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COLUMBIA. ; Tuesday Morning, July 17, I860. tjic CKvtstin.it Warrior. Af~ Gen. Sherman mode a '*FotUj?h of July" speech ut Salem, Illinois, of which we-find a brief report in the Nashville Union and American. We pronounce W. T. Sherman one of the most brutal military com? mande?, not excepting Hayaan, that has ever disgraced the annals of warfare in modern times. Iii this speech at Salom, he ^tses the follow? ing, langaage-lapgnage strong enough, God knows, to sink him to the utmost depths of infamy: "We'didLnot like to soe bloodshed, but we wore determined to produce results, and now what were -those resulta? To make every man, woman and child, in the South, feel that if they dared to rebel against the flag of their country, they must die or sub? mit. " [Immense enthusiasm. ] "Did not like to see bloodshed," and yet, on the morning of the 16th of February, 1865, this -Christian general shelled the city of Columbia, containing men, women and children, (God help the young rebels,) without a single "note of warning." Did not like to see bloodshed! It is a wonder that thc great God did not seud a thunderbolt to strike this orator dead when he uttered the above sentiment, the humanity of which he was utter? ly opposed to. The fearful memen? toes in and around Columbia show' that the man did not understand tho first principles of Christian warfare, and ought to have been hooted out of "the service cf such a great nation as that of the United States. Woman and child must feel that if if they dared to rebel against tho flag, they must die or submit. Is not comment unnecessary on such a fiendish declaration? Gen. Sherman was determined to "produce results." In tho course of the speech, he says: "Now, my friends, I know that, ah the world over, there are parties that denounce me as being inhuman. ( 'That's so'-'Can't see it. *] I appeal to you to say if I have not always been kind and considerate to you. ['That's so.'] I care not what they say. ['That's right.'] I care not what they say, but I say that it ceased to bc our duty to guard their cities nuy longer, and had I gone on string? ing out our column, little by little, little by little, some of your Illinois regiments would never have got home, and you would liave bceu crushed. Therefore, I let go the whole country; took one army myself, and gave my friend, George II. Tho mas, one, and we whaled them both. LGreat applause.] "Therefore, if Atlanta were de? stroyed, and Columbia and Savannah and all the cities of the South had been destroyed, I say it would have been right, because it was necessary to produce tho results in view. ?? did produce the result, and now, ladies, you see your young friend.1 returned to you, wives see their hus bands, and all are re-united here ii this handsome grove in Illinois, ant" God knows, I hope you may never g< forth again; but if you have to g< forth, I know you will respond quick er than you did before, if possible.' [Cheers.] And this is from a (rcneral of th United States army ! He would hav destroyed every city of the South "t produce good results." There is ono thing that is evidec from this speech-Sherman had deiei mined io destroy Columbia beforo h entered it. From the timo he le Atlanta until he passed through C< Inrobia, his war-path was one < desolation, cruelty and crime. Tl pen wliich records this, knows it to i true; and although in a Fourth < July speech he candidly ackno\ ledges his unprincipled system ( warfare, we had thought that pc sonal self-respect would have r strained him from making the shani lui acknowledgment. We have done. The people of tl city of Columbia owe WILLIAM ' SHERMAN a debt-not of gratitud May God forgive him for his acts nnmercifulness committed tliroug out his march to the sea and tin upwards. This speech of Shorma delivered at this timo, is au insult the nation. Our voice is feeble, b it is here recorded. Tho Jordan-Gallaway difficulty h been satisfactorily adjusted, withou resort to tho duello. The Mempl Avalanclie, of the 7th, publishes t correspondence between the partii The tax bill as passed by Congre go far as regards tho re-organizati of tho Internal Revenue Office, tal effect on the 1st of this month, much as relates to beer aud whist on the 1st of September, aud otl part* on the 1st of August. "..W/.'. L ..-..^ - W Another n.?