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FRANCE.
Moralizing
•
oil her Condition.
Tlie LeBson to be Learned.
The Cincinnati Commoner of a, late'
date, lias a very interesting paper on the
present condition and late events in
France. It is somewhat lengthy, and we
cull from it the following highly inter
esting observations:
THE CAUSE OP THE LATE FRENCH EXPLOS-
BION—A LESSON POE GRANT AND
THE RADICALS.
Paris has, as it seems to us, been sub
jected to a storm for the same reasons,
which product- :4<>nus in nature, viz: An
accumulation of noxious elements, for
whose removal there exists no efficient
activities. Certain noxious elements had
in French society been suppressed when
they should have been wisely dispersed,
by giving them the proper salution,
and it lay in the very nature of things,
that these elements thus suppressed
should explode, whenever the presure
was suddenly removed. This happened
after Sedan. We may learn from this,
that mere repression never saves a pub
lic difficulty, and that the thing always
to be done is the application of a remedy.
HOW NAPOLEON IMPROVED THE CONDITION
OP THE FRENCH PEOPLE.
Napoleon did his full duty in relation
to the production and distribution of
wealth, that is to say, he stimulated pro
duction by freeing trade, and he libera
ted distribution by freeing credit. He
did even more than that, he provided
public agencies for aiding agriculture and
mechanics by science. His measures for
sub-drainage, for supplying France with
cheap bread, his constant enlargements
of the sphere of French trade showed
-him to be an'unreserved supporter of
modern (standard) social science, and we
may sum up his whole conduct in these
matters by saying: All were made richer,
nobody poorer. J
But making everybody richer is one
thing; satisfying everybody, quite anoth
er! Human nature is as Goethe says of
human blood:
“A very peculiar thing.”
THEIR WANTS EVER INCREASING—HARD TO
* SATISFY.
French wnn'ts were, a year ago, sup
plied by fifty millions of labor forces': in
1790 there were about eight millions.—
Moreover each labor force is now as well
paid as eighty years ago. Yea, more sig
nificant still; every human laborer enjoy
ed in France in 1870, more than double
as much value os bis special muscular la
bor was worth. And yet there were dis
contents whom no ruler, be he ever so
wise or progressive could satisfy.
THE POINT OP NAPOLEON’S FAILURE.
Our readers need not be told that in
our opinion, there are but two sources,
for all modern, social, and political move
ments; one is already spoken of, increase
in wealth, and its accelerated distribution;
the other is, the incessant modification of
religions views, through the constant ad
ditions to knowledge. Had Napoleon led
Franco into this latter matter, as he
did in commercial developments, he
would to-day occupy the Frenoh throne.
JUST WHERE GREAT WISDOM IS NECESSARY.
But let us be fair to him and reflect,
whether suoli a double social governor
ship was possible, and to judge aright,
let us bring English history before us.
Great Britain avoided a revolution in
1848 by yielding in 1846 to Sir Bichard
Cobden’s and Mr. Bright’s propositions
for the repeal of the Com Laws. Under
a constant wise progress toward free
trade, it had a (comparatively) contented
people, and by this vme mean a peopl
whose discontents never accumulated in
to noxious revolutionary elements. "With
in several years, however, the religious
disquiets have gained in prominence, and
Gladstone’s cabinet has again played the
part of British statesmen, that of yield
ing sufficiently to prevent a dangerous
accumulation of explosivo elements^ The
disestablishment of the Irish ohurch is
such a yielding, but'the British world is
still moving, and the disestablishment of
the Anglican church, and a modification
of the Universities are now the issues.—
And it is to be seen whether the liberal
Cabinet will keep once more ahead of the
waves of modern progress, to prevent a
submersion or revolutionary outbreak.
JUST WHERE THE SUCCESS AND THE FAILURE
AROSE.
Napoleon placed himself with an hon
est abandons into Lord Cowley’s hands,
who is a disciple of free trade; and he
inaugurated, under his advice, that series
of commercial treaties, which have
quadrupled the trade of France, and that
means, more food, better clothes, and
higher comforts generally, for everybody
in France, and greater public content-
.ment. But in whoso hands should he
trust himself on questions of religions re
form ? France had Comte, dare he fol
low him ? It had Cousin ; was he a safe
leader, or a leader at all ? Or dare he
call upon an Englishman or German ?
