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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-02-23
20 hoaycnsI what Is tie matter, your

20 heayensl what is the matter, your
gracious MaiestyI" I,.... 10 1li.aI.rNr
"Oh, misery oh, murdcrl oh, drspera-
tionF' .a0. n. ..7.l...t
"ohl shat is it, your imperial Majesty
I bcsGeCh your #,, u W. ia.
He had sprung to his feet, and his fixed
eyes were staring wildly ut the fried meat
before him. ..ya.l.
"Ohl my brain reels. This hair o
FrcnClman's hairg There must be some
mistakel A horrible suspicion bursts upon
me! All, what Is this l sce!-this thlng2
this accusing lnarkS a SiralobarTy on
The Ietr ar@t-lt is, it is, my long'lost
brother" ar 'i.s 4 adt 10 I.l.a= 81.
Alas, Il was even so. It was his long,
lost br0ther-what was LETT Of him Poor,
poor fellow, lie was only ct to be shoveled
into o basket and given To the poor, now.
The king fell 10 tho floor insensible. uG
grow worse and worse, and the next day
his removal to tho country was ordered.
Many synpathizing relatives and friends
followed the palanqutn and did what they
could to alleviate tho slltEerings Of their
unhappy sovereign. i. .r rl d. r.'
1t turned out 0tterWRrd that the sweet
heart OF the FrenGhman had made sur
reptitiOus exchange OF marketing in the
kings kitchen before daylight on that
fatal day. She had bought tho kings
brother from u wandering tribe TINT be-
longed In the great wilderness at tho other
end Of tho iSlanl. She bought him pur-
posely to mako that exchange, though, Of
course, she did not know who he was.
The girl ind tho Frenclman escaped from
that Island in n canoe that night and were
happily married, or drowned, 1 don't
know which. i would like To taste that
Frenchman.- Buffalo Rrpre@. NN.a
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-02-23
The Cardiff Giant..IIow the Monster
WaS ChiSeIled Ont.

The efforts Of some Of the Boston pa
per to again dignity the Cardiff Giant
with a mysterious origin, are met by cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune, who
declares that he Is one Of the sculptors Of
the beast; the stone for which was actual
ly got ut Fort Dodge, Ind, rs before stated.
This man, WHO signs himself +. Mohr-
man, was to have $3.50 for his share Of the
work, but has never got cent His tGl-
low sculptor, Henry Sale, got $40 In cash.
George Hull, q former owner, was the man
who hired them. They had II model three
feet long to work from, and "bcCr was
supplict[," Mobrnan says the figure was
PROPORTIONAL. exception the hack. where .
hyer Of stone peeled Oft and lott tic body
some inches thinner than It should be /:
"The figure was pronounced completed in
the latter part Of October. Hull came OC.
c,lsimally to sec how the work progressed.
Hair hal been carved on the head, and u
beard on tic chin. Hull did not like this
when he saw 1t, and sail lie would sec
about It. When lie came the next time,
he told us that he. had consulted
with gcologist, and was intornted Tint
hair would not pGtrify. SO he ordered 1t
to bo clipped Of, and VIC shaved the giant.
Several ways were tried 10 make the fig.
urc look old, and at last ono was invented.
Quite II number of needles were placed In
lead, with their points prOtruding, and the
figure was pricEcl over with this, Two
DAYS wcro occupied in this work, as tho
ChIscls Icfl marks on tho stone which had
TO be clIaCcd by this slow process Of
priClmg. Some vitriOl, sulphuriC acid,
and English ink were next produced and
rubbed on, which gave the antiqnatetl
look required. Hull thought ut tist Il
would 6e best TO put on II clay covering,
hut concluded II had better not DO done,
rs the, clay where tho statue was to be
buried might bc different Lilo was undc-
Clded where to bury It ut first, and sug.
gestcd Mexico. told him thought that
would 10 good place, but he finally CON
cluded not to take tthCrc, rs the distance
WIS 20 great. Hull at one time proposed
tllat We should insert In the figure here
and there pieces Of pCtriiicd wood Or
stone, 50 that when gCol0gists called TO see
It lie could chip Of q small piece and give
II 10 them To examine. This, however,
was not done, as he could not find the
pieces" Mohrinan gives further partlcu.
lars and MINES, dates and places, with q
tnllnGss that would soon expose his story
II i WINS untrue. j
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-02-23

