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The Greorsria 'Weekly Teleerra/pli and Journal &c IVTessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
~~ WAfiON. JULY 29, 1870.
The European War. •
JEreiy days’ nows seems to increase the prob
ability of a general complication. The idea of
yesterday’s dispatches to sundown, is the ap
parent anxiety of England to get into the muss.
She is arming from top to toe, and sending her
aaral armaments into the Channel in great
forofi.
But the main thing is the huge mare's nest
iHsoovered by the London Times in that alleged
treaty of alliance—offensive and defensive of
fered by Napoleon, on the point of his dagger,
to King William, of Prussia. It is no new trick
to discover secret treaties and diplomatic plots
in order to fire the popular heart and drivo a
nation into war. England, in common with
other Earopean nations, is under treaty stipu
lation to guarantee the integrity and indepen
dence of Belgium, and, of course, here, in this
alleged treaty, is what the London Times seems
for some reason unknown, particularly anxious
an affront to Great Britain in the alleged at
tempt of the French Emperor to seenre by
treaty with Prussia the incorporation of Bel
gium in the French dominions.
We do not believe a word of this treaty. The
Trench Emperor is too astute to have placed
himself in tho hands of Bismarck and Prussia at
auoh a moment as this. We look upon it rather
as a rose of the Times to stimulate the anti-
French feeling in England, and it will servo
that turn very well. Events in the United
Kingdom seem favorable to a thorough entan
glement in these continental troubles, and tbe
declaration of Russia that she will preserve
neutrality so long as it is her interest to do so,
does not appear to be very satisfactory either.
On the whole, the plat thickens. Up to this
writing there has been no important collision,
but it is pretty clear a great battle will not be
long postponed.
The Cotton Crop.
Some of our correspondents complain of our
crop reports from some of the counties. We
print such reports as are sentn3, and, of course,
cannot be suspected of any desire to misrepre
sent facts. Bat mark this, gentlemen: The
day has passed when newspaper reports do eith
er harm or good to cotton prices. The infor
mation which controls the markets is not ob
tained from the newspapers. The estimates
«f the agricultural department are relied on,
and that has already warned the public to look
oat for a crop little short of four million bales 1
Against this manifesto what any twenty coun
ties may report in the newspapers will not
make one hair white or black. Therefore, let
wc possess our souls in patience, and if we make
only half a crop, hold on to it, if we can, until
the world discovers the fact.
Tbe Speculators in Flonr.
The New York Mercantile Journal sounds a
groundless alarm in behalf of the moneyed rats
who have gone into the flonr business since tho
war. The pestilent tribo of speculators are en
titled to as much sympathy as Bamegat wreck
ers, and no more. Wo hope they will all get so
badly dusted and pasted up with their flour that
(hey will be glad to leave the poor man’s bread
alone hereafter. It seems tho grey old flour rats
singed the new rats with huge parcels of sour
Sour at $2 00 advance on rates a month ago. A
murrain on the whole tribe, who are too lazy to
employ themselves in something useful. Look
out for sour flour. Buy only of tho millers and
(heir agents.
Atlanta Items.
The Atlanta True Georgian, of Sunday, has
the following:
Horrible Murder sear Marietta.—We learn
that a lady named Sloan, living near Marietta,
was murdered yesterday morning about ten
oY.lnelr. nnnn her farm. Tlio premivu were
robbed of two thousand dollars in gold, which
the murdered lady had just received. Nine ne
groes at work npon the farm are implicated in
the murder, and have been arrested. A daugh
ter of Mrs. Sloan wn3 wounded during the strug
gle, and was enabled to identify the murderers.
The gold was fonnd upon tho negroes. The
murderers are under heavy guard, and the civil
authorities have been applied to, to bring them
into safe quarters.
It.was one of the. most wanton and horrible
murders over perpetrated in this State, and we
bust tho guilty parties will be summarily dealt
with according to law.- Wohave not been able,
np to time of writingJ°to get further particulars
of this tragical affair.
The meeting at 48 Capitol building, Saturday
morning, was well attended by both Democrats
and Bepublicans. Good feeling and harmony
prevailed. It was confidently asserted that
there are patriotic Republicans enough in the
General Assembly whose votes, when joined
with those of the Democrats, will defeat the de
igns of the proloDgationists. But it was also
hinted very strongly, that there are some Dem
ocrats who may need looking after.' To shirk
duty now is to betray their constituency. They’J1
bo watched.
Street Cabs.—Borne, Georgia, has now a bill
before the Legislature for the iocorporationof a
3treet car company. This shows the prosperity
and go-ahead spirit of the Mountain City.
Tlie Georgia (till Interpreted by one
Of 1(8 Authors.
Editor Morning News :
Enclosed please find an extract of a private
letter received from the Hon. J. F. Farnsworth,
M. O., which I publish, thinking it may be of
some interest to the people of Georgia.
Washington, July 16, 1870.
Bear Friend Fitch: Yours received a few
aUyssinceonmyretnrnfromtheWest. *****
The final amendment of the Georgia bill, as
adopted in Conference Committee, was, as
drawn me substantially. They cannot quote
the net of last December now as directing the
term of State officers or members of the Legis
lature. You should hold an election In tho Fall.
Very truly yours, J. F. Farnsworth.
A NEGRO l.ICKETIA BORGIA.
Diabolical Attempt of a Colored IVoniitn
to F«l on Ttitrtj -mix Krgroen on a Mts-
•lanippt Plantation.
The Vicksburg Herald tell3 of tho arrest of a
negro woman on Judge Sonthworth’s plantation
in Sunflower conniy, who had poisoned a large
quantity of milk, which it was customary to give
to the hands, but fortunately the fact was discov
ered before the milk was eaten, or thirty-sir ne
groes would have gone np. She had charged
it with strychnine, a bottle of which was fonnd
Salter house. .
Excitement in the Agency.—The Atlanta
Hew Era says there was much excitement yes
terday among members of tho General Assem-
Ny, and especially among tho members of tho
Finance Committee,over a rumor which seems to
generally credited, to the effect that the money be
which the Treasurer had unlawfully loaned out,
had been used in stock and bond speculations,
and that owing to the sadden fall in prices in
Wall street, by tho War news, a large portion'
of the money wonld be lost.
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The Atlanta Constitution learns that on Fri
day the down freight train oh the Western and
Atlantic Railroad ran off near Kingston, doing'
considerable damage. On Friday night the npj
freight train on the samo road ran off half a;
mile below Kingston, demolishing four cars.
Loss estimated at about $4000. No lives lost.
This accident caused the mail train to miss
connection, ;
Postmaster-General Creswell has made ar
rangements for forwarding tho mails three
times a week to Enropo, one service le-s than
- at present. Letters to any part of Germany
should be addressed via England.
Nearly two millions of Germans have emi
grated to this country during the last twenty
years.
