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Show ! w SHIXUT03f. I ! Washington, 25. Bragg of Wisconsin Wis-consin made a strong aud favorable htroke for the democratic party by bis fcpeech in congrese, radically and effectively opposing southern war claims and notifying the southern democrats that their advocacy was jdtB'.roying the democratic party. The 'press of all parties north, with raro ; exceptions, entbusiasticil y uppUud tho sentiment aud utterer. The Sun coriipares tho few ultra-partisan slietts which demur to what they con-aid con-aid tr this family disturbance, to j iho negro deacon who, when a pow.r-iful pow.r-iful pruacher w.is pointing out that rohbing henroosts was iucompatibio with true rc-ligiou, twitched the preacher's coat-tail saying: "Hol.'I on dar brudder; yon is throwiu' a ci 1 Inefs over de meeting." The libel suit against the Times, brought by Colonel Ellison S. Keitt, relative of the former South Carolina ciingrea3man of the tiame name, repotted re-potted in 6u. dauiiigua. Tho Tunes had published a dispatch that Colonel Keitt had been arretted fur bigamy, j Tli ia referred in fact to and waa true of Thomas Keitt, the mulatto mrraler ol the South Cart-lina legislature, a former slave of tho cjlonel'a. The ating ot the bill, though not made a part of the com plaint apparently waa au intimation of blood relationship between the two. I The plaiutifi'a caso rested on the j .-.tHumption that the charge ol arrest ol bigamy applied to the plaintiff because be-cause he alone was known an colonel, j ihe jury evidently held that thero i was a technical libel, but that no dam agea were deserved because no eOort had been made to securu amicable redress by retraction. William Lloyd Garrieon hue received re-ceived many communications from the south approving hia recent letter declaring tho south disloyal in spirit and cruelly despotic in purpose and calling for a solid north to meet it. Thero ia one from a trustworthy Georgia gontlemau who declares that the euuth had been m ado aolid by ruthleEsly trampling under foot the most sacred rights of citizenship. Freedom of Bpecch end press is. not tolerated; the sanctity ol the ballot box is not regarded; honest elections are unknown; men are ostiacinGd, exiled and murdered on account of their political opinions. Tho mission of tho republican parly will not be accomplished until these great wrongs are righted. A strong commendation of the German Ger-man government u expressed because of its parental care of Blasius Piatoriua, the Catholic priest whoae sentence to death iu Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania for murder has been commuted to life imprisonment because of doubts as to his sanity. Tho accused was tc:n poor to employ counsel and appealed to the German minister at Washington Washing-ton for aid. The German govern -meut, notwithstanding its fierce political war at homo against the church, of which Pistorius waa u priest, promptly took up the case, employed counsel and Buved Ihe life of tho accused. The recent sensational cable special about treason by a superior officer of the German army, who was said to be barouet and major of the artillery, appears, ap-pears, to be disproved by the (act that barenst is an English title and that the German army list reveals the name of no Briton holding any such rank. Tho recent uprising in Venezuela in favor ol Gurzmau BUnco is uuder- , stood to have been a counter movement move-ment against the efiort ol General Cedeno to seize government upon the failure of the assembly to elect hi.u i ! president, after the death of Alcan- 1 tura Pacifier. I KuDo, the new Italian consul gen eral, juat arrived here, has been kuown to many travelled Americana in the consul service since 1842, sue ccssively at Milan, Smyrna, Rome and Hambure. Curl 8. Burr, who ouce limed "BrunoV speed at a mile in 2 minutes, min-utes, aaya he recently trolled "Joe Elliott" alongside of a runner in et ill faster timo than that. As this is the opinion of one of the best trainers in America, it excites much interest among horsemen. James McCarroll claims to have discovered the mysteries of the gyrca cope and demonatratea a new law ol motion. He aVera that all bodies moving in right lines rbango their distance Irom the centre of graviiy and consequently their weight at every movement and that wheu moving in curves, whether concentric with the circles of the earth or otherwise, the tangential force antagonizing with that of gravity, serves to change their weight also. Hence he lays it down aa a fourth law of motion that a body is o: uniform weight when at rest only, The house committee on appropriations appropria-tions have agreed to recommend the appropriations for the expenditure at the Sau Francisco mint during the next fiscal year as follows: For sala ries, $24,900; wages of workmen and adjusters, $275,000; materials and incidental in-cidental expenses, $S7,500. Tho committee have paid Superintendent Dodge tho unusual compliment of granting tho full amount of his estimates. esti-mates. The appropriations for tho Car sen city mint will be the same amount aa last ye'ir for salaries, together to-gether with $S0,00D for wage3 and $12,000 for material and incidental expenses. The committee will insert in the bill a provision on the subject of melting and refining bullion, identical with that contained in the appropriation act of last year. Director Linderman'a condition is growing worBe so rapidly that his death iB expected almost any hour. It is practically settled that Postmaster Snowden, of Philadelphia, formerly superintendent of the mint in that city, will be ofiered the appointment as Dr. Linderman'a successor, and he will doubtless accept it. Leon Chatteau is agaiu in Washington, Wash-ington, laboring to promote negotia tions for a new commercial treaty between be-tween the United States and France. He aeemB,thus (ar,to have made much greater progress with the outside puh-Ihau puh-Ihau with our Btato department authorities. The equaldivision of the joint committee com-mittee on the Indian transfer question ques-tion makes it certain that no legislative provision lor the proposed pro-posed transfer haB any chance of passing during the short remainder oi the present session. The fact thai all the democratic members of the j-iint committee favor the project would seem to indicate, however, that it is likely to be made a party measure and in this event its enactment by the next congrees, with both houses under the democratic control, would be apparently assured. |