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1t is stated that Immediately after the formal anncxa-
ton Of Savoy and Nice France will address note to the
European Powers notifying the fact, and demanding
reply as recognition Of the annexation by Europe
The French government had requested the Belgian
Cabinet to make proposals with the object Of concluding
commercial treaty.
The health OF Prince Jerome Bonaparte had SO far i'm
proved that no bulletins were being issued.
Mrs. Faulkner and her daughters accompanied by Mr.
Faulkner the American Minister bad been presented to
the Emperor and Empress.
The Commissioners appointed by the King of Sardinia
TO fix the boundaries between Savoy and Nice Pied
mont have arrived in Paris, 10 understanding
to conclusion.
The Fifty fourth and Seventy ninth regiments Of the
line and the Twelfth battalion OF raemen forming part
Of the garrison Of Lyons have received orders hold
themselves ready TO march TO Annecy, in Savoy.
The recent storms reported TO have done great
deal Of mischief to the young wheat and rise of three
francs at the corn market Wednesday weighed upon
the Bourse II reported by the Journal de Hdrre, in
reference TO the treaty with Abyssnia, which
garded indication OF hostility TO England, that the
Emperor has adjourned the ratification.
letter from Rome, in the Union says the health Of
Cardinal Wiseman inspires great uneasness successive
relafses leave little hope Of his recovery
was stated that the French government about to
increase its squadron the Neapoan station order
that all French subjects residing in Naples might be taken
board
PARIS, June 8-33OPM
The Bourse has been very dull rentes closed at 6S 90
or 1oc. lower than yesterday.
The French government have agreed to permit the
temporary Importation free Of duty the three ports Of
and manufacture transmitted 10 Paris in connection with
the inquiries pending for assessing the French
tariff in pursuance Of the provisions Of the recent treaty
Of commerce.
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ton Of any party strong enough TO put an amcabe ter
nnation 10 mere sectional agitation.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-22

PRoyIsOSs-Beef s much depressed tn consequence Of
large supplies, and prices are extremely irregular The
small sales making have generally been within COS s5s
for prime and Sss HISS per tierce for India
Pork remains very steady with limited sales 70s IT'S
for Western and US S0s per Dbl for Eastern Bacon
being aost entirely first hands the business con
fined chiefly 10 retail sales, at 54s 55s for Cumberland
cat S5s BIS for long ribbed and SIS. 5Ss for short
ribbed Lard continues very quiet with sales OF 300
400 teccs at unchanged prices The stock amounts
to 20 900 terces against about IL 900 time last
year. but being chiefly held by few parties who
ndisposed 10 press sales decline Is apprehcndcd in
consequence Of the increased supply consumption pro-
miscs an equal magnitude.
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The Savoy Question.

- II - J-II GENEVA, June 7, 1850
Immediately after the annexation Of Nice and savoy
France will address note to the Powers notifying the
fact, and demanding reply, as recognition OF the an
nexaton By Europe.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-22

The imports for The week have been IL 600 bales and
the sales 48 00 including that sent from the quay direct
10 spinners The trade have taken 80 600 spectators
900 and exporters 900 bales To-day 900 bales
sold, the market closing dull. The subjoined table
exhibits the stocks OF cotton hand and the i'm
ports consumption &c from the 1st January TO date for
Liverpool alone, compared with the three preceding
wars
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was borne, but not a muscle moved
With a quiet smile he expressed a per
feet willingness to 60 where be was sent
be was " clay in the hands Of the potter,
he said. If be hiqued himself on stolid
Indifference to the blacksmith's pummel-
ings, or if he relied on his ample pro-
portions TO protect himself he never dis
closed, but appeared as self-satisfed and
content as ever. His predecessor looked
tor all the world like a mouse Just escap-
ed from the fangs Of some terrible grimal-
kin.
Mr.. Stubblevorth arranged bis few
sublunary affairs and bidding his friends
adieu mountea his old roam and departed
for his new home of trials with q song
Of praise on his lips. Let US hope the
best for him.
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From the Watchman and Reflector
eaEGIAH AND ROMAN SLAVERY.

