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ELBEETON GAZETTE.
SATURDAY , JULY 14, 1866.
A WAR IN EUROPE.
It is a notable fact, says the New York ;
Journal of Commerce, that though Europe
seems to the Verge of one of the most
calamitous wars that ever desolated the con
tinent, there are comparatively few who
know what it is all about. On this point
even intelligent men are disagreed. We
believe the truth may be stated in a single
sentence, that the rival monarcks King
William of Prussia, and Francis Joseph of*
Austria, in their lu»t for power, have at last
become hopelessly involved ; and Italy, after
long waiting for the recofbry of the Venetian
province, which still remained with Austria
by tho treaty of Villatranea, now leaps at
the opportunity-to strike at her entangled
foo. Primarily, the responsibility for this
state of affairs rets on the head of Bismark,
tho leading statesman of Prussia, whose
restless ambition was not satisfied with sup
pressing constitutional liberty in the king
dom (closing the doonfof Parliament, and
muzzling the press), nor with despoiling
Denmark, to obtain the harbor of Kiel; he
claimed for Prussia the lkm’s, share of the
plunder, in wanton disregard of the rights
of her ally. The division of Schleswig and
Holstein between them was unsatisfactory;
she must have both the Elbe duchies for
her own. While the German inonarchs-'
are thus engaged in high dudgeon, Italy
comes forward with her old cry, “ Home
and Venetia,” and the entire population of
thn Peninsular fly to arms. The popular
enthusiasm becomes irrepressible. What
ever may havejjeen the disposition of Vic
tor Emanuel, lie must have felt impelled to
join in the cry, if he would escape from rev
olution. Few could have imagined, while
the German quarrel waxed hot, and arma
ments were daily increasing, that Italy was
ho eager to mix in tho fray. The vast mili
tary preparations of the latter were justified
by the assertion that her frontiers were
threatened. Apparently disconcerted by
this new champion in the field, the Germans
were half disposed to settle their domestic
difficulties. Austria, on the one side, was
desperately poor ; aud Prussia, should worst
come to worst, might find herself confronted
by the legions of France. Put there was
no such thing as retreat. Blood was up.
It was too late for a congress. All the par
ties were willing to go into a congress or
conference, but with the explicit under
standing, in advance, that none of them
would coucede anything. Austria declar
ed that the proposed cession of Vcnotia was
inadmissible, and Prussia hastened to settle
the question of the duchies by marching
troops into Holstein, and the latter justi
fying herself in this step by the fact that
Austria had referred the matter in dispute
to the confederation, restoring the
powers, in her view, “ to the positions and
rights accorded them by the treaty of Vi
enna." Doubtless site will endeavor to
make of this a strong point in order to
throw the onus of commencing hostilities, or
rather of committing the overt act, on her
neighbor. But in regard to this particular
transaction the world at large will care very
little, as one or the other would have soon
discovered a pretext for knocking the chip
from the soldier. Thus we think, in sur
veying the present attitude of the belliger
ent powers, that most intelligent men will
agree with a recent declaration of of Lord
Clarendon, in the Brittish Parliament, that
“ Europe is menaced with a war uncalled
for by national honor, and forbidden by na
tional interests—a war for which there is
no cauaus belli , and for which there is no
justification.
THE ELBERTON GAZETTE.
WAR IN EUROPE.
Actual hostilities have at last commenced
between Austra and Prussia, The Prussians
have been defeated by the Austrians at Bo
hemia. Italy has also declared war. No
other powers are yet involved.
THE GERMAN QUESTION.
London Punch publishes the following* lu
cid explanation of the past history and present
uspect of the German difficulty:
Prussia was a robber,
Austria was a thief;
Prussia and Austria
Stole a Danish fief.
Prussia said to Austria,
*• Leave the swag alone."
Austria said to Pussia,
When you drop your bone."
“ Prussia said to Austria, #
“You don’t mean to go ?"
Austria said to Prussia,
“ Out of Holstein ? No!"
Prussia said to Austria,
“ Wherffore do you arm?”
Austria said to Prussia,
“Os you in alarm." ,
Prussia said to Austria,
“ f don’t mean to fight."
Austria said to Prussia,
“My intention quite.”
Prussia said to Austria, «
“Dropyour warlike game."
Austria said to Prussia,
“ When you do the same."
Prussia said to Austria,
“What’s the end to be V
Austria said to Prussia,,
“ Hit me and you’ll sec.”
Prussia said to Austria,
, “ Come, this brag won't do.”
Austria said to Prussia,
"Sir, the same to you.” ■
Prussia said to Austria,
“ I’ll the Diet try.”
Austria said to Prussia.
“ Thank you, so will I.” •
EXCITED STATE OF GERMANY.
The people of Germany, though prov
erbially slow of movement, are becoming
greatly excited as the prospect of war ap
proaches. M. Seinguerlet, the correspon
dent of the Temps; writes as follows from
Heidelberg, under date of June s>i
For some days past the Bavarian capital
has been the theatre of riotous scenes.
