The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-07-25
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WHAT FOR, AND WHO'S INT

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WHAT FOR, And WHO'S INT
Every child remembers Southey's poem
The Battle of Blenheim," where the littl
boy playing in the garden picks up quee
looking object and brings it to his grane
father. enquiring, "whst is it so smooth ano
round, which, playing yonder he hsd foono
with the reply of the old man that It was
soms noor fellow . skull who fell in the great
victory, and the very natural wish OF the
youngster,
..But tell me all about the war,
And what the killed each other for
When, at the will of despot, hecatombs
of oorpses rot upon the battle field, it il
very difficult, sometimes, to answer the cues
ton, What they killed each other for,
and the world, like the child in the
poem, has to be satisfied with the vague
reply:
Tin sure | cannot tell )" said he
but twas famous victory"
We all know the ostensble reason of the
present quarrel, which probably is as far
from the real one as Louis Napoleon, En-
psror by the grace of God, is from Solomon
the wise king of Jerusalem. All sorts OF
rumors come to US by telegram, halfof the"
lies, for the electric fluid no sooner quits tne
service of its maker and becomes the ser
van, of man that il lies like thunder. One
informs US tbst the Emperor ID dec dedly
insane. another that he goes TO war to amuse
the French, one that it is TO find employ
ment for discharged government workmen.
breaches By Isaac Watts of Juvenile memory,
that
''The devil finds some mischief still,
Fer idle hands to do
While little town of some FIVE hundred
inhabitants, which rejoices in sonorous
name looming large through the teegrsphic
tog, declares that it is a direct lnterposition
OF Divine Providence to punish the perfid-
ious son of a scoundrel Corscan for his
deadly opposition TO the Protestant Church.
All of which is gravely reported through
the mysterious wire. But if we cannot ex>
sctly tell what it is ali about. We may
perhaps give a shrewd guess at who may be
engaged in it, and what sides they will take,
although we have not seen a reply to the
polite little note which the tame eagle sent
through the twopenny post 10 the South
German states, asking them to make their
minds up in twenty four hours, like HAIR"
10 Lovers charming song of ''Shillv Shaty.
Ii Is very evident that the Bobadi of France
won't stand "Shilly Shallying," though ne
has not moved with the proverbisl alscrity
of his great uncle, if all the kilograms be not
false. The present situation then we take
to De thusly: Russia leans over toward
Prussia, not forgetting the Crimea, while it
10 understood that "any violation OF Bel
gluR's territory ends Englsnd's neutrality
at once" If this has any significance at al,
it signifies that England will unite with
Prussia. Denmark and Sweden are an
nounced as neutral, while Switzerland. with
more cheek than lighting force, declares it
will maintain an armed neutrality. The
[ nited States government has sent its virtual
declaration OF neutrality in the shape of
instructions to it's ministers abroad, bu.
there is not the slightest question that the
synpathies of nine in every ten men who
tread American soil are with the Prussians.
-DdreHport Democrat.