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France, Prussia, And Spain

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Day
15
Month
July
Year
1870
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Public Domain
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A war cloud has rissn ï ti tho eaH and the Atlantio teli'graph vibrates wit news of hostile movemonts. ín a nu' símil this ís tho diffienlty, so far, a least, as tho publiu knows : Gen. Prii T?egent Shhrano, and their BpnuUb assooiates, aftcr months of seorch were about - report said - to turn up a king for Spni'i ín the pcrson or Princo Leopold of Hohenzollern. This royal candidata proves distasieful t Louis Napoleon, who favors tho son of IsabKlIiA tho abdicated Spanish Queen, nnd protests agaiimt Leopol or any other Germnn Prinoe acoepting tho Spanish throne. What business it id to Napoleon, it is not our proTÍnoe to decide, but eucli seoins to be tho issue. Tronps aro inoving and a war involviDg Prussia, France, Spain, and perhaps all Europo, is threatenod. - The last dispatohes say that Lkopold deolmes tho Spanish throne, but not from fear of Napoleon ; yet prepara tioas for war progress. The Supreuie Court a few days since, Just.co Cooley dissenting, made a decisión in a Detroit oase, in which our citizeos are direetly interested. William ani Haxicah Blakeby sued tho City of Detroit for damages to the latter caueed by a defectivo cioís walk, and procured a judgment o the Circuit Court, that eourt holding the city under obligation to keep the streets, walks, and erotsings in repair. This decisión is overruled by the Supremo Court. Chief Justic Campbkll, givÍDg the opinión in tlie case, fays : The streets of Detroit are public hlghv;iys, deslgned, like all otlier roads, íor tlic benefit of'all ptople tlesiring to travel upon tlicm. Tlie duty, or power, of keepiíifr tiicm in proper condltion is a public aud not a prívate duty, and it is an oüice for tlic performance of vvhicli there is no conipeusation givcu to the city. Wlmt.'ver lialjility exista tu perfora! tliis service to the public, und to rcspoml for iny fallare to perform it mast ii'ise, if at all, from the implication that isclaimcd toexistín the nature ol sui'li a muulclpallty. There is a vague impressiou that munteipalitics are bound lo all cases to answer in clamages forall private injuries from aefeets in the public ways, but the law in this State, aid in most parts of the country, rejeets thla as a general proposition, and conllnes the recoverv to causes of gricvance arlslug under peculiar circumstanccs. II' there is any ground for recovery here it is because Detroit is incorporuted ; and it depends, therefore, on the consideration whether thcre is aoythtng In the nature of' incorporated munlclpalltles like this which shonki subject tliem to üabilities not enforced against tovvnsorcöiinties: The cases ivhich recognlze the distlnctiou apply it to villngesand cities alike. It has never been clalmed that tlie violation of duty to the public was any more reprehensible in these corporatlons than outslde ofthem, nor that tliore was any more justice In giving damages for an injury sus tained in a city or village strect thaD for one sustained outside of the corporate bounds. The private sufl'uriug is tlie same, and the official negligence may be the saine. The reason, if it exists, is to bc iounrt in some other direction, nnd can only b? trlcd by aconiparison of some of the classes of authorities which have dealt with the subject in hand. This decisión will affect pendiDg cases in Ann Arbor, Jackson, and probably otliar cities of the Stato. John McKinneï, fonuerly Secretary of State and Stato Tre&eurer, died at his residence at Lawton, on the 9lh, nged G7 year-s, Our readers will remember that MoKikney became in volved in serious difficulties whüe State Treasurer, resulting in a prosecution for embeïzlement, conviction, and Bentence to the penitentiary for eoven years. He was pardoned out by Gov. Blair, Sept. 16th 1863, having served the State from May 7, 1862. Since hie release he has lived quietly at Lawton, and has given no evidencie of abounding ia money. We havo alwaya entertained tho conviotion that partisan associates were as deep in the mud as KoKisney was in the mire ; in fact that he was used by them, and was too honest - or pigheaded, perhaps, - to exposé them, preferring to monopolizo the blaine and punishment. He may have left papers which wil! unravol the mystery, " Open confossion is good for the soul " ie what was running in the heac oí Houace Grkeley whín he wrote bis recent letter to Gen. Schbnck concerning the " income tax." Of that tax he saya : " The faot that this tax is leried ' in flagrant defiance of the Federal Con" stitution may not amount to mueh in " these limes, but since it ú a faet, it " may not be unwortby of mention." If a JJumocrat should utiuiate that an act of Congress was unconstitutional he would be called " an old fogy," " a oroaer," etc, and dainned for the comrnission of the unpardonable ein. Then to ïutimate that - i,n this progressiye age - Oongress or even a Supreme Court i jound to regard a couatitution as any;hing more than " a rope of sand " is evideiice of insanity. Gkeeley has evidently forgotten that the will of tlio majority is the supreme law of the land, - especially if that majority be misnamed Kepublican. Grani having made Akerman Attorïey-General, aud givcn his vaeatcd District-Attorneyship to another whitewashed rebel ofiioer, Joun D. Pope, it s now thought that A. H. BTEPESNa stauds a gcod chance for tho officia] robes of Seoretary Fisu 6bould tbat geutleman resign. Mr. Stepiiens has jualified bimself by giving Grant a ávorablo notice ín the socond volumo of lis historj on the rebollion. 