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Leave it to God?
pj it» doubt ? all doubtsho solves:
nlMtions which thought in vain revolves,
**“ Re settles with a nod.
Bl it a fear? He lias the balm,
Which every human fear will calm;
" Leave it to God!
Leave it to God!. - •• -■
o the weight of daily care?
r^c Him the burden; He wiU bear
p b Uone the tiresome load,
tv, it tiie restless, anxious thought
Sr fntnro years ? By faith be taught—
1 Leave it to God!
Leave it to God!
tv, n the battle of this life ?
Be fought it once, and won the strife,
" Who lartli’a rough ways has trod.
Be it the foe, who triumph vaunts ? - -
Imns had foes, and bore their taunts ;
Leave it to God!
Leave it to God!
Be it the I0.-9 of worldly wealth
Or vet the eorer lo89 °* llQalt * 1 •
All losses he makes good.
In every lose there ie some gain,
Some feed of S"«?«? 6 «> r Y I )aiQ ?
Leave it to God 1
Leave it to God 1
Be it the heavy weight of gnilt ?
The blood of Christ was freely spilt ?
And ein atoned by blood.
Be it the littleness of faith ?
A>k and bo full, the promise saith;
Leave it to God 1
Leave it to God 1 .
Pe it a dread to yield this breath,
That life long bondage, fear of death,
Tho pang, the worm, tho sod?
He conquered death who victory gives,
He Iivetu, and who in Him lives,
Leavos it to God 1
The Batik or England Feeling (he
War Pressnre.
We learn by telegram from London that the
ofieers of the bank of England have announced
i farther advance in the rate of discount of one
percent. The minimum rate is now six per
cent The barometer does not indicate mpre
only the sudden changes of weather or the
coming storm than does the bank of England
the financiil disturbance and apprehension of
approaching disasters in Great Britain. The
nr between Franco and Prussia, and the com-
plicstions growing out of it, have alarmed the
tot authorities. Looking, too, at the extra
ordinary preparations of England to place her-
*!f on a war footing, with the tone of public
lostiment and the language of the leaders of
i3parties in Parliament, it is not nnlikely that
ihe bank has received a hint from the Govern
ment to lie ready for a crisis. At such a time
as this there is a tendency to draw away the
iperie of the bank. The demand for it abroad,
and the hurried rush of timid people to get
told of it for the purpose of hoarding
against an evil day, would soon bring
the specie re-erro down to a very low ebb if
tho Bank were not to take precautionary meas
ures to prevent that. Raising the rate of dis
count is always the first step—putting on the
(crews, as it is called—to prevent a drain of
specie. Six per eent as the minimum is a high
rite of discount in England, and it rarelly goes
up to that except in times of war or a great
commercial erists. It is evident, therefore, that
there is serious apprehension in England that
she cannot be kept out of the war. It is proba-
hable that the rate of disconnt willberaisedstill
higher. Wo should not be surprised to hear
within a week that it has gone up to seven per
test, unless something remarkable and nnex-
peeled .'hon'd occur to indicate determined neu
trality on the part of Great Britian or the pros
pect of the war not spreading. We do not ap
prehend that the action of the Bank of England
will have anv serious or lasting effect upon the
Saaom! affairs of this country. It might cause
•temporary depression in our bonds and stocks
abrotd. bat this would not continuelong. While
te remain at pease and go on in our wonderful
career of prosperity there need be no fear that
lie credit of the country will remain depressed
riutever events may happen in Europe.
[Herald 5ih.
The Government Cotton Coses*
The Washington Republican, of Friday, says:
The Business on all Government cotton
rises has been brought to a stand still, by tho
changes deemed necessary to comply with the
tsv law organizing the Department of Justice.
There are 7:57 of the cases, and work upon the
portion in hand, nearly half the number, has
been going actively forward for two years.—
Ibo'it forty were disposed of at the laBt term of
the Court of Claims, and a ntimbor were ready
hr trial. The reorganization has, however,
■hum oat every one heretofore engagod upon
Ih’Ha u.itiers, even down to clerk3 who wero
kwilUr with the records, and all the briofs, in
vhatever state of preparation, have been putin
flin hands of new men. These will know noth-
~g of the evidence or special history of the in-
wiir.-l cases, except what can be learned from
•torniuiuation of a room full of papers turned
Mw by the retiring connseL These suits in-
hku about $15,000,000.
C'itNn.-i; Labor is the South.—Tho introduc
es i f Chinese labor into "Louisiana is working
jery satisfactorily. The managers of the Mil
ana estate, near New Orleans, says an expe-
tiei,ca of several weeks has proved highly sat
isfactory oif that plantation. The Chinese plow
K *el! as the colored laborer. They are rather
with the hoe, but constantly improving,
at'l work with a steady perseverance throngb-
«the allotted hours for labor. One charac*
eristic is that they pay but little attention to
Elections, except when received through their
■cad man, whom they implicitly obey, and who,
M far as can be ascertained, is a man of snpe-
CA&to, and much respected by all the Chi-
itse on tbe'plnutation. They are unwilling to
agage on farms or plantations oxoopt in large
timbers, which may easily he accounted f6r.
heir presence as jot has not produced any feel-
Bg of jealousy among tho neighboring colored
;ople, and there is every prospect that the ex-
.eriment will prove successful. This is onlya
orroboratioa cf tho experience of other Chi-
use employers. The Celestials always made
good domestic servants and laborers. Patience,
Wastry, and temperance aro national charac
teristic.! with them.—New York Commercial
Alter titer.
So Extra Session or Congress.—A special
h> tho Richmond Dispatch, of Saturday, says
*t the Cabinet meeting the day before, the
Preside tit said with reference to the European
*»:
As for a foreign complication I do not fear
We. I do not see how I can be compelled to
wavene Congress on this soore, although some
■“■foreseen accident may happen nicking, it a
Weesgity. I am.now satisfied that Secretary
*»beson can get along and carry out his pro-
Priaive ideas in regard to the navy, and also
btauge his back accounts, and the Indian mat-
hri »ro also in proper progress; the goods and
***ney are being handed over to them, and
t**ce with them is assured. I regret that Sec-
Belknap cannot continue tho work on the
fortifications and cemeteries, and that so many
claims must bo temporarily refased pay-
®*»t, hut it will be only for a few months, and
■not of sufficient importance for mb to convene
t °ogreas. f • " ' -I .«-•
MACON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16. 1870.
