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MARK Twain's Portrait OF King
William.

Mark Tyein, in, the forthcoming Gal
axy has a portrait Of King William, of
Prussia. 1t is just such a picture as a
small boy could draw on his slate, repre-
senting the full face Of a helmeted per
sonage, with big mpstache and epau-
lettes. In the commentary appended,
Mark says: aal
Whatever I am in art to-day, / owe to
the Galaxy portraits. j ask no credit
for myself-I deserve none. King Will
liam wears ,:s.aa ,s.aa hushy side whiskers,
and some critics have thought that thiiS
portrait would be more complete if they
were added, But it was, not possible.
There was not room for side whiskers
and epaulettes both, and so / let the
whiskers 20, and put in the epaulettes
for the sake OF style. That thing on his
hat is an eagle-it is a'national emblem.
When | say hat mean helmet; but 1t
seems impossible TO make picture of a
helmet that body can have confidence
in. ..
The following are Communications Of
tllt pOIutlts NlluIf %
There is nothing like i in the Vatican,
IE. 5sb ..si so1 bda
1t has more of that vagueness, that
dreamy spirituality aboutit, which many
of the first critics of Arkansas have OBJ
jected 70 in the Murillo School of Art.
zRuskfpl.
The expression is very Interesting
y. W. Iflidn gfuO. .aAuBIVTA
(keeps a maccaroni store. in Venice,
at the old family stand-) VA0U5noA|
It's the neatest thing in still life /
have seen for years, Rosa Bolsseur.
The smile may be called Unique
Bismarck .lis 81 tlI1.ia.a-
never saw such character portrayed
in pictured face before DE Nelrilie
There is benignant simplicity about
the execution of this york, which warns
the heart toward il as much. full as
much. as il fascinates the eye.-LdBd-
seer. i-.a
One cannot see it without longing to
contemplate The artist Frederick VII
liam.
Send me the entire edition, together
with the plate and original portrait and
name your own price. And-would you
ike 10 come over and stay awhile with
Napoleon at Wilhemshoehel II shall
not cost yoa = cent William.
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therefore, full-three fours and two

therefore, full--three fours and two
fives. iN
And now came Miss IS turn. II
was thrilling moment, and the rustic
of her silk dress in the, stiffness Of that
room sounded like the tree-tops in the
wind. She began by drawing off her
right glove, exposing hand of exquisite
beauty and delicacy, on the fore6nger
of which sparkled a diamond. Then,
taking up the box quickly, she gave it a
long shake in the air, and, turning it
ldown.nponA the table, she tthrew--nothr
ing! "A cloud thereupon passed over
her face, and the arc Of her lips assumed
a still more bowlike curvature. But,
nothing daunted, she at once retook the
box and threw again--this time turning
up four deucesl and the fifth dice cooked
Terrble mischancel Miserable luck
Again she threw, and threw two ,deuces
and two trays Putting all the dice back
into the box, she had left but one other
and last throw, upon which now rested
her only chance. For the first time
since she sat down she spoke, asking for
a glass of water. Having drank tum-
blerful, ,lshe sat for q moment pressing
together her eyebrows between her
thumb and forefnger, and then, all OF
sudden, she snatched up the dice-box
and shook it vehementlyS and threw.
three fours and two skies, and woni
And did she take the money, you ask
me? / answer most emphatically, she
Here endeth my second lesson.
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DENTISTRY.
DENTISTRY.
Dental Co-partnership.
DRS. HINSON & MAYES.

DR. HINsoN HAVING ASSOCIATED
who is graduate Of the Baltimore and Penn
sylvania Colleges Of Dental Surgery. sessions
and winters '55 and '59. takes this method 70
announce 20 the public. az in the past. 50 IN
repairing the natural teeth and replacing artl-
fetal with neatness and dispatch. Particular
attention given In the regulation Of teeth end
diseases u the gums with ktheIial; md NJ
trous Oxide gas being given In the extraction
OF teeth. HypnOtics are also used m pie rffinft
which are harmless aDd c1icaeious q tbtana
feasibility. Office and residence ~. -
Main street, Memphis, Tenn. A-izs
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A LOUISVILLE ROMANCE.