-I>ellien. The Buffalo Cornier has the follow- , ing paragraph: "Sen. Grant recently" remarked to a gentleman of this dity,_who met him- in tire Wests that unless the Southern States were speedily admit? ted to representation in Congress and tho right of self-government conceded to them, we should soon have another rebellion." Another rebellion-not from the Southern States, certainly. They are already overwhelmed, and will never . again enter into a rebellion. The next rebellion comes from a section of the country which -will defy the Abulit?on hordes ol New England to put down or suppress. Gen. Grant is not only a military officer of high grade-lie is" ? statesman, who can perceive to what extremities the de? structive schemes the majority of Congress are now driving the coun? try, and he lifts up his warning voice to all concerned, that they may pause and reflect, ere it be too late to save the country. "Another rebellion** never comes from the South. She cares not whe thor her representatives aro admitted to Congress or not; but Gen. Grant sees that in the exclusion of the South from her rightful pan -ipafcion in the legislation of the Government, lies the seed of a rebellion, worse, ten-fold, than that which conic! be l^roducod by any mere, sectional issue, The next rebellion will have a broader and deeper basis than slavery or no slavery, it rises up to the grand question of the rights and equality of States in the Unian. On this ground alone does he base his opinion, according to tho newspaper reports, of another rebellion, ?iud the wise and prudent among us foresee that some such movement is inevita? ble. We hope for the best. Wc look to Andrew Johnson and thc Philadel? phia Convention to save the country, and we believe that salvation will be accomplished. A special despatch to the Charles? ton Courier, dated Washington, July 15, says: .'In addition to a caucus of mem? bers of tlie House last night, there was an important Senatorial caucus, in which it was decided not to inter? fere with the privileges of the Execu? tive, and that Trumbull's bill and all other measures having for their ob? ject the restriction of the President's powers should be indefinitely post? poned. "Ajilan is on foot among certain clique New York jjohticians to make Maj. Gen. Sickles tho next Governor. It is said he has been written to on the subject, and hus expressed Iiis willingness to made the canvass. " A EUEE TRADE RADICAL'S WALL. "The South is known to be opposed to the tariff; but Messrs. Stevens and Morrill and the other prohibitionists have succeeded in keeping the South out of Congress, with the sole object, as it would now appear, of thus se? curing the passage of this atrocious tariff. -New York Eren i ny Post. The Post is a radical paper of tl? old-fashioned Abolition school. W( are glad that the Yankees have fleece* the Western and Middle States by th? new tariff bill. "Perish commerce perish trade," but let New Englant live! THE CAUSE OF THE EUROPEAN WAH From an elaborate article in the Lon don Globe, on the moral and politic;! relations of the continental bel?ge rents, Ave moke thc following extract "The plain fact is, that Prnssi goes to war to force Austria out < Germany, in order that Prussia mu reign in her stead, and that Italy goc to war with Austria in order to lib< rate a province first added to Austri seventy years ago, to suit the tempi i rary exigencies of Gen. Bonapart? j and restored to her in 1815 by th Congress of Vienna. Prussia an Italy aro on the offensive, and Am tria is on the defensivo, and tl I thing at stake is the existence of tl ! Austrian Empire as the greata power in Central Europe." O tnt DEAD.- -We copy from tl Romo Courier the following list ( Confederate soldiers from this Sta who are buried at that place. Nc: head-boards have been provided f? j the graves, which have been neat dressed and will soon bc .iclos< through tho generous effoj of tl ? ladies of that city: R. B. Greer, Company F, Itv ! Regiment. W. B. Hardwicke, Companv ; 10th. E. Herron, Company F, 24th. E. Hann, Company B, 19th. S. Young, Company C, 21th. ! C. Bruce, died September 23, 1st T. Tollison, Company E, 16th. John Stone, Company F, l'Jth. J. Floyd, Company ?, Kith. J. B. Giles, Company L, 10th. j J. W. Grizzard, Company K, ht li j The Congressional radicals wore j hold a caucus on Monday night. T?ic Civil Rig?t* Aet# The judiciary of the country axe pronouncing, with astonishing unani? mity, I Jh?4r unconstitutionality of the civil righ?