Deplorable excesses have been committed
by the populace. The landwchr have used,
their arms and blood has been shed. At
first tho popular passions were directed
against some beer shops. In the midst of
wild cries stones were flung against these
shops, the windows and shutters broken,
and tho furniture destroyed. The day be
fore yesterday the shops of the butchers,
bakers, and the houses o£ some Jews were
attacked ; officers and gendarmes wore mal
treated : showers of stones were flung at the
landwehr, who firetj on the people. One
man was killed and twenty wounded. This
ferment has been attributed to the intimate
relations which exist between the King aud
Richard Wagner, hut those relations have
had nothing to do in producing it. Tk:
riot is in no way connected with politics,
hut it. is au evidence of the revolutionary
feeling which possesses the people beyond
the Rhine. The Ultramontane party, who
are working heaven and earth to make the
joung king unpopular, and force him to
abdicate, will take advantage of these de
plorable street riots to gain their end. In
Prussia, where 300,000 families have been
deprived of their means of support, dis
content is increasiug in proportion as want
is extending. Already national workshorps,
like those of Paris in 1848, have been or
ganized for the purpose of finding employ
ment for the people. Hunger is a had po
litical economist, and as anew proof of this,
some thousands of the Berlin workiug-men
held a meeting outside the walls, in which
they clamorously demand the expulsion of
foreign artisans. In the provinces numer
ous conflicts have taken place between the
men of the reserves and their officers. At
Cologne an officer who tried to arrest a mac
belonging to the landwehr, who had not
saluted him, was pelted by the market
women with potatoes, carrots, and cabbages,
and forced to take refuge in the guardhouse.
Similar scenes have occurred in various
other places. The antagonism between the
troops of the line, who are far war, and the
| landwehr, who are for peace, is very mark
| ed. The threats of war have thrown the
ssi whole population betweon Landau and Co
logne into a feverish excitement. The re
port of the sales of the coal mines of
Saarbruck, which lias never been boldly
denied, the withdrawal of almost all the
troops, and the unscrupulous character of
Count Bismark, have raised the suspicion
amongst the people that they are to be
transferred to France. Tlie agitation which
began in Ilhenish Hesse b«s rapidly spread
along the whole Rhine. The anniversary
of the restoration of the province to Germa
ny has been celebrated in the hamlets. A
National Defence Committee has been
formed at Frankenthal, and numerous meet
ings have been held at Neustadt, Bingen,
Ingelheim, &c. Energetic protests have
been made against the possibility of dis
memberment, and a general arming of the
people has becu demanded.
DIRECT TAXES IN THE SOUTH.
The Secretary of the Treasury has trans
mitted to the House of Representatives, in
answer to a resolution, a report from the
Commissioner of internal Revenue, from
which it appears that the amount of direct
taxes -by the act of 1861 apportioned to
Virginia is §937,550, of which §379,491
has been collected; apportioned to North
Carolina $576,194, collected $260,283; ap
portioned to South Carolina $363,570, col
lected $205,882; apportioned to Georgia
$584,367, collected $54,421; apportioned
to Alabama, $529,213, none collected; ap
portioned to Mississippi $413,084, collect
ed $*25,000; apportioned to Louisiana
$385,886, collected $301,167; apportioned
to Tennessee $669,498, collected $383,811;
apportioned to Arkansas $261,886, collec
tions not reported; apportioned to Florida
$77,522, collected $5,712, collected $5,712;
apportioned to Texas $355,106 collected,
§47,423.
The property held by the government,
under sales authorized by acts relating to
direct taxes, tvas purchased at prices amount
ing in the several States as follows: Virgi*
nia $32,268; South Carolina $65,392; Flor
ida $6,168;/Tennessee $8,360.
In Arkansas lands were struck off for tax
es unpaid to bidders who never completed
their purchases to the amount of $18,600. —
The amounts received, from sales in the sev
eral States are as follows : Virginia, $113,-
130; South Carolina, 28,433; Florida, $54-
599 j Tennessee, $122,717, Arkansas is not
reported. The whole amount standing to s
the crcdjt of the Arkansas Commissioners
from taxes collected and the proceeds of
sales deposited to the credit of the United
States is $165,262.1
The Secretary of the Treasury in his let
ter enclosing the above facts says: “ I avail
myself of this occasion to express au opin
ion, based upon my observation of the ope
ration of the law, that an additional enact
ment authorizing the assumption by the
States respectively of the remainder of the
direct tax due from each, would, in view of
the preseu t impoverished condition of their
people, prevent much hardship in individual
cases and save from practical confiscation
the property of many persons against whom
the government has no grounds of complaint;
while no public interests would’be injurious
ly affected. Should this polioy be adopted,
the collection of taxes under the present
system might and ought to be discontinued
until an opportunity for assumption be
offered. Whether the amount realized from
re sales of property bid in for the govern
ment should or should not he allowed to the
Stotes respectively in computing the taxes
still due, is a questiou well deserving of‘con
sideration, which I submit without com
ment.”