Taking Sides.
The Central Republican Committee (so-called)
of New York and the Loyal League have de
clared war against France, and the Tribune,
Commercial Advertiser, and other Radical pa
pers, call npon them, with all their might, to
hold their horses. Things are getting to the
fighting point between the French and Irish
immigrants on the one side, and the Germans
on the othor, and there have been some omi
nous set-to’s already. “If these thiDgs happen
in the green tree, what shall be done in the
dry?” What will happen wheD, in a few
weeks, Europe shall be red with blood and
drank with patriotic phrenzy! When nations
will rouse every passion and stiffen every sinew
in the mighty straggle for honor and existence!
The Commercial Advertiser remarks:
There are whole blocks here—long streets, in
fact—where nearly all the teeming hordes of
popnlation are Germans, and the accent of the
Bhine land may be heard in every part of the
city. This enormous popnlation is stirred to its
depths. We cannot expect that it will remain
cool and expressionless when tbe foot of tho
invader is on the Fatherland, but we must exact
of it that its sentiments be uttered mildly, and
with profound respect for tho laws of the Unit
ed States and the neutrality this government
assumes. Most of the Germans are American
citizens. They have specially abjured allegiance
to Fatherland, and have 6wom to bear true alle
giance to the United States. They have cast off
King and Duke and Kaiser, and adopted the
President and tho town meeting. The samo
may be said of the Irish Americans. They, too,
have absolved themselves from loyalty to Great
Britain; and they, as well as the Germans, are
committed to an American policy, to preserve
our neutrality, to keep the peace with all na
tions, and to offer no just cause for offense
to those with whom we are in amity. How
long kindly relations can be maintained, with
the Germans fulminating against France, the
Irish blustering for France and against Great
Britain, and the Bepnblican Committee mouth
ing the fierce phraseology uttered by it last eve
ning, remains to bo seen; but from words to
acts is often no great distance, and irritating
words spoken here might lead either of the
Powers engaged to show indifference to our neu
tral rights and so hurry us into a war to resent
an insult to our offended dignity. A dispute
might arise, when Franco or Prussia, offended
by popular expressions here might refuse to
give way. Then there would be a popularpres-
sure, and we would find ourselves in a struggle
which has no possible interest for ns, and from
which .we could derive no benefit. Oar mission
is to keep out of this war, to furnish food to
Europe, to do their carrying trade, and to look
indifferently upon a contest in which a couple
of monarchies bump against each other and per
haps thump each other to pieces. Somethiog
like an active interest seems to be taken in this
war, when a United States Senator, a member
of the Foreign Affairs Committee, doubly pledg
ed to be an American by bis oath of citizenship
and his oath of office, gives his eloquent speech
to stir up the enthusiasm of a German popula
tion already frenzied with excitement.
Next after popular and irresponsible assem
blages, come political gatherings, and these
have something more of significance. We un
derstand here that they are mere partisan dodges
to catch votes, or tho tricks of politicians to
force notoriety. Abroad they are looked upon
as carrying more weight. So we have protested
against tho action of the Bepnblican General
Committee as uncalled for and impertinent, and
as the utterance of officious ignorance. They
proclaim their devotion to Prussia and stigma
tize the French Emperor with a vocabulary of
choice abuse. There were men present who
saw the folly of thi3 and who sought to thwart
the nonsense. Tney saw and said that this
was no way or time to catch tho German votes,
and so the Germans themselves think.
So say we alL Keep cool, and if you can’t
keep cool, keep cool as you can. Modem com
munication has made tho great Enropean war
as near to us a3 if it were in Jones connty. The
old conditions aro gone; steam and the tele*
graph have made all nations near neighbors,
and wo must learn a new lesson in self-control.
The temptations to get into the fight—at least
in the spirit if not in the flesh—aro multiplied
a hundred fold, and if we do not want to get
into it in dead earnest, we must resist the devil,
as the good book teaches ns.
But thore’s our friend Jaeno—foreign editor
of the Telegraph and Messenger—see what a
poor fist he makes at resisting temptation! He
starts ont with a solid determination to be im
partial and cool as a cucumber, and in tbe
course of twenty lines gets to fever heat. He
reminds ns of one of Moryatt’s characters—
Chucks, the Boatswain—who plumed himself on
his excessive suavity, but broke down, in spite
of his best intentions, every time he detected a
breachin discipline. “My dear fellow,” Chucks
would say, to an offending sailor, “allow me to
suggest in the most delicate manner in the
world, that you are spitting on that deck, and
such things cannot be allowed in her Majesty’s
service; and I’ll not stand by and see them.
Do you hear, you son of a sea cook ? Take that
and that, you infernal scoundrel and I’ll maul
your blasted eyes out, if yon over do it again,
yon derned son of a gun.” Let as keep cool and
let Europe fight the quarrel ont.
Speech or King William. -
The speech of King William of Prussia to the
German Parliament on the 20th, in full, is as
follows:
The King said: “Prussia has no interest in
tho selection of the Prince of Hohenzollcrn for
tho Spanish throne, except that he might bnng
peace to a friendly people. It had, neverthe
less, furnished the Emperor of the French with
a pretext for war unknown to diplomats, and,
scorning peace, he had indulged m language to
Germany which could only have boen prompted
by miscalculation of her strength. Germany
was powerful enough to resent such language
and repel such violence. He arid bo in nil
reverence, knowing the event was in God’s;
hands. He had fully weighed the responsibility
which rested on the man who drives into war
and havoo two great and tranquil nation^yearn-
ing for peace and the enjoyment of common
blessings, Christian civilization and prosperity,
and for contests more salutary than those of
blood. Those who rule France have shrewdly
; studied the proper methods of hitting the sen-
isitive pride of that'great neighbor nation, and
‘ to promote selfish interests have misguided it.”
The King concluded: “As our. fathers before
us have done, let us fight fair our liberty and
rights against wrongs inflicted by a foreign con
queror, and aS He Was with our fathers, so God
will be with us in a straggle without which
Enrope can never enjoy lasting peace.”
In the North German Parliament, after tho
King’s speech had been delivered, a loan of a
120,000,000 thalers was carried unanimously,
amid the wildest expressions of enthusiasm by
all parties. -
Wound Up.—The New York Times thus wails
over a lost opportunity: ;
At present onr merchants are set to ran '• a
race in sacks. The ultra Protectionists have
crippled them. The situation in whioh we are
now placed is a more striking commentary on
the folly of onr mercantile policy than all the
arguments in the world. If we only had ships
we could reap a golden harvest. Tne monopo
lists have killed our shipping trade,' arid the
people can only look on and see a magnificent
opportunity slip through their fingers.
Schuyler Colfax is a remarkable man—I
may say that he is a very remarkable man. I
.-.uid many years ago that he ran more ma
chinery with less boiler than any man alive.
