the
day after election. * * * See that your
agents have all Democrats assessed, naturalized,
and their taxes paid." This was Mr. Wallaoe's
plan, and they did - assess, and naturalize, and pay
taxes with a vengeance; but Senator Shugart
couldn't keep his seat. He was ignobly hoisted
therefrom. Wellthis is an old story ; but here
Mr. William A WallaceW makes his appearance
with another document, In which he shows an
equal ability in giving color (without the aid of
coffee) to varion - s_ mendacities, some of which are
ingenious, and some not particularly so. For In
stance, Mr. Wallace asks : "Why is the National
Debt greater now than when Lee surrendered?
and why does it still increase ?" As it
isn't greater; but less by several mil
lions, and as• it doesn't still increase,
but diminishes, and as Mr. Wallace probably
knows this to be tine, we do not see why any
body should bother himself to answer this most
gratuitous and absurd question. The National
Debt has only seemed to be increased, because
there has been added to it some $32,000,000
contingent responsibilities, which will be met by
the Pacific' railroads. So much for Seymour's
misrepresentations, reproduced by Wallace's
Democratic State Committee.
Wallace proceeds to ask a few more hard ques
tions; as for instance: "Why is the Constitution
violated, and the Union not restored ? and why
are our resources wasted, the people oppressed,
the cost of living trebled, and our trade de
stroyed ?"
—When a Democrat says generally that "the
Constitution has been violated," without giving a
bill of particulars, you may be sure that he is
trying to humbug you, and the best way is to
ask him what part of the document has been
violated, and hold him down to chapter
and verse. Mr. Wallace's affection for the Con
stitution didn't prevent him from scheming a
most extraordinary and outrageous violation of
its provisions, by virtue of which he and his as
sociates undertook to override the naturalization
laws; 'nor was the gentleman very much troubled
when his Southern mends undertook to abolish
the Constitution altogether. And when he asks,
"Why is the Union not restored?" perhaps
the best answer would be, "So far as it
la eke anything of restoration it's be
cause you and your friends
_at the North have
wheedled a portion of the South into the belief
that Seymour will be elected, and that then will
be their time for making a better bargain." And
yet this 31r. Wallace is the gentleman who has
the impudence to say, "Direct your arguments
to reason and not to the passions!" This isn't
by any means the first doctor who would have
done well to take his own physic.
Whether or not it is the liveliness of his faith
in his coffee-pots which leads him to indulge in
flattering hopes, we do not know; but if he ex
pects to give the vote of Pennsylvania to Sey
mour by any of the dodges practiced in 1867, we
fancy that this time he will not find, the little
game quite so easy. Perhaps, however, we may
undervalue Mr. Wallace's talenta, in, the depart
ment of manufacturing naturalization papers
and then steeping them. in coffee to•
make their. appearance correspond with
their date. Howeyer, -as under his sug
gestion and superintendence dead people and
idiots voted, and some of them several 'times at
the same election, it is impossible to say how
many votes he might poll if he should take it into
his head to run for the Prieldency himself. At
any rate he will be a valuable man for- the De
mocracy after they have taken their predestinate
whipping under the banner of Blair
and Seymour. He can get up majorities
to order, and take contracts to carry
States with a sure confidence in
his talent for making American citizens out of
the raw material in the twinkling of an eye.
Wherefore, we advise him not to waste his
powers upon others, but to run for the Presi
dency next time himself. And we have no
doubt that John Alien, "the Wickedest Man in
New York," could be induced'to run for Vice
President on the same ticket and 'perhaps go
into Pennsylvania to boss Mr. 'Wallace's next
job. We believe that It was only found neces-
eery to commit ono murder during the
last operation—that of a poor Irishman,
who, having sold himself, didn't know enough to
hold his tongue. With a capacity for polling
perfectly unlimited vote, Ur. 'Wallace shetultl4ir A n
for something. And, with' the warning fat
the poor Vict of last year before the pnbllw no
more murders, probably, will be necessary, Then
there is the Voting Idiot, who, we bellevt, is still
living. Then there are the useful gentlemen
•with abilities fdi voting in half a down precincts
on the same day. Oh! Mr. Wallace.caust certainly
run for the Preeldency!—N. ; . ribane of to-day.