A conductor on the New York Central
Railroad, who deemed it his duty inexorably
to enforce the new law in this State prohib
iting the use of free passes upon railroads,
recently put off the cars at Utica a Fort
Wayne (Indiana) editor who had a pass, but
no money to pay his fare, and who thus tells
his sorrows in an affecting letter to his
wife :
Utica, N. Y., May 31, 1866.
Dear Wife: —Sell my t'other clothes
for what they will fo&g, and remit at once.
Had my linen dflSfet for supper, and my
spare shirt will have to go for lgjging. May
be able to make a light breakfast on a Ger
man silver comb and a pair of shears that I
chanced to have with me. Don’t know
when I 6hall get home. It will depend a
good deal on the walking. Don’t marry for
a few months; there is a bare possibility of
my getting back. " Simon.
A quaint letter from Dr. Guillotin has
been discovered. It reads thus: (i Mon cher:
The punishment which I have invented is
so gentle —so gentle that really it is only the
idea of death which could make it disagree
able. Indeed if one were not thinking of
death, one would only experience the sensa
tion of a slight and pleasant coolness on the
neck, et voila tout l"
A lump of gold taken ftom the North
Carolina gold mines, weighing five pounds,
is on exhibition at Statesville, N. C- It is
the largest lump found in the State since
1828.
NOTICES, &C.
THE SOUTHER!; cultivator,
For July , is before us. We wish it was before
every farmer and gardner in the State, aye, and
behind him, too, in well-preserved piles of well
bound book3 for future reference and informa
tion.
We have never heard or read of a being bom
without brain—but what is brain worth if not
cultivated ? The man who neglects to cultivate
his brain, ought to have none to cultivate, and
the man who neglects to improve his land, ought
nor to (and will soon have) none to cultivate.
Unfortunately, it is not with brain as with land f
Land can be taken away from one man and given,
to another— brain can't—wilh it could. Maa is
said to be lord of creation—the brute creation l
Why? Because he has taind? What is aaiad ?
Brain? No. The horse has braiD, so has the ox
and the asst What then is it? What makes the
difference? Cultivation! we assert — Cultivation s
Cultivation! t CULTIVATION!!! and be
hanged to you!
Go, then, brute man, and cult’vate yomr Srain.
—improve your mind! •' The ox knowetrh his
owner, and the ass his master’s crib! \Yb at do
you know ?
IFe know that the secret of success in; Kfe is
cultivation. Cultivation is improvement—im
provement is progress, and progress is success!
Now in order, reader, that you may progress in
the right direction—be sure and cultivate thn
Cultivator! .
The New York Agriculturist for July is an our
table. As usual, it comes to us filled with good
advice and a great deal of useful inforra«tton to.
farmers and others. This Journal undoubtedly
takes the lead in Agricultural matters, and it
would be well for farmers desiring t» cultivate
their lands on correct principles, to refer to it
for information. We would like to see it have
a good circulation in this country.
We are in receipt of Peterson's Magazine for
August. We kail with gladness the return of
our old friend to our sanctum. It has bee® »ur
companion for years, and we would not be with
out it.
The present number abounds in good reading
matter, in which it has ever excelled all other
Ladies’ Books. A beautiful Fashion Plate, in
colors, of the latest Parisian styles, and an unex
ceptionable Steel Plate, entitled, “ Going to the
Party,” together with numerous wood cuts, illus
trating the various styles of dre§s, which will be
very interesting to the ladies.
Terms: $2.00 per annum for a single sub
scriber, with great inducements to clubs.
NEW MUSIC.
We have received from the publishing house
of W. Jennings Demorest, 4?3 Broadway, N. Y.,
the following pieces of new music;
“ Waiting at the Station,” —Words by Mrs. M.
A. Kidder .—Composed by 11. P. Danks—an amus
ing serio-comic Song, containing a great deal of
truth.
“ Song of the Fairies.” Music by Willamina
Vienna J. Detnorest, Words by Mrs. M. A. Kidder..
A simple, but very pretty Song.
“The Chain of Love.” Words by W. Jennings
Demorest, Music by Henry Tucker. A beautiful'
and artistic melody, either for the parlor or con
cert room.
LE BON TON.
We have received a copy of this Fashion Book
for Ladies, for the month of July. If this copy
is a fair sample of this Magazine, we oannot.
speak too highly in its favor. The fashion plates
certainly excel any thing of the kind we have
ever seen, combining taste and elegance, and ex
ecuted in the highest rtyle of art. Each copy
contains patterns to correspond with the plates.
Ladies who desire to keep up with tj!* fashions,
should by all means subscribe to “ I.e Eon Ton."'
Terms $7 a year.