Anil here ho is to this boar puffing away his
little puffs of steam, and .all the machinery
whirrs and rattles and thumps all to no earthly
purpose, but to call attention to the fact that it
does puff, whirr, rattle and thump. We are
assured by learned divines that nothing is made
in vain, but what on earth Schuyler was created
for. set on end and endowed with locomotion,
confounds us.—Bon Piatt. - • i
The quality of the Prussian soldiery as to
their personal and family respectability is pro
bably higher than that of any nation in Europe.
Tho rigorous rule for all, even the highest,
commencing in the ranks; the excellence of
Prussian educational system : and the sober en
thusiasm of the German people, constitute them
a dangerous opponent. The French have more
elan; but tbe Prussians, like the Anglo-Saxons,
will bear whipping, and after a defeat or two
may, perhaps, feel jost ready to begin. On the
other hand, the French have alway been demor
alized by reverses.—2Y. T. Herald.
GEORGIA PRESS.
Conservative Movement in Savannah.—Some
hundreds of Savannah people sign a call for a
meeting at St. Andrews Hall, last night, to or
ganize the Conservative party for the coining
elections.
The Augusta Fair Grounds.—The Augusta
Chronicle & Sentinel says:
The contract for the other necessary build
ings, offices, etc., will be let out this week.—
Estimates will be invited for the erection of a
grand stand—calculated to seat five thousand
persons. New walks and drives have been laid
out, and a force of laborers is employed that
will ensure everything being completed in time.
The water pipes will be laid to the grounds in
about ten days, and very soon we hope to be
able to chronicle the completion of the fount
ains which have been planned.
Closing at Foub o’Olock.—The Constitution
alist has received several communications from
clerks, petitioning their employers, in a pnblio
way, that, daring the heated and dull season, the
stores be closed at 4 r. m., and says: “With
out entering into tho metaphysical reasons
assigned by our correspondents, we merely sug
gest that their respectful request bo enter
tained, and, if possible, granted. One of the
clerks, writing to us, begs that the purchasing
public will not traffio with stores after 4 o'clock.
If all tho world and his wife can be indneed to
listen to this appeal, we have no donbt that the
merchants will shut np shop very gladly at an
early hour in the afternoon. We know that in
cities farther North many merchants, during
the dog days, abandon business at 4 p. m., and
give their clerks a chance for recreation. If a
similar custom were adopted in Augusta, it
would be probably a .wholesome matter for all
concerned.”
We copy the following from the Constitu
tionalist:
The Richmond County Agricultural So
ciety.—A meeting of this society was held yes
terday at the office of the Fair Association, Gen.
Harris, the President, presiding. The follow
ing delegates to the Convention, to be held at
Atlanta, August lG-h, were appointed:
Messrs. P. J. Berckmans, John A. Bohler,
and J. O. Mathewson.
Steamer Sunk.—The steamer Hard Times,
anchored on the Carolina side, below the city,
sunk yesterday morning, tho water reaohing
nearly to tho second deck. This boat has been
in litigation for several months past, and we
presume that it will at least require a judgment
of the Court now to resurrect her lrom her
watery grave.
Eiveb News.—The steamer Carrie arrived at
10 o’clock yesterday morning. The river com
menced riBing on Thursday, attaining yester
day morning £ feet 5 inches, and registering, at
3 p. m., 5 feet 4 inches.
The Columbus Sun has the following about I
affairs in that city at the close of last week
The city yesterday seemed quiet. From close
observation and inquiring wo could see and hear
of no serious sickness. Heat and breezes equ
ally distributed as on Thursday. Trade goodfor
fly time. Grumbling on the decline. Happy
faces increasing. Doctors idle. Loafers in
certain quarters holding their own. Citizens,
white and blaok, minding their own business.
Meddlers on the decline. Plugs almost forgot
ten. Several ex-soldiers, who for two or more
years have been sojourning in strange lands,
aro now seen npon our streets and suburbs. If
they bring money with them they could not find
a better and more honest people to Bpend it with
**— *-—e or over the river.
than 1
ThtFworks at tho Fair Grounds are progress
ing rapidly, and in six weeks the buildings will
be completed. About sixty feet of the frame
woik of ‘be fivo hundred-foot building is np
The frame work is ready and will bo in position
in a few days. A mile track has been decided
on, and sporting and other gontlemen who
know, say it will add greatly to the interest and
success of the enterprise.
The Columbus Iron Works Company have
added to their buildings room for six additional
forges, requiring, at times, eighteen additional
bands to run them. Business with this com
pany is increasing, and soon we expect to see
them cover the block, or a greater portion
thereof, with one vast work shop. This is said
to be one of the largest and best conducted
shops south of Bicbmond, Va.
A Good Move.—The planters of Marion conn
ty have formed an association to be called the
“Marion Branch of tho Cotton States Associa
tion,’’ the main objects of whioh are set forth in
the two following resolutions:
1st. Not to plant more than one-third of our
cultivated lands hereafter in cotton, and tho
other two-thirds we agree to plant in the cereals.
* * * * *
I 5th. Wo solemnly agree that we will not dis
pose of any cereals made by us to any planter
not agreeing to the proposition herein con
tained.
The Borne Courier states that a Prussian
Lieutenant, engaged in work at the rolling
mills, has been ordered back to his post, and is
preparing to leave.
The Borne Daily of Saturday says:
Wheat is worth only one dollar a bushel, com
one dollar and sixty cents - in Cherokee county,
Ala.
Wheat in this market is selling at $115 to $1
20. The receipts are light, owing to the push
our farmers are in with their crops.
A now and fatal disease has appeared among
the cattle in tho vicinity of Knoxville.
The Borne Courier announces the retirement
of the Sparkling young Grady from the choir
editorial of that paper, and the accession of
Col. B. F. Sawyer, for some time past editor of
the Borne Daily. Luck to all parties.
'6peakiog of tho Great Kailway Barbecue, tho
Courier of Saturday says:
To-day wo trust, will,, be a day long to be re
membered by the people.of Borne, and of West
GeorgM. • For to-day, we-hope to see inangu-
ted an enterprise that will bring in its sequen
ces, nhjto!(l' blessings to. our land. Jhe great
railroad bnrbecne, given by the citizens of
Floyd, and our neighboring counties, to the
friends of the Columbus, LaGrange, and North
Georgia Railroad, comes, off. to-dayj and.from'
tho magnitude of tho preparations we f,-el a s
sured that it will bo an affair worthy indeed of
the great enterprise it is designed to encourage.<
CboJ-s in the Mountains.—Tho Daldonega
Signal of Friday says: n<-l :
Wo have had good rains all through the county
the present week. The croji prospecth still
growing in interest, and every one. who we have’
heard express themselves, say that they , have-
got the finest prospeot they ever had for ii large 1
yield. Col. Archer at tho BrieT^patch has got
100 acres in corn, and .he ventures the'assertion
that he can pick ont'ten acres on his place, that
will make 500 bushels of com. He says he has
stalks of com that will mcecare 25 feet in height.
