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Florence. The first step taken was to
strengthen the army, as French hos
tiIity is anticipated should the Repub-
lie be overthrown. Three new classes
of troops will be called out, thus rais-
ing the army to 100000. The foregO-
ing intelligence is published officially
In Florence.
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THE WAR.
Austria and Russia Cembine for Peace
Bismarok's Answer 10 the First
Proposition.
Movements Of the Prusslans Toward Paris
What They are Doing and How
Being Net.

Oh Russia and EasIand WIN Not RscSsnizs the
la French Republic.
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Napolsou Proposes Terms to Prussia-Ihe
Republic Prefers Peace to the
Destruction Of Paris.

The Peace PrOspeet--Frsace has 5OO,OOV
Troops Ready to Meet the Enemy.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
A Live Sensation.

From the Allentown pa chronicle.
The people of Washington township
were thrown into an unusual state of ex-
few days ago by the appearance
of a very remarkable and very strange
looking animal near the foot of the Blue
Mountain. 1t was afterwards seen prowl-
ing around the premises of Daniel Haud-
work, and one afternoon it seized and car
ried off to the mountain one of his largest
geese. Pursuit was made, but the animal
escaped. A strong and well bated fox trap
was seton the farm of Hon. Samuel j. Kist-
Ter, where it had last been seen, and IN a
very short time they had the satisfae-
ton of bagging their game, which, in
the end, owing to the great strength and
feroeity of the animal, was the most diff
cult part of the undertaking, but by means
of pitehforks, pixies, clubs, &C., it was
finally secured. Some idea of its great
strength may be formed from one of the
leaps it made after being caught in the
trap. 1t jumped twenty feet, carrying
with it the heavy trap, chain and anchor
used in catching foxes. The strangest
part of the whole affair is that the oldest
hunters in the vicinity do not know Vhatit
is. 1t has the appearance about the head
of a wild cat, vet the shape ofits body and
limbs is more like that of dog; IN size it
much exceeds a wild cat; it is Of dark
color, with few streaks Of gray, and Its
hair is long and coarse. All the works N
natural history in the upper end haN
been consulted. but they failed to sht d
the least light upon the subject. We IN
derstand Mr.. Muthard, one of the captors,
intends bringing it to this city to put on
exhibition as a curiosity.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
Sketch Of Saget the New President of
Hayti.

The following is a sketch of the new
President of Hayti, who succeeds Salnave:
The antecedents of President Saget are
such as to justify the hope that his Gov
eminent will be distinguished by an en-
lightened and liberal policy. In the first
place he has inherited liberal Republican
views from his father, who was one of the
Generals of the war of independence, by
which Hayti threw off the yoke of France.
The elder Saget resided in the northern
part of Hayti, where his son, the present
Gen. Nissage Saget, was born. When
Christopher separated from the western
and southern portions of Hayti, in order to
erect an absolute monarchy in the north,
the father of the present President of Hayti
removed to the west, to give his co-opera-
ton to the republic under President Pc
ton, under whose Government he was
Senator.
But in 1916, when the constitution of 1906
was modified, and Petion was made Presi-
dent for life. the stanch old republican
withdrew Immediately from the Senate and
from public life, not being willing to give
his concurrence to such an absolute change.
Gen. Nissage Saget has always been
known to partake of the liberal republican
views of his father. And Solouque was so
fully aware of this, that, although he could
not convict Saget of any attempt at con-
spirscy against him. his very republican
ism alarmed him. and when by his (Sou-
louque's) usurpation of Imperial rigors. he
succeeded in changing entirely the Con-
stitution of his country, he thought it
expedient to make a prisoner o
Gen. Saget during the whole of hi
reign of eleven'years. When Geffrard re
signed the Presidency, in 1867, the Senate
elected Gen. Nissage President under the
Constitution of 1916. But as the clause
which gave the President life tenure of
that Office had not been expunged from
the Constitution, he declined to accept the
place, and recommended the organization
of Provisional Government to administer
affairs until the people had time to elect
delegates to Constitutional Convention,
and to draw up new Constitution with
important republican notifications, and
then to elect Presidentin accordance with
its provisions. His counsels prevailed,
and q Provisional Government was or
ganized, of which he was made President.
A popular election was then held for dele
gates; Constitutional Convention formed,
and a new Constitution adopted, under
which Salnave was elected President for
four years, and before whom Gen. Saget
retired into private life, pledging to the
new President all constitutional obedience.
He kept his promise, and only drew his
sword against Salnave when the latter
trampled on the constitution which he had
sworn to support. President Saget is
nearly seventy years of age, and. although
not a man of remarkable intellectual abili-
ty, he is endowed with fair share of good
sense, and is of very humane DISPOSE
ton.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15