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. VOL. LXIV —N06 *
<>cn. Johnston on the War.
Tho Richmond Dispatch has interviewed
General Joseph E. Johnston at the Springs,
on the war topic, and got the following out of
him: : " •
One of us said, ‘‘General, they seem to be
very slow about getting to business, over .the
water.” _ “Oh no,” he replied; “two pow
erful nations such as France ana Prussia, re
quire time to prepare lor a war. Each side
must concentrate its forces before attempting
to cross into the other’s counriy. It would
be a fatal mistake to cross without efficient
force and material to sustain the invasion. I
suppose the leader who first finds himself
with the larger force will be the one to cross.”
When asked abbut the relative merits of
the troops he said that the French had gener
ally been successful iu their combats with the
Prussians, but this was as much due to their
excellent generalship and the confidence of
the men in their generals as to any other
cause.
THE FRENCH UPRISING.
Exciting: Scenes In Fnrls—The French Eo
thusiasm Compared lo that of the North
After the Fall of Sumter.
Correspond nice of the X. I". Tribune, j
Paris, July 22.—For a day or two back there
has been an apparent lull in the gathering storm
of war,, but it is merely superficial and shows
intense absorption in the great ;evont of the
day, not that the public ’mind is cooling in its
fervor. I have been a spectator during one
great war, whioh was popular if ever a war were
popular, and comparing what I am seeing now
with what I saw at home, I cannot for a mo
ment doubt that in throwing down the glove to
Prussia the Government had, and knew it had,
the vast body of the people at its back, and that
it could not have kept the peacoif it had wished
it ever so much. I believe those who say that
the Emperor was averse to the war are mistaken.
It i3 true that his health is in a wretched state,
and that the excitement of carrying on a war at
this time is a thing he may dread; and it is
. It was a mistake to suppose that the Prus- 41116 that in retd, sober, earnest he did try, some
. : ■'•r-.v deacon went home one evening
JM complained lo his wife that he had been
■■'hamefnlly down at the store. .Oho of
^neighbors, he said, called him a Bar. Her
ffasked. with indignation. “Why didn't
•£**11 him to prove it?" she excHBmedf
. ' '.the very thing—that’s the tremble I”
ft** to* husband; “that’s.just what 1 did do;
him to prove it, and ho .did
i did prove ifc!?.(b
Tee.
report that Signor Brignoli and Isabella
were married in Portland on the
J. o tUt. is disposed of by a paper in that city,
;ys that the parties did not reach that
the following day, and that no license
°*en taken out. - ‘
■ :o»i rtan 40? itxl&c -r, .
sians were not soldiers. Military knowledge
was more widely diffused among the people
of Prussia than of France, because the Prus
sian conscript was enlisted for three years only,
while the French were enlisted for seven
years. Thus, the Prussians were more con
stantly changing, and military knowledge was
diffused among a greater number of men.
As to the generalship of tho two armies,
the General expressed tne opinion that France
had the advantage in point of experience.
The French generals had been tried in the
Algerian, and Crimean, and "Italian wars, and
their merits proven. The merits of the Prus
sian generals could not be discussed, as they
had never had opportunity as yet to display
them. The short campaign of 18CG was de
void of military actions and movements suffi
cient to prove the military ability of their
generals.
“Yes, but General, there is von Moltke; is
not he a great general ?”
“He has that reputation, but not deserved
ly, I think.. He had the luck to defeat an old
and inefficient general at Sadowa; whereas
if he had had a general of any tact or ability
opposed to him he would have received a ter
rible whipping. From the only historical ver
sion of the battle in English that I have seen
it appears that he started two columns from
two different points to advance upon Benc-
dek.. These two columns were not in commu
nication with each other. Benedck calmly
awaited the attack, and while engaged with
one column the other took him in the rear of
his right. But what good leader would have
waited for these two columns to have come
upon him? Napoleon First, or our own Jack-
son, would have advanced rapidly upon one of
the columns with his entire army, defeated it,
and then have returned to take the other one
in his turn.”
“His reputation, then, General, was as de
served as that of Grant, and he deserved about
the same credit for his strategy.”
“Oh no,” rejoined the General, evidently
mistaking the drift of the remark, “Grant
would never have staid there like Benedek.—
He would have advanced upon one of the ad
vance columns and engaged them separately.”
Touching the subject of American sympathy
with the opposing nations, he expressed the
idea, with a slight indication of disgust, that
politicians would doubtless play upon the
sympathies for Prussia in the approaching
elections, in order to influence the German
vote. He could not understand it, why the
press of the South was so unanimous in its
sympathy with Prussia. In Savannah, where
he lived, there was hardly a day upon which
the papers did not make an attack upon Na
poleon. The impression seemed to bo that
Napoleon was a despot and King Frederick
was not. He considered this a great mistake.
Napoleon was a wise and sagacious ruler, and
France was one of the freest countries in the
world, and nowhere could a man find better
protection for his life and property. The
Prussian government was one of the most des
potic of Europe. The Germans wero great
Red Republicans, and in this country had al
most as a mass fought and voted against the
South. As to the interests of Europo in the
struggle, he thought that they should be with
France, for if France were defeated Napoleon
would be dethroned. Such an event as this
would convulse France, and there cotlld be no
peace in Europe for a long rime.
A bystander playfully remarked: “Gene
ral, you and Geu. Lee ought to be over there
to settle thi3.” / ,
Laughing, he said: “The General and
myself would not make much headway with
our soldiers with our limited knowledge of the
German language: No leader should com-
pointing so many A
Egyptian army. It is very, nice for the officers
who arc well paid, butit will not prove so well
for the Egyptians.”
Here the. conversation changed, and auer
enjoying it for some moments longer, during
which we could not help being struck.with.the
General’s unassuming and courteous bearing,
we parted. ; , •
A new Hose conpliag
Various contrivances have been presented for
popular favor in the form of couplings for hose.
The most primitive and simple is that of the
screw form, with projecting lugs, whereon is fit
ted a wrench by means of which tho two parts
are firmly connected. The vital difficulty with
this coupling is that in making • the connection
the hoso is twisted. Muon time is emploj oU ;»
thus fitting the parts, and with the haste attend
ing the connection, a perfect joint is wifely
made. ’• A new coupling has been designed and
perfeoted whioh obviates these objections.