FETHERSTOIC
PRICE THREE CENTS,
FACTA AND RAMOSE%
, -
—Marine security—the bold of a shirr.-
--The beginning of wisdom—the letteriNt.
—3liss Kellogg is expected home in a feW dart:-
Cincinnati humanitarian has invented
a carriage where the horse rides inside.
—Lotta. according , to latest advertisements, in
a "Diamond Edition of Dramatic Delights."
--Virginia tobacco is suffering from grasshop--
pers.
—.Ala•An twerp papa advocatea'a tax on boctia 4,
Lore. - •
—Pads Is about to met a etatne•ta the Prince;
—Hanover sent a boy of fifteen to prison.t
for singing two lines of the national , hymn.
—At Niagara, flays a sufferer, no tourist, how
ever fierce, can help giving quarter. <
—A case of the Grecian bend is reported in
Camden. It was an Irishman over a saw-horse. •
—The North American says "Recorder Given •
Interested himself for the negro Alexander." Of'
course Alexander is for-Ginn.
—Mrs. Fkott Siddourtelocated'TennysonTs "May
Queen," at Newport,. and made -- everybody blab
ber.
—Constantine Henry Demosthenes is the ha
nosing name of the very small berry who is heir
to the Greelathrone.
—A Berlin gentleman hatched , ems In the eun •
during the heat of July. --.0.7. Did the. Berlin.
gentleman set on 'era?
—A man n ke the yof his ad
daughter ht thhouse sev p en t teen bod days, untß de he
could get np'a raffle to pay`the funerakespenses.
—A Mormon- elder was recently made very
much of a parent. He was presented with nine
boys and five girls the Baum morning-
—ln consequence of the building of railroads,*
the Ohio river trade at Cincinnati is• not one
sixth of what it was twenty years ago.
—Up Chestnut street there is a rustic neat at a
store-door, labelled "Croquet-seat;!' and on it
sits a colossal terra-cotta frog. •It Is-so natural
that one can almost detect its croak—eh,r
simultaneously, th n a L o M d .
on El t an ko P sP a h rl s l ,.a
a o r i g s i v o e f
grand concerts, with• performers to thelittrober
of 6004.
—Some of the Russians now attrihute the ter
rible fires In that country to the vengeance of the
Poles for the oppressive acts-of the Rtiaslane gor
ernmen I.
—An exchange says: The West Point cadets
cost Uncle Sam nearly. $15,000 apiece. Not one
in ten is worth the cost, bat now and then the
school turns out a soldier of priceless value.
—The Buffalo Cow.merma/ denies that ex-Presi
dent Fillmore suffers 'from the gout. He walks
briskly, and without the aid of a cane. Nobody
cares particularly about it either way.
—Matilda Heron has concluded to. devote-her
entire attention to the instruction of young la-,
dies for the highest rank of the drama. Terms
from one to five hundred dollars-a' quarter. Poor
pupils, will be instructed for nothing.
—A somewhat silly humorist says that on cats
he "don't go very heavy. Not so, much, on, ac
count of their .staying out late lanes, dispensing
mournful lirricks, as the habit they have ofigoing
intew fits and playing Mazeppa on the ceiling."
—A man in Batavia. Ohio, has been exhibit/lam
specimens of gold sald to have been dug up. on
his farm. it stow turns out that they were sent
to him from California, and were- used, tee nuke
his farm sell at a higher. price..
—"Pa," sable small boy to his paternal an
cestor, holding a Sunday-school - ptcturs , book, -
"what's that?" "That, my son s is .racotpwre.st
ling with the. angels." "And which licked'?" in
quired the young hopeful.
—Thurlow Weed reports Catlin, the Anaerieatt
artist, whose gallery of Indian portraits at
tracted •so much attention thirty years agoy.resi
ding at Brussels,. and passing his old age in pov
erty.