Was not England’s example before him,
where commercial liberty had so far sul-
ficed ? Dare he add to the enemies he
had among the manufacturers, whose
protective crutches he had removed, the
church as an adversary ?
He had a devoutly Catholic wife' 1 He
had an old family policy on church mat
ters, which he inherited from his unde.
It was, to allow the heretics to agitate,
perhaps quietly to encourage them in,
and to play as coldly as possible, the os
tensible protector of the church. Na
poleon played this ingenious policy to
disengenousness, and looked too much
like a zealous guardian of the clergy.
In consequence thereof he left in Paris
two elements of explosion ; first, the in
excusable (material) discontent of the
masses, and second an irritated chaffing
anti-cburcli animosity, which is absolute
ly without a guide. It has now been
suppressed, but for how long ?
WHERE BOTH FORCES RAISE COMMOTION.
We said before, that France had its
Comte and Cousin, but it had also St,
Benve, whom Napoleon once approached
somewhat. It has now its Victor Hugo,
and other anti-church agitors. but no
one man of sufficient caliber to do in re
ligious matters, what Napoleon did in
commercial matters; and until France
shall have for its head an open minded
man, she will never be at rest. Thiers is
wrong on both the progressive points of
our age. The revolution of 1789 is not
evded, it is still progressing, and is so,
because neither Louis XVI, nor Mari-
beau, por Boland, nor Danton, nor Ko
bespiere, nor Napoleon I, nor Louis
Phillip, nor Louis Napoleon, and least of
all, Thiers, have led the French for
ward in the two developments, which
are, as already stated, the levers of all
social movemenrs of our age.
NO PEOPLE UNDERSTAND thb REAL CAUSES
OF THEIR DISQUIETUDE.
All the fault that can be found with
them is, that they are in the indefinite,
L e. they are unconscious of the real
causes of their own disquiet. But are
the Euglish any less so? Are the Ameri
can people any clearer of their condition?
No ! No! and no, again, most be the
answer. England confides in Gladstone,
and with reason, he too, has concluded
to stop and attempt to repress, what is
irresistable; he may know what hour tne
clock of mankind has struck, but he is
wrong in trying to stop the pendulum,
and the people of Great Britain know
even less than he.
THE LESSON APPLIED TO AMERICA—OUR
DANGER.
And as to our American public author
ities, and onr people, are not both blind
as ’.flits ? Where are in this country the
activities which are to solve public or so
cial questions, before they arrive at ca
tastrophes ? Our chief magistrate is the
chief of a party ; he understands neither
social science, nor has he a single pro
gressive idea. Our people are herded in
two parties and numerons churches, aud
its public ethics ore not even thought of,
much less being worked out.
Say what you will, Europe is freer to
day than it was fifty years ago ; it is not
as free as it should be; bat it tends to
greater freedom. Where does America
stand ! It says:
“Lord, I thank thee that I am not like
one of these 1”
Delusive over self-estimation! Every
day adds other links to her chains. Iis
money, its tarifis; its military and its civ
il officers, its railroads, its city and state
governments are each and .ill so many
tyrannies. Our form of despotism is
popular, and therefore nobody sees it—
There is not on the whole globe a people
more illiberal politically, and more big
oted religiously. Why they should de
nounce the French people is more than
we can tell.
gan. They probably annually make
a great circuit, like the buffalo, from
north to south and return. Any one
curious to see this spectacle should
take the cars to Kilbourne City, and
follow up the east side of the Wiscon
sin river. The thousands sent to
market are caught at points far dis
tant from the herding grounds," so
that the real locality is not generally
known.
Strange Account of a Girl Who
Was a Walking Pin-cushion.
AN ENORMOUS PIGEON ROOST.
iBaMm
A Sight Worth Seeing in the Wis
consin Woods.