WRsr VIRGINIA is inaugnrating the
new policy, Of amnesty for political Of.
fences, with q wise but hearty pronlpti-
tude! Her Republican Legislature, in alb
rogating the former restrictions, exhibits
true craftsmanship Ptt6uyh Gdsetto.
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ALICE CARY Is lying dangerously i'll. at
her homo in New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29
THE FUTURE METROPOLIS.

Civilized man tends resistlessly toward the
founding of new cities and the enlargement of
old ones. Europe has scarcely city which
has not doubled its population since 1900; Lon
don Paris, St. Petersburg, Berlin, OutgrOw
all bounds; of our own cities. those which had
a name at the birth of this century now average
at least ten-fold their population then; while
several that saw their first log cabin erected since
1920 now count their inhabitants by hundreds
of thousands. A full third of our people do
their work III and derive their subsistence from
cities. even though they may lodge their fami
lies in rural suburbs scores of miles away.
What is to be the end of this rapid and
enormous massing and crowding of the human
race7
One cause of it, not yet generally understood
is the revolution in Agriculture now In progress
whereby large share of the labor of produc
ton is transferred from the field to the factory
or shop, and from mid Summer to mid Winter,
or to whatever season may be found most con-
venient Until the last few years, the farmer
was hurried and Overtasked throughout the
Summer months by the incessant exactions of
tillage and harvest; now, he cultIvates his
corn and potatoes, cuts and secures his grass
and small grain by the help of machinery,
which lghtens his labOrs while doubling their
efficiency, but which cost him considerable
share of his crop. In other words: His hay is
made, his grain cut, in good part in manu-
factories of implements, wherein the labor no
longer needed in the fields finds employment;
and thus cities grow like weeds, while rural
communities hardly hold their own.
"St. Louis the Future Great City of the
"World' is the rather startling title of large
thick pamphlet, whereof we have been ia
vored with a number of copies for gratuitous
distribution. We learn from it that the great
capitals are not hencefOrth to flourish by the
seasde-Steam and Railroads have interposed
veto to that-but at points where great
rivers blend their currents, at which many
railroads come together-in short, at ST. Louis.
Just hold your breath and see what the popu-
lation of that city is to be, if her future is to
be inferred from her past:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29
CUR1N pRDSpECIN.

There remains no doubt that the necessities
of the Cuban insurgents at this time are
greater than they have ever been before
Their Capital has lately been destroyed. Their
Executive officers are roaming about the East
ern Department, locating wherever they can
find safety from pursuit Arms and munitions
of war are not to be had, and the devastated
country yields only inadequate supplies
of food. While Spanish operations
during the Spring have resulted IN the
permanent occupation of a very IN
considerable territory there IS no doubt that
many villas have been destroyed and some OF
the most productive regions OF the eastern
half of the island have been devastated. III Is
also true that the Spaniards have killed or
carried off a great number of young men capa-
BILE of bearing arms in the Rebel cause, IL
arms were to be had. Nevertheless the spirit
of resistance to Spanish rule is strong ana de-
termined as ever and if aid can be had from
without the Cubans of the Eastern Depart
ment may yet attain the independence OF the
Island.
There are indications that before the cam
imagining season again sets in this help from
foreign powers and from outside sources may
come 10 the CuDaIs. All cnoiI hao wv" MON
ing, as appears by our Panama correspond
ence, to combine the South American Repub-
lies on the Pacific coast in league for o1en-
sive operations against Spanish dominions IN
American waters. The arrangements have, OF
course, been of a secret nature, but that they
promise to be successful is indicated by the
action of the Congress OF the united
States of Colombia. A committee OF the
House of Representatives has reported In favor
of.interyention in the Cuban struggle, and IL
is thought at the Capital that this positive
position would not have been taken unless an
understanding had been arrived at with Chlll'
Peru and Bolivia, with whom Spain has made
no treaty of peace since the war of 1866.
We are not over-sanguine that such an al
lance as this can be effected, but 1t Is not
impossible, and under present advices may be
considered probable.
There are indications also that from this
country the Cubans will obtain more practical
aid in the future than in the past. They can
not very well obtain less. But it would seem
that the present Junta of this city is about to
be dissolved, and more practical and earnest
men are to be given control of Cuban interests
here. Such a change is needed if the Cubans
expect to send arms and ammunition from tals
country to their friends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