Beauty versus Fortune Hun
dred Thousand Dollars Against
Lady's Hand-ThrOwing Dice.
M The shbjoined story is published by a
California paper in letter from q cor
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A question of considerable interest to
the travelling public, in California, will
shortly be tried in the Sacramento Dis
triet District, The plaintiff, Washing
ton Irving Nichols, claims damages in
the sum OF SIC, 900 from the California
Pacific RAILROAD for loss Of time, ineon-
venience, ETC., caused through having
been put off a train by conductor be-
cause his ticket happened to have been
dated for the previous day.
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A colored gentleman and voter at the
Atlanta election, being challenged, was
offended. He said he thought it was re
ally unkind He had voted at six or
seven places that morning, and this was
the first time that his integrity had been
challenged. 4s.t 30 .ta nirf fif
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1 FLORIDA WATER. ~
The Celebrated
Murray
aa &
Lanman's
Florida w ater
FLORIDA WATER.

The most lasting, agreeable
and refreshing of all per-
fumes, for use on the hand
kerchief, at the toilet, and in
the bath. For sale by all
Druggists and Perfumers. lst
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BONDS.
Funding Bonds of1STO,

Principal and interest payable in GOLD COIN,
as authorised by ordinance Of the General
Council of the city. for the purpose Of funding
a like amount of the due debt Of the city, are
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-12-08

FRANCE.-The military situation in
France it is impossible now to determine
with accuracy, so confused and contra
dictory are the dispatches One thing
seems to be certain, however. and that
is, that there has been almost continu-
Gus fighting since the 28th ult, and,
though there has been no great, decisive
battle, there have been many sanguinary
engagements, with results sometimes
favorable to one side and sometimes to
the other Trochu has.made desperat
attempt to raise the. siege of Paris, but,
though his sortics at first drove the
Prussians from their positions, he does
not appear to have been able to break
through their lines. There is report,
however, that portion Of his forces had
broken through and effected junction
with the army of the Loire; but this is
probably not true, as, if portion of his
army succeeded in getting out, it would
indicate such success OF. The French as
would have been far more disastrous to
the Prusslans than anything which has
yet been reported. = Wisconsin,.
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Che Tritlltle.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