The Boston Post lots himself out on the King
of Prussia’s speech as follows :
The King of Prussia’s speech was arrogant
enough to satisfy the impetuous'but imprac
ticable do3iro of his countrymen to make short
work of theFrench nation. When the intrigues,
ambitions and cruelties of Prussia are remem
bered, the denunciation of Louis Napoleon
seems somewhat inconsistent. The long years
of power and greatness of France have tended
vastly more lo tho freedom andjarosperity of
tho world than have the needle-guns of Prussia.
Excepting tho absorption of Bavoy, Louis
Napoleon has been contented with France as he
found it. He has steadfastly sought to pre
serve tho b alance of power in Europe, using his
immense forces against the encroachments of
absolutism, and invariably showing a quick dis
position to make peace when war had been be
gun and when fortune had favored him. Prus
sia’s might has no such exoneration. Her
dream has been extension, absorption and con
quest, and sbe-has been unscrupulous in seek
ing its realization. Prussia has made war npon
Germany, seeking only Prussia’s interest at the
sacrifice of freedom in,theFatherjsnd. In this
light the King’s “solemn, declaration” becomes
the most solemn nonsense, his reverence irrever
ence, and his invocation to Germans 'to fight
for “liberty” as lively a pieoe of bnnoombe as
could be uttered, and so the reluotant landwehr
scorn to regard it. 1
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Tho Washington correspondent of the New
York Times, under date of Tuesday, says : “A
courtmsrtial was to-day ordered to convene at
West Point for the trial of various cadets. The
most notable case to be investigated will bo the
allegations of ill-treatment preferred by the
colored cadet there, and which are so widely at
variance with the statements of the board of
visitors and other, responsible, persons, that it is
believed the young colored martyr will be con
victed of gross exaggeration, or woree.”
Tbe War.
Nothing new has transpired from the seat of
war on the Bhine. Up to Sunday night no
collision between the contending forces was
reported yet. In Germany the preparations for
the coming struggle continue on the most gigan
tic scale and with the most energetio rapidity.
Prussia has called to aims her citizens residing
abroad who axe still liable to military service.
We have no donbt that thousands will obey the
summons. The cable dispatch reporting that
the Prussian Government has proclaimed martial
law in the Bhine provinces, Hanover and East
Prussia, is partly a mystery to us. We can
easily account for this extraordinary measure
in Bbenish Hesse and Rhenish Prussia—these
provihoes being the theatre or war. There is
also sufficient cause for the proclamation of
martial law in Hanover, the partisans of Ex-
King George, now living an exile inHitzing,
Austria, being ready to organize a rising in
favor of their late blind ruler. Bat we cannot
understand why martial law should have been
proclaimed in East Prussia, unless the ap
pearance of a French fleet in the Baltic be ap
prehended. We must wait for more particulars.
We are informed that the whole Prussian army
is mobilized. If this report be true, the re
serve and the Landwehr of the first and-second
ban would .have been called out, including all
able-bodied men from twenty to forty years,
This shows that Prussia-is fally alive to the
great trial awaiting her. One hundred thous
and volunteers have been enrolled, a fact illus
trating better than anything else the senti
ments of the German people. The attempt of
Napoleon to play the old game, over again by di
viding the German tribes, has been in vain. His
appeal to the Southern States, Bavaria, Wur-
temberg, Baden, and that portion of Hesse-
Darmstadt lying south of the Main, has been
answered by the declaration that they wonld
abide by their treaties with the North German
Coniederation. For the first time then again
since many centuries wo see all the German
States united to face the common foe.
We are satisfied that our judgement was cor
rect, when, only two weeks ago, we predicted
that an aggressive policy of France wonld ronse
the whole Fatherland. We are at a loss how to
acoount for the slowness of the French move
ments. It was asserted from Paris that Bis
marck had instructed Baron Von Werther to
prolong the situation till the 20th inst.; that
NapoleoD, thereupon, precipitated the decision
in order to gain, by a series of rapid move
ments, a foothold on tho Bhine. And now the
25th of July has come without bringing ns even
any reliable intelligence that Frenoh troops
have crossed the frontier. If surprise was in
tended, that moment has passed by irrevocably.
There are vague rumors which, if true, would
easily explain this delay. They tell ns that,
despite all pompous assurances to the contrary,
the French army was not so efficiently prepared
for marching order as it was represented to be.
and the fact that large purchases of horses have
been made in Hungary on French account,
tends to confirm this version. Without wishing
to argne once more the question, whether Ger
many or France is responsible for the war, we
simply refer onr readers to the speech of M.
Thiers, published in this paper some days ago.
Nobody can doubt the patriotism of this emi
nent writer and statesman. Like the Persian
slave who was commanded to call to Xerxes
everyday: “My Lord, remember tho Athen
ians!” Thiers’ watchword has always been,
“Gnerre ’alaPrnssel” He stonily maintains
that France alone has the right to be strong and
powerful; that the unity of Germany would be
a perpetual menace to France, and that it must
at all hazards be prevented. After the battle of
Sadowa he urged Franco to interfere in Ger
many, and bitterly reprcached the government
for allowing Prussia to absorb tho conquered
territories. He called again npon the Corps
Lugislutiff to arrest the consolidation of North
Germany by the force of arms. He was not
listened to. Bat now, in the face of an indig
nant overwhelming majority, the great states
man accuses the government of having brought
about tho war; of being responsible for the
death of thousands of men. Sorely, after
Thiers has spoken, any further commentary on
this controversy is but a waste of time.
We cannot conclude this review without com
menting upon some of tho startling reasons
which the profound wisdom of various news
paper reports have attributed to Bismarck for
his pretended Spanish intrigue. It was reserved
for tho keen sagacity of the ‘‘Boston Post" to
make the wonderful discovery that Bismarck,
by means of Spain, wished to set foot on tbe
West Indian Islands; another view, a little
while ago, represented Prussia as longing for
Cuba. Really, we cannot help from smiling
when perusing such absurd and ridicnlous tales.
When Queen Isabella was driven from Spain,
the Frenoh papers accused the poor Count
also of having instigated the September rev-
olution by means of Prussian money. We
are aware that with a great class Bismarck
is continually “la Bete noire,” but whoever is
only superficially acquainted with his past ca-
reefcc knows well that he has always striven to
remain on friendly terms with tbe United States
ol America, which he considers the natural al
lies of Germany. Bnt Bismarck being at tho
bottom of every political complication, we
would not bo at ail surprised if another pro
found thinker would find out that tbe Prussian
Premier instigated the massacre of the French
in Ohtna; the more so as the Germans were
spared by the Chinese.