The propensity of wild pigeons to
congregate in multitudes at given
seasons is well known, aud many tre
mendous stories have been told of
them, the details of which, were
thought to make a heavy draught on
public credulity. We haye now, how
ever, authentic information from a
gentleman of the highest reputation
who passed last week in the section
of Wisconsin we are about to de
scribe, of a “roost” so enormous in
extent that it throws all the older ac
counts in the shade.
Commencing near Kilbourne City,
the breeding ground extends north
ward nine townships in length, and
probably more, with a variable width
of from ten to twenty miles. The
forests within these limits are made
up exclusively of oaks and evergreens
of a variety of species. It is a sandy
district, embracing perhaps the poor
est soil in the State, and apparently
destitute of food for even moderate
flocks of birds. Yet almost contin
nously, over the whole area, every
tree and shrub is so loaded with nests
as to be past computation in numbers.
On single pines from eighty to one
hundred were counted, when the job
had to be given up as impracticable.
Our informant, Col. Henry Hern
don, gives some curious details of his
experience on this breeding ground,
and of the habits of the pigeon when
aggregated in such multitudes. The
nesting place is not, as would natu
rally be supposed, selected for any
abundance of food, for the pigeon
can readily pass in an hour from fifty
to - a hundred miles, so that the range
is really across the entire State, and
the multitude is so innumerable that
they have carried wide-spread destruc
tion among the grain fields. The
male attends the young during the
middle of the day, the female return
ing toward evening to take charge.
Only one egg was anywhere found in
a nest. The incubation lasts about
two weeks, and the young in a short
time after are ruthlessly thrust out to
take care of themselves, and develop
so rapidly that few days suffice to give
them full maturity. .
Probably the sex changes alter
nately with each brood, as the pro
cess of hatching goes on continuously
Millions of the young perish, but it
makes no appreciable difference in
the number. The woods are alive
with wolves, foxes and all the species
of native carnivora, who feed to re
pletion without making any sensible
reduction of the aggregate. Scores
of hunters catch their thousands
daily in nets—and bands of Indians
are busy in drying and preparing
other thousands as a supply for next
winter’s use. But all the shooting,
netting, knocking from the trees with
poles, and every form of destructive
agency fails to make any sensible im
pression.
The scene in the night time is des
cribed as most remarkable. Innum
erable flocks get benighted while off
feeding, and, as they return, the roar
of their wings through the forest is
overwhelming. They pile upon each
other literally in heaps, breaking the
overbnrdenecl brambles, and precipi
tating multitudes from t ieir perches
upon the ground. The wild wings
and the chattering that fill the air
as late as midnight, is truly appall
ing, while the odor arising from the
countless dead and the droopings
produce a stench almost intolerable.
The “flock,” if that term is com
prehensive enough, is moving north
ward, and will probably reaeli Lake
Superior in June, when the “season”
will close by a return south, which
generally takes place by way of Michi-
New Lisbon, Ohio, is certainly a
remarkable town for sensations.
Whether this be owing to the peculi
arities of the people residing there
and in the immediate vicinity, of to
extreme fertility of imagination on
the part of local journalists of the
place, we do not presume to: say, but
some very strange “yams” originate
thereabout The latest, and perhaps
most remarkable, is the following,
which is from the New Lisbon Jour
nal.
“ There is a family living in the
east end of St Clair township, this
county, near the State line, whose
name has escaped our recollection,
well known in the community as re
spectable people, wherein was a girl
of sixteen or seventeen years of age,
apparently ill with chills and fever,
but gradually kept growing worse
until the doctors pronounced it ty
phoid fever, but failed to cure. And
she lay all last winter with various
symptoms of disease, such as dyspep
sia, liver complaint, tape worm, etc.,
but the doctors did not and could not
tell what was the matter. Finally
early this spring she took to bleeding
at the lungs, with pain in the stomach,
side, and one leg and foot—which
gathered at the heel, and formed some
matter, which the doctors opened and
took therefrom about one dozen pieces
of needles, and from which they have
taken at different times other pieces
of needles, making in all twenty-four
or twenty-five pieces out of her heel;
and about four weeks ago one of her
breasts became swollen, and, upon
examination, was opened, and several
pieces of needles taken out and one
pin ; and at various times lately, till
there have been fifty-seven, pieces of
needles and four pins from her breast
and heel. The needles appear to have
been of various sizes, and generally
broken in three places, except in
some of the smaller pieces. She is
now in comparatively good health,
so that she visits Smith’s Ferry al
most every day to have some pins and
needles taken from her breast and
heel. The pins are all bent as though
( here had been an effort to break them
in three places, and all the leaders
appear more or less corroded from
being in contact with the brass pins.