'Why houlda't a good "pufl" coihmand tliu ame reward as a horse, a dog, or a iou?e? And now como the friends of Gen. Jütlkk nod charge that Gen. Faiins. wortii was paid tha sum of 2,500 to eud bis regiment from Chicago to S'ashington, via the Pittsburg, Fort Wayuo and Chicago Railroad. ïhis is ousidcred a fair ofiFset for Butlkr's taking the $2,000 fee io the patent right case. The Chicago Trilane, t lie leading llepublican organ of the Weet, w riting of McCaktiiy, who represente the i-alt monopolista iu thfi Honss nnd strikes hands wii li the agenta of ihe iron nnd steel iiterest - for tho-e memberi who o zoalously demand protection for fattencd and gorged manufacturera cf wha'ever name, aro but paid agents - Baya : " If we " were entitled to vole in the Syracuse " district we sliould opposo Mr. McOar" thy with all our might. Wo should " first endtavor to defeat him in Ilie 16" publican couvention. Failiag ia that, '' we should labor to beat him at the " polls." The N. Y. SvHÚng Post takes the same positiou, and advises suoh a courao lo bo pursued by all llcpublicauB who favor revenuo reform, 'A'herever located. If tho advice is lollowcd, Aistikt Blair, in the event of hisreiiomination will loeo hundreds, yea thoasands, of Republioin votos in this district. ReproscDting an agricultural district, he has vied with McCartiiy and Ki and jMokrill in voting for protection - but anolher word for robbery. In an'ither column will bo fonnd the ncw currency bill, wliioh aftor nucli tribuhition bas been pased icto a law. Thougli it providea for au increaae of the national currenoy in tlie sum of 54,090,000, fiuaucial dootors are not agreed as to whether it is a sehome of inflation or conlraction. We tako it thore is no contractioo, at least we can discover nono in the bill, aud nalees the threo per cent-, interest notes have liecn countcd as curreney, it is inflation and nothing else. It will be noticed that sections 3, 4, and 5 of the bill contémplate another grade of curreacy, a currency redeemable in gold instead of greenbaoks, but it is exceedingly doubt" ful however, whether ïnmediate or extensive baöking will bo inaugurated under ihcse provisions. It will also be noticed that no limit is fixed to tho issues of this gold-beariug currennj, Congress haring no fear of a flood, or else considering it too good to be dangprous. - It i announced that of the inorease of $f)4,000,000 national bank cir. culation, Michigan will be entitled to S7S677G. We judge that the pcople of Illinois have done a wlse thlng ia adopting their new constitutlon. lt Was framed witli rauch care, and is conceded on al] hands to be a great lmproveinent over the okl one. [l was not fonght and mlsrepresented by smal) politlctans and partlsans as waa our coustituliou in t-his State. - Dclroil Tribune. Easily accounted 'for. ïlie Illinois oonvention was not controlled by n Radical inajority so largo that it could set the true prinoiples of governinent at deñance, and imagioe that its partisan decrees wouid be unquegtioningly registered. I ii fact, the Illinois convention was not controlled by Radicáis at all. The Demócrata aud tlieir conservativo alües were fa the nmjoiity and so shaped ttio constitution as to mako it not a mere platform, but acceptablo rather than obnoxious to the groat body of the people. Had lbo Michigan couvention been Democratie a different instrument would have been framed, and it's fate have been different. Tuk Senate, on Monday, confirmed - despite the ruany threats made ia its behalf - the several appointments for New York: Tiros. Miuriiv to be Col lector, vies Grinnell, rosigned ; M. II. Grixnell to be Naval Offioer; and Tiios. IIili.hodbe, Assistaut Treasurcr. But three Senators voted against the oonfirmation ""of Murpijy : Meesrs. Pjsnton, Harris, and Tiptox. " Great cry and little wool." - IIoo. Noah Davis, assistant cnunsel for tho poople iu tha lato McFarland trial, has ben confirmed os Distriot Attorney for the Southern district of New York, vice Pieeeefoht, resigned. Some months ago Congiessman Por teu aud one Patbick Woods - emulating Zack Ciiandi.er and Dick Yates- went on a drunk ut llichmood, Va., and wliile the wine was in and the wit out, Woodb kicked Portee, for which violation of the vested rights cf nu august member of so august a body, the House hos, after a long contest, eentenced Woous to lie threo months in jail. Io d ufen se of Woods it la alleged tliat he didn't.knovv Porter was a member of Congress, whereupon eotne wag suggsts that Jtcpresentativeg should bo labolcd " kicking here, probibited by the Constitution." Butler has been credited ith orignating the word contrabatid, but some unuasy genius has disoovered that he ouly confisca'ed it, the same as the 1 spoons and sich " at New Orleans. EIildretii fathers tho espressive word upon one Thomas Scoit, a member of ;he first Congress, who said in a speech, n 1790, tliat " Congress may at p!easnre declare them (the Africans) contraband goods, and so prohibit the tradü altogother." Anotherof Buïlkii's laurels"gone where tho woodbino twiueth." And now Secretar}' Fisn Lita (lame Rumor right betwcen the eyes. Ue says that tho President desires him to remain in the Cabinet, that hc ispleased to do so, and don't iütend to resign as long as he thinke he eau serve nis country by remainiug, and, a clinoliur, that ie has rentad bis house uutil iiext spring, vhich he wouldn'l havo been such a foolish boy as to do had he meditated esigning. Who ia tho nest mau to report Fisii as resigned ? It ís now said that ex-Attornoy-Gen ral IIoau has an ovo on Senator Yilson's seat, whose term expires the 4th of Maroh uext. la ubility and nll ther respecta Massacliusetts and the Senato would both gaiu by the change. POBTBB C. IÏLIHS, tliogcnllumaa whom ío public will rememhor as getting into uch hot water durÍDg the tliflicultios in aragQy, has been nppoiutcd Sccrctary f Legation at Mexico.

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