The "Double Acrostics for the Services" arg distinguished by the two principal words be- ing connected with the Naval and Military professions; suck for example as "Sword," Marling-apiko," "Platoon," c. No such restriction applies to the lights. All solutions should be sent to Enrron, China Mait Office, by noon, on the Friday follow ing the publication of any one Acrostic, with the word "Acrostic" on the envelope. Any arriving Bubacquently will not be enter
tained.
THE DOUBLE ACROSTICS FOR THE gress, in order that he might appear per.
SERVICES:"
sonally in his own behalf. He wrote Chairman Springer, that if he would thus prolong the investigation until he (Seward) could arrive, he would vindicate himself completely and refute all the vile slanders that had been uttered against him.". Es obtained leave from the department to come to Washington for this purpose, and Chair man Springer induced Mr Evarts to add to the telegrams granting this leave, Instru- tions to bring the books which the com- mittes wanted. Seward was represented before the committee by able attorneys, and his defense throughout consisted of tho plea entered by him at the bar of the House that he could not be forced to criminate hlinself. He admitted that the books demanded did contain a record of the business of the consulate, but said there were "other entries and memoranda in them which related to his personal matters." He had scarcely had time to resomo his money-making operations when Consul Mosby opened upon him and his confede- rates. The official diepatoh sent by the present consul in relation to the rascality formerly practiced at that consulate is as follows:
HONG Koso, February 20, Hon. F. W. Seward, Assistant, etc.
A premium of $10 will be given to the person giving the greatest number of correct sola- Bona by New Year's day. Every Saturday a new Acrostic will be given, together with the solution of the one of the previous week. The earcossful names will also be published.
1.
Squad trumpete roll the doubling drum ! Stand close, ye eager.ranks, I come! I come! List to my tatal voice, that ugly crash,
I
THE CHINA MAIL.
[No. 8080
OCTOBER 18, 1879,
"Yes, sir, and a man like you, with a fine descriptive ability and inexhaustible com- mand of language, which has made you famous in two continents
“How many columns do you want?" "Oh, as many as yon please." "When will the show be here?” "Perhaps not for two months; it takes ench a long time to move the animals tha' our progress across the country is slow,bi Just so. Well, our figures for big circuses like yours are 150 dols. per column, eseb down, and 30 per cent, of the gross receipts if the show is a success.","s
His offefal textimony shows that Balley, islands some years, is the best encourage- and more latelligible Lord, Au aide-de- the points when I know he possesses the while consul at Hongkong, robbed the ment that can be offered, and forms more oamp rides behind him; hats or hands rise talent to handle them in the right style. government of over forty thousand dollars, than suficient inducement to others to go electrically as he passes, yet it is felt in Some fellows down at Reno and Carson in the one item of emigration fees. Instead there. Upon this point, it may be mentioned secret that he is not pregnant with such tried to pump me, hut I didn't propose to of injuring Mr Bailey in the estimation of that the steamship Electra, which left thundercloude of rupees, and that he can let a description of my show be mangled the State Department, and of the Fraudu Whampoa a few days ago with nearly 600 not make or mar a Rajsh. To the Rajah up by scrub writers. Besides Sebastian lent Administration, this official evidence of passengers for Honolulu, had to leave behind it is an ever recurring question whether it telegraphed me from New York last night bis dishonesty seems to have commended more than one hundred passengers who were is necessary or expedient to salaam to the not to let anybody but you get aboard of him. He was ronominated for consul-anxious to go. In no other place have the Jangy Lord and call upon him. He is the first grand description, Just mention general, and the Senate, not being aware of Chinese so intermarried with the natives. bedged about with servants who will re- four miles of onges containing wild beasts, the Mosby dispatch, confirmed him. It Many of them who have been there a few quite to be richly propitiated before any with twelve new varieties of elephante, anu was not the intention of the State years have accumulated considerable pro- dusky countryman of theira, great or small, a recently discovered monster from Afr department that the contents of this dia perty, and not a few have become store- gets access to this Lord of theirs. Is it, called the jabberwock, which weighs 8,0, patch should ever be made public. It was keepers. All the Chinese women there are then, worth while to pass through