How they got there is a mystery that
no one can solve. There seems to be
no doubt but that slie swallowed
them, but how many are vet to come
out of her system ? It is a remarka
ble case.
cess and credit which should rightly j
have been his. — The first mover, There
fore, is laughed at as an “idea-mon
ger,” while the second comes in for
the honor of a successful reformer.—
If a man simply seeks for men to
speak well of nim, premature wis
dom is certainly the height of folly.
Before hia views are adopted, he is
laughed at; after they are adopted he
is forgotten. Any one who has stirred
much in controversy must have lived
to hear his own saying quoted to him
as the last new discovery of the newest
light
Yet the poor “idea-monger,” the
old fogy who has been so silly as to
think of a thing before other people,
may have been doing some practical
good all the same. He may have done
something to teach the newest light,
though the newest light may know
nothing about him. But if a man
wants immediate credit and immedi
ate influence, he will avoid the folly
of premature wisdom; he will never
think of things before other people;
he will wait and find out what is in
the mind of the public at large in a
vague and unformed shape; he will
lick it into better shape, and put it
forth to the admiring world as the
words of the newest and deepest wis
dom. Verily he hath his reward ; but
to our taste the reward of Roger Ba
con is better worth having.
Extract from Addison.
Idea-31 ongers.
When I look upon the tombs of
the great, every emotion of envy dies
in me; when I read the epitaphs of
the beautiful, every inordinate desire
goes out; when I meet with the grief
of parents upon a tombstone, my
heart melts with compassion; when I
see the tombs of the parents them
selves, I consider the vanity of griev
ing for those whom we must quickly
follow. When I see kings lying by
those who deposed them, when I con
sider rival wits placed side by side, or
the holy men that divided the world
with tneir contests and disputes, I
reflect with sorrow and astonishment
on the little competitions, fractions
and debates of mankind. When I
read the several dates of the tombs,
^f some that died yesterday, and some
six hundred years ago, I consider
that great day when we shall all of-
us be contemporaries, and make our
appearance together.
Commodore Tattnall.
The Saturday Review discourses of
idea-mongers and Radicals as follows:
A man who has ideas far in advance
of his own age wins very little credit
in his own age, and for the most part
does very little practical good. The
man who is really to guide his fellow-
creatures must in the nature of things
be in advance of other people, but he
must not be too far in advance of
them. He must not be so far in ad
vance of them that they eannot un
derstand or sympathize with him.
Alike in speculative and practical
matters, a man who is 50 far above his
own age as to be out of all relations
ivith the men with whom he has to
deal, has but little influence, and can
therefore do but little good. His acts,
his sayings, his writings, may remain
to be wondered at by a distant pos
terity ; on his own generation they
are thrown away.
He is sure to be mocked at as an
“idea-monger,” in many times and
places he is lucky if he escapes the
prison and the stake.- Every move
ment—intellectual, political or re
ligious—has had its pioneers of this
kind, whose influence, if they have
had any, has not been on their own
contemporaries, but on men long
after, who have heard their story or
read their writings.
Yet we cannot think that such
men are altogether unworthy of hon
or; we cannot look on their prema
ture wisdom as nothing better than
folly. Take for instance the two Ba
cons. Roger was at least as great a
man as Francis; considering Hie cir
cumstances of the time, we should be
inclined to say that he was a much
greater man. But he had little or no
influence on his own age, simply be
cause he was so far in advance of it
He stands as an isolated fact, to be
admitted by a late posterity.