The Presidents Message might be
much shorter without much injury to the
writer or to the nation. 1t contains
much which will meet strong opposition,
especially the repeated recommendation
of annexlng San Domingo. The Pres
ident is as fully satisfied with the dis
graceful conduct of the protector, Mr..
Washburn at the expulsion of some
$4,000 Germans from France without
even protest, as he is WITH the reccg-
milton of the Mob Republic in Paris
at the receipt of a single telegram. The
Presidents proposition con corning THE
Alabama question, is very proper, and if
carried out, will bring on an early settle
ment for his strong remarks in regard
to Canada he has not sufficient cause.
The best part of the message is con-
tanned in the Presidents remarks on
revenue reform" and On the reform in
public offices. Taken as a whole, the
message contains much material, many
good suggestions and propositions and
surpasses by far 10 its diction and in It's
whole attitade the first years message of
President Grant.
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The coil Of the Prusian army is slowly
tightening around the Touraine. A
heavy force is gradually moving down to-
ward the valley Of the Loire, nowhere
seriously resisted by the French. The
dispatches report body Of 5000 Ger
mans at Chateau Regnault on the 2Sth
not more than half day $ march north
of the seat of Government. The vast
wave is spread all over the Departments
of the Sarthe, the Loire and Cher. They
are reported as occupying in force the
towns of Manners and St. Calais to La
Chartre and Chateau Regnault, dis
lance OF sixty miles. At right angles to
this great line runs another of about
equal length from Chateaudum to Mon
trgis, nearly due east and west, only
about twelve miles north of the city of Or
leans. At the extreme left of this line
the veteran army of Prince Frederick
Char,es lies massed, in apparent inactiy-
ity. contenting itself with occasionally
feeling the force of Gen Paladines, and
easily repulsing ali his attacks. As we
have before shown, the present purpose
of this force is merely to detain the army
OF the Loire where it is, while the army
OF the Duke of Mecklenburg pursues
Its advance southwark upon Tours. =
Meantime, the forces of Manteufel are
making clean work in the extreme north,
sweeping through Picardy. capturing
Amiens and defeating the army of Gen.
Fare In two engagements.
The garrison of Paris, growing FESTIVE
in their enforced leisure, have been given
a breathing by Trochu. They have
made demonstration upon Beg
ons, village nine miles north of Yer
sailles, where the Rouen railroad crosses
the Seine; and an apparently serious at
tack against Choisy lie Roi, six miles
south of Paris on the Orleans road which
resulted in a severe repulse Of the French
Alarming SYMPTOMS of insubordinatior
are visible among the officers of the Re.
publican army. Gen. Bourbaki hesitates
to take command of the Eighteenth
Corps, and Count Keratry has rendered
his resignation In violent and indecor
Gus letter addressed to the Provisional
Government. keratry is a man of great
energy and talent, and has hitherto ex.
hibited fortunate faculty of deserving a
losing cause at the most advantageous
moment. His revolt at this time is per.
haps more significant as an omen than as
an evenly. Y. Tribune.
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RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.-The New
York Tribune fears Lord John forgets
that his Crimean war cost Great Britain
thirty thousand lives and forty millions
pounds sterling. 1t humblcd Russia,
but it did not solve the Eastern question.
Yet the old Earl places himself again at
the head of the war party, willing to pro-
tect rotten empire that has been a
curse to civilization, and to again -injsre
Russia, which embodies more elements of
greatness and progress than almost any
other power in Europe.
The Herald is of opinion that England
can scarcely form new war Cabinet ca
pable of managing the situation. The
people are slightly enthusiastic, but they
will soon realize that the treaty of Paris
does not give food to their children,
while Russian fleet on the Black Sea
cannot possibly diminish British com.
merce. Manchester's influence in Eng
land is all-powerful. and Manchester
waEts foreign trade, not foreign war.
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Two GOVERNORS IN ALABAMA In
the Alabama Legislature on Saturday,
Robert A Linsday, Democrat, was count
ed in as Governor by a majority of |, 429,
and took the oath; but Gov. Smith,
Republican, having obtained an injunc-
ton, on the ground that Linsday was
illegally elected, the State will, for a
time have two Governors. The
majority for Z. III. Maren, Demoera,
for Lieutenant Governor, was found to
be 4, SIT, and he was installed as presi
ding officer Of the Senate. Other Demo.
cratic State officers were also declared
elected.
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FRANCE.
VICTORY BY GARIBALDI.

