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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.