But in the age of Francis Bacon
the world in general had advanced
beyond the age of Roger. Francis,
therefore, was not so far in advance of
his age but there were other minds
who were able to take up and follow
out his teachings. Roger, therefore,
simply remains the glory and the
shame of the thirteenth century.—
Francis has been master of every age
since the seventeenth.
More than this, when the time has
really come when a new idea can be
pressed ivith a hope of practical suc
cess, it is seldom the man who first
starts it who either gets the credit of
it or carries it out into practice. It
constantly happens, not at all neces
sary through any unfair practice,.that
another steppeth down before the
original prophet and wins the suc-
The condition of the brave veteran,
Commodore Tattnall, who was re
ported yesterday morning to be in a
very low state of health, is still very
E recarious. At a late hour last night
e was said to be very low. Our citi
zens feel great anxiety in regard to
tills heroic sailor, whose deeds have
made his name famous throughout
the world. -Every American and
British heart will beat in sympathy
with Georgia in this hour of her
hero’s illness; he who took the re
sponsibility of striking a blow in de
fence of Christianity and civilization,
against paganism, piracy and mur
der. If he were in command of an
American fleet to-day in the waters
of China, the Catholic missionaries
and the noble Sisters of Charity, who
were massacred last year, would be
terribly revenged by the guns of bis
ships.—[Savannah News.
Solid Soda Water.
Written foithe Sun.] .
imw«r «o “Betsy and I are Out.”
You have brought to me the papers that gives me the
dear old home;
But what will it be to me if yon are going to roam.
I have a fiery temper, and an awful unruly tongue;
But the love of other years is not from my old heart
flung.
We quarreled about religion twenty years ago this
faU.
As usual, my tongue ran ayway with sense, duty, re
ligion and all, - : \
And that’s what’s been the matter, and that’s what’s
caused the strife,
We’ve lacked good hard religion these years of onr
wedded life.
But by the help of our Saviour I am going to stop
this muss;
So hike off your hat and stay awhile, I’m bound I
never will fuss;
See daught. Is crying her life away, and it’s all about
you and I.
Why gracious! I have to wipe my eyes on account of
that pesky fly.
We talked the matter over, aud agreed to disagree.
That was foolish and wicked, I take it all back, you
see;
I han’t, and it’s no use trying. I can’t see you go
away;
And daught’s in the comer still crying, Surely you
with us stay.
So take the papers, husband, you was generous to a
fault,
Injustice, truth and love, you was never known to
halt,
And I will not forget It, you may be sure of that;
you’d give what you thought was right, if it broke
you flat.
You always was that way. I remember my poor
mother
Had a welcome home with you; also my crippled
brother;
And not one word did you complain, but worked and
tngged the harder,
To supply onr wants, and keep well-filled ,the larder.
I often thought of that, and knew that 1 was blest;
Yet I’d scold and rant around, and give to you no
rest,
But all my pride, all my spunk, 1 know is gone for
ever,
So now, old man, just say the word, and we’ll live on
together.
A few more years of peace, I trust, will be given you
and I;
Then underneath the maple trees, side by side we’ll
lie—
The trees you planted years ago, when you and I
were young,
Before so many shadows were on our pathway flung.
Age ! at the thought of **Auld lang syne.” the tear
falls on your cheek;
It does more honor to your heart than many words
could speak;
In mem’ry of the olden times, and of the olden
spell,
Resolve we will united be, and treat each other well.
You do consent to stay with us, God bless, you, John
for that;
My child, conie forth, dry up your tears, and take
your father’s hat;
There'll be no parting until death, and then I hope
we’ll be
Together ’round the Great White Throne, father,
child and me.
M. F. Whitney.
Some genius, it is said, lately suc
ceeded in perfecting an invention
which will revolutionize the soda
water business. The invention con
sists of condensed soda water, put in
boxes containing material fur sixteen
glasses of as pure soda water as can
be drawn from any fountain. The
powders charged with gas, sweetened
and flavored with pine-apple, orange,
lemon, etc., ready for use, and a pic
nic party can carry their soda foun
tain in their pockets.
Blanchard Jerrold writes charmingly
on the subject of flowers. He says:
“I would have flowers crowded" in the
school-room windows of the very young.