this fire pounds." kept among the "State" secrets of the married; it being said that Chinese prosti- to the possible Molooh who sits beyond ? "Indeed!" department, and only reached the public tation is unknown in the Hawaiian group. Will this process of parting with colu-this eye by means of a copy mailed from It says not a little for the enterprise of the Valley of the Shadow of Death-lead them Col management of a Chinese Steamboat Com- to any palpable advantage ? Peruspa the Hongkong to unofficial quarters. Mosby, haring entered upon the task of pany that they should seek to extend their War Lord with his red right hand can add exposing this ring, is not the man to drop flag to distant seas; and no more convincing guns to their salute; perhaps he will speak it or leave off nntil his work is accomplish-proof could be furnished that China is slow- a commendatory word to bir cante-fellow, ed. His official head ray fall at the ly, yet surely, departing from her traditional the Country Lord? These are precious bidding of the Sewards, and it is quite policy of exclusiveness and isolation, possibilities likely this will happen; but he has given Celestial Empire. the case against Seward a fresh impetus, and no doubt Congress will again take hold of it next winter. Not only have the corruptions of United States coneuls and ministers in Chias brought disgrace upon the fair name of the United States but the effect has been disastrous to American SIR,- donirs to call the attention of the shipping interests. An American realdent
"It would be, perhaps, for a small pro- department to a question of interest both to
of China writer : "The fact is that
vincial journal like the New York Herald, myself and the Government. An act of Con- American consuls out here have beon a
or even the London Times, but we cironlate gress, passed in 1862, required all vessels carry greater terror to our ships than the
You will know 'Arry Bobbery if you meet each a mammoth edition that the price is Though lost to Albion, yet abroad I'm seon ing Chinoso emigrants to the United States to
Alabama ever was; so much so, that
him, dear Vanity, by the peculiarly gracious comparatively trifling. Fourteen freight have the certificate of the United States consul
several lines of steamers have been delven
way to which he forgives and forgets if you care come up every day with paper for our A pretty decoration now, I ween;
residing at the port of departure to the fact of
commit the indiscretion of lending him edition, which is worked off on five big Time was when sterner use my aid employed their voluntary emigration. All of the Chinese for protection under the English flag."
money. You may be sure that he will Walter presses, lightning geared. Our ex- І виррова кате
never allude to the matter again, but will pense for steam alone, sir, is 3.000 dole. And many a knight my succor hath enjoyed-euigrants go from this port, and
gons with Wie necessary certificato ever since the
COMMERCE BETWEEN CHINA AND
rather wear a piquant do-ft-again manner a day. We have more carriers than you Full many a lance bath splintered. on my enactment of the law. On examination of the
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
What does the Commander in Chief com-like our irresistible little friend Conny B could pack in your largest tent. Our records of this consulate, I can find no credit to
The departure of the China Merchants' mand? Armies? No. In India Comman, I don't believe, however, that Bob Eastern circulation has been increasing at front,
the Government for any fees collected on this account previous to the fourth quarter of 1871, steamer Ho-chung for Honolulu, and the ders-in-Chief command no armies. The bery will ever become a Commander in the rate of 1,000 a day for the last two although, as 1 na informed by those who know, prospect of direct communication being re- Commander-in-Chief only commanda re- Chief, though his diatant couala, Scindia, years. By simply cutting down the size of foas have always been charged for this service.gularly established between the Celestial
is a General, and though they talk of the paper th of an inch, our proprietor has Since 1873, in every quarterly statement, there Empire and that port, are directing a large
The Commander-in-Chief is himself a pawning the long-shore Governorship of saved money enough to build four school- is a credit for the amount of emigration fees amount of attention to the Sandwich Islands. army. His transport, medical attendance, Bombay to Sir Cow-ass-gre-bottle-boy. houses worth 40,000 dols, each, and endow- collected, and a charge for the "expense, as per A brief glance at their past history and pro-and provisioning are cared for department-
ALI BABA. ed an orphan asylum in each county in the voncher," for collecting them. By a strange sent position may, therefore, be of some in-ally, and watched over by responsible-Vanity Fair.
