dauban Department of the Var manufactured a lay figure,
entirely in white, and, after attaching a chain round its neck, placed
it in a small cart. Many of the inhabitants then paraded it through the
village in solemn procession, accompanied by a crowd of men carrying
axes, &c., and singing revolutionary songs. After a while they formed a
sort of revolutionary tribunal, and the figure, which was called
"Blanc," was gravely tried, and, by the majority of the votes of the
crowd, condemned to death, the principal judge, a man named Arnaud,
saying, "Blanc! you prevent us from dancing farandoles, and therefore we
condemn you to death!" Thereupon, a man seized the figure, placed it on
a plank, and at one blow with his axe severed the head from the body. A
bottle of wine had been placed in the neck of the figure, and, this
having been broken by the blow, a resemblance of blood was produced. The
head was then cast into the crowd and torn to pieces by them. This
scandalous scene created a most painful impression throughout the
department. A few days afterward, four men who played a principal part
in the affair, and the two women who made the figure, were brought to
trial on the charge of exciting citizens to hatred of each other. The
men pleaded drunkenness as an excuse--the women declared that they had
only intended to amuse their children. Four of the accused were
acquitted, and the other two, who had acted as judge and executioner,
were condemned to four and three months' imprisonment. It is a pity that
by the application of some such law, the disgustingly vulgar and
brutalizing piece called _The Drunkard_, which has lately been played
with "immense success" at Barnum's Theatre, (and in which the chief
characters appear in all the stages of degradation until one of them is
nearly dead with the delirium tremens), cannot be suppressed. With all
its pretensions to morality, the play is irredeemably bad and base.

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The CINCINNATI ART UNION advertises Powers's Greek Slave as one of its
prizes, and publishes an engraving of it which should frighten away all
subscriptions.

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AMERICAN EXTENSION AND CONQUEST.--The Daily News thus opens an article
upon the recent attempt to invade Cuba:

"Shortly after the American war; a sapient French statesman, writing
from Louisiana to his royal master in Paris, advised the French
government to cultivate a close a