The aims of Bismarck’s policy are altogether
imperfectly understood in this country. -The
Germans have been wishing for a strong united
Germany ever since tho glory of- the Holy Ro
man German Empire bad departed. Bismarck
is but realizing these national aspirations when
he seeks to gather all German tribes into one
united empire strong enough to withstand its
powerful neighbors. All reports ns to his se
cret designs on Holland and Belgium belong to
tho realm of fables. Jaeno.
Keir 1fork Dry Goods Market.
The Mercantile Journal’s report of last week
says:
The excitement which tho war between Frauce
and Prussia has produced Has so ' far unsettled
commercial and financial affairs, that the mer
cantile commnnity, for the present, bet state,
and are all at sea, relative to the ft tare. Vari
ous predictions aje made in regard to the
amount of business and the range of prices the!
coming Fall. Notwithstanding there has been
great. excitement in Wall streot, and gold has
ndvahced, and Government securities have de
clined, general merchandise has, as’ yet, been'
affected but little. Imported goods Of French
and Gorman’-production are- held with more
firmness. In some cases old prices, with the j
difference in the premium.oh gold added, are-
'asked. The domestio dry goods market is about!
the samo as last reported. 'Ihe demand is too
light to admit of an advahso, and so for as there
has been ftny adjustment of prices, lower rates
have been made. There nre those who prediet
that a war between France hnd Germany will
not be a sufficient cause to advance - tho price
of domestic dry goods, for -the reason that we
export very- few dry goods to those countries;
and also, because goods manufactured in other
portions of Europe for cither of these countries
may be obliged to come to tlfi^ market, thereby
increasing our supply to -som j extent. On the
other hand, the export demand for breadstijffs
qud provisions will be materially-, increased,
and higher prices for these obtained,- which
will stimulate the retail trade in the country,
and benefit business generally.
It is claimed by some.tbat there is not a large
stock of goods ia the market, ’and that it will
make bnt little difference in prices whether gold- 1
goes np or down. It is thought that the demand!
will be sufficient to maintain present prices,
and poMibly cause an advance. Notwithstand
ing these views are ehlertaihedih some quar-
lug IUCDO YIOVVB (Uu wiuitmuou IU duiuc Vjuiu-
ters,-we do not discover any speculative feeling,
in the market. A few days more will probably
developo the situation and condition of affairaj
in Europe, and then it will be less difficult to
arrive at correot conclusions relative to the fu
ture .if trade. “ * 1
The New Polar Expedition.—The President
has decided to give command of the North Pole
exploring expedition, provided for in a recent
act of Congress, to Capt. Hail, and so announc
ed this morning to thafr-.gentleman-i and '/ hia
friends. The appropriation is $50,000. The
necessary orders in the promises will be made
at once. It is now so late that the expedition
oannotgetoff this year. The fall and winter
will be occupied in getting a ship ready, select
ing a crew, and making other necessary prep
arations. The Coast Survey and the Smithson
ian Institutions will send out one or two scien
tific meo with Capt. Hall, and they will im
mediately begin studies to thoroughly fit them
selves for the duties they are to undertake.—
Capt. Hall has been hero much of the time for
the last four or fivo months, and the President
bnt carries, ont- the plain intent'of Congress in
giving him command of the expedition. ' j
Jefferson Davis.—A private letter from one
of our fellow-citizens,'informs us that Mr. Da
vis was at Lookout Mountain, last week, al
though the papers announce his departure for
Enrope to bring his family to the United States.
GroundmoleinK the Towns.
The Chronicle & Sentinel, of Sunday, com
plains heavily that a scheme is on foot to annex
a great part of ont-doors to the corporate limits
of Augusta. Says that paper:
According to report, this bill covers the whole
area now embraoed within the limits of the
suburban villages known as Braytonville, Ver-
deryville, Babbit Hill, Tnrpinville, Harrison-
ville, Woodlawn, Bollersville, Harrisburg, Bat-
tlerow and Summerville. Neither of these
suburban villages, with the single exception of
Summerville, have an aetof incorporation. —
The viltago of Summerville alone is incorporat
ed, and has a municipal organization of its own
by the anthority of the State. All the rest are
subject only to connty taxation and county reg
ulations in police matters.
We confess that we fail to perceive any good
reason why the proposed extension of our city
limits should be made. On the contrary we
can see how snch an extension would seriously
injure the city. The area proposed to be em
braced in the city limits ia larger by double than
that now within our municipal boundaries. The
cost to the city of keeping this vast area in
anything like proper condition wonld he greater
than is now required to keep all onr streets and
lanes in good order. The extension wonld also
reqnire a large increase of our city police. The
cost of the present establishment already bears
heavily npon the tax-payers. Indeed, the en
tire cost of onr municipal government, under
the most economical administration of the city
affairs, is so large as to seriously threaten onr
future prosperity.
If the proposed extension is made, we believe
we are justified in saying our city expenses will
be nearly or quite doubled. We should not
hesitate in assuming this greatly increased ex
pense if the extension promised anything like a
fair return to the city for this great annual out
lay. But we fail to perceive the slightest
benefit whioh tbe city can hope to realize by
bringing within the coiporate limits the large
extent of territory proposed by the advocates of
extension. The increase in onr city tax digest
wonld be merely nominal, as the taxable prop
erty owned in the new territory is insignificant
compared to the cost of extending city govern
ment over it. The only possible benefit—if in
deed it can be claimed aa a benefit—would be
the swelling of onr population to several thous
and more than we now have. We can, in the
present condition of the oity finances, very well
afford to forego any snch donbtfol benefit.
All which is well stated—bnt to what pur
pose? The Radicals intend to ground-mole all
the towns in this fashion. Every town, like a
camp or an army, has a certain snrronnding of
stragglers, squatters, and hammers, who draw
their support from it in some kind of way, by
hook or by crook, but contribute hardly a dol
lar to support it.
Macon and Augusta each, we suppose, have
at least five hundred negro voters living abont
them on circumjacent territory—some honest
and industrious laborers, but more of them
vagabonds and idlers, who bake themselves in
the sun and live npon what they pick np. As
the whole posse will vote the Radical ticket,
and thns, without contributing twenty dollars to
the revenue, manage, as a balance of power
party, to give a sprinkling of white Radicals in
town, with the aid of colored voters within the
original limits, fall control of the entire reve
nue, the Chronicle and Sentinel can hardly
believe that itt" gentle remonstrance will bo
heeded.
This is Only one more of the devices of Radi
calism by which all government is perverted to
purposes of injustice, fraud, and oppression—
one more of the uses to which scallawags will
apply the negro, as the instrument of public
injury—to subvert for the benefit of a few
worthless white intriguants all those conditions
upon whioh the substantial prosperity of the
whole, white and black, equally depend. In
the coarse of time, perhaps, the negro will see
that he cannot be used as a catspaw in such
business without getting his fingers burned.
