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Show JOHN STUART MILL- ADOthcr Rreat man is do more. Upon Thursday, a brief telegram oaiuc faying that John Btuart Mill was lao-Ccanuhly lao-Ccanuhly ill at Avignon, France. Xes-lerday Xes-lerday followed auother.equally lacooic, that John Sluart Mill was dead. The laino of tluidifltioKUwhed philosopher Rud aian of letters is world wido, and iqually wide spread will be the feeling (if Morrow aud regret at hi dualh. Morn io 18U6 this euiincnt writer was rarly aceuitouied to suvcrciit intelltJCt-ual intelltJCt-ual training under th immediate supervision su-pervision of bin father, James Mill, lho well known Britinli metaphysician aud political economist. In 1823 John Mill beoaujo a clerk in tbe India houce whero in liSSti, after various promo-tioDH, promo-tioDH, he was appointed exuminer of the India Oorroapondotiee, which poai tion bis father bad previously filled, and Boally declined longer eervice in J858, because of failing health. Bur-irjir Bur-irjir tlio whole of this time he was constantly engaged in his literary pursuits, pur-suits, ooutributiujc to tbo leading magazines mag-azines and reviews in the country So thorough was his culture, Bays an i nihusiustio admirer, that the most elaborate mind of our ago, as his has been called, seemed almost mature and complete at its first appearance. Among his more prominent writings are his cs-tays cs-tays on Political Kconomy, Prinoiplee of Political Economy, Subjection of Woman, Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, an essay on Liberty, and a collection of hii contri-l contri-l utions to tho reviews As early as 827, his roputation for soholamhip und ability led to his selection as editor of Jeremy Bcntham's work on the Rationale of Juridical Evidence. John Stuart Mill was always a strong and 'Ictcrmincd advocate of greater freedom to tho masses, and tbe object of hia .essay on Liberty was to Bhow that the present ago manifests an increasing in-creasing sooial and political dospoti&m over tho moral and intellectual freedom. free-dom. Ho advocated, in his work on parliamentary Reform, tho extension of lho electoral suffrage to all without tlistinotion of sex, providing only an iduuatioual condition; and this liberal se of tho ballot he upheld over Bltecn j oars ago, long beforo maoy of tho present "reformers" had beooruo Vnown. Ho maintained that groat, t iOad aud grand dootriue, that thcro in no csaontiil dilTrcnce betweon the mental powers of man and woman, and (hat the latter should share equally in all intellectual enterpriser, enter-priser, as well as in all sooial and political privileges, claiming that tho principle which regulates existing social so-cial relaiiouB the legal subordination i)fono6ex to the other is wrong in itself, aud one of the chief hindrances """ I'uiuaii improvement; aud that it ought to be rep.w, w v.inoiple 0f poifeot equality. The biavorj of tbo Jnalo sex has been, at length, almost j.: U. -J U-Ku.l nn.1 that nt tha female sex ha been gradually ohanged iuto a milder tl rm of dependence, says this great tbiukcr; but this dependence is the primitive stato of slavery lasting on through successive mitigations and I modifications, softened under the in fluence of humanity and the oontrol of juHtioo but never losing the taint of its brutal origin- In southern Franco, in tho city of Avignon loDg celebrated in eoalcsias-tioal eoalcsias-tioal history as tho residence of the popes, aod immortalized in poetry as the place of meeting of Petrarch and Laura, his love Mill has been accustomed accus-tomed to spend much of his time; and liero,upon tho bank of the river Rhone, its three ecoro yoars and ten well nigh completed, this noble life has breathed its last. Always tho firm friend of America, oven in the darkest hours of Ler terriblo civil war, not even in his Dative land will the memory of John Stuart Mill be mora tenderly cherished aad revered than in tho great republio of tho United States. Tub Modocs Heard From. " We ; havo met tho enemy and we are theirs" might again be the exulting i o;y from tho Lava Beds. The silenoe 1 from that Modoc region is onco more broken, and word oomes of the troops being again surprised, eleven mules and three horses bciog captured, and three wagons oaptured and burned. Without a doibt the stores in tho wagons have fallen into tho hands of the Indians, who are thus, most likely, replenished for a prolonged contest ; and now they are reported gone, no one knows where. Orders are givon to scour the entire Liva Beds, so that it is possible our next information may bo the details of another surprise by tho Mod oo3, from some unexpected quarter, aud a lost of men and supplies. sup-plies. Tho engagement of tho 26th uJt , it is estimated, furnished the savages sav-ages with some fifty utlos and about two thousand rounds of ammunition ; their sortie of Wednesday has evidently evident-ly placed a largo amount of stores in their possession. If Gillem is not the ptrsoni fixation of imbecility, he certainly cer-tainly appears to bo laboring hard to create the impression that ho is. |