Placing the other pistol in my hand, with
directions to fire on the first of the two
men that made suspicion movement he
went to work on the lothario, from whose
pockets in less time than it takes 10 tell it,
he produced every item of the missing
property, to the utter amazement of the
two ladies, who had begun, In no measured
terms, to remonstrate against the shame
full treatment the gentleman was receiving
The Quaker, 1 need scarcely add, was no
Quaker at all. but shreEd detective. who
had been set on the track of band ofdes-
perado, of whom our middle-sged friend
who don't look near so middle-aged when
his wig is off-was the chief. The robbery
had been adroitly planned. The leader Of
the gang had taken passage in the coach,
and after learning, as he supposed, our
defenseless condition. had given the signal
to his companions by throwing ont the
scrap of paper aleady mentioned. After
the unexpected capture of the first robber,
it was attempted to save the booty by sec
etly passing it to the accomplice, still be-
heYed to be unsuspeeted, who counted on
being able to make of with it at the next
place.
The result was that both, for a season,
''did the State some service.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
SubterTanean Lakes.

In connection with notice of tie sub
terranean pond supposed to exist at Wor
cester, the Lawrence American makes the
annexed statement:
In Stockton, California, and Immediately
around it, an abundant supply Of good wa
ter can be had anywhere by boring down q
dozen feet with a common auger with a
long handle. Picnic parties carry pump
and stand, lead pipe and an auger as pant
of the required articles for the day. But Q
very short time is expended in obtaining
water. The fire reservoirs have nobottoms,
and require no filling, the water coming In
freely as soon as they are dug. II
was necessary TO change the place of burial
first selected in the town, the water pene-
tratiDg the graves and partially filling them.
Yet there is no healthier place than that To-
cality in that or any other State. An ar
tesian well was sunk 1,200 feet in 1856, and
ever since has thrown up solid column OF
water ten feet above the surface of the
ground. Some thirty or forty miles from
Stockton there is large tract called ''hOat
land" which moves on the surface, proba.
bly, of lake, several hundred feet at times.
Hundreds of cattle Craze upon it with per
feet safety. 1t is supposed to have beer
formed much as the Worcester land. There
are several PIE ses of such ground in differ
ent countries o. Europe.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
DR.. LIVINGSTONE.
The Latest News from the African
Traveller.

The Latest News from the African
Traveller.
The Bombay Gazette states that the fol-
lowing news concerning DR.. Livingstone
has been communicated to the press by the
government of India:
The date cf the latest news received from
DR.. Livingstone is July 8, 1869, near Lake
Sangiveolo. He reiterates his belief that
he has found the sources of the Nile be-
tween 10 and II degrees south; that is to
say, nearly in the position which Ptolemy
assigned to them. The waters of the north
ern Slope of the elevated plains which over
look the valley of Cazemba are conveyed,
by a multitude of streams into the Cham
beze. This river flows into Lake Bangi-
veolo, and, under the name of Lua-
pula, unites it with Lake Moero.-
Again it changes its name after leaving this
point, and becomes known as the Lualaba,
as it runs on to Lake Ulenge. Into Lake
Ulenge also flows the Lufra, large river
coming from the western side of the same
great plain, the northern slope of which is
drained by the Chambeze. The combined
waters of the Lufira and the Chambeze are
said by some of DR.. Livingstone's native
informants to enter Lake Tanganyika and
thence. under the different name of Doan-
da, to pass on to Lake Choambe, which he
considers to be the same as Sir Samuel
Bakers Albert Nyanza; others maintain
that the Lufra finds its way by the west
of Tanganyika to Lake Choame. These
questions have still to be settled; and In
this the interest of DR.. Livingstone's on
ward movements centre. The lakes which
DIR. Livingstone has seen are of considera-
BILE size, varying from fve to ten days
march in length, and are overhung by high
mountain slopes, which open out in bays
and valleys, or leave great plains. which,
during the rainy season, become so flooded
that the caravans travel for days through
water up to their knees, and with difficulty
find high ground as resting place for the
night. There are plenty of domestic cattle
in the country, and an abundance of large
game. The climate is declared to be
Iaol{lu -
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
Good Advice.