The population of that part Of An
cient Greece, called Attica. IS reckoned al
100000. Of that 365,000 were slaves,
including women and children, thus max
ing the proportion of the slave to the
free population nearly as four to one.
These slaves we're not generally negroes,
or blacks, but we're as white as the Athe-
mans themselves. Multitudes OF them
were Greeks, and these not unfrequently
Of the more cultivated classes.
Slaves were procured in several ways,
some, being poor, and perhaps deeply in
debt, went into voluntary seryitude a a
means Of subsistence. Others, especi-
ally persons Of high birth, we're stolen
and sold to the traders At very high
price. Plato and Diogenes were thus
at one time sold as slaves. Offenders
against the laws we're often sentenced to
slavery. Bion, the philosopher, with all
his family, we're sold into bondage, for
violation of some custom-h house regula-
tions. But more than all, slaves we're
obtained by tie chances Of war, which
was often waged for the express pur-
/ pose Of obtaining captives, both male
and female. Thus Homer says. in the
Illiad, These are the evils that foilow
/ the capture Of a town the men are XIII
ed, the city is burned TO the ground, the
women and children Of All ranks are
carried of for slaves"
. The treatment Of slaves in Greece
was extremely cruel. They we're beat
en- with rods and scourges for the most
trivial offences If was even customary
to fog them once a year, for no offence,
just to remind them Of their degreda-
ton. They we're branded with bot
iron, usually IN the forehead, so deep A.
to leave = distinct impression Of certain
letters. For offensive words they often
+ had their tongues cut out. For theft or
deserlion they were Iaeked on the wheel
and frequently tortured 10 death. They
we're made 10 serve IN wars, and some
times they we're faithful, bat their vast
number made them dangeroUs to the
State. They frequently made insurrec-
tons, overwhelming their oPpreaaors, an1
F for long periods maintained the ascenden-
ey. Vast numbers 81 slaves wers en-
ployed in the mines, and those who per-
ishad in those dismal reeeases might BE-
reckoned b. millions
i Roman slavery presents if possible
even darker features. AZ The time ol
Christ, and fsr a century or tvo after, l.
aly contained a population d shout zs.-
j 00o- 600 u these llors taaa 10000
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CHAPTER III.

The disfgared eounte1ance Of Forge
ron was Of course the subject Of numer-
GU questions, that night among bis friends
to which be replied with a stern LOOK
they well understood, and the vague re-
mark be had met with an accident. OF
course they never dreamed Of the trne
cause. Forgeron looked in the glass
and perhaps compared the changing baes
Of bis black eye from the recent scufle,
to the rainbow shipwreck scene, blending
every color into one. Or perhaps he
had never read that story, and only nut
tered to himself Ned Forgeron wbip-
ped by a Methodist preacher Hls
dreams that night were Of a confused
and disagreeable natare, and waking 10
the morning he had an iadiss5nct memo
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-09-07
IRASBURGH. VERMONT, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER Z, 1860