Tho particular merit is that both parts are alike,
the union is effected with certainty, whether in
the dark or ia the light, and leakage is impossi
ble, the joint being absolutely tight and immov
able without the assistance of a wrench. There
are no lugs or projections to interrupt the pas
sage of the hose up or down a ladder, or when
carried oyer the roof portions of a building.
Hose connected with it may be carried through
furnished apartments without the slightest dam
age by water leaking from the joints.. -Tho Fire
Department of Westchester, N. Y., have adopt
ed it, and the Brooklyn Fire Department have
its ndoptioa under consideration.
iY. Y. Tribune.
Georgia.
Washington, August 2. Information re
ceived here states that the Bullock party in
Georgia have decided to construe the act admit
ting that State adversely to a State eleotion this
falL Accordingly, the Legislature, which is
now in session, has decided to oontinue its tenu
of office indefinitely, thereby preventing an ad
journment sins and declaring at thesamelime
that no vacancies exist in the Legislature to bo
filled by any election. This is a sudden change
from the views entertained a few weeks since,
and, it is said, will certainly lead to trouble in
the State, os the Conservatives are detemiinad
to hold an eleotion. Attorney General Aker-
man has been applied to in an informal way for
an opinion on the law, but declines to respond
except on applic&ntion through official sonroes.
The President is represented as favoring a new
State election, and the prompt admission of
Senators and members of Congress next De
cember. —Courier-Journal.
two or three years ago, to bring about a dis
armament, but it ■ is also true that the Emperor
knows, or believes he knows, that Bismarck
bad fully made up his mind, in case the ple
biscite went against the Government, to make
a move fatal to the interest of France which,
yet, she would be powerless to resist. Sinoe he
was convinced of this the Emperor has been de
termined to fight, and there are those who say
that tho Prussian candidature is entirely a
scheme of the Emperor and Prim's invention,
and thRt it is Prussia that has been duped into
giving France the excuse she wanted for fight
ing. There may be no truth in this, but it was
said, yesterday, by a person, whose name I can
not mention, and who ought to know something
of what is going on, as he is inside the door.—
What is certain is, that communications be
tween the Emperor and Prim aro constant;
that there is a powerful faction here urging a
movement in Spain in favor of the Prince of
tho Asturias, and that ammunition of a very
effective kind is being prepared in great quan
tities in view of that event. It is also evident
from tho revelations of the last few days that
the reasons given for declaring war were pure
and simple fabrications. Tho alleged interview
between tho King of Prussia and Benedetti at
Ems, the refusal of the King to hear what the
French Embassador had to say, the King’s send
ing an aid-de-camp to dismiss the Embassador,
anil lastly, the dispatching of telegrams to the
different Prussian Embassies to tell them be
forehand of the insult the King intended to offer
France—all these stories are inventions that,
having served their tarn, will soon be acknowl
edged for the falsehoods and gross exaggerations
that they are. They wero merely tho matches
which the hand of Napoleon applied to tho fiery
heart of Franco. Any stick or straw is food
enough at a pinch to carry fire.
But, if Napoleon wished for an explosion ever
so ardently, he must have been astonished be
yond measure at tho result of his maneuvers to
bring it on. I have only seen one thing like it,
and that was the excitement in New York at the
news of the firing upon Sumter. Yet, even that,
was less than this. For, there, there were men,
whoso hearts did not beat with ours, there were
feet that held back. But, here the men who
do not hate Prussia, the men who do not leap
at the chance of fighting her, aro few and far
botween. Almost the old hatreds are forgotten,
aud the hatchet is buried with unanimity to be
dug up at a more convenient day. There is a
prodigious surface enthusiasm for tho war, but,
below this boiling there is a deep, strong, re
sistless current sweeping, all before it, bearing
on the nation to tho supreme hour that will for
a long timo decide its destiny. Only one thing
now can stop France in her bloodhound course,
and that is the Emperor's death. If the gout in
his thigh, which, for tho last two days, has kept
him at St. Cloud, should mount a little higher,
the scene would undergo a mighty transforma
tion ; but that is a mere chance. To-day he is
at the Tuileries again, and we are assured that
he will go to Nancy to-morrow. All that can be
said is that this is one of the times when events
hang upon a hair.
"Whoever was in Paris last Sunday night, and
on tho Boulevard, saw a sight never to be for
gotten. A regiment of Zouaves left for the
frontier, and all Paris was on the war path with
them. I happened to be just entering the
Place de Ia Concorde as they came across the
bridge, and getting a good place by the side of
a drummer, with the trumpet of the man in his
rear planted comfortably in my left ear, I found
myself, before I knew it, borno along like a
chip in a freshet. There was no going back
even if I had wanted to> and I can’t say I did
want to. The square was well enough, but
when the crowd tried to squeeze itself into
the rue Royalo, I thought wo wore going to
have the massacre of 1770 over again. Any
one who had tried to stop to tio his shoe, let us
say, would never have wanted to tie his shoes
any more! From wall to wall was a solid pave
ment of human heads, and ont of every head
came a shout, the shout, not tho hymn of the
Marseillaise! . When wo reached the wider
Boulevard, things wero a little better, but not
much, for we were merely a black river empty
ing into a black sea, and our wove soon mingled
indistingniubably with the vaster flood. The
sidewalks were crowded, the street was crowd
ed, and every window was filled with people
cheering, sffontiDg, singing, and waviug of
handkerchiefs. No omnibus nor, cab had a
ghost of a chance. Many escaped down side
streets, but the greater part drow up- in line
along one side of tho Boulevard, and waited,
the crowd meanwhile taking advantage of tho
occasion, and swarming over omnibnsses, cabs,
aud hotses like ants over apple (cores. The con
fusion was indiscribable, for different sets of
people were singing different airs, and the
“Marseillaise,” “Mourir pour la Patrie,"the
“Ghaut dn Depart,” and “Lss Lampions,”
got so mixed up that it was all a roar through
which you could only now.and then hear a trum
pet blast, or a rattling.drum, wr.alxecxy of “Fuw
la guerre/” “4,bae la Prussel” and rarely,
very rarely, “ vive V Empercur /” The regi
ment was in luck last night, Jor- the crowd was
ready to give ’em anything. Money was shoved
at them by handsful, and some old fellows
adroitly managed to get on the outside and thus
grabbed moro than their share. It was a sight
to remember all one’s life, and I was even glad,
after living a year in the stifling air of Paris,
to draw a free dranght of real popular enthusi
asm for something i like a. half-starved man, I
didn’t just then much care what it was, was of
fered tne—"tvvas something.