} Act, passed over the Pre? sident's yeto by the radical majority iii Congress, We have alluded to one or two of these decisions, but we place the subjoined on record as one of the^best yet delivered. The deci? sion is rendered by Judge Harbeson: Commonwealth of Keiitucky rs. Patrick Byron. Patrick Byron, a white man, is pre? sented before this, an examining court, charged with shooting and wounding, with intent to kill, ono Wml Montague, a free negro. The Commonwealth; by attorney, moves tire court to permit tho introduction, aa witnesses for the Common weal th, of two free negroes, Wm. Montague and Sarah Morton, upon the ground thai, since the passage of the Act of Congress known as the "civil rights bill," negroes are made competent witnesses against .white persons in the United States. , The question presented for deci? sion is, whether Congress can annul the law of Kentucky which forbids tho admission of negro testimony as against white people. There is no pretence that Congress possessod any such power under the original Constitution, but it is claim? ed to be derived nuder the second clause of thc late constitutional amendment, giving Congress power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the amendment The main or first clause of that amendment, or its equivalent, has been the fundamental law of every nou-slaveholding State and Teaitory of the United States siuce the ordinance of '87, from which the amendment was copied-at least in substance. Yet, in each and all of them, free negroes have boon excluded from testifying against white porsons. Certainly, then, such ex? clusion is not an enslavement of the negroes, or subjecting them to an "involuntary servitude." If so, then how could it. have prevailed for the past eighty years, if the phrase "there shall be neither slavery nor involun? tary servitude," camed with it an exemption from any deprivation of these rights or immunities? Conse? quently we have a practical construc? tion of eighty years by the whole nation acting through Congress and the Federal judiciary, and through thc State and Territorial Legislatures and their judiciaries, to prove that the expression luid no meaning be? yond that herein indicated-a free? dom from enslavement; and this must be the full intento! the Constitutional iimeudment. Entertaining this view, we think that such legislation, an? nulling State laws and destroying well established principles, cannot be .loomed "appropriate" to the enforce? ment of the amendment. * The two witnesses offered to be introduced in this; case were both free long before the adoption of the con? stitutional amendment, and of course that amendment can have no applica? tion to or bearing upon them, as its object was exclusively the emancipa? tion of the negroes then held in slavery. This presents the question iu another aspect, which gives an equal, if not a stronger, reason foi refusing their testimony than that be fore relied on. Tt also furnishes a strong reason foi not construing this amendment so as to give Congress the power contender: for, because, as the power is clearly not given as to the 500,000 negroes free at that time, and upon everv principle of justice and policy thej were equally entitled, with the oman cipated slaves, to thc privileges ant immunities of the amendment, i would he irrational to suppose an in tontiou to confer such power npoi Congress for the benefit of the oman cipated slaves. It is much to be regretted that tin Legislature of Kentucky failed, at it last session, to pass an Act (such a that passed by tho Legislature o Georgia) giving tho right to frc negroes to testify in such cases, au? rely upon tho judges of courts an juries to estimate thc degree of credi bility to be attached to their stat? ments. Slavery being now abolished there is no longer :uiy reason for o policy in keeping up tho stringer laws formerly enforced to discrim nato rigorously between thc wrlit and ui'gro population. On the coi trary, every dictate of policy poinl to the necessity of so legislating as t elevate the negro in his own ostini: tion, and thereby give him an incei tive to assimilate himself as near < ho can, by his conduct, to tho white This, however, is a matter wit which this court properly hus n< tiling to do, its duty confining strictly to tho administration of tl law as it is, leaving the action of tl Legislature to tho influence of a lib ral and enlightened public scntimcn But, believing that thc Act of Coi gress relied upon is unconstitutiona the same duty of administering tl law imperiously requires that th court shall refuse it obedience, this court should enforce that Act, would be allowing a precedent, 1 which Congress could proceed togi suffrage to the negroes, annul ; State laws prohibiting intcrmurriuj between negroes and whiles, ai effectually destroy tho intended l>;? rier between State and Federal pow? and rapidly lead to that consolida ti( of power in tho Federal head whii would render it the imperial desp< ism against which we wer.' so o: neatly warned by Washington and other great founders of the republic, aa the necessary death of tho national liberty and prosperity. For these causes, tho court refuses to receive the testimony of thc ne? groes as offered as witnesses in tisis cause. _ Reported Uprising Against Spain. The reported landing of '2,<K)0 Chileans at Ncuvitas, to aid the Cuban insurrectionists, received by tho steamer (-nba, at.Baltimore, from Havana, seems to confirm tho state? ment made by the Panama Star, ol