The tri-weekly standard., 1866-09-15

The FIRST STRATEGIsT IN EUROPE
General Won Moltke has retired to his quar-
tiers, and is closeted with his maps, making
new plans for the further progress of the
campaign, and for the occupation of Vienna.
This skillful strategist, who has been the
chief director of the movements by which
the three Prussian armies, starting from diff
ferent points, were collected at the necessary
hour on the field of Konigratz, has never,
except at that battle, appeared in front of
the armies. Some distance in the rear, sit
ting calmly at his desk, he has traced on the
maps the course of his troops, and, by means
of the field telegraph, has flashed his orders
to the different generals in more Immediate
command with such skill and foresight that
not movement has failed, and the combina-
ton has been made exactly at the right mo-
ment.
A quick, light blue eye, high forehead,
and well-set figure, mark him an intellec-
tual and energetic man; but, though quick
in action, he is so prudent in discourse and
so guarded in his speech, that, from this
quality and his wide knowledgeof European
language, he is known in the army as the
man who is silent with seven tongues. Care
full and laborious, he has worked out with
his own hand and himself calculated almost
every detail in the operations in which he
has taken Europe by surprise, from the light
ming rapidity of his strokes and the tremen-
fore which the Austrian army has withered
away almost before it was gathered together,
and which have won for him from his coun-
trymen the title of the first strategist in Eu-
rope Correspondence London Times.
EpeEcoMpE COUNTY IrEMs.-A friend who
has good opportunities for knowing whereof
he speaks, informs US that the cotton crop of
Edgecombe county, the present year, will
reach fifteen thousand bales. This at 25
cents pound, will return to the farmers of
that county, one million five hundred thous-
and dollars. Of this amount, it is reasonable
to suppose in round numbers, that the land
owners will get one million, and the freed
men, who have been engaged as laborers,
will get five hundred thousand. The share
of the freedmen will, ofcourse, be spent with
the merchants and shop keepers in the coun-
ty, and we learn that in anticipation of this
trade, many are erecting store-houses and
filling them with such goods as the wants of
this class of people will demand
Cotton lands in Edgecombe can hardly be
bought at any price. The increased pro-
ductiveness resulting from the system ofim-
provement almost almost universally adopt
ed in the county, will, it is thought, III a few
years render the value of the land alone equal
to that of the land and slaves together be-
fore the emancipation
Rocky Mount, on the W. & W. r. R., has
been laid off into lots and buildings on many
of them arc rapidly going up. Rocky Mount
Factory, which, it will be remembered, was
burned during the war, has been rebuilt, and
the machinery will soon be put in. 1t is the
design of the proprietor, w. s. Battle, Esq,
to weave up the yarns into osnaburgs and
sheetings instead of blocking them for sale as
formerly.
We like to chronicle these evidences of
improvement in our State, and wethink that
many of the counties would do we'll to take
counsel of Edgecombe in lessons of advance
ment -Raleigb Laader.