| Show THE AFGHAN WAB the year 1880 ai whose burial we assisted a few day apo has not been by any great armed conflict between civilized powers of the old world still the gates of the temple of janus have not been allowed to be clo sedas used to bo the case with the romans whenever isal peace reigned in their dominions the shrill trumpet of mars has re sounded and brought terror to the quaking hearts of many and desolation and mourning weeds not in ft few families still the war has not been of those gigantic damens giona which characterized the great contest ofa decade ogain the flags have been unfurled to the breeze and the saber received ita bloody baptism in the out of the way mountain jalcs of central alia we refer to the afghan war anu nas taken a course under government little consonant with the remits anticipated by the originator after long deliberations with the swarthy mountain chiefs abdurrahman khan the of cussia was proclaimed as ameer of afghanistan by the british after general St ewarton april completely overwhelmed the resistance mahomed jan and his adherents while it seemed that tho war was terminated tho british suffered ered a defeat at Candi har through the pro tender ayoob khan of herat in which the brigade of general bur raws was completely annihilated only after several weeks sanguinary struggles gen roberts succeeded in redeeming alio llio glory of he british arms and driving the treacherous ayoob back to herat the evacuation of the capital of by the british was commenced on aug ath and the newly installed ameer has since lived up faithfully to the coni editions imposed upon him by the british government at present the english are still in Can dahar and it is still uncertain whether they will evacuate this place retain it although ret reports seem to indicate the grenter probability of the former course to the policy of li the fact that the atte for india declared in yarl lament the did no longer consider abe treaty of w binding altis renders the nuchi alon of boundary boun lary bt win ruih india and an open one and with confield Bea bobby of th frontier OCR ages live been compared by the bayait express in striking ina ai follow prudent elect james A garfield waa 49 years old the of debem ber 1880 when he take his seat in the white house next march he will be the thin youngest president this country has erca had grant was the youngest having lacked one month of 47 years when inaugurated franklin pierce was four days younger than garcell will be next march when he was inaugurated two other presidents were in their fiftieth year when inaugurated JM K polk and millard fillmore but the one was seventeen dagg and the other five months older than gar celd will be the next youngest was john tyler who was over sl when ho succeeded harrisena Harr isona barely begun term of office alra ham lincoln was 52 years old and martin van buren and R B iiames not quite 55 andrew joanson lacked eight months of being 57 nd george washington had passed that ago when inaugurated oddly enough the four consecutive gresio dengg thomas jellerson james madison james monroa and john quincy adams were each in their year when inaugurated ary taylor and tippecanoe canoe were 65 and 67 when they took the oanh of office and neither lived to gil out his term in point of age james bachanan came between the two beim in his year when inaugurated the average age at inauguration has been 57 years ha been o much harped upon by the republican press that it is a g iod thing for an old honest democratic sheet like tho monmouth N J democrat to come out for once and settle their hash as follows it the democratic party was kil led when john adams beat jeger son in 1797 it was hilled in 1824 when andrew jackcon was defeated by the coalition between the friends of john quincy adams and henry clay it was killed in 1840 by the isaid cider campaign of general barri SOB it was tilled by the election of abraham lincoln in 1810 it was killed by the re election of lincoln in 1861 it was killel by the election of grant in 1868 it was hallei very dead by the election reelection re of grant in 1872 it was killed by tho count ingouf pro cosin 1876 it was killed by the counting in process in 1880 it had R popular majority in the south and within a small of a popular majority in th north and west in of 10 it numbers over chico millions of voters in the north and amt annl nearly a million in the its membern cannoa be bought or intimidated their inith ia founded upon the eternal of ab uce liberty and long aliye the parly GENERAL GAST friend while him financially atre hurting hian morally by heir collections contribution and other eions of the S F examiner which by the way fairly promotes pr to be llie best coast paper say in regard to this topic general andrew Jarks cn w mora of a genuine hero than aber tain general of theae thuie old retired from the presidency poor in health and poor in yet ho never permitted his friends to present him as an object of charity shaken as ho eras in hi old ay he waa a grim to the limi and would probably have regarded the annual income of general grant as in n letter ill that period ton friend general J teleson baid I returned homo with just 00 in money having extended all kiy irl ay and most of the proceeds of my cotton crop found out of repair corn and for the use of my farm to buy baring but one tract of annd batides betides my which I have told and which bai enabled me to begin the year 1838 dear of debt relying on our industry and economy tn yield u a up port trusting to a kind providence for good season and a prosperous crop tn de paris one of the orleans pretenders to the royal crown of franco adds an appendix to a new edition of bis of our civil in which he includes a strong vindication of general fit john porter dc caring that his rehabilitation is considered by all aiu partial minds as an act of justice and that the should be reinstated in the rank of which ho was un juilly deprived kierr he orchestra of con aerts hai constructed a kind of double baa with civo eringi tr ingi be lowest of which ia tuned down to C thus avoiding the which ails in modern musio for bass players to alter the tuning of their instruments madame giovanni a new dramatic has met with decided favor in london per formative for matice in lucreia borela u kindly fooken of on tho wace and it seems likely that ho will dettore to the staga several which have not been heard in the shelih metro polia B ace th death of mile Titi ens down court house hill should bo stopped the sidewalks being rendered almost to pedestrians |