State. He doesn't run the paper for oincidence, the debit for expenso always terest. It is just about a century ago since officers. He is a host in himself; and a
money, but just simply for his health and balances the credit for collection, so that the
this group of islands was discovered corps of observation.
because he likes the country. Our malling. Government got nothing. The total amount of Captain Cook. Their population was then these fees, as appears by the record, stuce 1871 estimated at 400,000; but it was probably
and folding machinery would remind you of ja $14,345.76. The late vice-consat in charge,
the Risdon Ironworks," nearer half a million. The official census
"Is it in this building?" "Oh, no.; this is simply our branch
That awful burst, you sudden lurid flash! Now on, my merry men, the steep aseand— Strike firm and fast; may God the right de-.
fend,
Of many a home-thrust have I borne the
brunt.
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'Mongst Cambria's warriors I linger still"; Een awful Justice owns my potent sway: At masques and routs my ancient role I fill And keep the merry "tenor of my way"!
2.
Though deep and glorious be my rolling
flood
Yet ofttimes bath my channel run with blood.
3.
Found on the burning prairie, seen on the
raging sea,
Whatever troubles mortal, centres itself
nie.
4.
A virgin sought of old to wife-- Sad cause of fratricidal strife,
5.
A short life and a merry one, my friend As long as luxury its zest can lend.
>
6.
There's not a ship that puts to sea
But carries many a one like me.
YORICK.
MATIC SERVICE IN CHINA.
CORRUPTION PREVALENT FOR YEARS
in
GOVERNMENT SAID TO HAVE BEEN ROBBED OF $40,000 BY & CONSUL AT HONGKONG.
FORMER
The Washington Post of August 18th has an article on the U. S. Consular and Diplo matto Service in China, which cannot but prove of great interest to all classes in Hongkong and Chins generally, alike to
of fees for certificates for Chinese emigrante
ha selimated, therefore, that within the last
ехрадва
of examining the emigrants. I do
We reproduce the article, not omitting the nominal sum covered by his receipts is so
journalism :-
MOBBY TO THE FRONT.
AN OLD-STYLE SURPRISE BY THE XX- PARTISAN LEADER.
THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.. At Simla and Calcutta the Government of India always sleeps with a revolver under its piliow-that revolver is the Commander in-Chief. There is a tacit understanding that this revolver is not to be let off; io- dead, sometimes it is believed that this revolver is not loaded.
The Commander-in-Chief has a seat in Conncil; but the Military Member has a voice, This division of property is seen everywhere. The Commander-in-Chief has many offices; in each there is some one other than the Commander-lu-Chief who dlechargos all his duties..
spect.
paragraphs.
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A Rajah whom I am now prospecting for the Foreign Office asked me the other day where Commanders-in-chief were ripen. ed, seeing that they were always.80 mallow and blooming. I mentioned a few nursery gardens I know of in and about Whitehall and Pall Mall, H. H, at once said that he would like to plant his son there. This a young Arry Bobbery, already favour- ably known on the Indian Turf as an enter prising and successful defaulter.
