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Blaine in London

His Extremely Remarkable Career is Duly Set Forth.

From London papers which have just arrived, says W.II Siviter in Red-Bits, we learn a great many facts about Mr.Blaine which have hitherto escaped his American biographers, Some extracts are appended:

"The Rt. Hon. James G. Blaine and wife have just arrived in this city. Mr. Blaine is at present governor general of Maine, a province on the southwestern coast of lake Mississippi. In addition to this office he holds that of vice president of the republic, in accordance with the rule adopted by the parliament at Washington, which gives the vice presidential position to the man who secures the second highest vote for president. Mr.Blaine would have been elected president and Mr.Cleveland vice president had not the Chinese delegate to the national convention opposed him on account of a previously opposed him on account of a previously expressed opinion that the emigration of Chinese should be stopped...

"Mr.Blaine os a first cousin of the Rt. Hon. William F. Cody, better known as 'Buffalo Bill,' and is expected to call upon him to-morrow for formulate governmental plans for the action on the reassembling of the American senate in November. Mr.Cody being a senator from the province of Key West, beyond the Mississippi river, and a strong supporter of the government.

"Mr.Blaine's military title is major general, although he seldom uses it. he gained it by galiant action on the field at Lookout Mountain where he commanded the Second Chicago ONfantry under General Beauregard. Besides receiving his commission as brigadier general, he was warmly complimented in a personal letter from President Jefferson Davis and Secretary of War Stanton. Later he took a prominent part in the capture of New York and in the reduction of Fort Du Quesne.

"While a member of President Garfield's cabinet he proposed the prohibition measure known as the Maine law, which is force throughout all the northwestern provinces with the single exception of Staten Island....

"As a literary man Mr.Blaine is well known, he having issued from the press in the last eighteen months a work entitled "Twenty Years Parliament" which treats largely of his experiences in the national assembly, which we have briefly alluded to. Under the nom de plume of 'Howells' he has written some very creditable verses for the magazines. He is also editor of the leading Washington newspaper, the Congressional Record."