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Show The American people have been much worried over the reports concerning con-cerning Mr. Blainr's health. To be sure, those reports havo been most contradictory con-tradictory in character, but the repeated repeat-ed ar,ortious that he is rapidly failing have 2'iven rise to a feeling of uunn-nes-f. There a very (rood lesson to believe be-lieve that his eofidiliou U uot dangerous. danger-ous. Many of tho dispatches assort positively that he is not a bick man, while private information received ia this city is to the effect thxt he is as well as ever, that his recent attack was Dot of a serious nature, aud that he is Bimply enjoying a season of rest. There is a very strong suspicion that with' some of those who aro busy circulating the teporis of his being on the decline the wish is father to the thought. It is a brutal species of politics, but there are men who will stoop to it. |