оде
The ofrons agent seemed greatly affected. "Isn't that rather steep ?" he said, its
AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE. To describe the peculiaritica of an American audience is much like describing a level country; the latter rich, perhaps, in foliage; the former brilliant with bon-office-the pince where we write up cir. nets and drapery, but both monotonous and
cuses. Our principal establishment is without variety. The fashionable * firat
The circus agent groaned as if in agony, and fled from the office. Virginia" Oity night" audience in New York has. interesting peculiarity worth noticing. It Chronicle (Nevada). is good-natural and kindly to a degree, which utterly destroys its value as a jury for the trial of a new piece or a new actor. Those interested in the result must watch it very closely, and with the eye of experience, to judge whether the applause is merely conventional, given as a matter
A NERVOUS PEOPLE. · Excellent medical authority asserts that the constant strain of business, added to the dryness of our climate, has so changed the constitation that it is impossible for us to do
Newark Advertiser,
All the world observes bim. His slightest movement creates a molecular disturbanos Mr. Loring, informes me that no record was kept taken in December, 1878, gives the number in type, and vibrates into newspaper going to the United States in vessels carrying of the aborigines as only 44,000. In other When Commanders-in-Chief are born the foreign flags, but that those feus were regarded words, the population has decreased by nine-world is unosnscious of any change. No as unofficial and retained tho perquisites of tenths sines the first impact of the islanders
one knows when a Commander-in-Chief is the consul. There is a line of steamers, the with civilisation. If the decrease goes Oriental & Occidental Co., carrying the British on at the same rate, some modern novelist born. No joyful father, no pala mother has ever experienced auch an event as the flag, that has for several years been running may write a book on The Last of the birth of a Commander-in-Chief in the fa- regularly between Hong Kong and San Fran- Hawaiians," probably wore, real but not less mily. No Mrs Gamp has ever leant over cisco. As this company runs three large steam-touching than the work in which Cooper has the bannisters and declared to the expectant ors and the Pacific Mail. Co. only runs two, it told how a once powerful and well-known father below that it was "a fine healthy may fairly be inferred that the Oriental race of Indians perished off the earth. The Commander-in-Chief." Therefore, a Com-
line and other foreign vessels havé
sanses of the decline are various, and though mander-in-Chief is not like a past But carried or many emigrants as the other. It may the missionaries are anxious to point out when a Commander-in-Chief dies, the spirit sight years over $80,000 have been collected that it is not due to "civilization, but the of a thousand Beethovens sob and wail in of etiquette, so to speak, or the true what our fathers did before us safely. “We here in emigration fees, or a sum about equal to vices of civilization," the rosult is pretty the air; dull cannon roar slowly out their expression of aroused feeling. Every one, are," say Dr Beard, ten degrees more sen- like very much to be allowed to retain these fees said that barbarism ever falls before civili heavy grief; silly rifles gibber and chatter excepting, of course the critics, seems to gositive to cold than they were," as the cases the consular salary for that period. I would much the same. It is sometimes boastfully
demoniscally over bis grave; and a cocked with placed determication that he or she of sunstroke and beat prostration bear if it can properly be done, but I do not feel zation; but it is sad to have to note that the hat emptier than ever, rides with the will do bis or her duty is making the evidence. There is an immense increase in justified in appropriating them, in the absence conquest is only gained by the annihilation of intructions from the department. No foes from of the barbarians. The inferior race is not mockery of despair on bis coffin. On Sunday occasion successful, whether the author, this source have ever, I believe, been turned elevated, strengthened, and absorbed by the evening, after tea and catechism, the Su-actor, and managers have done theirs or neuralgia, sick headache, hay fever, nervous prene Council generally mest for riddles not. The peralatanoy with which this exhaustion, and especially in dyspepsia, in into the Treasury, but all have either been superior one, but is simply destroyed-pcase and forfeits, in the snug little dick-room determination is sometimes doggedly ad-itself the potent source of a host physical retained by the consal or consumed in the fully and quietly, it is trge, but with parlour at Peterhoff. "Can an army tailor i hered t, like the forced simile of the bored and mental irritants and distresses. Now with such systems as we have, high strang, not propose to charge the Government anything certainty as great as though it were mowed make a Commander-in-Chief?" was ouce guests at a fashionable dinner party, is for expenses of examination, for I see no good down by cannon. There are some outward asked. Elhs old beads wore scratched and amusing, and almost quaint in its poulla nervous and irritable, the use of stimulants cannot be otherwise than injurious. It is feet why there should be any, and I expect to aspects, no doubt, upon which missionaries searched, but no answer was found Nority. A member of a New York first night impossible to use them as they were used in do this work in person. This duty, I learn, has and others dwell with great complacency, if sound was heard eave the seathing whispor audienos makes the French expression the days gone by. There is hardly a man litherto been performed by one Peter Smith, not porfect satisfaction. Heathen usages of champagne ebbing and flowing in the liberal-he assists, and it is not his fault if of middle age who does not remember that whose receipts constituted the vouchers for the may have given place to forms of Christian sight oli heads. Outside, the wind moaned his assistance is in vain. This pharacteristic hospitality and a sideboard of wines and "expense seconut. The following is a brief worship; in Hen of the old savage in his war through the rhododendron tress; within makes an absolute failure in that city the THE U.S. CONSULAR AND DIPLO history" of the ceremony of examination: On paint, there may be a decorous congrega- the Commander in-chief wept peacefully. most ghastly and formidable thing of its liquors were synonymous terms. Both men