There seems to be conflict of statement
between the French and Prussians as to the
authorship of the now famous Secret Treaty
Bismarck sends a copy to The London Times,
and says that the original, in Benedettis hand
writing, is on file in the Prussian archives.
On the other hand, NJ. de Lavalette, the French
Minister at the Court of st. James. waits upon
Earl Granville, and informs him that the plan
and outlines of the Treaty were originated by
Bismarck, discussed by him with NJ. Benedict,
and peremptorily rejected by the Emperor,
upon reference to him. Here is the equivalent
of the lie direct between the high contracting
parties, and it is matter of no little moment
to ascertain just where the responsibility rests
A more wicked and absurd compact could
hardly have been proposed in view of the
Treaties by which the Great Powers are bound
and the peace of Europe is assured. If the
royal archives at Berlin really contain such
document in the manuscript of the French
Minister, it would seem to be an easy matter
to prove the fact to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned. Let Photographic copies of the paper
be sent to each of the Courts where Prussia
has representative.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29
Nem!2lork Daily Gribma1e.
FRIDAY, JULY %, 1870.

Napoleon has arrived at Metz and great battle is
pected within three days. conditional alliance is re-
ported France and Italy Russia is said TO be
leaning toward France and has increased her army in
Poland TO 100000 men, Count Bismarck has sent a dis
patch to the North German Minister concerning the
Secret Treaty. =- The Pekin massacre was directed
solely against the French The victory Of the Cam
bra causes great rejoicing in England.
The South Carolina Republicans have nominated Gov
Scott for reelection, and A. j. Raucer cOOred) for
Lieutenant Governor = girl of l6 attempted TO
smother a family with gas in Philadelphia =- Since
the Gentes OF Salt Lake City made nomination to
Congress, the MOrmons becoming bellgerent, and
TWO OF the former have been dangerously beaten ==
Seventeen sunsrokes occurred ST Louis on Wednesday
seven being fatal. =- Gov. Hoffman has again de-
clined TO commute the sentence Of Real The Fenian
General ONel, is to be tried at Windsor w. to-day.
Judge Brady has dissolved the injunction restraining
the transfer OF certain shares Of Erie stock to Heath
Raphael the representatives Of the English stockhold
ers Three divorce suits were in the courts yester
day -= The Indiana Commissioners are TO cooperate
with the Secretary Of Indian Affairs in making purchases
for the native tribes Grand picnic is TO be given
by the Masons in aid OF the Asylum fund. Precinct
Roundsmen have been abolished in the Police Depart
ment. Gold, 125,12lJ 121t Thermometer, 70, 81, 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

I'm casting the above horoscope Mr.. Reavs assumes
increase Of per cent per from 1850 to 1870 10
per cent thence to $780, per cent thence to 1900 per
cent thence to 1870 per cent thence to 1920 cent
thence to 1890, and per cent. thereafter.l
The natural and acquired advantages of
position wherein Mr.. X. bases his anticipatiOns
of this amazing growth may be summed up as
follows:
/. She lies at the confluence of the great
rivers Missouri and Mississippi, which, with
their tributaries, water more than Two Millions
of square miles, mainly of excellent soil, and
steamboats-an extent susceptible of large
increase by artificial improvement.
2. She is situated very near the middle of
the isothermal belt or zone, in which nearly
all the great cities that exist or have existed
on the earth are or were located.
3. She is the natural and actual center of a
vast and fertile region wherein subsistence
for man and beast is more cheaply and boun-
teOusly produced than elsewhere.
a. She is the focus of a Railroad system
which already connects her directly with the
Atlantic, the Lakes, and the Pacific, and will
very soon link her also with the Gulf at New
Orleans, at Galveston, and other points, as
well as with the upper Mississippi by direct
route through Iowa and Minnesota. Twenty
two trunk roads will soon center upon her.
8. She is the chief city of great and grow
ing State, larger in area than any one east of
the Mississippi, already numbering Two Mil
lions of people, and certain to double this
number during the next ten years.
G. The Iron Ore of that State is excellent in
quality and inexhaustible in quantity two
mountains of solid ore are already connected
with her furnaces by Railroad; she has 26,SS7
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

