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Show nun. iiuTiii.as mtiiixs. I'oLITit'Ai.iurmollln Ilaytl I "' yet enJe.1. It Is retried that (Jeneral Anselme, tho relied, haul sailed from Kingston five or six daya ago with a bind of followers lo make a descent on Ilsytlau territory. Owing to Imperfect Imper-fect telegrsphlo communication ta-twrcultaytlatidthonubdle ta-twrcultaytlatidthonubdle world It Is not known whether Anselma efl'rtt-til efl'rtt-til his purpose or not. The d Ispatehea today Inform us that Fmlcrlck Douglas, United HUtes minister tj Hsyll, ha lendernl his rialgnatlonbi the Htale Depnruneui, Mr. Dnigluwlll not give a nasoti for his action, bul It Is presumed that he ha had enough ejieileuroln the black republic. I.ver since he went there liu has been continually In some trouble or other. It was thought at first that Ucau.e of hla color, lieandIIIpol;to, who Is also a black man, would at once fraternise. Hut It wa not so. In fact Fred got along better, oven with while Democrats In Washington, than with black lUpubllcans lu Hajll. Mr. Douglsa ha an Interesting tit ol history, lie was torn in Marylanl seventy-four yiars ago. Ills fslher was a while man, III mother a negro slave, ilewassrntto Ualllmor when tenyrara nfage, Ulng then a slave, lo work wllh hla mester'a friend. He learned lo read and write seiritly. In IMS ho ran nvray, and rams to tho North. In Ma-sachueUa he got married, mar-ried, lie wurkod at various kinds of employment, but continued to study until he became a forcible writer and sker. He edited an antl slavery lper tsilled the .or(A 4(eir lu Hoche-lit, Hoche-lit, New York. He Is supposed to have advised Lincoln to Issue the tmsnrl4tfIoii proclamation, ite also sugmeted the fornittloit of colored reglmenta during tho war. lla has held i.nlc-u almost contlninlly slnco the Ilepubllcan rty rsnw Inlo jwrr. Though now seventy-four years of age he Is still vlgorout, alii ready to accept another cfllcv. |