A different sight had been the going off of a
regiment of chasseurs that same morning, ear
ly. I heard tho music as I sat in. my eyrie
chamber, and, stepping out on the halcony,8aw’
tho men filing downthe harrow rue Bellechasse.
The soldiers tilled the street;- the sidewalks wore
filled with young men, arms locked, singing the
Marseillaise, and music of fife and trumpet,
mixed with the chant of voices, came striking
up between tho high-walled houses. In the
midst went the stout vivartdiere, dressed in her
best; no holiday now for her, but work in earn
est, and mixed with tho soldiers their mothers,
wives, and lovers, keeping step and time. By
one soldier went his wife, leading the little boy
in heir left hand, and in. the other bearing the
wee white -capped baby that Sucked its thumb
nqiT leaped: to hear, the music. My God, .it
brought back such a rush of memories, ami so
many bitter sights at homo that I am not
ashetned to say my eyes were wet. How bale
ful seemed the ambition then that could, with
The Pope Accept* ttoe Situation.
London, August 3.—It is reported from Rome
that the Pope accepts the situation, and has
commenoed negotiations with the Italian Gov
ernment The Papal committees in France,
Deland, Holland, and Belgium are making
greatofforta to raise recruits for the Pontifical
service^7.1 .’nicrrSs oi .Jagi dtZi
just no w no difficulty whatever in getting all the
men that are wanted. I was at the Depot d£s
Recrutement-yesterday, and-the sight was &
strange onfejr 5ai he building was literally, be
sieged by new comers, while those who had
been accepted were getting drunker and drunk
er in the wiae-shops, as seated wjth their wives
and women, parents and children at tables set
in the middle cf the street, while the sidewalks
were almost impassable for the excited people
gathered there. N
I was after help for a drowned soldier, if help
could be got in time. They had fished him up
just as I crossed tho Pont d’Alme in a cab, and
I told the coacher to lattle away to the nearest
'eecoure.” We had to get as we best could
through the crowd of recruits, and make our
way to a police" station, which I left with a ser
geant de ville on the box, and another by my;
side in an open cab, so that I had all the honors
of arrest without its dangers. Beaching the
quay, we found ourselves too late, and, indeed,
the man wa3 dead when they polled him out
feet first. I was struck with the quiet belief
expressed that he had committed suicide. “He
didn’t want to fight the Austrians," said my
cocher. But the troth is, I think that he was
tangled in the water-weed, which was so thick
there that it showed above the water. One of
his soldier comrades pushed in and tried to save
him, and on the bank was his woman, who
guarded his.clothes, and who took on most dis
tractedly. But affiiotion has various forms, and
while ! stood, by pitying, she fumbled, over his
clothes and felt in all the pockets—finally found
his vest with his silver watch and chain, took it
out with most heart-breaking sobs and cries,
put it carefully in her pocket, boxed the ears of
two heartless little wretches who were making a
search for stray valuables on their own account,
and then rushed over to tho boat where the
poor fellow lay and demanded to see his body.
I left her straggling with the policemen, who
were doing their best to keep her away from
her pautre garcon, but without success. Sev
eral of the soldiers have been prostrated with
the heat, and several have died, bat they are a
tongh looking, rough looking lot, and can stand
a deni.
_ Night before last we had a great demonstra
tion at the opera. It was ramored abont daring
the day that Marie Sass was to sing the Marseil
laise, and the rash for seats was furious. Thanks
to a friend, I secured a ticket by going in with
him to the managerial sanctum, and he pleaded
heroically for his American confere. The ex
cellent old ticket seller shook her finger at me
as she handed mo my prize, declaring that it
was a privilegie, which looked likely, as I heard
her assuring tho bands that kept poking gold
through the ticket hole that there were no
places left. Tho Salle was crowded long before
the curtain rose on the Muetle di Portici, and
there was not even standing room at the begin
ning of the third act—the Manager having come
out and promisod us the Marseillaise at the end
of it. Those who kaow, say that it is rare to
see such a meeting of the high social world of
Paris. In a stage box was M. de Gramont, with
M. de la Guerroniere, and in a box next the
Emperor’s empty one tho Duo and Dachesse de
Moucby, tho once lovely and even now handsome
Anna Murat In the foyer I saw Emile de Gir-
adin and Panl do Cafsaiguac, having a seat in
the same row with me. I had the pleasure at
the begiuning and end of every Act to be
squeezed by that noble personage in his efforts
to get bis chair. I watched him closely while
the hymn was intoning, and there was some
thing worth noting in his perfeot immobility iu
the midst of the delirium of the crowd. For
Paul do Cassaignac is at this moment the hero
of the war in the Imperial circle, and means
blood. He is deeply in earnest, and enjoys the
hoar like a tiger. A few months ago he was
hissed and insulted at the theater; a few days
ago he was cheered ns wildly in the streets by
the same crowd, and, to do him justice, he
seemed to care a3 much for one as the other.
Marie Sass could not sing, for she was too much
excited, and if she had she couldn’t have been
heard, for everybody was doing his best to out-
sing her; but she made the gestures, and that
wa3 something. She was dressed most absurd
ly—she is fat as Alboni, and homely as her
name—in a white sort of make-believe Greek
dress, with an immense blu9 velvet mantle cov
ered over with Napoleonic bees! The force of
snobbery and.lick-spiltle couldn’t furthei go,
for what, in Heaven’s name, has the Marseillaise
to do with tho Napoleons? However, this may
prove itself some day, and it maybe found that
that the Marseillaise is easier to let loose than
it is to chain up. ‘ 0.0.
Tbe Georgia Press.
Dogghebtx Gountt.—At.a meeting in: Al
bany, last Tuesday, Cols. B. G. Lockett, K. N.
Ely, and Nelson Tift were appointed delegates
to the Atlanta Agricultural Convention, with
Messrs. D. A. Vason, John A. Davis, and James
Clark alternates. The following delegates and
alternates were appointed to the Democratic
Convention of the 17th:
Nelson Tift, Carey W. Styles, Bu G. Lockett,"
B. N. Ely. Alternates—^A. Hemphill, Aaron
Jones, M. W. Tompkins, S. J. Pitman.