I would build broad, open balconies for
the Mby scholars, where, during every
daylight moment of fair weather, they
might have fresh air and bits of beauty
flowering under their inquiring eyes. I
would have the Pouponniere of Brussels
copied; making elementary education
begin—not when a child has been already
erected into a little monster by bad pa
rents and evil surroundings, but in "its
protected cradle, in the first shaking of
its rattle and the first pointing of its fin
gers to pictures and plants. We should
—or our children would—see the good
results of such cradle teaching ; of ms
theticaufhrown into the alphabet, into
the toy*shop, fie play ground, and the
adornments of the school room. For
the child that is alive to the simplest les
sons and beauties of the field, that can
delight in striving to imitate—if only
with straw or paper—a beautiful form-
placed before it, is far on the way to
a higher education, even should subse
quent events prove Hntoward in its path,
than the creature of dull, uninformed
sight in infancy, who may be kept well
at school under good masters. A feeling
for the beautiful, a delight in it, which
at present is almost unknown in England,
is that which we shall strive after, not i j
art academies, bnt in infant schools and
nurseries. The roughest Dutch doll is
the Venus di Medici to the child that
nurses it. We give the ngly thing to the
child, and so make for ourselves the af
ter difficulty of proving that dolly is ng
ly. The remark applies to nearly all
toys; certainly to all that are English.”
►-•—4
A young minister, whose reputation
for veracity was not very good, once
ventured to differ wilh an old doctor of
divinity as to the efficacy of the use of
the rod. “Why/’ said he “the only
time my father ever whipped me it was
for telling the truth.” “Well,” retort
ed the doctor, “ it cured you of it, didn’t
it?”
“Played Out.”
This is a very common as well as a slang phrase,
which nearly every one now-a-day uses, but it is very
significant. How many “played out” individuals do
we meet with during the day. Just think of it!
There goes a young man with a shabby-genteel
dress. making considerable eflorts to wear an air of
a millionaire, who was once the pride of his mother
aud the hope of his father, but who got amongst the
“town boys,” learned to drink, play billiards, fight
the tiger, and other fascinating games, until he has
s^ent his money, and there he goes—a played out
profligate.
Here is a man in the prime of life, who, after the
war, started with nothing. By dent of hard licks
and skill he acquired a considerable amount of mo
ney. He speculated in cotton, bought heavily. Cot
ton went down, down, nnlU all of his hard earnings
were gone. He took to drink. Had not courage
enough to make another effort to rise. Now, what
little money he can get his hands on goes to the bar
room, while his once happy family are is rags and
poverty. He lias “played out.”
Here is a politician, who once commanded the res
pect and admiration of the masses. His future was
bright, but he could not stand success, and now he
is a corrupt, besotted, “played out” vagabond.
Here is a poet, artist and musician, one who once
stood at the head of a large circle, and was popular
with all who knew him; he became vain of his gifts
and acquirements, and ventured on a course of irreg
ular life, which soon led to dissipation, and finally
to his present condition—a "played out” genius.
There are many “played out” boys. They were
all started in life, having well-formed bodies- and
brains, and inheriting conditions favorable to make
them men. Bnt by bad habits they have ruined
themselves.
Boys, do you know why so many people “play out”
in this country ? If yon will take the trouble to make
some few enquiries concerning every person you
hear of hear of that is “played out,’’ and nine out of
every ten of them will be fonnd to be drinking men.
That makes the boys ,l play out” quicker than any.
thing ever invented; and half of the crowd have not
played out yet.
A SHARP DODGE.
An African .Railroad Ticket Agent.
Some time since, a negro named Alex. Shivers,
struck up with a negro woman who told him she
wanted to go to Montgomery, and had only eight
dollars in money. Alex, represented himself as
a railroad agent, and told her he would bring her a
ticket; bnt that eight dollars was not enough. She
then gave him her watch on which to raise the bal
ance of the fare. He went to the office and bought
her a ticket to East Point, and pntthe balance of the
money and the watch in his pocket. The woman did
not know any better, and got aboard the train for
Montgomery. Of course the conductor put her off
at East Point, when she returned to the city. Alex
was arrested, carried before Justice Lynes aud fined
$25, which he paid.