the day before a vessel was to leave with Chinesotional deacon; and peaceful pursuits may emigranta, no matter whether foreign or Ameri- have succeeded the fierce and cruel babits of He thought of Ali Masjid, and he thought author or manager can brace his nerves habit. It would be folly to say that what He felt the awkwardness of the situation, kind known to the civilized world. An and women drank freely, and professional men and the clergy indulged in the same can, the United States consal was informed that former daya. But want of the loathsome of Laandula; he saw himself reflected in against the noisy indignation of a disgusted is a vise now was a virtue then, but it can at a certain bour the passengers would be ready diseases, and the hardly less destructive the mirror, and he declared that he gave and demonstrative audience. He obe safely asserted that people did indulge on board for examination. At the appointed vices which have hurried so many thousands it up. An aide-de-camp stood at the do rendure less easily, but still endure, the tirae Peter Smith appeared, with the consular seal, the passengers came on deck and passed in of the innocent ielanders to their graves? hiccupping idly. He was known to have ender silence of a grieved and disappointed then without the same injurious effects that review before him, each being asked if he was a Kuakini, an old converted Governor of Havested all his paper entrency in Sackville audience. But what amount of writhing flow the practice now The predominant voluntary emigrant. If he said that he was, his waii, once asked a missionary, "Why did treet; and he felt in honour bound to say and gosthing of the teeth can express his nervousness of the present time had n ticket was stamped with the consular seal. It not our children die as frequently in the that the riddle was a little hard on the feelings when an audience (as I have seen been developed. Our ancestors could drink in Now York) calls up the curtain on the excess in tea and coffee, and yet live to a freely, emake extravagantly, indulge to would take, on an average, ahout one hour to time of our dark-heartedness as they do army tailors. So the subject dropped. complete the investigation." This is the whole now?" We do not know what answer was A Commander-in-Chief is the most bean. first, second, third, sad fourth acts, of a
serene old age; now it is simply impossible. proceeding, the Government being charged also returned, but the missionary admits that tiful artice of social upholstery in India new play, and two-thirds of it quietly with the expense of boat-hire, in addition to the the question "puzzled him.""
He sits in a large obair in the drawing-walk out of the house before the curtain True, the traffle in ardent spirits has enor
monsly increased, but so has the population; amount for which Peter Smith has receipted. Some valuable light has of late years been From all I have learned, I have no doubt that thrown on the causes of the dealing of aberi room. Heada and bodies sway vertically rises on the fifth not? In such a case there true people yet drink to excess, but they de
in passtag him. Peter Smith has only played the part of John ginals when brought in contact with the
He takes the oldest is hardly an expression of disapproval natives, Americans and other foreigners Dos and Richard Hoe in the proceeding. The higher races, and it is shown that the result his drowsy cackle. He pays "Yes" and of the house, except in the subdued tones altered cases, and two-thirds of the present woman in to dinner; he gratifies her with heard throughout the evening in Buy part not do it with impunity. Circumstances have head-lines to characteristic of American absurdly out of proportion to the time he was though largely, is by no means wholly, dus "No" to everyone with droway civility of private conversation between the acts terrible effects flowing from intemperance employed and the value of the services that he to what are called the "vices of civiliza-everyone is conciliated. His stara dimly The gallery boy in the back row mentions are des to the change in the physiological rendered, or was capable of rendering, se to tion." It would appear that the transforma- twinkle-twinkle; the host and hostess his impressions to his neighbor, but jalus conditions of the human race, and especially exclude any other conclusion. He is an intarate tion to new modes of life is too sudden to enjoy their light. After dinner he dessute the goatleman in the parquet whenever in this country, where people are strung up keeper of E sailor's boarding-house, and I have allow of adaptation to the new conditions; elaret into his venerable person, and tells there is a chance to appland. As the curtain to a tension that will no more allow a free no doubt would contract to day to do the whole for, as Mr Herbert Sponeer so well points an old story; the company smile with inno- falls, the hands that have just been going use of strong drinks than a barn filled with work for $100 a year, and consider himself well out, the life and health of an organized body cant joy. He rejoins the ladies and leers through the form of respectful approval straw will permit the introduction of fire. paid. As I have already said, I intend personal imply an equilibrium between the external kindly on a pretty woman; she forgives reach for hats and closks, and the last sot ly to inspect the emigrants, no matter whether er incident" forces and the forces of the herself a month of indiscretione. He is left to its fate with a remnant of the the department declares the fees received for the organized body. The Polynesian islanders tonches Lieutenant the Hon. Jupiter audience, more patient than the deserters, service to be official or unofficial.