A people’s meeting, without, diotinullon of
party, iras colled for last Saturday.
Chatham Count?.—The Savannah Bepubli-
can says it appears from the Tax Digest, whioh
has just been completed, that the following
is the value of taxable property in Chatham
county:
Land (140,958 acres) v .....
City and to wn property
Merchandise
Money and solvent debts :
Shipping and tonnage
Stocks and bonds.:.......:..
Cotton manufactures,.........;......:.
Iron works and machine shops.....
Household and kitchen furniture:’.
Capital invested in mining
All other property
$ 1,658,650
..... 12,482,350
1,948,900
3,568,022
189,000
: 1,962,760
2.500
next two weeks. Cotton,, whioh had begun -to
ib^nUyU P to e lTstotto n bepr^Uio^ eld ^ *”» 88 ™ yesterday, prints
Spaixuno County.—Griffin has got a new
steam fire engine, and the Star, of Friday,
chronicles her performances thus:
26,500
213,250
2,500
308,700
Total
Total in 1869,:.v.
.$22,363,122
.. 20,920,646
Increase in’ 1870..
$1,442,476
White polls in 1870 3,248
Colored polls in 1870 1,337—4,585
White polls in 1869 2,29G
Colored polls in 1869 416—2,712
Take Down tho Shovel and tho Pick.
It is reported from Europe that the Prussians
have determined to adopt the system of field
intrenchmont which was so entensively used
by both parties during the American war of the
rebellion. It is also s:ated that the French will
in consequence be obliged to advance much
more slowly; so that in fact the compaign will
be little else than a series of gigantic siege oper
ations. Of course there is some exaggarntion
in this statement; but yet, in tho end, it will
prove to be substantially true.
Strategical manamvres will still be employed,
and the armies will contend for advantage of
position as earnestly as iu any preceding wdt;
but there cannot bo any question that tho intro
duction of arms of precision, which kill at six
hundred yards, has entirely changed the condi
tions df warfare. As long as two armies could
be brought within two hundred yards of eaoh
other with no daDger to life except from artil
lery—and that is about equal to no danger at all
— it was possible to fight battles without cover
in the' open field. But with the greater range
and accuracy of piodern rifles, and the greater
rapidity of loading at.the breoch, it is impossi
ble to bring troaj>3-ihto action on the old sys
tem. This Is the real reason why after tho
first-few months of the war onr great battles
were in almost all coses fongbt behind extem
porized intrenchments. It was in the necessity
of the case, and the art "of constructing field
fortifications was soon learned by our soldiers.
This great change which our. war established
IOx military roiouoo u HOW to.be . applied iU-Etl;
rope; i pod it is an interesting tael that the
Prussians, who might" easily have been beaten
at Sadowa hnd the Austrians understood, this
art, should now be the first to bring" lt’into ex
tensive service in that hemisphere.
No one who remembers the experience of
Gettysburg, or tho wilderness, or Cold Harbor,
will imagine that the introduction of field in-
trenebments can render battles any the less
deadly. These extemporaneous field works aro
indeed of great benefit in protecting the soldiers
engaged against the fatal accuracy of the new
weapons; but battles contested with these wea
pons must be exceedingly destructive of life,
notwithstanding all the breastworks that on
army can erect. A most important consequence,
however, must bo the protraction of tho war.—
Battles that decide a campaign will become less
freqnont than formerly; and where the two
contestants are so nearly eqnal as France and
Prussia, it is certain that tbe use of the new
arms and of field fortifications renderssuch con
flicts as those of Jena, Austerlitz, Leipsic, and
Waterloo almost impossible. —X. Y. York
Sun. "• *"• fp v. iLU
Agency on Friday.
In the House Mr. Anderson offered.au amend
ment to the House bill, incorporating the North
Georgia and Tennessee Bailroad bill, that no
State aid shall be ghmted until an equal amount
shall have been paid in and ■ expended—which
was accepted. That is a good provision, which
should have universal application. The bill
a light heart, such as Ollivier boasts of, send wa , then laid on the table—ayes 71-nays -47.
itiJrpnrfl fn thft KhamhlfiS *• . • - - rTafTT . ,
these men ia troops to the shambles.
Tho signs of war are everywhere. In the
street in every direction and at eyery minute
you meet squads of men who are going to the
recruiting ^office,.! drunk, sometimes reeling,
never sober, shouting the Marseillaise or Mourir
pour la patrie. Then you meet a cab full of
fellows in like condition, always in charge of r
the officer or civilian" who has pioked them up,
and there they! are, lolling and tumbling about, i
The Committee on Agriculture and Internal
Improvements reported several bills. The Com
mittee on Printing recommended $5,000 to be
paid the State Pripter^,.?,^-, JetriWin
In the Senate, the report of the Committee
of recommending the purchase of the Opera
Pi House was adopted—yeas 20, nays 9.
j*ct-
shouting, yelhng ail day and far into the night j Ibox top. the Macon and Augusta Railroai',
on their way to the Depot des Kecrutemeut, ; Tfae Leila M. Long arrived at Brunswick
w f'l.m 1 on Thursday with 600 tons of rails to finish the
Tho addition to the airny during the last few 011 Thursday with i
Increase in 1870......' 1,873
The Republican says the Gen: Barnes sailed
on Thursday with the large number of one hun
dred and three oabin and four deck passengers,
whose names will be found in our Marine col-
um, and embrace many well kuown citizens.—
The General Barnes also carried four hundred
and seven bales of upland cotton and a large
miscellaneous freight. The American also sailed
for Baltimore with twenty oabin passengers and
a good freight, including 2CG bales of npland
cotton, 1,248 oases of canned pine-apples, and a
variety of miscellaneous merchandise.
The steamer Wave, tbe first of four new
steamers for the river to Augusta^ built at Nor
folk of iron has arrived at Savannah.
Richmond County. —The Angustions are
amusing themselves with horse races.
The Constitutionalists learns that the probable
loss occasionedby the fire at the shop of Wa H.
Goodrich, Esq , is about fire thousand dollars,
quite a large quantity of fine walnut and ma
hogany lumber being stored in the kiln.