r Of something unpleasant having oc-
Cured. AT first he eould not recollecS
the cause Of his feelings, but The bruises
on his face and body soon called them 70
bis mind as well as his promise lie
mounted his horse aud went to redeem
It. From tina. time bis c0nduc. mani
tested change Of feeling.
The gossips Of the neighborhool Oh
served 1t and whispered that Ned was
silent and serious and had gone to meet
iug eyesy Sunday sIncs the accident.
They wondered at his burning the books
BE used to read SO often. Strange sto-
res were circulated as to this metamor-
phose Of the jovial-dare devil black
smith into a gloomy taciturn man. Some
supposed very sagely that a spirit bad
enticed him into the mountains and after
giving him a glance at the future, had
misled him TO a crag where he had fallen
and brpised his ts.a O,her. .,~a ,ha
prince Of darkness credit f,r n. -bsnga
but never SUSPECTED the Ns,bo5i.t
preacher ana As the latter ,e,,l.r,a,,
had no vanity 10 crafty, the serre, re-
msined with Ned.
This gloomy state of mind continued
until Mr.. Forperon visited csnn maa,
inc The Rev Mr. Sfobhewor,b
preached q sermon that seemed tn enter
his sonI and r.I;ara :, or h,,la, ora
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Ca About ten years ago, there lived
near Cincinnati family by the name
Of stringer. The oldest son, Jack, was
a most eccentric genius. One day his
mother ssid
Jack, want you should 60 to The
store half mile distant and get
me- q qasrter's worth Of soap
Jack reused himself ap, brushed the
wbittlings from his lap, and started for
ward on bis errand. lie did not return.
Ten year, passed by, and no tidings
were heard o. the errand Yesterday,
a. the family we're sitting down to their
Thank giving dinner, the doc opened
and ia came a tall, faustaebed, good-look-
lag man, vith some bundles in bis hand.
II vas Jack siriager. All the family
sprang 70 their feet iu astonishment, bu,
iis mother aHd Jack we're perfectly cool.
Mother, said Jack, here's your su-
gar aud soap.
Lay them on the table and eat your
dinner, said Mrs. stringer; you ought
% ba whipped for staying 50 Iong.'-
keehaags.
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81. Somerset, why don't you get
married ?" Because I an too modest to
ask any respeciable young lady u tara
a Somerses."
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of FOrgeron with such additions and
embellishments as stories usually receive
in passing to third person. 1t would
be as difficult to detail a mountain storm
as TO picture the wrath Of this mountain
eer. But if we can not portray the
storm, the consequences may be easily
told. The Blacksmith swore in his
wrath that he woud whip every Metbo-
dist minister that passed the cape inre-
venge for his insult
FOrgeron was a man Of bis word, as
the bruised features of many Of John
WesIey's disciples could testify. His
character soon went abroad and the good
old matrons of the surrounding counties
on each side of the mountain trembled
at his name. In short the Mountain Pass
which was really such as a landscape
painter would seek for a picture, and was
just the spot to remind a youth fresh
from bis classic studies, Of the place
where Leonidas and his three hundred
SPartans fell in attempting to defend
Greece against the army Of Xerxes; in
despite of the grandeur of its beetling
cliffs, and the beauty of its verdure was
associated in the minds Of many pious
persons with the broad gate that leads
to destruction. And Ned Forgeron the
handsome blacksmith was invested with
the attributes of his Satanic Majesty by
many a mountain girl who would doubt
less have fallen in love at first sight with
him under any other name.
The preacher whose circuit lay on
either side of the mountain at the time
Ned's direfuI edict was promulgated to
the world was a meek and lowly man.
who approached in his natural disposition
to willing obedience to the mandate
relative to turning a cheek to the smiter.
The poor soul passed many sleepIess
nights in view of the fate that awaited
him at the Mountain Pass. In his
dreams he saw Forgeron with huge
sIedge hammer in hand ready to dash
out his brains, and would start with such
violence as to wake himself He inquir-
ed if there was 10 other place at which
/ the mountain would be passed only to be
in his dream more certainly. Being q
timid man but withal impressed with a
sense Of duty he resolved to discharge
his duties faithfully to the consequence
what they might.
Like lamb going to the slaughter did
he wend his way toward the gap; as he
came in front of the shop the blacksmith
was striking the last blow on a shovel and
singing to the tune Of" Clear the Kitch.
an -
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90 Old Georgia IS q noble State
Her laws are good and her people great