But all remonstrance is useless just now.
The Herald on the Sltnatfon.
Tbe Probabilities and Possibilities.
The following from the New York Herald, of
the 23d, is well worth reading in connection
■with the news of to-day:
As yet no war. The concentration of forces but learning at New Uricans'fF^L 1 ^ pi* I
on both sides goes on, but the situation is not Bienville would tmird. L , l he to? I
materially changed. French troops are crowd
ing into the valley of the Moselle and station
ing themselves as close as possible to the . fron
tiers of Germany. Prussian troops are not less
active. The border land in both countries is
well filled with troops. The policy of France
seems to be to gather np her strength and make
a great rush npon German soil. The policy of
Prussia seems to be to await the attack, and on
her own soil and that of her allies surprise the
invaders.
There is a large amount of wild speculation
as to the chances of the two combattants. Some
say France will make such a rush as has never
been known in tho whole history of war. Others
say Prussia will present such a front as was
never presented to an invading army in the
whole history of mankind. France means to
overrun Prussia, crush and make an end of Ger
man opposition. Prussia means to hurl France
back npon herself, stripped and demoralized by
German forces in Die rear. We do not say
which Power ha3 most completely mastered the
situation, whioh has calculated most wisely or
whioh has the better chance to carry ont its
programme. We only state the programme so
far as we. know it. Neither Power, judging
from the news of the day, seems anxious to
precipitate the conflict. In this impending
struggle first blood means something more aw
ful than first blood ever meant before, and
therefore the combatants on either side hesitate
to strike.
It is noteworthy that the ultimatum on on -IS; koofsof ttell
both sides is serious. France begins the war, suitably for tin ,5® I
Crops In Laurens, Pnlnski and
Twiggs.
Laurens Hill, July 20, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
In my gleanings from the newspapers I con-
oiodo no iibyo twuur tnree classes of correspon
dents making reports of the growing crop; one
class, the cotton buyer, (I don't belong to tha*
class) makes the prospect better than it ever
was before; more planted, better seasons, hands
working better, more; fertilizers nsed, no cater
pillar, and so he fills out his report and makes
the brightest sort of a picture, all brilliant col
ors ; but let me say, I have seen some brilliant
colors that faded away when the soap-suds of
truth were rubbed through them a time or two,
gentlemen. Don’t crow so soon; day is not
creaking, you are only moon struck. Another
class who say, “I told you so,” (I don’t belong
to this class) they want to have it a big crop,
just because they said “I told you so,” and they
can see only the bright side. There is still
another unfortunate class who hold a portion of
this crop for the same market, (I am in this
class) aud we can see a good deal of cotton that
really looks too shabby to brag on, (make due
allowances aJlj round) it is small and grassy in
conseqneUce of tKe June rains, and it never will
recover from the effects of that wet spell we
had in June. It may be cleana&.I know, and
make pretty sharp little potion, but can it make
a full crop? I say never;even under the:ihbst
favorable circumstanoes from this out. General
Green has hart that cotton for lif£, he has put
his murk on it with a heavy hand, aud it will be
there when the frost of winter drops the curtain
upon the last scene and winds np the show.; And
gentlemen, whether I get a big price or not for
those fifty bajes on.handed want you to notice,
the cotton you cleaned so late, and tell me. if I
am not right in saying when frost comes it will
bo the prettiest cotton on your plantation. But
likely.yott will-say, “if the frost had rot come
so soon,” or “if the bolls had all matured,” etc.
Notica this, you will not get all the middle crop
and none, at all of the top crop. I think this is
the way K will turn out, and I had rather be
right tuan to get a big price for the let on hand,;
or as Henry Clay said, than to be President Of
the Uuited States.
I have’ lately seen fifteen or twenty-miles of
the crop jin L^nrens, between Rock creek and
Dublin, and it is first rate for LaurenB with very
feWiexaeptibhk, Kut what is Laurens county ? 1
Did you ever hear of Laurens hurting anybody
with a big crop ? The wire grass division of the
sons of temperance was in Laurens, Where do
from ? they come from Laurens. Where ia that,
creek called h anger'digt hardship ?> it lain Lau
rens. AndT once heard of a man who ownedr
lot of land in Laurena^and when,he came to
look at it„after ridifegover iN he.got down and
stuck his titles into a gopher hole and told the
gophers with ad—, they had possession and
might take the title. <>: •, *s .-•'-l.’-. ya’i si writ.
Andy Hampton, of Laurens, sold his place to
a gentleman from Twiggs; the gentleman wanted
to know how much outlet there was for stock,'
Hampton pointed towards the wire grass and
said, “about three hundred miles.” Of course,
then, with so much.tciregrass and gopher holes,
I am not afraid the Laurens crop will keep down
ihe price.'of cotton.
Without jesting, however, I must say the cot
ton prospect in Laurens u far ahead of anything
” see in Pulaski, Twiggs or Bibb along the-route
traveled to Macon. In those counties the cot
ton on many farms never can make over half a
Crop. Ten thousand geese could not.save it.
No one can tell yet how the orop may turn ont.
June was not a good month on cotton; too much
rain injures cotton; and I believe the rains were
general. July, so far, is as good as can be; it
rains just enough for cotton, and not too much,
but it is entirely too dry for corn, at a very crit
ical period, and corn will fall far below the
prospeot of three weeks, ago. August, another
very important cotton montij, is yet to come,
and if it should ba tolerably diy in August, look
out for a heavy cotton crop, if not, look out for
disasters. Upon the whole, it looks like push
ing a ran of bad luck to hold for higher prices,
men will grow desperate sometimes, and out the
fool contrary to the dictates of their better judg
ment. Such is human nature, and so goes the
world. fKTi .1' ,tl • Farmer.
Split in Two.—Gen. Grant visited a Gen-
man Sohuetzenfest, the other day, and. was
about to drink a toast “to the success of King
William,” when a diplomatic and sensible Teu
ton interposed aod remind His Majesty that it
was hardly the right thing for an American
President. Afterward the same gentleman, “to
prevent any feeling of excitement or unpleas
antness, remarked that the President of the
United States was neutral, and must remain so,
but that General Grant, as an American citizen
was German at heart.”
nay, forces the war, for no higher reason than
this, that Prussia, or rather Germany, most
never again pretend to have a voice where
France is concerned. Prussia, forced into the
fight, says our purpose now is to rid Europe of
Bonaparte impertinence—in other words, to de
stroy the Bonaparte dynasty, so that Germany
may be free. The aim of both parties is rad
ical. If Prussia wins the Bonaparte dynasty
' is doomed in Franoe. If France wins Germany
is not to be Prussianized. It is impossible to
consider the questions at issue without coming
to the conclusion that Europe, from the Atlan
tic to the Bosphorus, from the Baltic to the
Mediterranean, is not deeply concerned, and
that at some stage in the conflict the Earopean
nations, one and all, will not feel themselves
compelled to take sides in the straggle. There
is a vast amount of diplomacy; an anxious
casting abont for alliances and for aid. The
Cabinets are anxious. The neutral statesmen
ardently incline towards arbitration, if they find
suoh a course possible. Prince Napoleon ar
rived in London yesterday. Premier Gladstone
made a statement to Parliament.