Whatever be your calling, be proud of it.
Are you shoemaker? Try to make bet
ter shoe than any other man can make.
Yes, whatever your trade or profession,
excel in it if you can.
Bear in mind that any kind of honest Ia
Dor is honorable, but choose well. ''In
whate'er you sweat, indulge your taste"
If you like the free life and honest labor
of farmer, do not drag out long years in
the study of law or medicine, for that would
only be ''vanity and vexation of spirit" but
90 Immediately to the farm, and In the life
you love enjoy that perfect peace of mind
peculiar to every Individual that feels he is
in his fort, doing what God designed he
should, and who viii never have to reahzs
that cold, humiliating, and siekening feel
ing that his life has been a failure
Suffer not that feeling to creep over you,
hut be up and doing. ''Look well to the
ways of your footsteps" Keep clean the
house of clay in which God has placed
you. Touch not, taste not that which will
corruptit. Go not to your grave compO-
sition, one-third whisky, One-third tobacco,
and the remaining third corruption, so
filthy that even the ghouls and raYenous
worms would scorn to touch you.
Be true to yourself Deal honestly and
plainly with your fellow-men. Remember
that
Doubtless the pleasure Is as great
In being cheated TO cheat.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
ROyaI Romance.

The Queen of Prussia was, the other day
the heroine of the following little adven-
ture: She was walking with one of her
ladies on the road leading from Sans
Souci TO Potsdam, when she saw an old
soldier who had lest one eye and one arm,
sitting by the wayside. The old man look
ed very sad, and the Queen stopped In
order to inquire what was the matter with
him. "Oh, madame" said the veteran,
who evidently did not know who the lady
was, 81 am in the deepest distress. have
but one child-R daughter young girl,
who until recently was employed as .
chambermaid at the Royal Palace in Pots
dam. She received good wages; but the other
day, one of the girls whe hated her for
some reason or other charged her with
having stolen some articles of value, and,
although my dear girl strenuously protest
ed her innocence, she was discharged.
Now she cannot fad another situation, and
so am deprived of my only support, for
my scanty pension Is not sufficient to buy
bread enough for u.s." 81 believe l can
help you, my friend, " said the Queen. The
veteran looked at her incredulously. The
Queen, however, took down his name and
that of his daughter, and, after giving the
old man some money, continued her walk.
The Berlin correspondent of the Baltic
Gazette, who relates the above, adds that
the Queen, after examining the case OF the
veterans daughter, ordered that more
lucrative position should be given to her.
and sent q handsome present to the vet
eran.
The N. Y. Senate committee have agreed
to report q free canal funding bill.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
Elder Knapp on Swearing.

