The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-17

tirely open. and indeed even now
he pleases. The last barrier against
an invasion was broken down when
McMahon, driven out of Saverne,
abandoned the gateway of the Fosges.
GEN. TRocHU, urged to take the
Ministry of War, is said to have re-
piled that he could only do so at the
bidding of the Corps Legislatif,
which, for an officer of the personal
government" was a very significant
answer. He is supposed to favor the
Orleanists, and, for all his brilliant
reputation as a soldier, it is not likely
that he would have been allowed to
distinguish himself too much had not
the reverses on the Saar and the JAau-
at home. obliged Napoleon to call him
to the front. He had previously been
appointed to the command of the
Cherbourg expedition. That enter
prise. doubtless, had more of politl--
cal than a military Importance, and
would have yielded but small har-
vest of glory.
WE notice a new medicine rather
extensively advertised in the news
papers. It is called The Emperor 8
Pill" and it promises to do all that
any pill ever did or can possibly do
to give power without reaction p
"to give confidence to the timid and
strength to the feeble" THE de-
bilitated all need it," says the adver-
tisement. Now, the Prussian pills
which the Emperor has lately been
| taking do not seem to agree with His
Majesty; and we would therefore sug-
gest the transmission to this gentle
man in difficulties of few boxes OF
the Emperor's Pill" A dose of
medicine. or the want Of it, has some.
times changed the whole course of
| historical events: and who knows but
these pills are precisely what the En-
peror needs " to give power and to
strengthen weakness? "
RUSSELL has at length been heard
from. He has gone to the seat OF
War via Hong Kong and stopped a
day or two in China. We ind q let.
ter from him about The Girl Mar
ket" in Boston paper, which seems
to have engaged his services. We
congratulate the San ON the enter
prise of its correspondent $50 but
doesn't he sacrifice a great deal Of
valuable time by choosing this curl.
Gus route2 The 1ribkne's represent
atives went via Paris and Berlin and
got in their news just about a month
before Mr.. Russell was even heard
from.
1 Orrr n - IL:
think of gathering French tribute
| to Charles Dickensl Yet we read
that when the Sd Regiment of Volt,
guers of the Imperial Guard marched
out of Paris. they were followed by
their dog "Piquevuique."
IT is a curious fact, of which nc
really satisfactory explanation has
ever been given, that as fire arms are
/ rendered more and more deadly, wal
becomes less and less destructive of
humaR life. At Borodino the loss
was one third of all the men engaged
| At Waterloo il was one-fourth. At
Inkermann, where there was neither
a rihed cannon nor breech- leader on
the field, the English lost one-third.
At Magenta and Solferino, with vastly
better weapons, the casualties were
one eleventh; at Chattanooga, one
thirteenth; while at Koniggratz,
where the terrible needle gun caused
such CONSERVATION, the losses were
only one twenty third.
One of the wickedest of modern
wars, a contest fought for the purpose
of consolidating despotism, promises
to result in an immediate triumph of
freedom. The poet must have been
he wrote:
Though many a light shall darken, and
many shall weep
For those who are crushed in the clash of
Earring claims,
Yet Gods Just wrath shall be wreaked on
a giant liar;
And many darkness into the light shall
leap
And shine In the sudden making OF spIen-
did names,
Ana noble thought be freer under the sun,
And the heart of a people beat with one
desire.