Let us suppose that while the conflict goes ou
Russia says to herself, “This is my opportune*
ty.” What then? Russia crosses the Froth,
takes possession of Bonmania, hurries on to
Constantinople, enthrones herself on the Gold
en Horn and re-establishes the Greek empire.
Where is tho power to hinder her? We can
think of none but one. Austria would not dare
to do it, because Austria has more than enough
to do to hold herself together. Italy would not
dare to do it, because she knows that she could
not if she would. Spain and Portugal are not
to be named in this connection. Great Britain
alone could do it. In such circumstances it is
not to be denied that the old spirit would reveal
itself, and that England would by one or two
bold strokes proclaim herself mistress of the
seas. Bussia might rush to Constantinople,but
British valor on sea and on land wonld present
an impassable bulwark. It wonld be a strange
speotacle to see Great Britian and Bussia fight
ing single-handed in another Crimea while
France and Prussia fought for supremacy on
the Rhine. Strange as it would be, we have no
choice, bnt speak of it as one of the possibili
ties, or rather probabilities, of this impending
war. The results of this Eastern war would be
certain to be more sweeping than the results of
tho war in the centre of Europe. It could not
fail to make an end of Mohammedanism in
Europe. And may it not be that the time has
come when Christianity must wipe out this stain
npon her honor ? Strange, certainly, it wonld
be to find Christianity fighting with Mohamme
danism in the East at the very moment that Ca
tholicism and Protestantism are again, although
unconsciously, testing their strength in the
West. We have lingered upon this thought be
cause it really is more than a possibility.
Let ns suppose again that this impending
conflict should become so serious and so compli
cated mat Italy should De able to say, “I can
now do as I please.” What would follow ? Italy
would rise as one man. A rash would be made
upon Borne. The Pope would find congenial
shelter on board some British ship. There
might be an end of the Papacy. There certainly
would be if he did not take refuge in Malta or
come to the United States. In any event Rome
would once more be the capital of Italy. Should
Prussia win, what wonld be the immediate re
sult ? A united Germany, a German Empire,
Austria would be completely demoralized; for
every German in Austria—and almost all that is
good in Austria is German—would gravitate to
wards Prussia. France would, indeed, be hum
bled, whatever might be the fate of the Bona-
partes. Should France win, what will follow ?
A European Congress; some slight re-arrange-
ment of frontier lines; a recognition by the dy
nasties of the family of Bonaparte y pledges
given in the interest of His son; his son’s suc
cession guaranteed; the Pope be allowed to re
main in Borne; the Prince of Anstria to succeed
his mother on the Spanish throne. But how
much'more? Nothing. The victory would not
be a victory for France,' but for Napoleon; and
tho fruits of Napoleon’s victory will perish with
him.
From Havana.
Havana, Cuba, July
Editors Telegraph and Messenger.
1 ^P ow y° u hardl y expected a cm,,*, i
tion from your correspondent
but learning at New Orleans that^ thli
Bienville would touch here fora 1 th ® ^
h.r w,yw.New Y„ tk . “Tggfe "S
mty with a number ot’others ot'havin pp %
at this fertile island. navi “g a
On the morning of the a. i
New Orleans, we entered the wL 01lt M
vans. Toourleftandthe&s&ofl
object that engages our attention ™
is the far famed Moro Castle urn™
pregnable before the days of
ing down with frowning
vessels entering the harbor, iv ,, Dfi0a tl|
ents a narrow stone front to the
tends back several hundred varH?' ■ 1 9-1
very broad front to the harbor it
to protect ffuS U'Ntj I
On the right and over the bay
Cast e hea Havana, encircled by a „ --i
sma 1 hills extending down toward
the left of the city—and in this ha 855 >. I
ed is collected about as muoh filth l 50
to the lot of any city, so much Q&^l
lssurprismgto me that yellow few.
pestilence does not rage the entire™?" C! 's |
The stteets are quite narrow ovortu 0 ®*
mty, being in many places butfiSSj^l
some of the sidewalks of your
sidewalks are seldom wide enough m * I
persons to walk abreast, and i M
above the streets; in fact, they are
edfor promenades at all, as most ofE® 3 ’
walk for pleasure do so on the roXf H
houses, which are built suitably ft- .,'
pose, and where houses adjoin, a ^
raised between them on top corrpS 0n »I
onr fences. - L “%to [
Should you enter a house without
quamted with the promises, there i ^
danger of your mistaking the stall.
Such are some of^tha possibilities and proba
bilities. But we cannot name them alL We
can, however, and wo do say that this war, if it
does take place, will be one of the most foolish
wars in the whole history of onr race. It.will
not be the less foolish that it will certainly be.
the most destructive. So far a3 Napoleon him
self. is concerned it is a purely dynastic war, and
therefore to be denounced by all who go in for
tho rights of the peoples. As Disraeli has well
said, “A war of succession is unworthy of the
nineteenth century.-”. ;;
JSUUliZisLkH ■* . !!!■ .
In Pittsburgh, last week, a bright little^ four
year old child,.named Martin Grossman, sop ofr
ltev. James Crossman, was playing near the
cliff' at the head of Yan Braam street, overlook
ing the GuhnellsviHe-Vailroad. The bluff
this point- is at least three hundred feet high.
In stooping over to pick up something he lost
his balance and fell headlong over tbe precipice.
The little fellow undoubtedly struck some shelv
ing portions of the rock between the' top and
bottom, axd-'W broke his descent somewhat.
He struck bead first on the railroad track, just
as the express train eame along. At the risk; of!
his own life a man sprang npon the track, seized
.the. little body, and, taking it ^n..his arms,
pressed, it as tightly as possible back*against the
faoe of the rock. The train brushed his clothes
as it passed. .The child waa insensible, and
badly cut and bruised, but no bones were
broken,'and it is thought he will recoveri
-v (-■>.» : ■'•* -' •—rrti r o; "i- .i:
The Cotton Crop of 1870-71.—A Correspon
dent of the United States Economist, writing
from Memphis, Tennessee, states that while the
most liberal estimates of dealers.in that quar
ter had not until recently put the cotton crop
now being exported to more than 2,750,000
bales, it is now generally conceded that the pro
duction Of the past year was over 3,250,000
bales. The Economist estimates the crop for
the present year at 4,300,000 bales, which is
considerably above the maximum crop before
the war. In'1856, for instance^ our crop ia set
down at 3,880,580 bales, which is about the
standard.