July 1st, that most of the South American republics hud entered into a sort of treaty to divest the Spanish authorities of the control of Cuba. The New York Sen, commenting on the news, remarks: The scheme seems to have been foi some time maturing, aud if tho in? surrection, that is now reported ir Cn ba, ?K a part of it. the matter i; reilly important, particularly so ir view of the fact that there is a strong anti-Spanish element in Cubu. W< aro inclined io thick, however, thu the Spanish power in Cuba is not ii: present danger. The insurrection i; probably the result of sumo loca cause, and will doubtless Ix- speedily supjiressod. So far as the report?e scheme of thc South Amen cai republies is concerned, we think i impracticable. Cuba is strongly fortified. Spain i more than n match for all the Repub lies of South America combined, ii military and naval strength, am hence we cannot see any gr?-at dango to Spain from thc said movement Anti-Spauish insurrections may b stirred up in Cuba, and filibusterinj expeditions, like that of Lopez, ina; attempt to do something; but Spnii is likely tu keep possession of Cub until the timejeorues when that islam will be "wanted" l>v the Uni*e< States. The Xi w York /'os/ says: News wliich conies to us from tw concurring sources, Panama am Havana, each confirming the othei appears to us to bo highly probable fr<>:n what wc have known for monti) of the anxious desires of the Cuban to lind out the means of takin advantage ?d' Spanish folly an wrongs in attacking thc South Amer can Republics, to emancipate thoj own magnificent island from thc o\ prcssivo rule of Spain. A very fe* days will bring either thc eonfirmi tion or the contradiction of th reports, which we give now for win they are worth, but with tho feeliu that they arc very likely to be true. \V<- take the following suggestio from tlie New Yolk Wo rb l. und u aro disposed to endorse it : "If, ?ts now appears probable, tl Southern States shall conclude i send delegates to thc I'hiladelph Convention, can they ?lo no bett? than to send the ir i ntireeongressioi al delegations straight through, ii eluding senators ami representative! These will constitute half the del gates called for in tho circular. Tl other h ul f can bc made up fro other prominent and reprcsentatb men. Oin- of thc principal benefi which tho country will derive fro that convention, if judiciously in naged, will bo ibo knowledge it w gain, iu ?ni authentic and indisput bio shape, of tho temper of t! Southern people and thu elcmcK which they will contribute to t Federal legislation and legislate 1 Thc most authentic showing wbi can be given will bc that which coin from thc men whom thu Southe States have sent to represent them Congress, and whom the radicals ha shut out of Congress. They will thc best and most qualified represei atives and exponents of all that t country most needs and desires know." Tho same paper, in ?tn article the Convention, say s ..Tho Convention will !><. a body which thc Southern people will truly represented. They need ha no hesitation ni sending delegate nor any fearof the Congressionalt oath, lliey will meet friendly do g?tions from the North, stro enough in numbers and intluence secure n respectful bearing for \vh over tin Sont li may have to say. a few lie publicans of the Kaymo pattern choose to bolt from thc Ci vention. their presence will be lit missed. Either with them, or wi out them, the Convention will held; and tho Southern delega may bo assured of the fair play in which is denied them by the Ku Congress, Union means tho un of thc North with the South. T Southern delegate's como to meet North, with a view lo joint politi notion, is a go ,.) enough proof their Unionism; us, <>n the ot hand, thc willingness ol' tho North delegatos to moot tim South, wit viewtoact together in politics, pro them to be good Unionists. Un mewis union ruth the South: and Times "might as well attempt tos Niagara wit h bulrushes" os to | vent tlie South coming to thc ( volition, and their friends in North appearing there hi groat ft to welcome them. Tlie recent In.lian commission! with the principal chiefs of North western tribes, is reporto? have proved a failure Enlarging tbe Boncdarl?? of Prance. The repeated declarations iu the letter of tho Emperor Napoleon that ho rejects-all idea of territorial ag? grandizement for France, if not sus? picious in themselves,-?re rendered' more than suspicious bj the manner of their statement and by the condi? tions with which they are coupled. First, if the conference had been held, ! France was to pronounce explicitly j against tile idoa of her rtwn enlarge? ment "as long as the equilibrium of Europe continued undisturbed." Again, in such caso France "could not think" of extending her frontiers, "unless tho inap of Europe should happen to be modified to the exclu? sive profit of some great power, and unless the conterminous provinces demanded by their votes, freely ox pressed, this annexation to France." Further on, tho Emperor speaks of the "geographical situation of Prus? sia being Sadly defined," (did he refer to her lihenish or her Baltic frontier?) and he throws out other hints, such os the desires of "peo- I i pies" as well as sovereigns iu the i matter. He speaks most of the in? terests of France, and repeats the as? surance he has received that "none j of the questions which affect her ! share be settled without her assent." 