—Bishop Platzk, of Russia, some time since
received•an order to• send a delegate to the Cath
olic Synod, then about to convene under the di
rection of the Emperor. The Bishop refused to
comply) and has Just been banished to• Siberia
for his refusal.
—lt has been decided in Chancery. that. Dr.
Wendell Holmes got a good British copyright
on the "Guardian Anger - hy living in Montreal
for &week, and enjoined a Erm whieb.reprinted
it from the A ago*. Holmes las prettyLpttgiliSt,
to gat his guardian angel m "eltancer2:."
—The Inquirer gives a wonderful account of
the races this morning,commencing with c "Wu°
MADE TTP THE MAMMY THRO:10 : GAMEZEIti,
ROUGHS, BLAcaucc.s," and ending with a list o'
the prominent persons in the "motley throng,"
including Hon. Samuel J. Randall, P. Newton
Brown, F,sq„ Coroner Daniels, Aldermen Jones
and Dougherty, and e a
lot more of well-known
and respectable citizens.
—Boggs likes a warm bed. One- mooning an
agent for a patent tire-extinguisher tried to sell
him a recipe. "Look here," said, Boggs, "If
you'Ve got anything that'll save me•fr.'om getting
out of bed in the cold every morning:, to build
a fire for my wife to get breakfast, by, I'll buy
it ; but don't come around here tvying to sell
stuff to put 'ern out, it's too much trouble to
start 'em."
—A new story of Robert Hall is going the
rounds of the Engilar papers, te, the effect that
one of his congregation took him to task for not
preaching more frequently' on predestination.
Hall was very indignant. He looked steadily at
his censor for a moment and replied: "Bir,l par-_
ceive you are predestinated to. be an ass; and
what is more, I see yon are determined b make .
your calling and election sum"
—Chentbini was standing In a, doorway, trying
to shelter himself from the beating raiAunder an.
umbrella rather the worse for wear. Ai gentle
man passing in a cab - recognized the tooestro,and,
pulling pp, politely placed the vehicle at his db
pore]. Cherubini accepted the offer. . and the -
kindly stranger, who had acted thnssolely in the
interests of art, on taking: C2terublai's place in,
the doorway, requested the-loan of the umbrella.,
"I never lend my umbrei!a„" returned. Cherabhl4._
and drove off,
—General J. B. Maderrecently lectured ,
Saratoga Springs on 'an.. Re declared,
that it was Napoleon'B. desire to.encourage the.
Confederate cause, ant to' break up. the Union if -
possible; and the invasion of Mexico was runde'
to accomplish those ends, and at tie same time,
gain a foothold on this continent. Maximilian,
he said, on the contmiry, favored the Union, and.,
sympathized with the. North., and hoped, by,
mining rectignition of the North'to introduc4•
American ideas sete, enterpinse into bit/tee:lo de-_
velop its resources.
—A story, quoted from an American nurnale.
went the round of the Eaglish nress a shertitiele,
ago to the eft:let that Mr. Lorigfellow hademee
met with contemptuous treatment at tlx. hands,
of Lord Lytton—then Sir Edward.Bulwer The
report stated that the
-poet went to.Knebwortit
with a letter of intro action to the distinguished,
novelist, but that tho anther.of "Eugene Aram"
not only *would not vouchsafe an interview, but.
treated Mr. Lon' allow in an insulting manner.
The paragraph has been forwarded to his lord*
ship, and he has replied it is "an impudent false-,
hood, from beginning to.enti." .
Salt Lake correspondent bays: "All that
has been said'of the Salt Lake Theatre is true. It
is a perfect model Pieces are put upon the stage
here as well as at any, of the theatres in the large
cities. The company Is excellent, the costumes
are rich, the.,Bc-enerrtie best! I have seen In
America. The utmost order and cleanliness pre
vall. The stage is very large, and the house seats
two thousand two hundred comfortably. There
is ,a splendid paint shop, a tailoring shop for the
manufacture of wardrobe,• a room far ladles'
dressmakers; a well stocked wardrobe. any quan
tity •ot elegant dressing-rooms, large greet.,
room, etc.'