Elder Knapp is not adverse to having it
understood that he may be regarded as a
sort Of consulting physician for sick souls
when the original family doctor finds that
his pharmacy has lost its efficacy. In one
of his recent raids on the arch-ememy of
souls he selected, as being especially fit
subjects for animadversion, the profane
swearers; and this is the way in which he
event" for them:
81 will give you, my dear friends, pic
ture from a scene In hell. The devil is sit
ting IN his private Office, recsiving the
souls as they are brought to him from the
upper world. In comes an internal TAILOR,
conducting o soul to everlasting flames
Who are your asks the-devil, as the cul-
prit was brought to where he was sitting.
Secretary Benjamin of the Confeder-
ate cabinet, was the reply. oh yes, 1
knew you were coming said the devil,
as he turned the leaves of his ledger and
made an entry of the secretary's name
4 always show consideration to those that
have showed it to me. I've got to take you
in, but I'll try and make you as comforta-
bic as possible. To the attendant: Show
MIR. Benjamin to place as near as you can
get him to a current of air. The next ar
rival was man who had killed his mother
in-law. He was hung in Cincinnati
Take him away said the devil, but treat
him kindly. The chances are two to one
that he isn't to blame. 1 remember his
case. His mother-in law came here
three weeks ago. She looked as
though she wanted killing. She's
over in No. 63. Put him there, and set
the old woman in front of the furnace. No.
63 is too cool for her. Pretty soon another
victim arrives. What has brought you
here ? asks the devil. My case is hard
one,' was the reply. 4 am here just be-
cause 1 swore.' Because you swore ?
asked the devil, rising angrily from his
chair. Yes, that's all the sin ever did.
All the sin ? re-echoed the devil-'dH the
sin? Why, you mean, despicable, con-
temptible, low-lived vagabond, said the
devil, as he brought his fist down on the
table, there isn't corner here that's hot
enough for you. Of all the sixty thousand
preachers that spend their Sundays in
Safeguarding me, not one of them
ever yet accused me of swearing. Bias
phemed your Maker, did your Profaned
the holy name Of your Savior that forgave
his enemies upon the cross, and died to
have saved you from here? You did this,
did your The trembling culprit made no
reply. Why continued the devil, whose
voice arose as his wrath intensifed-'w
there's no excuse for you- A man by an
unlucky blow may kill another one
In pressing temptation man may steal; he
may lie to save his neck or to cheat his
neighbor. There's some excuse for him.
The profane swesrer has no excusel At
tendant, take this aecursed scoundrel out
of my sight. Put him up to his neck where
the Goals are the hottest, and then put
somebody to sit on his accursed head. -
Bdior's Drduser in Hdrper's Magazine for
ApriL
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
A Crustacean Monster.

We have been shown by a gentleman who
arrived on the last steamer from Japan q
crab of proportions far exceeding anything
in the shell-fish line that we have ever read
or heard of. Not even the marvellous ich-
theological wonders seen and recorded by
that prince of fish story" tellers, old
Bishop Ponpopidian Ito whom we are
mainly indebted for our knowledge of sea-
serpents, gigantic cuttle-fish and other ma
rine monsters), had fully prepared US to re-
alize the huge dimensions of this king of
the crustacea. 1t was captured last month
in the Bay of YedO, clinging to the wreck
of the ill-fated United States corvette One
ida, by some native fishermen emplyed
by the Japanese authorities to drag
the spot where the collision occurred,
for the purpose of recovering the
bodies of those who went down with the
vessel. From tip to tip of the claws (Which
are furnished with two rows of regular
teeth), it measures some thirteen feet, and
weighed, We are told, when taken from the
water, within a fraction of forty pounds.
The mouth and eyes of this monster Of the
deep somewhat resemble those of the toad,
and the former is armed with two long,
tusk-like teeth, and surrounded by circles
of stiff, wiry hair, like that seen in the
mouth of the whale. 1t differs from the
ordinary crab in the conformation of the
legs, claws and carapax, the first having q
greater number of joints, the second re-
sembling the skeleton of a human leg.
while the carapax or shell is covered with
irregular knobs or excrescences. In order
that the public generally, and our local sa-
vans in particular, may have an opportunity
of examining this singular inhabitant of
oceans caves" the possessor intends to
exhibit il.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15