Old Georgia IS a noble State
Her laws are good and her people great
On catching a glimpse Of the parson
who had fattered himself that he was
about to pass with impunity, Ned sung
out, Stop there, you eternal short-billy
and pay the penalty of my injured rep
ptation."
The holy man protested innocense of
ever having Intentionally injured him in
word or deed.
The mans subd1ed looks and earnest
voice had half dissuaded Ned from his
stern purpose, when the giggling of his
striker and the CHEEKY of two or three
ideas nerved him to do what he felt was
mean. Let any one pause a moment and
reflect if he has never been urged on TO
acts his conscience smote him for, BY the
opinions of others before Mr.. Forgeron
| is sentenced as a devil. The preacher
received several boxes on his ears and
heard many denunciations of bis sect
before he was permitted to depart, and
when that permission was received he
was not slow in availing himself of the
privilege.
At the next annual Conference, when
circuits were assigned to the different
| preachers this one made his appearance
Punctually but by some process Of
casuistry, convinced himself that duty
did not call for a revelation Of his suffer
ings. IF he was too sensitive Of the
blacksmith's character to expose it to
rude remark, or had a preference that
some woTtbier brother should occupy
that healthy station among the mountains
IS difficult to conjecture. But Forgeron's
reputation had extended beyond the cir
cult, and was done ample and seE ere
Justice by others who had heard of hi.
fame. 1t soon became the subject oi
animated conversation and there was ID
little wincing, each one fearing It would
be bis cruel fate to be sent a victim e
Iappease the anger Of this human Mintaul
against the Methodist Church.
\ After a time It was decreed that the
Rev. Mr.. StubbIeworth was the doomed
individual, and when the annunciatior
came many an eye Of pity and mingled
curiosity was turned on his ruddy, good
natured face to see how the dispensstior
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-04
an ORDINANCE
10 Provide for Recording Privilege
nrsd TO Regulate FnN Snits.


Be IL Ordaiaed by the Mayor and
Council Of the city Of Carroliton, That
it is tho duty of tho Attorney of this
city and he is hereby directed, in accor-
dance with Section IL Of the Act to
Incorporate the City of Carrollton, to
cause to DO recorded in tho Mortgage
Office of the Parish of Jefferson, all
tax bills which remain unpaid at tho end
of tho delay of 20 days, for answering
as fixed by section rs Of said act; and
TO that end and for that purpose, it is
hereby made his duty to prepare a list
showing the names of the debtors, the
amount due by each, the year for which
it is due and the description of tho pro-
perty, rs found on the bill, on which the
tax is due; which list shall be made and
sigucd by him forthwith after the expi-
ration Of said delay of 30 days and filed
with the Recorder in the least possible
delay, to be entered on his Books ac-
cording to law. The Attorney shall
talle Judgments by default against all
persons who have not answered and then
stay law proceedings, ON all unanswered
tax suits until further orders of tho
Council. In all answered suits he shall
proceed according TO law.
BE IL further Ordained, That all bills
for paving or other work done on tho
streets and sidewalks and for which tho
front owners are liable according to law,
and all bills for work lawfully dono
on private property and for which tho
owner is liable, shall he recorded in tho
Mortgage Office by the Collector pre-
yious to being put in the hands of tho
Attorney for suit.
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CITY ORDINANCES.
AN ORDINANCE
Concerning VomIs and VAULTS in the
GuTrOlitOn Cemetery.
Il L..L--

!. Re IL OrI0iucI by he Ma,,or
and CouocH Of Uc Gin, Of CarroHi1n,
That the Mayor is authorized to grant
ncrnission in writing, on applicatjop TO
him in writing, for the TEMPORARY uso
of n Cemetery Vault for onv ucri6d less
than one vcar: nrovidcd, the applicant
exhibits to him the Trcasurcrs receipt
for ten dollars paid for such use.
>. Be IL CarJ1cr Oydainrd, That the
Movor is authorized to rraut orders in
'yy,ifiuc, to the Scxtor for the prntuitous
in+rrnent of tbc cnr.sc of onV indecent
norson whenever if shall be- shown TO
him bv q certificate siened bv two or
more citizens that the dcccascd was
really poor and left nothing whorawjth
70 n6v the burial fees.
!. Bc II further OrdaiDcd, That it
shall be tire duty Of tho Sexton to
close and keep the Cemetery Vaults
closed up with bricks and mortar and TO
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-04

