Full returns give Burnside of Rhode
Island, 4,307 majority over Pierce,
(Dem.)
Galesburg, Illinois, tiie seat of Knox
College, has been the scene of an odd
sort of insurrection. The cause of the
disturbance seems to have been, if the
reports arc true, something in the na
ture of an assault, committed by
President Curtiss upon Miss Howard,
principal of the female seminary at
tatched to tiie college. Tiie provoca
tion for the outrage, if there was apy,
is not known : but the students, hear
ing of the affair, espoused the cause of
the lady with great vigor. They
made the following night dideous
with groans and cat-calls, and, next
morning, burned the ofibmiing ofll
cer’s eltlgy under his nose., accompa
nying the performance by howling a
familiar but dismal air, with the .un
comfortable refrain, "and we’ll hang
Prex. Curtiss oq a sour apple tree.”
The business of the college was sus
pended. The gentlemen of the faculty
offered their resignation, and there
seemed to boa general determ Inal io.
tn drive Mr, Curtiss from the institu
tion..