were not only unable to resist the imported Smith on the elbow and inquires after his but not more calm, serene, and placid.— evinced a determination to stand by Seward, from other causes connected with civiliza-is thus a source of harmless happiness to
The State department has from the first epidemic diseases, but they also suffered mother; a noble family is gladdened. He Bronson Howard in the Pheatre, and to crush all who testify against him, or tion. The foreign dress, which many have himself and to those around him. Mr Hayca' consul at Hongkong, ex-Con in any mesaure aid in the exposure of his adopted, is manifestly unsuited to them; If a round of ball cartridge has been federate Ges. Mosby, has officially informed dishonest practices. A single incident that and as they still regard clothing more as wasted by a suicide or a pair of ammuni- the State department that corruption has occurred during the progress of the Springer ornamental than useini, they wear it in a tion boots carried off by a deserter, the for years pervaded the United States con- investigation will illustrate this. The com- very irregular manner. A writer records Commander-in-Chief sometimes visits a sular and diplomatic service in China. His mittes decided to hold their meetinga at seeing some native church-goers who, being great cantonment under a salute of seven- ele offico and asked if the amusement him responsible for not communicating com- testimony cannot be ignored or set aside the State department, because the papers caught in a shower, threw off their finery, teen guns. The military then express their by Mr Evarts, as was the case with the and records wanted were all there. Secre men and women together, and entered the evidence taken by the Springer cornmitre. tary Evarts and his assistant, Fred Seward, meeting-house almost is puris naturalibus, joy in their peculiar fashion, according to For all the peculation and crime committed professed an earnest desire to add the com- with their coats and gowns in bundles under takes out his charger and gallops heedlessly their station in life. The cavalry soldier by the Seward ring in China, and for the mittee, and detailed two olerks to look up their arms. The coughing and eneezing of up and down all the roads in the station. atigins those dishonest officials have put each documents as they wanted After a the congregation, it is added, almost drow The sergeants of all arms fume about as if upon the country, the Republican party few days' experience with them, Chairman ned the voice of the preacher,
transacting some important business be has become responsible. When the De Springer became auspicious that these clerks We need not, however, enter farther into ween the barracks and their officere quar mocratie majority in the last House sought were not producing the records with as the canses of the decrease of the population. tors. Subalterns bang about the mess, to arraign beward, and by punishing him much readiness as they might, so he put It is believed that the islands are capable of whacking their legs with small pieces of and his confederates, thus vindicate the both of them on the stand, and swore them supporting several millions, whilst at present cana and drinking, pega with mournful in- honor of this Government, the Republican without a moment's warning. They testified the natives number only 44,000. Their difference. The Colonel sende for everyone minority offered united resistance. They that Mr Brown, chief clerk of the depart geographical position, their natural fertility, who has not the privilege of sending for Alibustered for thirteen hours to prevent ment, bad instructed them to submit all and the smallness of their population, have hima, and says nothing to each one sternly the adoption of the committee's report, and papers and records called for to him, before of late years attracted much attention to and deolaively. The Majors and the officers the leaders openly proclaimed that they laying them before the committee Gthem; and it has been felt that, with the doing general duty, go to the Club and I would consume the balance of the session Wiley Wells was a victim to the Seward in- necessary labour, they might be greatly wear before the villans that they are "Well, here's my card," said the little smallest part of the evil, however. We in dilstory motions rather than allow any finance. He was appointed during a recess improved and their resources developed worked off their legs, complaining Bercely man, handing out & piece of paper about know of three compositors, and one