1 Tl ie frequency and variety of the : ways in which the Emperor makes I allusion, direct or indirect, to the ?question of boundaries, shows clearly i how intently his mind is fixed on the ' subject. I Ono of the Parisian writers at least has spoken of the conditions which the Emperor associates with Ida "re? jection of the idea of territorial ag? grandizement" for France, and has shown that if the Emperor is only to be limited by these conditions ho will not likely be long limited. Says Emile de Girardin: "If Prussia is victorious and she incorporates tho Duchies of the Elbe, j which would open to her access to j two seas-the North ami the Bal Itic-put into communication by a canal, would not the European equi? librium, such as it now exists, be broken? Would not the map of Europe be modified to the exclusive profit of Prussia? If Italy is victo? rious, and she completes her king? dom by the possession of Venetia, i would not that derange the European ' balance? Would not the map ol : Europe be modified to the exclusive profit of Italy? H Austria is victo j rious and she retakes from Prussic j Silesia, without giving Venetia tc Italy, would not that destroy thc : equilibrium? Would not the maj) ol Europe be modified to the exclusive ; profil of Austria?" The German papers also ure dis cussing the territorial eventualities oi the future. The Cologne GazetU warns the German people that "ii i thc event of either Prussia or Ans J tria appropriating now territory France would then annex, by mean: of universal suffrage, contiguous i German Provinces;" and it speaks o the plainness with which the Empe ror Napoleon intimates that he "de sires, a little slice of Prussia." W do not doubt that before thu war i closed lie will lind opportunity t "rectify the boundaries*' of bot) Prussia and France, iu one direction \X,;c York Times. - -?-??-?-- - THE CABINET.-Speaking ol' the rc siguation of Mr. Dennison, tho Was! ington S/'tr says: ..The general impression seems t be that Assistant Postmaster-Genen Alexander W. Randall will succeed t tho Postmaster-Generalship vacate hy Mr. Dennison. Wo learn tin the relations between Mr. Denniso and the President have been entire] friendly. Mr. Dennison was tl ' President cd" the Convention whie nominated President Lincoln for second term, and he docs not conceit it to be consistent with his politic views to countenance thc calls for tl Philadelphia Convention, regardii the latter us in antagonism to tl llcpublican party as represented : the Baltimore Convention, of 1801 The New York Netos has a despat? from Washingt n, in which, after i terring to Secretaries Stanton, Harli and Speed, says: ! "lt is understood that on Wedin i ?lay, these members undertook j catechise the President in relation what lie was going to do; that tl I President announced his dctermii; tion to veto the Freedmen's Bure bill, the Supreme Court hill, ni ! every other measure which he dem unconstitutional; that he intended express his approval of the Philad phia Convention, and that he hop : the measures which it devised wm . cause thc triumph of his restorati policy. Tho President's views w< cordially sustained by Mr. MeCuUo and Mr. Seward, but Messrs. Stunt and Harlan ure said to have giv nay to strong language in opposite The veto of the Freedmen's Bare bill will probably be sent to the Hoi to-morrow or Friday." The Notional Intelligencer says: "lt is evident that this resignal: was not the result of any consul tion v ith the leaders ol'thc Congi sional conspiracy. Mr. Dennis? inability to agree with tile policy the Administration had rendered 1 obnoxious and unfit to occupy as in the Cabinet. His voluntary tirementwill bo a great relief to President, it is probable that sistant Postmaster-General Kan will be appointed Acting Postmas I General, and the revolutionists tho Sonate will thus be saved trouble of rejecting the nominal J ol the successor." ?jooal ItonoL?. ; Mr. Wm, Hitchcock ?il yeateiihry elect? ed Alderman. ni AYard Sn. 3, to fiji th? va? cancy occasioned by Hw resignation of~Mr. Jolm Htorlc, 2 THE BtTBKiM? OK COLUMiii.".: Au mit r ?etif>K ?cco-iuii ni tit? "feaciv uii>l Dtsaxruc fcion of th<- City of Columbi*, S. C.," ha? Juat been isaued, in pamphlet form, from th? Plugiim power ?pros?. Order? filled to any extant. Single copien GU cents. BOOK AN? JOB PRINTISO. -Thc Pkmn? oflicu ie now fully ?applied with cards, colored and white paper, colored ink, wood type, etc., ?nd id in condition to execute all manner of book and job printing in the shortest possible time. UNIVKBSITV MLDI~AL COLLEGE OF NEW YORK.