Muscogee County.—The Golumbna Snn due
on Friday night failed. The citizens of Colum
bus held an indignation meeting over “pro
longation” last Thursday night. They adopted
resolutions, not contained in the Enquirer's re
port, and were addressed by Mark Blandford,
Benning, Peabody and Banmsey. TheEoquirer
says:
The preliminary trial of Tarver, charged with
thoshooting of young Cook in the recent affray,
came of befoie Justice Smith last Friday. Only
two witnosses were examined for the prosecu
tion—none for the defence.' The evidence taken
by tho prosecution was eo strongly in Tarver’s
favor that the defence thought other testimony
unnecessary. It was proved that Tarver did
the shooting in self-defence, and he was acquit
ted. His wounds were not as ' dangerous as at
first supposed, and wa understand he has left
town.
The Enquirer has the following:
Mad Dog.—We heard reports of one of these
monsters on Bridge Row yesterday. One was
killed on the snpposition that he was mad. We
did not ascertain whether he had bitten or at
tempted to bite any one.
Expected by the 15th.—A negro at No. 5,
M. and G. R. R., has already picked out 300
pounds seed cotton, and expects to have a bale
ready by the 15th instant, or soon thereafter.
Brooks County.—The Quitman Banner, of
Friday, says that last Monday morning, whilst
the jailor was in the act of attending to the
wonts of the prisoners in tho Quitman jail, fonr
negro fellows, who had been imprisoned for
larceny and other misdemeanors, made a rush
past the jailor, and escaped.
Coweta Cotnty.—Wo clip the following from
the Newnan Herald, of Friday morning:
Serious Affair.—On Saturday last Mr. R. W.
Hardy, a citizen of this county, was severely
stabbed by a nogro named Waae Collins under
the following circumstances: Mr. Hardy hired
Wade to labor on his farm, bnt discharged him
She threw two solid streams at once 213 feet
through a J inch nozzle ; one solid stream 194
feet through a 1J inch nozzle. She threw "plan
: ty of w^der over the Methodist Church steeple.
Her power is from 70 to 110 pounds to the
inch, and she throws from 400 to 450 gallons of
water per minute. She tum oastty Handled by
14. men, but is rigged for propelling by man or
horse power. The same paper says there was a
meeting of the Board of Directors of the Grif
fin and North Alabama Railroad in Griffin yes-
terdayi They are pushing forward the enter
prise with great vigor:
The Middle Georgian of the same date says :
One of the coolest, wisest and most sagacious
men of our county made the sensible remark
that “it'would'bewellfor the people of Georgia
to buy up the present Legislature at a price of
five millions of" dollars provided they would go
home and cease dallying with law making. His
idea was that the State wonid be pecuniarily
benefitted by sneh'^k course. Make them all
rich. We are inclined to think he is right.” 1
Begin with a bid of fifty thousand. We see
by .the Georgian that Spalding appointed Col.
Jno. D. Stewart, Colonel Jas. S. Boynton, and
Messrs. F. S. Fitch and J. H. Mitchell'as dele
gates to the 17th of August Convention.
or Wade left voluntarily, we don’t know which,
about the 1st of March, when the negro sought
and obtained employment under Capt. Potts on
the Savannah, Griffin & North Alabama Railroad.
Hardy and tho negro afterwards frequently met
and came very nearly having difficulties. Last
Saturday Mr. Hardy was riding by the negro
engaged in driving pegs in the ground when the
difficulty wu3 renewed.. Mr. Hardy was just
dismounting when the negro ran up behind him
and struck at his head with a hatchet and made
a glancing lick. The combatants clinched,
when the negro drew a bowie-knife from his
boot and inflicted a. severe wound in Mr. Har
dy’s "right breast.; - About this time, some one
came up and the negro left and has not since
been arrested. At last account Mr. Hardy was
ifnpraving." t - n "
Arrived erom Cigna.—After an absence of
eleven years from Georgia, Mrs. Mollie Allen,
wifo of the devoted missionary, Rev. Young J.
Mercer University*
A private telegram received by the editors
from Atlanta, at 3i.it., yesterday, announced
that the Board of Trustees of Mercer Universi
ty had decided to locate their institution at Ma
con. The Board is composed of the following
gentlemen:
President—Hon. David E. Butler.
Hon. David E. Butler, of Morgan.
r Hon. Thomas Stocks, of Greene.
”> Rev. Charles M. Irvin, of Dougherty.
Thomas J. Burney, Esq., of Morgan.
Rev. Henry Bonn, of Twiggs.
Rev. Sylvanus Landrum, D. D., of Chatham.
Rev. E. W. Warren, of Bibb.
Rev, Benjamin F. Tharpe, of Houston. r
Rev. James H. DeVotie, D. D., of Muscogee,
i Hon Marshall J. Wellborn, of Muscogee.
Rev. William T. Brantly, D. D. of Fulton.
Captain John T. Wingfield, of Wilkes.
Rev. H. Allen Tupper, of Wilkes.
Hou. Thomas G. Lawson, of Putnam.
Col. E. Steadman, of Newton.
Hon. Philip R. Robinson, of Greene. }a
Rev. W. L. Kilpatrick, of Richmond. ;jy r
Daniel Walker, Esq., of Coweta.
Wm. J. Northern, Esq., of Hancock.
Hon. John T. Clarke, of Randolph.
General John B. Gordon, of Fulton.
And in addition to the Trustees, the follow
ing gentlemen oomposed a committee to act
with the Board on the question:
Colonel J. D. Stewart, Hon. G. S. Obear,
Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick, Dr. J. S. Lawton, Rev.
W. L Harley, Rev. G. R. Moore, Rev. G. R.
McCall, Rev. W. H. Davis, Rev. R. Fleming,
Rev. J. McBride, Rev. J. G. Ryals, Rev. F. H.
Ivey, Rev. W. D. Adkinson, Rev. G. A. Nun-
nally, Rev. L. Joiner, Rev. A. W. Buford, Rev.
W. L. Mansfield, Rev. C. C. Willis, Colonel U.
B. Wilkinson, W. H. Starke, Colonel Alfred
Shorter, Hon. M. A. Cooper, Colonel J. J. How
ard, Hon. R. J. Bacon.
We think the Committee and the Board have
acted wisely. Macon, looking at its centrality
—its extensive communications, and the popu-
tion, which is tributary to it, is undoubedly
the best locality in the State. And looking at
the Jaot that a large majority of the Baptists of
the State are to be found in the latitude of Ma
con aud south of it, there was additional pro
priety ia placing the college here.