AS evidence of the difficulty which even the
best-gOyerncd cities experience in guarding
against deeds of blood and violence, we may
mention that Boston had two bad murders the
other Sunday. An Italian print-seller was
killed in North-st. by certain of his own
countrymen; and an Irishman was killed in
Travers-st. by certain of his own countrymen.
Upon both these homicdes The AdrertiSer
philosophcally remarks: "The tendency of
cheat to excite undisciplined passions is well
"known"-to which we beg leave to add that
heat in NewYork appears to us to be very
much like heat in Boston. When we have
two murders on one Sunday we are lectured,
and berated, and advised by the whole news
paper press of the country, and are set down
as totally deprared but when double hOmi-
eide occurs in Boston it is charitably assigned
to the tendency "of the heat to excite undis-
"ciplined passions"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

We publish this morning interesting bio
graphical sketches of six of the most promi-
nent Commanders Of the Prussian army,
namely, the Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince
Frederic Charles and Generals Moltke, Stein
metz, Room. and Herwarth Won Bittenfeld. The
information contained in these sketches is
chiefly derived from a recent military work on
Germany, and embraces many important facts
which we believe are as yet but little known
in this country. In particular is this the case
with Prince Frederic Charles, who, we see in
some accounts Of the living Generals of Prus-
STA, is barely mentioned, while according to
the military author on whose work our article
is based, and according to a number of dstin-
guished European officers whose opinions we
have had occasion to hear, he is inferior to no
other Prussian General, and may in a great
war turn out to be the greatest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

him in Europe. Having failed to make Austria
tbe instrument of defeating Bismarck, he pro-
posed at Berlin secret treaty even more INA
mons than the coup d'eat-a treaty by which he
declared himself in effect the common enemy OF
Frrone He offered to consent to the Confed-
Grafton of the German States on condition
that Prussia would permit him to assassi-
nate Belgium and dismember Holland, the
;nfamv of this proposal being heightened by
tbe fact that by a solemn treaty he was under
ON ohI;oation TO guarantee Belgian independ-
ence Prussia treated the proposal with as
dain; virtually gave him notice that she dld
not value his assent to the confederation, ana
would not ask for it. The confederation was
to be accomplished whether he liked 1t OF not
Whether the present war is also to be a
French blunder it would be useless to predict
If If turn ont ANYTHING else, it will differ es-
sentially from the EmperOr's previous achieve
ments. He certainly has made some mistakes
in the mode of beginning it. BY the exposure
of tbe secret treaty Bismarck has turned upon
his adversary the hatred and fear OF all the
European Powers. BY the violence and MUS
flee of the declaration of war Napoleon has
sacrificed the moral support OF all enlightened
men. while his ins0lence towards Spain has
deeply offended the Spanish people, notwlth-
standing the dubious attitude of Spanish states
men. And of one thing we may be assured: :
whatever the issue of the contest, the union OF
North and South Germany, which france so
earnestly desires to prevent, Is already pfac-
tically accomplished by Napoeon's own act'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