Il City Treasury Dead Brohe."-
While the legislative commission at Phil.
adelphia, or that portion of it which did
not think it proper or advisable to resign,
is so!emnly. sitting and arranging plans
for. SPEEDING between two and three mill
ions Of dollars of the city tax payers
money, to furnish enormous and eXtrava-
giant public buildings, the city treasurer is
unable to find money enough from this
years assessment to pay five dollar war
rant due for. labor or other service to the
city. The ordinary expenses of the gov
ernment have scooped out the entire trea-
sury, and left it "dead broke" So says
the Ledger of that city.
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-04
lISH OF JEFFERSON, La SATURDAY, AUGUST T. 1860. NO.

Remarkable Health Of the Country
The New York Herald, of the 27th, has
the following remarks on the health, crops
and atmospheric phenomena of the sum
mer:
During no summer, probably, within
the memory Of the living generation has
this country enjoyed more uninterrupted
good health than the present. In the me-
tropolis the mortality returns show most
gratifying diminution of deaths each week
from the returns of last year and the pre-
vous years; while throughout the entire
country, from North to South, not n single
case OF epidemic disease of any kind has
occurred. This is certainly very remark
able, and is something to feel grateful for.
In like manner the crops were never before
so good all over the continent; and in con-
nection with these circumstances it is a
curious fact that we never before had pre-
sented TO us so many atmospheric phcno
mena as this year.
The air seems heavily charged with
electricity the northern lights have been
frequently illuminating the skies with
singular briliancy in various quarters; ter
rife tornadoes have swept over the face of
the land thunder storms have been fire.
quent and violent comet is at present
visible in California we have had an
eclipse of the sun, visible nearly all over
the country; and, to crown all, the greatest
meteor that was ever seen has visited us.
In short, we have this year the best health,
the finest crops, the heaviest tornadoes and
the biggest meteor ever known.
What connection these natural pheno-
mena may have with the health and the
crops of the country we leave to the learned
pupdits to discover, and it is very inter
esting subject for investigation.
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-04
PARISH ORDIDANCE.
An ORDINANCE
Concerning tl,c Police OF slle FnrissR Of
.SeHcrsoB-hscfr Hnuk.

BE 1t Ordained, ETC., That all white
male residents of the Left Bank of the
Parish, above the age Of twenty-one
and under the age of fortyfivo years,
shall be subject to patrol duty when
ordered by the Police Committee, and
notified by the Syndic, except in cnso
of sickness or for some other plausible
cause, provided, my person called
upon to perform patrol duty shall bo
permitted TO put another person in his
place.
That tho Police Jury shall annually
at their first August meeting elect
night-police to be under the supervision
and direction Of the Syndic, who must
obtain his orders and directions each
week from tho Police Committee, and
make a weekly report to said Com
mittcc.
The Police shall consist of two good
and trustworthy men at n salary of fifty
dollars ($5O) per month each, whose
duty it shall be to patrol every night
from sundOWn to sunrise, the public
road or such parts III the jurisdiction
of tho Police Jury, rs may be ordered
by the Police Committee to the Syndic.
All orders Of the Committee TO DO
strictly secret.
The patrol shall consist of not less
than three armed men, and as nnny us
tie danger may require.
And tho said patrol arc to be called
out only in cases Of necessity or to as
fi-t the police when public safety re-
ourcs it, in such cases tho Syndic must
assume the command.
The police or patrols shall arrest all
vnprants or suspicious white on FREQ,
colorod persons, that they may meet
on tho ronds or other places and bring
thom before Il committing magistrate,
to be dcalt with according to law.
They shall have power to arrest all
and every Slave they may meet without
pass or permit from their owner, over
seer, or employer. They shall dcliver
The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-08-04
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u The Court of Claims has adjourned
to meet on the 9th Of October. But little
business has been done the last year, on
account of the little favor in which the
court was held.