foreman part of the testimony to go into the Record of Congress as consul general at Shanghai, King Kalakun and his government seem dis to themselves that the Forvice is going, &c., five-inches square. You may have heard printer who have committed suicide by Some of the most important bills of the to take the place of Saward, just promoted posed to welcome foreigners and to encourage &c. The Deputy Assistant Quartermaster of me before-Clarence De Lacy Slocum, drowning since those Datoh banks began to sealon remained to be noted upon, and la to minister. Wells discovered that corruptrade. At present the chief export, is sugar, General pats on all the gold lace he is agent of the Sebastian Nan Buena Vista fail, thereby causing a glut in the shrimp order that they might not fall, Mr. Springer tion had ruled in every business of the con- which finds a ready market in America. It allowed to wear, and gallops to the Assist Circus and Menagerie. This is by far the market and giving an inky flavour to the withdraw his report and Seward escaped. sulata. He undertook to reform the evils is believed that the islands contain valuable ant Adjutant-General, where he has tiffin. largest combination of gigantic circuses crabs, These unfortunate men did not ban The testimony against him was conclusive. and punish the rascals, but lost his official deposits of guano, Horses and cattle are The Major-General Commanding writes ever put on the road We started out long to the News Letter ollos Not at He was arraigned before the bar of the head before he could accomplish anything, exceedingly numerous, House for contempt. He had refused to As soon as Congress met, the Seward influ-pulation will, of course, add greatly to the notes to all his friends, and keeps orderlies about five years ago in a small way with all. We are too careful of the lives of our. flying at random in every direction. The not over 400,000 feet of canvas, only nine printers for that, and have machine prodose certain books which formed a part once procured the appointment of Bailey, quantity of produce raised, larger imports Commander-in-Chief, who had a disturbed tents, and marcely 1,500 animals, but we (patent applied for) expressly tovented for of the record of his former consulate, and then consul at Hongkong, as consul general, will be needed, and so commerce with the sight in the train, deeps peacefully through gradually absorbed all the small-fry shows. such emergencies. It is like a giganto in- contained the entries of its business, His and Wells was re-called. Bailey was an islands will be extended. If Mr C. C. on the day, and leaves amier another They would go into bankruptor along the verted pepperonator, with holes in the litt plea was that if these books would criminate active member of the Beward ring, and he Moreno be successful in the important com salate in the afternoon. He shakes hands ronte, and we would buy their outfits large enough to let type slip through freely him, under the Constitution he could not sought to have Loring, another confederate, marcial mission with which he has been with everyone he can goe at the station, Sebastian, our owner, is the most symps. It takes some time to get the name of be compelled to produce them. Though appointed to the place be (Bailey) had just entrusted by the China Merchants' Company, and jumps into a long saloon carriage, shows and pay double price, just to help we are warned by the arrival of the first thetic man on earth. He'd buy their little. Datoh bank along the wires, and as soon as he escaped impeachment through the comrasated. This would have made the cor- it may be expected that a considerable in followed by his staff. bined efforts of his party, a verdict of rupt airde complate, and opened an era of petus will be given to trade between China A deuced native old fellow everyone the poor devils along. Money is of no instalment our machine is promptly hafsted guilty was rendered against him by the good stealing that would have delighted and the Sandwich islands. New projects says: and they go home and dine solemnly account to him. He's travelling simply for into position over the form. As the name American public. Mr Seward returned to the gang and filled their pockets. Untor are sometimes spoken of in too glowing oo with one another under circumstances of pleasure and a desire to see the great West. continues to come in, four able-bodied men. Chius, however, and resumed his position as tunately, however, for the plunderers, Col.lours, and a correspondent who refers to the extraordinary importance.
