The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-08-13

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ture Company, from this present stock
10000 ounces of eggs disposable,
which is a value of $500, 900. and in
five years they may raise 1900 900
eggs. The cause Of failure in some
places will be constantly discovered
and removed until uniform large crop
may be obtained, and there is 10 rea
son why we should not at least rival
Japan in the sales.-.dAa California.
TIE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Catp. G.
F. Hall has been duly commission ed
BY the President commander OF the
Arctic expedition and will depart on
his perilous voyage as soon as the ne
cessary arrangements can be perfected.
His plans have not yet been made
known, but we presume he will be lett
to do very much as he phases, and not
be hampered by the government with
any Unnecessary Instructions as to the
route or length Of absence. Capt.
Halls main object is to discover, II
possible. the polar sea about which
Biographies have speculated 50 much,
and which Kane and Hayes believe
they have already seen. Whether he
will ever reach a point as far north as
they did is extremely doubtful, and
whether, if he does, he will be able to
actually explore that unknown ocean,
is still more uncertain. The only
chance he has to do either is by employ
ing the Esquimaux as assistants, and
securing the use Of their sledges; for
tho Journey must be made in. great
part over land with the ligutest posi-
bic equipment, and trusting mainly for
food to the bear, seal and foxes which
may be killed on the route. These
Esquiinaux are not entirely reliable,
and the fact that Sir John franklin
entire party persisted among them,
much farther south than Capt. Hall
proposes to go, is melancholy evidence
either OF their weakness or inhumanity.
Granting that tho present expedition
does gain the shores of the polar sea,
the bold chief can do no more than
merely look upon it and retrace his
steps. He can carry no boat to launch
in those mysterious waters, nor can he
form any estimate of their extent, or
the part they play in the grand ma
chinery of our planet. Except, then, as
the solution of a geogra phical puzzle,
Capt. Halls journey, if successful, can
accomplish NO good whatever and the
probabilities are that it will necessitate
the sending out of another expedition
In search Of this one before two years
are over. England has wisely ceased
to squander men and money in tho
hopeless task, and we think it would
have been well if we had followed her
example in this respect, and kept Capt.
Hall and his party at home. But as
Congress has decided otherwise, we
trust the navy department will spare
no pans to give him thorough outfit,
and such appliances as may enable
him to contribute materially to the
cause of science.-St. Louis Republican.
A MARES NEST IN EURoPE.-It il
very funny to hear Of the fuss they are
making in England over what they
call "the secret treaty" proposed by
Napoleon to Prussia, and funnier still
to hear them denounce the especial
villany of Napoleon as exhibited in
these propositions. Why, there is not
a line in this compact but has been
banded about Europe between ist sew
eral rnlers for ten years, and if there
is any villany in thus discussing the
division of nations no one is guiltless.
least of all England.-W. Y. Herald.
He who has not learned the lesson
Of resolute self-help he's made little
progress as student, has grown little
toward real manhood. Hall the world
refuses to do its own thinking, to toll
through the solution Of it's own knotty
problems; hence half tho world who
will not do this must DO subject to the
other half who will. They who do [
the thinking will either directly or in:
do the governing.
A Mississippi editor has received
present of water mellon" so Iarpe
that 4 takes two Hjtc" IN ss,,,;; -