-Wc have received from the Janitor a copy of thc "Annual Announcement of Lectures" delivered in the above coBeg*. with a lint of the graduate?. The corps O!' professors is equal to the very best in the country. The winter session of thia admi? rable institution will commepceon the 15th of October. NEW AnvEnnsEacEirra. -Attention is call? ed to the following advertisement a, which are publiabed this morutng for the tirat time: Thoo. Stark-Public Meeting. J. 8. McMahon-Suapena'n of Ordinance. Meeting of Memorial Association. "GREY MOSS."-A writer in the Metropolitan llerord proposes, in the following, a new emblem for the South, in the h ve oak and the "grey moss," which drapes our Southern forests with its flowing festoons and pendants: On the banks of the Mississippi I lately passed the ruins of a stately mansion, probably once a happy home. The chimneys and massive columns alone stood; shot, shell and lire had effectually done their mis? sion, the orange grove was destroyed, a few straggling shoots of the "cloth of gold," and a "blood-red rose," the "giant of battles," showed the spot where once had been a garden. There Avas no sign of life or cultiva? tion: but amid all tins devastation there towered, unscathed, in immor? tal verdue, a live oak, heaA'ily draped with the mournful moss. And this, I thought, should be the future em? blem of the South, the oak, the more firmly rooted, the lesa hable to decay from the tempests it had witlistood and tho removal of the adornments that had been torn from around it; the moss, that's for remembrance TUE VETO OF THE SECOND FREED? MEN'S BUREAU Binn.-The Washing? ton correspondent of the New York WorM, under date of the 10th, says: "Simultaneously vrith this military establishment, the present "rural guard" throughout the empire Avili be abolished, and the entire country placed under the regular army pro? tection. The decree for this national army was issued in November of 18G5, and as at that time no further action was taken upon the matter, the general impression was that tho new establishment was to be only an army upon paper; but the consequent man? ner in which the idea has been carried out shows the order and method of all of Maximilian's movements. To have raised this army before the po? licy of Napoleon was made known as to the withdrawal of the French troops, would have been to incur a useless expense to the empire." THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH EXPEDI? TION. - The ( . real Eastern AVOS to leave Ireland three days ago on her new expedition across the Atlantic. At any moment AVO may receive tidings of* her progress by some passing steamer, and within ten days we shall probably know the result of the trial. Two improvements in the construc? tion of the new cable, and in the ap? pointments of thc great ship, en? courage thc hope of final success; but repeated disappointments have taught the public not to be sanguine. Should thc cable be laid and be put in working order, the rapid current of events in Europe this summer would at once put the telegraph com? pany in possession of a paying busi? ness. THE WHITES AND BLACKS IN TEN? NESSEE.-The Nashville (Tennessee) Dispatch, under the title of 4'Tha Ir? repressible Conflict," relates that, on the 4th of July, a squad of white sol? diers attempted to interfere with a colored pic-nic, at Fort Gillern, where the negroes were peacefully enjoying themselves. A quarrel ensued, and shots Averc exchanged, but nobody was hurt. At Smyrna, Tennessee, the same day, an intoxicated white tuan took a colored marshal's sword away from him, and a fight ensued between the whites and blacks. Gen. F:sk sent a squad of troops from Nashville, Avho quelled the disturb--* ance. Only one man (a nogo) was wounded, and he was shot twice through tho arm. - -< ^? ? - - Tho Duke of Hamilton, according to thc English papers, is a reckless person. He lately bought a cow, for which he paid ?12,500, and at the last Derby he "laid" ?180,000 ($900,000;) to ?b\000 against Hermit-but this latter was subsequently cancelled. Still later ho struck a man in a night brawl, and was therefore "wanted" by the police, but went off to Paris to see the race for the "grandprix," and so escaped arrest. This history is recommended to tho "sensation' novelists by the "Flaneur" of thc London Star, as furnishing material for a startling story.