We hope, with the new location of Mercer
University, the denomination and the people
generally will open their hoarts, and devise lib
eral things for the institution. It will be the
only collegiate, institution in a vast scope of
country. Southward its range extends to the
Golf of Mexico. Let the Baptists and the
men of enterprise, philanthropy and public
spirit unite iu adapting it to the wants of the
age. We need in Georgia a thorough school of
applied scienoe—a polytechnic school, which
shall offer our youth an education in civil engi
neering, surveying, mining, agriculture and
mechanics,- and all the exaot sciences. Let
Mercer be provided with its scientific depart
ment, like the Universities of the North and
the Old World, and to this end let the Bap
tists lead off liberally and invorke the liberality
of the friends of_education generally in all this,
vast region. WesayJt .is in the power of the
friends of this University to make it one of tho
most eminent institutions of learning iu the
South. . - tr .
The Prussian Headquarters.
Kreuzenach is a town of 10,000 inhabitants,
and is situated eight miles south of Bingsn,
(dear Bingen on tho Rhine) ou the railroad be
tween Metz and Mayence. The railroad runs
west by south from Mayence to Bingen, near
the banks of the Rhine, wfion it takes an abrupt
turn and continues almost due south to Kren-
zenach, when it follows a west by south, south
west, and west-southwest course to Motz, mak-
ingit a decidedly brooked road. It forms con
nection. with the Metz and Monheim railroad at
Rexbach, on the Bavarian frontier, where a sin*
gle road continues to Metz. ■— v* r
- Kreuzenach lies on both sides of the Nahe, a
stone bridge connecting the two parts. The
west side, which is the most populous,- is poor
| and dilapidated^ but the east side is covered by
| splendid hotels and fine houses. Ou account
Alien, arrived at this place last Saturday, on a of its cold saline spring it is a favorite resort
visit to her sister,. Mrs. Sam. Arnold, of this : for invalids, several thousands.of whom yisit.it
county. Mrs. Allen has with-her three chil- yearly. As a military position, the place poe-
dren, ’and expects to spend one year in this, her ! sesses no Special importance. It is, however,
native county, leave her daughter at- some Col-' Tory old, and wad at one time a fortified poet,
lege to be educated, aud then return to China: \ TM distance from Kreuzenach to the most
Mrs. Allen’s out and return trips demonstrate j prominent points occupied by "the belligerent
the great improvement in.-onr means of com- , armies are as follows: To Metz, about *H6
inunication with China. Mrs. Allen was seven ! niiles by railroad; to Coblenz, about forty-
months in reaching China from New-York, (three, via Bingen: to Mayerice, .via Bingen,
while she arrived at Newnan, via PaSific. Bail- ." about twenty-three; to Mayence, by post road,
road, in one month and twenty-four days after fortymileg, and to. Treves about srxty.mileg.
leaving Shanghai. . Its special advantages as army headquarters is
n •* ril - undoubtedly its position between Coblenz and
PaoiiONGation. Christopher Robinson, Mayence, and the complete manner in which it
Mayor ol Newnan, has issued a long and formal covers the entire railroad connecting these two
proclamation prolonging his term of office “until places. ^
tho 1st day of January, 1672.” He is after the Tlae “ Mitraillenr.”
Agency. According to the French telegrams those peo-
Whitfield County.—The Dalton Citizen of pie think the new military engine called the
Thursday says • mitrailleur will decide the war. The following
We have hod copious rains almost every day is best * nd briefest desori P tion of U whioh
during the past week. The corn and sweet po- we bave B6<m "
aynAjrrou ^ ita barrel ma , be fired simultane-
Whitheld and adjoining counties, should the .T;"
season continue salt pretont, will be the most gf or . consecutively. The thirty-seven car-
m „ - ■ l a v, - rr , ;<■ tndges intended for one charge are oontamed
y in a small box. A steel plate Sith correspond-
- " . tog holes is placed on the open box, which is
Gbeexe County.— Tne Democrats hold a then reversed, and the cartridges fall point first
meeting on Saturday. The Herald complains into their respective holes. They are prevented
of warm weather, and proposes a spacious hotel from falling through by tbe rims at their bases.
to make that healthy place a summer and win- ^d whence b Wt'iTolo^d.by a
ter resort for valetudinarians. . lever a number of steel pins, pressed by spiral
dass must have been enormous; there seems Macon and Augusta Railroad.
* ;.ij imOCKK Ct£. 3SII1fSSf BIIO Cu
toffee e <ij atfnt'ufi k virfioh sili si St- - .iiodqeda iqnis ena
Stewart, and J. M. Pace as delegates to the At- by a h^dle, tbT cartridges
lanta Convention, The Enterprise of the 5th : one by one. If the plate be withdrawn
instant says: rapidly they follow each other so quickly that
After the intensely hot and dry weather which their discharge is almost simultaneous. The
prevailed throughout most of the county during invention seems very well adapted for use in
July, onr gebple are "grateful for refreshing forts or other permanent placet of, defense or
..I., which have set in with this month. Much offense, but its carriage and management ir the
of foe dornwill yet yield from half to two-thirds field would present many and insuperable ob-
of a ; full crop with favorable seasons for the stacks to Its general A' *; r j '
u'3 -ffi* ,v«iqtooO LzctiUZ *mUJ- J •**' ‘*
Light from Boiler.
-
a letter dated at Lowell, 29th July, to Gov.
Bullock, from the Hon. General Benjamin F.
Butler, in which, true to his instincts the Gener-
al cmnes to the aid of the sharp practice con-
templated by Bullock and Blodgett, with hi£ a^Cf
understanding and memories and impressions - .
of what the bill admitting Georgia was designed
to effect. The General certainly neAd not in-
romt the people mat Hiving found it utterly
impossible to force through-the Houses bill " "-
extending the terms of offioe in Georgia, and
finding some bill must be passed, he did hi* riff • *“
beht . to get a doubtful, misty, equivocal bill stbrh * ‘
passed, under cover of which the outrage might
be consummated by the Georgia Legislature. Au<U
But although we concede that Bntler succeeded '.'.-St
in raising a dost whioh in the hurry of the ©on- >•«»
eluding hours of the session blinded himself Gl
and his following a little and m%do them think
they had accomplished tlieir obj ect, y et when too <*tfi0O4C
bill came to be printed and compared with the eicuC
provisions of tho Constitution, its effect was too "■ ^
plain for honest misbonoeption. J . r -
Bntler winds np the letter with the following
emarkableadvice: v- Luis' ■:'+& -
, ‘ ‘Timed not say, therefore, that I am clearly
of opinion that the construction of the act will * . "
not require any election to be held in Georgia
until th'6 Legid tture chooses to have one : that *** _
the present Legislature is thoroughly legalized.-,. rf.Ji f
as far as an act of Congress can Mo so, by ?ly» ,.^,a .