A Marriage Certificate.—The following .is
a copy of a marriage certificate, issued some
years ago, by the Clerk of the Court of Coperas
Precinct, Illinois. It appears .that A. laving
couple desired to get married, bnt they could,
not find a minister who had .been licensed,, or. a
magistrate who had been commissioned. to per
form tbe servioa. They finally met with a jus
tice who concluded to set them to house-keep
ing, and gave the following certificate:
To all the..World. Greeting—Know ye that
John Smith and Peggy Myers aro hereby certi
fied- to go together and- do aa old. folks does,
anywhere inside of Coperas Precinct, and.when
my commission comes I am to marry ’em good,
and date ’em back to kiver accidents.
parlor as they are generally on the LX*
and always under.the same rooffVSS*
bly a thin partition separating t®
room from, the horse stables. This
wdd exaggeration, but those who ha®
Cuba, will I think, recogmze the pic®’|
The women of the lower classes arc VI
and sloyeidy, and the children either I
or half clothed,present a most revoltiSI
but m redeeming contrast to all thisfii.i -I
dirt is the fact that the mea^®
thing are more neat and orderly in theft SI
and person here, than in any place 05 i|
round globe I have ever visited; their
almost amounts to a uniform, asntaiJ
wear white linen coats and pants,''and O
ma hats-on nearly all of which lata hi
tacked small rea badges, indicating that t>|
belong to the Spanish volunteers. tV|
exceedingly polite and generous to a &'|
giving, even, to strangers, constant evfel
of this beautiful trait in their chara’-u-;|
verily believe that a true Spaniard woidtivl
you one of the two last dollars h' '
than suffer the mortification of r
but the beauty of their generosity is thatij
never wait for it to be solicited, but ana'
whatever they think may interest you.
Both the ladies and gentlemen of ourvsal
were the constant recipients of favors £-1 f
entire strangers during our stay. B.:i-|
all their generosity, they are very lieendcv-J
will not only stare at ladies, stop ia fail
them, comment out loud about then,b|
even catch hold of them, and in oneiias|
putting their hand on the cheek of onscfsl
little blondes and telling her she vairal
The ladies, after the first shock of m3
was over, rather enjoyed this, I think, tktil
not expressing themselves to that effect
those Spanish fellows are dangerou.-!ylai|
some.
As thi3 is the seat of a revolution, I scp:«L
something on that subject is Medk|
Well, in Havana, they know and t
care as little about the revolution ;
The Spanish army in the field numbers t
50,000 men, while tho organized CubuB
hardly be said to have two-fifths of thit 1
ber; but it must be remembered tkitr
thirds of Cuba is a forest, so dense tbati;.|
impossible for the Spanish troops to de-
it, and under its protection, the pauiotsi
as much as possible ail collision with t
enemies, waiting, Micawbur-like, is tl
lazy Cubans only can wait, for someth:." :|
turn up;—they hope for something good cl
of Spain’s complications, and I think wifirl j
ingly wait until they die, as they are sfad
of procrastination that to-morroic is theK|
popular word iu their vocabulary. Ne
here are worth from eight hundred tor
hundred dollars, but the market <
as emancipation is much talked of.
much of interest here to strangers, but 16
bear to tax your patience and space,
leave for New York thU P. m.
Yours, eta, ‘I
In France, as well as ia this country, fie *
ing machine has been accused of cwsmg*
ous hysterical and nervous diseases amor'
persons who are in the habit of making c
naluse of it. Dr. Decaisne, a French ptyi'
after studying tha effects of the sewing ey
on no less than 6GI workwomen states thsa
tho workwoman is not overworked, seams
using the machine are in just as got
those working by hand only.
Supreme Court.—The Era says, on S
Argument was heard in the caso of t
table Life Assurance Society of tb 1
States vs. Catherine A. Paiter.-oc; G«.r
R. Jackson for plaintiff in error,
& Hartridgs for defendant in error,
j-. The Court adjourned till 10 o'clocki*-!
Taesday next, when the Brunswick O'-y
$ljf tntiropr.
: * Recipe tor Marino Tomato Caku -
half bushel tomatoes, quarter
allspice, aloves, black pepper, .
pounds brown sugar, 1 pound of.siii’?
^f- good apple vinegar, throe OfiioU.
cayenne pepper to suit th’e tasto.
lionrs; stirring most of tho time, ‘■’l*’.
burning at tbe bottom. Then s'ra'.nici»|
sieve, bottle and oork tight. Jf
abqve, it. will keep good for manyj e .**J
The World predicts great pa!itic$f. c
within, the next ten years. . The 1^®
tbe.present Congress is no index to 1* 1
policy of the Government. The
gross is an effete body. The re-app
of Representatives on the basis <
census will mark the dividing line "
1 effete'political era that is coming ia
A" Pennsylvania poet who
tender lines addressed to hisloT*,
hallow her grave with our tears, *** Jjj
at a call from Henrietta’s brothers^ ^
armed with a olnb, and who ^
invitation to him' to come down»o“, w ^
head broken, which he declined. ^
paper had made the line read: " I
row her grave with our steers.
One of the' daughters of .
the wife of the eldest son of theh.t ,
sia—so that, should tho i£i?,
the husband of Queen Yicwn ,
would b'e King of Prussia. ,“ d ipj
royalty runs through the „ in fa-,
thrones—something of an &ui»n
delicate complications over to* 1
power.' ;; ;
The new apaesthetio hydrate u
almost miraculous remedy in detin
Dr. George Balfour, of Edinburg ^
in a ease which was one of
Two half-drachm doses at one .
produced sleep, and cured the p»“
Don Piatt says, apropos of Fish’s rumored
departure from the Cabinet': “A distinguished
member of the government told'me, yesterday,
that if I knew what was pending, I would get
on my knees and pray heaven that Fish might
ba retained. I have not followed his advice,
for when sin prays for folly the prayer will not
avail much ;. bnt I do hope that my venerable
Sardine may remain—not that I care a straw
abont hia successor, but how can I write letters
if all the solemn pumps are taken away ?”
' A teacher, wishing to erpl& m gjsi
the manner in which a lob f-\VtAi ■»
when it has' outgrown It, sa-d •' #
do when you have ontgrowc assart
You throw them aside, don t yov ■ (
replied the little one.; “we let out '"
An American, making
stepped into.a school of some forty , t
the Black Valley, and in the
with the children, asked them
pected to do. when they #1
women, and with one insp 11 * ’
sponded: “Go to America!” .^$4
The. flouting mills of some 0 ^
cities are running day and 0130.
crop is reported to be immense w *
It has been noticed at all - pt.
resorts this summer that the 1*®
much more simple than they «*
many previous years.
The great suooess of the P®?®, 0 i!
the “ Skcodoowabskooksisj 8 “ -i**
has incited a Down E* 8 ^** 0
rival stanzas on the “ Jimskitl
