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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 260, 12 September 1867, Page 3

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UNITED STATES. (From tho Panama Star and Herald.) In Congress a resolution has been carried that Congress has heard with unalloyed satisfaction, the announcement of the triumph of the Republicans of Mexico, over the enemies of freedom, and congratulating President Juarez and his noble compatriots on the overthrow of Maximilian and the missions of the French Empire. General Butler has introduced resolutions which have been adopted, directing the appointment of a Commictee to investigate the facts connected with the assassination of Mr Lincoln, and empowering the Committee to report bills granting amnesty to persons who shall give evidence. In supporting his resolutions, Gen. Butler said that the military trials had been confined to single issues, and that no full and complete investigation had been made. Despatches have been received in Was|liigfcou from the United States officpß on the Mexican border, giving acco|j|Jcs of the deplorable condition of affah-s there. They state that since the fall of Maximilian the conduct of the Mexicans has been overbearing, and that insult to the United States' flag by Mexican officials is an every-day occurrence. The life raft Nonpareil, which started from this port about a month ago for Europe, was seen by the brig Mary E. Rowland, on the 26th of June, in latit ide 40 degrees 10 minutes, longitude 57 degrees 10 minutes, .. having good weather, with the wind at the time north north-east, strong. General Thomas Francis Meagher, Governor of Montana Territory, was drowned at Fort Benton on the Ist instaut, by falling from the deck of a steamer into the water. He was on his return to his post after having been absent for a fortnight on public business, and had succeeded in obtaining amis for the volunteers whom he had recently organised for service against the Indians. The Indian troubles continue on the Western Plains, and are creating a great deal of uneasiness and alarm, General Sherman has issued a circular, in which he dfrects that the Indian treaties shall be respected as far as possible, but all Indians found depredating outside their reservations are to be dealt with by the military. . Stolen stock and other property shall be, chargeable upon the annuities due the tribe which stole them. He also directs the calling of volunteers into the sei'vice from each State or Territory particularly interested in the suppression of hostilities, the payment of such volunteers to be dependent upon an appropriation by Congress. ■ A most curious case of suicide was committed at Springfield, Massachusetts, a few days. An aged lady by the name of Gillmore cut out her bowels with a razor and placed them in a pail of water beside her. She lived about an hour afterwards, and made her will just before she died. The Atlantic Cable, which /ras broken by an iceberg three miles from Heart's Content, has been fully repaired, and is now working as reliably and as satisfactorily as if vo damage had occurred. The Cable was found to have been very badly crushed, notwithstanding its heavy iron armor, for a length of one hundred and twenty feet. There is considerable excitement in this city, in New Orleans and in Washington over the execution of Maximilian. The feeling is one of profound regret for Maximilian and deep detestation of Juarez. In Washington much blame is cast upon Secretary Seward for not writing a more peremptory letter to the Mexican Government, demand ing, not begging that the life of the exEmperor should be spared. It is said here that Secretary Stan ton has expressed himself very strongly on the subject in private conversations, and has no hesitated to condemn Mr Seward's course. At the Academy of Music, New York, on the evening of the 12th, while the Japanese troupe were per forming . before an immense audience, a fearful accident occurred! The closing scene of the night's entertainment was as usual begun by the rapid flight of

the little chiid "All Eight" as he is called, a very great favorite, up the pullied rope to the dome of the proscenium,, where for a moment he hung byone hand to the apparently frail cord support above his head, and then with whizzing noise, the pully attached to the strap from which the y&ungster dangled, started on its fearful journey down the tightened rope that is stretched for the purpose from the dome to the middle box of the dress circle. As the first creak of the miniature wheel, was heard, a death-like stillness prevailed throughout the vast auditorium. A second creak, and with the speed of lightning the body of the young performer shot down the rope and reached the middle of the. downward course, when, to the horror of the thousands who were gazing upon the awful movement, one of the cords attached to the dress circle fixings to brace the main rope gave way. The latter, relaxing its rigidity by the sudden outlet, fell a few feet downward, and then shot upward with a twang, like the strapping of an arrow string, and the little performer Avas flung from his hold high into air, and in an instant was clashed through space full fifty feet to the floor in the middle of the aisle below. It would be useless to attempt to picture the scene that ensued. The screeches of the terrified women rang fearfully piercing through the halls, while the men, with cheeks blanched to the whiteness of a corpse, sat as if frozen to their seats with terror. Several of the ladies fell swooning in their boxes and were carried out into the ante-rooms. In a second, when partly relieved from its trance, the audience jumped to their feet and a rush was made towards where the body of " All Right" lay as if dead. In the midst of the confusion the Japanese performers on the stage, who, themselves at first, seemed to have lost 'all their presence of mind at the unexpected catastrophe, jumped into the orchestra, over the railing and were at the side of the boy in the twinkling of an eye. Restoratives were applied, but the sufferer lay bleeding and still unconscious, and to all appearances dead. Physicians were sent for and quickly arrived on the spot, but it was nearly an hour before they were euabled to restore anything like re-action in the system of the insensible child. At last he opened his eyes when the father bent over him, and in Japanese asked him how he was, and the little fellow, as if still before the audience, striving to please by speaking the English sentence he knew, raised his head never so little and softly murmured " All right." Everybody felt greatly relieved at this enun.ciation, as it was feared that the hours of " Little All Right" were numbered. Since then he has been gradually improving, and in a short time it is expected that he will be in every sense " All Right" again.