Soon after, he fooled a white man out of his
watch, by telling him he conld sell it for nine dol
lars. The man seeing him afterwards, asked him
about it, when Alex, told him he had sold the
watch and spent the money, and when he got ready
and felt like it, he would hand him over the change.
A Nondescript.
Yesterday we saw a very strange looking animal
indeed. It appeared to us to be a mixture of toad,
alligator and lizzard. Its head was shaped very much
like the common lizzard, bnt with very small eyeB,
and having horn-like prickles or spines extending
backward. It had four feet, like the toad and lizzard,
though it did not leap like the one or run with ra
pidity like the other. Its motion was that of a slow
walk, holding its body np like a common four-footed
brute, but resting its body fully on the ground, like
all of the lizzard kind, when not in motion. Its bo
dy was considerably flat, having the color of a dark
rattlesnake, about the length and weight of a mouse,
ivith spine-like prickles round its outer edges. It
had a tail like a lizzard, though proportionately short
er. it would cat flits—either picking up such as
were killed and given to it, or snapping np living
ones like a frog. It is said to have been picked up
in Marietta btreet, in front of Mayes k Bro’s store, a
few days ago, after a very hard fall of rain. It is a
strange looking beast—a real curiosity, which would
be prized by a naturalist.
BLUE-GRASS STOCK.
A New York. Commission House
Sweeps that Section of all this
Year’s Raising—A Huge Buying
Up.
From the Louisville Journal.
CoL P. Saxe,'of tlie Troy (N. Y.)lTimes,
has been in this State for about seven
weeks. During bis stay he purchased
along the line of the Kentucky Central
one hundred thousand pounds of wool,
being nearly one-fifth of the entire pro
duct of the State, at an average price of
from thirty-five to forty-three cents per
pound. He was assisted by seven agents
in this purchase, which had been made
for and with the commission house of
H. Bankine & Co., of Troy, New York.
He also bought, including lambs pur
chased last year,three hundred thorough
bred Cotswold lambs and ewes, and some
twenty shorthorn (Durham) young bulls
and heifers. For this stock Mr. Saxe
bas many orders in Nebraska, Colorado,
Wyoming and Utah Territories, whither
he is to proceed with his herd in a few
days. .The amount of money he has ex
pended for the above stock reared in this
State is between sixty and seventy thou
sand dollars, and the transactions had
been effected mainly in the counties of
Fayette, Bourbon, Harrison, Scott and
Clark, making nearly a clean sweep of all
the young pure-blooded stock. The
yearling bucks and ewes weigh upon an
average between one hundred and forty
and one hundred and seventy-five pounds.
The fleeces of these sheep weigh about
thirteen pounds, and the length of wool
varies from seven to fourteen inches.
The numerous parties by whom the
animals were sold gave Col. Saxe along
with a full and guaranteed pedigree in
writing of both sire and dam. It is claim
ed and conceded by the most experienc
ed breeders in the State that the prog
eny of the Cotswold stock bred in Ken
tucky are superior, in carcass and in the
quantity as in the quality of the fiber of
the wool, to those of their sires and dams
imported hither from England and Can
ada. This remarkable fact is attributed
to the dry and equable climate of this
State, while that of England is damp and
variable, and that of Canada is prejudi
cial, on account of the long and cold
winters und often excessive hot summers.
The design of CoL Saxe in exporting this
fine stock is to increase the carcass and
the quantity of the wool of the Merino
breed in the Territories already men
tioned.
It will be a source of gratification to
the numerous friends of Col. Saxe, whose
life has at times been periled by hemorr
hage of the kidneys, that he has, while
pursuing hi commercial labors in the
State, fonnd what he believes effective
curative treatment at the hands of Dr.
David Keller, of Paris.
CoL Saxe’s letters last year to the Troy
Press upon the topography, resources,
etc., of the States and Territories of the
Pacific slope, attracted considerable at
tention. He will continue his correspon
dence during the present year. Most of
our readers know that Col. Saxe is a
brother of the celebrated John G. Saxe,
the poet.
me Sale of tlie Atlanta Intelligencer.
