Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-23

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depression.
Many men worth one hundred
thousand pounds sterling a day
or two ago are bankrupt to-day.
Business in yarns and fabrics at
Manchester is also completely
paralyzed.
BERLIN, July 2O.-All Germans
in the service of the French have
been ordered to return forthwith.
The Prussian Government has
announced that the merchantmen
'Of the enemy will not be inter-
fered with on the high seas, unless
for causes which would expose
neutrals to seizure.
General Wiedel, the Adjt. Genl
of Hanover, has been arrested
at Weimar, as a spy.
The Frankfort Gazette in an
editorial, asks how the cause Of
war concerns the people Of France
or Germany, and intimates that
question Is one between monarks
Of the respective countries, and
one that the people do not feel at
all interested in.
HANOVER, Jily 2O.-A number
Of spies captured on both sides on
the Rhine.
Admiral Milne commands the
Channel feet.
Prince De Latour Dauvregne is
the French minister to Austria.
Grand Duke Mecklenburg
was elected President of
the North German Parliament
which cheered v~ehemently when
Bismarck announced the declara-
ton Of war by France. The King
then opened the session with q
speech amid the widest enthusi-
asm.
Turkey called out reserves and
stopped the telegraph in all direc-
tons.
The Bank of France raised the
interest 81.
A great popular demOnstra.
ton in Dublin, favor France.
More than one hundred thousand
were in the procession, with TWEEN
ty bands ofmusic. The French
and Irish flags were entwined.
The police captured three French
flags when the procession rallied
and recaptured them.
T~elegraphic communication be-
tween Germany and France de-
stroyed by the authorities.
The North German States per-
fectly harmonious. Parliament
unanimously voted l20,000,0OC
thalers.
WASHINGTON, July 2l.-0ficia,
dispatches received here state that
the French Government refuses To
exempt the North German steam
ers from capture, except those o.
sea ignorant Of the war, which
may enter French ports.
Revenue receipts to-day 1856,
600.
The Naragansett and CalifOrniI
ordered fit for sea with all dis
patch.
The Internal Revenue Depart
ment decides weiss beer is q fer
mented liquor.
The President and family havr
departed. The President will re
turn at stated times, but will hav,
a special Office at one of the Ions
Branch hotels, where he viii
transact executive business.
The agricultural report for the
month says the increase acreage o.
cotton, as indicated by returns o
county correspondents, averages
twelve per cent, aggregates near
ly one million acres.
It is almost literally truC
that the people are devoting al
their energies to the culture
OF cotton, the condition Of thu
crop is so far favorable for o goo(
yield, fully an average in Georgia
Alabama, Louisiana and Arkan
sas, and slightly below an averag,
in the Carolinas, Florida, Missis
sippi, Texas and Tennessee. NortI
Carolina had a surplus of rain il
June, which in some places has oC
casioned injury, especially in tn
counties of Martin, Carteret
Edgecombe, Hertford, Beaufort
Green, Rowan and Mecklenbure
The plant is late and small /
parts Of South Carolina, but the
are growing rapidly since the re
! cent favorable weather. To d.
fective seed or draught in plantin
! time, q bad stand is attributed |
many places, and the growth ha
been retarded by excessive rail-
The heavy rains in Georgia has
, done some damage in Clayton an
. Spaulding counties. The field
Q have been badly infested with lie
e which threaten failure in some II
stances. To the influence of con
mercial fertilizers is attributed
4 promising appearance Of the plaI
In many fields. In Alabama I'll
crop is generally fourishinI
though local reports are quite v
riable. Complaint Of injuries fro
| hail or rain storms are reported