declaration that a. .“legal Legislature” adopted
the 15th Amendment, and that, being a legal
Legislature, under your Constitution, you have
the power to fix the election, of your, successors.5
Of course any attempt to prolong the term ar- ,
bitrarily, unjustly, indefinitely, or, in the slang
of the disoussion, to “perpetuate your power,
would be just cause of animadversion, and, if
extended too far, .cause of revolution. But all.
true and good men in tho conntry, os in toe
State of Georgia, in my judgment, will sustain., ' ■
you and the Legislature in takiDg to themselves,
for the purposo of organizing the State, the
full term of two years after they aro fully seat-
nifafOli i as you uow are. r - - £
aftfi
Jarir
• VTA'
Use the power you have, as I know you will,
-with'Wisdom, Justice and Moderation, and the
pillars of the State of Georgia will be more
firmly settled than ever to uphold the Union,
the Constitution, and the laws of onr ooun-
try.” .t» jKkD
.Now did any human being ever read the like .
it*
is*.
,-svr.
■".-I
from 1 a public man claiming sanity—much leas
the reputation of a statesman! The ; Constitu
tion of Georgia fixes all the terms of office, and
the time for holding elections; but wisely, to
meet emergencies—(such, for example, as a ■.«
state of war, insurrection,- invasion, pestilence,
or any other grand disturbing event) empowers
tho legislature on the occasion to make a tem
porary change of time as may subserve the pub
lic interest and convenience. On the strength
of this concession, Butler founds a right of the
legislature to hold on as long as they please and
fix the terms of their successors—a right r«v~,£v 3 -
8tricted only by the danger of “ revolution.”
"Where, then, the sense in fixing any conatitu-^.. ..q
tional term of office, and swearing incumbents f-.
to observe it? The right to hold offioe is estab- ...
lisbed not by the assent of tho people under .
constitutional forms and limitations, but by
possession. Once in, the incumbent can hold
until he thinks the peoplo are becoming tired
of him to the extent of driving him out at the
point of the bayonet, and then he must “fix the
election of his successor.” Bat where does
Butler, find even that constitutional limitation ?
It is not in the Constitution—it is in private
judgment and the necessity’of self-preservation, "ff,
The idea and advice of this grand constitution-
al expositor, therefore, amounts only to this: '
You have the government—hold on to it—con
stitution or no constitution, certainly for two
years, aud as much longer as you dare. ^ v.>- —2 sU.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal treats the ladies : patunf
to this pleasant paragraph: ^1; %‘Jj>
“We published a few days since an item re--
ferring to tho presence of insects in the bark
switches so generally worn. Some doubted the . .
facts Btated. Wo can assure all doubting
Thomases that the fact was even so. A well— ' h*®
known physician of this city has shown us two
of these loathsome creatures, which were found
him, aud transferred to a glass vial, where they
can be seen with tho naked eye. Under the - ”
microscope their appearance is hideous. They . :
have a brown, pointed head, and, number of. ; .
legs, a fuzz on the back and.crawralong with a
wriggle something like a caterpillar, Tney ap-
jear to resemble tne centipede family. The. .
ady who discovered theso had had trouble with
her head for some weeks, but did not at first
think of her switch containing the cause. The .
back of her head was punctured and sore. The .. ^
insect appears to burrow in the head like a
wood-tick. The switch from which these were
taken had previously been -subjected to a half
hour’s steaming, but the creatures were as live- - ; " . ?. ■
ly as crickets. Another smaller kind has been
fouud, which skip about like fleas. Ladies 7
well say, ‘Verily our .back hair is fearfully and' * ■’
wonderfully mada. l, ' K ’ ;u P°- ( ‘•‘- i -
Shooting German Deierferw
A correspondent at Cobientz writes :
“A painful impression has been created here --*■
by the following incident: Three soldiers of- N
the line were undergoing a long period of. im- - :
prisonment in the Fortress of Ehrenbreistein
for desertion. They had orginially deserted it
Saarlouis and crossed the frontier into France,
bnt, on ihe persuasion of their families, had
surrendered themselves to their regiment—* *
Thier term of punishment was f oven years, of bAvtdk
which only six months had expired. Finding jcjiirf'
their life, as is asserted, unsupportable, they
determined to drown themselves on the first fac* _ q*.
vorable opportunity as a preferable fate. A
few days ago they were employed on the Cara— tT. J.
thuse, the fine plateau which separates too: -.-
Rhine from the Moselle, and it seemed a fitting
moment to attempt tbe rash enterprise. One
sentry alone was in charge of them, and he -wit
nessed their flight. He immediately fired, and
brought one victim down dead, the bullet hav
ing passed through his head. With extraordi
nary sang froid and determination he loaded a"
second time, and again fired with fatal preci
sion; the deserter fell dead, pierced through the
heart! Once more loading, he fired at the third
fogitive, and the bnllet passed completely
-through his body, inflicting frightful injury to
his intestines. The unfortunate man was
brought to the military lazaretto in Cobientz,
where he lies in a hopeless condition. In mili
tary circles this melancholy catastrophe is re-*
gaded as a fitting retribution for a grave breach
of discipline, a view of the case not altogether
shared in by the civil portion of the communi
ty.’ One thing is certain, the needle gun, in
the hands of a good marksmen, is a- sure md
terrible weapon.” .--wvj*
Whai/th or the Cabpxt-baqoebs.—'The Char
leston News says:
Wheat Governor Scott left Ohio , to come to
this State he paid taxes upon a bdind mare
valued at $11 75, and a dilapidated chaise at $3.
"For two years he has been Governor of South
Caroline,' at h salary of $8,500* year,- And now; *-
according to his own admission, he it worth
$180,000. Where is toe meu that believes that
ara this huge nnur was oomO by honestly ? Let him
Step forward: >sa.
Almost seven thousands ir
New York during tost week . _
Germans has not fallen off.yet, ei wart
been declared at the time when the last eteanter
which arrived in New York from Bremen kaiL'
started from that port.. . „ K.
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