Yesterday the printing material, the books and
good will of the Atlanta Intelligences were sold
at public outcry, to foreclose certain mortgages upon
them. Whatever may have been the feelings of the
people in general who were present, the scene was a
sad one to a newspaper man, whose sympathies are
naturally aroused by the misfortunes or calamities
that olten befall those who have been engaged in the
same business with himself; a business ever pro
vocative of mental anxiety, beset by many vexa
tions, but, upon the whole, highly honorable, useful
and in many particulars pleasant.
Though journalism often leads to acrimonious
sparrings between the members of the profession,
its esprit du corps is such that there prevails among
them a more kindly feeling than the world at large
gives them credit for. It was, therefore, with real
regret that we looked upon the sale of the property
belonging to the old Intelligencer on yesterday. Es
tablished in the year 1855 its career been such as
to cause it to be regarded as one of the institutions
of the city and State; which, under more fortunate
circumstances and less troublous times have
existed in the last five years, would have been a
source of wealth and independence to its proprietor,
instead of a cause of pecuniary disaster.
It is not asserting too much to say that friends of
the paper and its proprietor (and these are numerous
and respectable) sincerely lament the suspension of
the former and deeply sympathize with the latter,
whom misfortune has overtaken at a time of lifa
when financial disaster falls more heavily than when
in the hey-dey of youthful vigor.
The whole establishment was knocked down to
CoL Ben. C. Yancey for $4,070. The large Hoe press
brought $1,500; a small Hoe press brought $900; the
types, material; Ac., in the job room, brought $350.
The large quantity of other material made up the
balance of the $4,070.
Good Templarism.
It will be seen by the following, that Dr. W. P.
Harrison has resigned his office aB G. W. C. T. of
Georgia, and that Col. Hancock assumes the office:
To the Office and Members of the Grand Lodge, I.
O. G. T. of Georgia:
My removal from the State renders it necessary
for me to resign the office of Grand Worthy Chief
Templar for the State of Georgia.
The only purpose I had in view in accepting the
position, was to serve the interest of the cause of
lemperance in the State. My duties however, as the
Editor of a literary magazine published in Nash
ville, render it impracticable lor me to remain
charged with responsibilities which I have no ade
quate opportunities to assume. Under the circum
stances, then, feeling that I can be of no further
service in promoting the Temperance Reform in
Georgia, I beg leave respectfully to tender my resig
nation. Yours in F. H. & C.
W. P. Haxeison,
G. W. C. Georgia.
Nashville, Tenn., June 7,1871.
The above announcement of our highly esteemed
Brother, Rev. W. P. Harrison, G. W. C. T., will be
read by the members of our beloved Order with feel
ings ol deep reg et and to no one is this resignation
more a source of sorrow than the nddersigned, who
by virtue of his office, is called upon to discharge the
high and onerous duties of G. W. 0. T. of the State
of Georgia.
In assuming the high and responsible duties of
G. W. C. T., of the State of Georgia, I feel it to be my
duty to say a few words to our brethren of the Or-
d», and ask their hearty co-operation in sustaining
me in my ardnous duties. May sunlight continue to
smile upon our Order, and may nothing occur to im
pede its growth. The success of our institution
depends upon the executive skill and la.thfulness of
each member.
Let your weekly meetings be conducted in a spirit
of brother y love and good feeling, discard *ll po
litical andpersonal feelings Lorn the Lodge Room
Let wisdom, prudence and love find an abiding p.. e
in our hearts when we meet together to consult, e-
liberate and act upon questions affecting the iic< r-
ests, harmony and perpetuity of the Order. 1 bo
successful we must be united, each adding stxe th
to that of his brethren. We must ,3bor for t ch
other, and the cause inrhonor and in truth, and iu. Kt
labor for humanity.
Having entered upon the duties as G. W. C. T. of
the State of Georgia it shall be my earnest desire to
do all in my power to promote the good of the Order,
aud advance the cause of Temneranco in our State.
O. W. Hancock, G. W. C. T.
Ahikicus, Ga., June 13,1871.