with the back of the rake; when the plants
come up thin them so as to let them stand
about four inches apart, water well in dry
weather, and in August you will have good
onions, if, in the meantime, you keep them
clean and don't hurt the bulbs; watering
will much increase their growth, and lit
tie SCOT occasionally in the water will do
them much good.
DIET FOR THE SICK-BomED RICE
Most readers think this is something easily
prepared. So it is, perhaps, but few nurses
have an idea of the necessity of having it
properly done; that is, cooking it until
every grain becomes perfectly softened.
1t the grains are not reduced TO this soft
state, rice is almost certain, when swal-
lowed, to irritate the digestive organs
and instead of soothing the parts and sus
tanning strength, will actually produce a
diarrhoea, etc. This has been frequently
noticed in hospitals.
When properly boiled until each particle
becomes so sottened that the grain cannot
be detected when eaten, there are few ar
ticles of diet for the sick which can be made
more acceptable to the taste of finvaIidsth than
boiled rice.
PAPER FOR WARMTH know the
warmth there is in paper, or rather the
amount of cold it will keep out. But very
little cold will ever pass through COM
mon newspaper. 1t is excellent when
wrapped around the feet. Try it, if you
choose, with one foot, and not with the
other and notice the difference: Place a
piece inside your mittens or in the top of a
coid hat, or use it for coat lining by plac-
ing a piece over the shoulders, or put
or two between the bed clothes.
You will soon see the good result. To stop
a crevice in door or window, paper is bet
ter than cloth.
SMALL FARMs.-Be content with a small
place entirely paid for, if you have not the
money to buy large farm. Do not allow
that eager and avaricious spirit which de-
Sires to own ''sll the land that joins yours,
to ruin you. One of the curses of our ag-
ricultural districts is the size of our farms.
Forty acres paid for and thoroughly titled
is better property and far more remunera-
tive, than four hundred under a heavy
mortgage, and only half cultivated. Where
one man succeeds by rashness in assuming
arge responsibilities, hundreds fail; and
experience and observation will show, that
the successful owners of large tracts of
and have usually begun by small purchas-
IS for cash, und gradual additions as they
acquired wealth by industry aid economy,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-04-15
WHOLE NO. 1877.


How many apples did our first parents
eat In the garden of Eden? Eve 8 and
Adam 2.
An exchange wants the government to
issue stamps for kerosene, inscribed, "Pre-
pare to meet thy God"
A YOUNG man at a recent fire in Rutland
VT, threw away q pail of water because sit
was too hot to do any good"
ONE of the sages says: "Don't 90 to law
unless you have nothing to lose; LAWYERS
houses are built on fools heads.
JOHN CHNAMEN writes to his countrymen
In San Francisco, ''Me Likely Texasy; plen-
ty worky, plenty pavy, plenty eaty.''
An exchange speaks of ''the language of
classical bore, and the Boston CONNER
cial Bulletin thinks this must be the sshoc
latin" we read about.
DANIEL DREW, the founder of the Netbo-
dist Theological Seminary at Madison. N.
j., proposes to endow it more largely and
make it a University. 49,
An INDIANA lawyer recently charged a
client SO for collecting 50, but said he
would not press him to pay the other dollar
for week or two, if not convenient.
A LADY asked pupil, at a public exam
ination Of q Sunday school, ''What was the
sin OF the Pharisees?" eating camels.
marm," quickly replied the child. She
had read that the Pharisees strained at
gnats and swallowed camels."
A TRADEsMAN down town objected the
other day, to receive from one of his GUS
toners note at thirty days. on the ground
that he might die before that time. "Die r'
exclaimed the customer, "who ever heard
of a man dying within thirty days ?"
An Arkansas sheriff, who could not get
carpenters to build a gallows, to execute a |
criminal, had the cheek to tell the criminal |
that II he was in hurry to have the show |
come on, he would have to turn in and |
help build It The man declined, and told |
the sheriff not to hurry on his account.
AN old gentleman of eighty-four having |
taken to the altar damsel of about sixteen, |
the clergyman said to him, ''The font is at |
the other end of the church
"What do l want of the font?" said the /
old gentleman.
''Oh Ibeg your pardon" said the cler-
leal wit, 81 thought you had brought this
child to be christened."
A NEW parody and poem by Figaro COM
thus:
Woman, spare that teal
Touch not a single drop;
In youth it tempted thee.
But tnow, for Heavens sake, stopi
The Keokuk Gate City prints this neat
epigram upon Revels:
Reyel, but lately born to fame,
He Is his races great retriever;
Reverse the letters of his name,
And ,galnst Oppression he's the larer