The position of the PTusSian army is at last
indicated by our dispatches, and it is apparent
that the activity of the French has been well
matched by the vigilance of their opponents
The German army, 100000 strong, has been
concentrated by rapid movements on the Saar
River between the fortress of Saarlouis and
the Moselle River at Treves. The position is
naturally a very strong one, and directly upon
the border line. The movements from Metz
and Thonville of which we have been pre-
viously advised will bring the French army
directly upon this position, their right being
in front of Saarlouis. 1t is therefore evident
that the first shock of battle will be upon the
Saar River.
Present advces place the French army,
so far as concentrated, at 100000, and the
Prussans at 100000. Previous advices, how
ever, gave the French estimate at 100000. 1t
is highly improbable that the French general
would move with an inferior force against a
superior number of the enemy strongly posted,
with one river in his front and another on his
right while a strong fortress protected his left
flank. The statements of the numbers in either
case are not to be depended upon, and all state
ments of the kind previous to a battle are
likely to be as Enthusiastically as they proved
in our own war. 1t is intimated in the dis
patches that battle must occur in day or
two. The passage of the Saar will doubtless
prove a difficult task, and will certainly not be
undertaken until the Prussian position has
been thoroughly accommodated. While, there
fore, the battle seems inevitable at this point,
it may yet be delayed for several days by ma
neuvers by the French.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

The absence of Mr. Burt in England has
not caused the war of the English stock
holders against the Erie Railway managers
for the recovery of their own to falter.
Judge Brady has just pronounced an i'm
portant decision in their favor, by which the
shares held on the COmpany's books in the
name of Heath and Raphael are to be entered
TO the credit of their rightful English owners,
who will of course vote hereafter adversely to
the interest of Fisk, Gould, and Tweed. This
is the first step toward the suppression of the
present management If others are as
promptly taken we shall soon see the Erie
Road redeemed from misrule.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

1t may relieve the pious minds of those who
fancy that Chinese immigration will make
idolaters of us all, to learn that the Chinese
shoemakers at North Adams all go regularly
to church on the Lords Day, and that the
leader of the company is Jealous Methodist.
On the whole, it seems that we are quite as
likely to make Christians of them as they are
to turn us into heathens In the North Adams
Westinghouse, it being Communion Sunday
the elements were offered to these strangers
an act of liberality to be commended-but
were respectfully declined. Fortunately no
Bishop of the English Convocation was present
to faint with horror at the sacrilege. The Chi
nese are what may be styled an eminently con-
vertible people, with a dominant faith in
future state to begin with; and it will not be
their fault if they are mobbed out of all
respect for our religion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

Napoleon's fears, not NapoleOn's hopes, die
tated the address to the Garde Rationale
which garrisons Paris, and in which he ex-
presses his confidence in their "will and
liability to maintain order in Paris and con-
tribute to the security of the Regency of the
Empress" This strange expression of conf
tience is, in reality, a revelation of his dis
trust. Napoleon has not forgotten that one
seventh of the whole army voted "No" at the
Plebiscitum, and that, Gin the garrison of
"Paris, the detection was so serious that Gen.
"Lebguf wanted to march several regiments
"out of the city, but the Emperor refused, on
1.-THE ground that this would betray fear" The
fear is certainly betrayed by this address
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

The policy of the action taken yesterday by
the Board of Police, in establishing an army
of spies upon the police force, in place of the
previous open and honorable surveillance,
seems questionable. 1t may be melted by
nothing worse than a laudable desire to in
crease the efficiency of the force, but we are
afraid it will not answer the purpose for which
it is designed. II will fail to better the dis
ciplne because il will diminish the powers and
responsibilities of the captains, and it will lead
TO chickering's and dissatisfaction among the
men which may breed Generalization. Superin-
tendent JOurdan cannot make a single precinct
out of the great City of New-York, and he
and the Board of Police may as well Hbandon
fba effort
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-29

II is stated that one condition of a reported
alliance between France and Italy permits
Italy to make Rome her capital, and that the
Pope accepts the situation as inevitable. 1t
has been clear from the first that France
would employ the present opportunity TO re-
tire from Rome, whether by treaty stipulation
or otherwise; and the present announcement
will surprise no one. But will Victor Emanuel
occupy the city and make it his capitalf He
has shown no disposition to do so at the ex-
pense of French friendship or Papal dispieas-
ure. Can he afford to risk, by refusal to oc-
cupy it, the support of the Radicals who have
insisted on the expulsion of the French and
the Liberals who demand the unifcaton OF
Italy