*Fd like to know him," remarked the shovel type into the Dutobomater Fram: the envoy extraordinary and minister pleal- Mosby was sent to Hongkong, and they in- islands as possessing for the Chinese "the
well-mixed heap of all the latters in the potentiary of the United States. He had stinctively feared him. The first steamer attractions of El Dorado," probably goes very remarkable on the poor Indian, whose
The effect of the Commander-in-Chief is reporter
** Oli, he knows you—that is, by reputa- alphabet. The machine in then violently, received the indorsement of the Radical that left Hongkong after Mosby's arrival too far. There is, however, no doubt that a untutored. mind me a Lord in everything. tion. He has your picture set in a frame agitated by being beaten with a car fro party, and was backed by the influence of for the United States, brought letters to the very promising field is opened to enterprise, He calls the Commander-in-Chief the that cost him over 100 dels. He was say club, and after the type has rattled out The State department. He bad not fulfilled State Department from the consular ring" and that steady industry may hope for an Jungy Lord" or War Lord, la contradi- ing was dull he just took a look at that an hour or two we have got that name shout his promise to viudicate himself, but he had intended to disparage him and destroy his abundant reward. The climatic conditions, stinction to the "Maiks Gord" or Country plus of yours, and it always made him feel as correct an any of the dailies. We managed to avoid technical conviction. At influence in advance. The plunderers had the well-established government, the peace Ford, the appellation of the Viceroy. To se happy he was obliged to turn 500 that the Social for the prevention of his written request, the investigation had not mistaken their man. The "despatch" fal character of the people, are all favour the poor ladian his War Lord la an object people way at the door. But I just came to to Painters is ruing to chard the been allowed to go over from the second to printed above demonstrates that Col. Mosby able to the Chinese who emigrate thither, of profound interest and spooniation. He in to give you a Bitle information shout Letter an oralde medal for this life the third astaion of the Forty-fifth Con- began the work of exposure without delay. I The success of those who have been on the has many sapone that resemble the other one show. I always like to give a man all l'apparatus,"
The Seward-Bradford Ring again Arraigned
by "The Man who Never Feared Any body"-Some Points in the Eistory of the Case The Dispatch that was Sup. pressed.
An increased po-
A CIRCUS AGENT VANQUISHED. with a two-ounce cane and a half-pound Yesterday afternoon a dapper little man, cluster diamond pin, came into the Chroni-
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THE French continue to be downright glad at the sequittal of Captain Carey: one enthusiastic journal goes the length of claiming that as a compensation for the iniquities' to which he has been subjected, he be buried in Westministerbay to the Captain, but the Monarchal press re- The comic journals are very complim tary fuse to believe in his innocence, and hold reporter was in. When the man he sought mon sense and ordinary prudence to Ma-
mand six soldiers, but who was nevertheless was pointed out, the stranger grasped him reage II., who did not know how to com I've honed of you at every place I stopped 36 millions of Frenchmen. All pretenders warmly by the hand, remarking
"Delighted to meet you, sir, really I am. deemed competent to direct the destinies of
curiosity to see you that I got off at Reno The Republic is a ixture and is every day on my way from New York. I had such a are either used up or played out, in France. and took a run up. But really I had ex-becoming more and more the very nation pooted to find a much older man, consider itself. ing the magnificent reputation your drama "Ir may be interesting news," says the tic and circus criticisms have given you, San Francisco News Letter, that the I didn't get aboard of anything else in Rotterdamsche Handdlevereeniging loses town."
70,000,000 florins by the failure of the Afri four colours, "I'm glad to see yon. Might part such information by telegraph must be
"Ah," asid the reporter, blushing in kaansche Handelsvereeniging, but to im...” inquire your name ???
very wearing on the wires. That is the