: VICTORY BY GARIBALDI.
LYONS, Dec. 5.-Fighting occurred al
day Saturday between Garibaldi's forces
and those of the Prussians under Gen.
Werder, between the villages Of Autun,
in the department Of Saone ct Loire, and
Array lie Due, in the department OF
Cote Dor. The French were success
ful. and Gen. Cremer is now actively pur-
suing tt flying Prussians.
The NORTH.
LILLE Dec. 5-Evening.-The Prus
sian army operating in the north of
France is retreatiBg toward Rheims.
THE PARIS SORTIEs
NEW York, Dec. ga Paris dis
patch, by way Of Tours, states that the
advantages gained by Ducrot and Vinoy
are highly important. Vinoy, with two
divisions of the Second Corps, was per-
fectly successful, cutting his way on the
Goth, as far south as Rungis, and only
retired in order to allow Ducrot to over
come obstacles retardlng his further ad
vance.
LONDON, Dec 5.-Advices from Paris
received up to late hour Sunday nigh;
tempt to force the Prussian lines,
FIGHT on THE LOIRE.
Tours, Dee. 4.-On Friday the Prus-
slams recaptured from the French the fol-
lowing places Ferminiere, Guillonyile,
Neville, and Vile pain.
1t is reported that there was heavy
fighting all along the lines yesterday.
The Ponti6cal Zouaves were terribly cut
W, and lost three fourths of their bat
talon. Charette himself, their comman-
der. was wounded.
VERSAILLES, Dec 4.-Yesterday,
Prince Frederick Charles, with the Sd
and 9th corps, drove the enemy near
Chevilly and Chiller, into the forests Of
Orleans, capturing two cannon.
BELFoRT.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-Advices from Bel
fort to Saturday p. M, state that the
Germans had opened the bombardment.
NEW York, Dec. 5.-A Tours cores
pendent telegraphs that the government
has advices from General Paladines
headquarters to the Sd, and from Paris
to the night Of the ID The engagement
in which the 18th and 10th corps parti-
eipated on Friday, oceurredwith Stephen
Won Poppenheim's division of Won Der
Taun's corps, which was supported by
Prince Albrecht and Stolberg's cavalry
division, and Won Wi,lich's 22d infantry
division. The fight lasted all day,
without decisive results, the French fight
ing with extraordinary courage and great
skill. At n1ghtfall the 10Th Corps held
Arthenay, and the sth Corps positions
extending along the railway toward Paris.
FRENCH AND. GERMAN LOSSES.
LONDON, Dec. 5.-The losses sustain
ed by the Saxons in the battles around
Paris from November 20 to December 2,
are estimated at about 800 men. -Four
regiments of the Saxon forces, the 1O4th,
106th, 107th and 108th,, lost fifteen
officers killed and sixty-threc wounded.
The total number of French prisoners
taken was about 5000 t
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New JERSEY. evidences of the
decay of the Republican party do not
/ seem to be very strong in New Jersey.
The official count returns a Republican
gain not only of one Congressman but of
over S, GOO Republican votes, while the
loss of the Democracy exclusive of the
Congressman, is 4,U63 votes. In the
State Senate the Republicans have gain
ed 8, and in the Assembly 8 members.
The Senate will stand II Republicans to
Democrats, ard the Assembly 81 Re-
publicans to 26 Democrats. The Leg is
lature will meet on the 10th of January
and elect United States Senator,
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RpssEA.-The Eastern question is rap
Idly subsldlng into a matter of purely
diplomatic interest. 1t seems probable
that u European Congress will soon be
held to give another Settlement to the
claims of Russia, which will hardly stand
Us long as the last. The Prussian Gov
eminent has taken lively interest in this
compromise, and it is. said that the Cab.
met OF Petersburg accepts it in principle.
The Sublime Porte regards the whole af:
fair with characteristic apathy, and nc
more thinks Of actively interfering in the
discussion than patient, sick unto death,
! would think Of debating a course .oi
treatment to his physician.
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NEW YORK ITEMS.

New YORK, Dec. 3.-Several court
martials, by order Of the Secretary of
War, convene in this city Monday, for
the trial Of such offenders as may be
brought before them.
All the masons employed ON Wander.
bits depot, corner of Forty second street
and Fourth avenue are on strike against
an attempt to reduce them to three
quarters time.
"A series of games of Billiards has
been arranged betreen Rudolphe, Cyril,
Dion, Parker and Daniels. NJ Garne
has accepted Rudolphe' recent challenge
Young Foster: who absconded to
Europe with money belonging to his faith
er, about month ago, has been arrested
in Liverpool by means Of the Atlantic
cable.
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Receipts

This shows an increase of revenue to
the amount of $40, 672, OIL. But, in the
latter eighteen months, taxes, which had
yielded $50, 2l6,6l had been repealed,
showing total gain in the collection ex-
ceeding 800, 000, 600 This result estab-
fishes the two facts, that an honest col
lection of the taxes is but justice to those
who pay them, and that a reduction of
the rate, and of the number of objects of
taxation does not involve loss of revenue.
In Johnson's time, the tax on whiskey
was 50 per gallon, and, during the eigh-
teen months covered by this estimate,
S4l.67S, 900 were collected from spirits
During the'second eighteen months, the
specific tax was so cents per gallon, and
the revenue collected was So, All, 900.
The rate Of tax on tobacco was also large
~ reduced. and the revenue therefrom
increased from 500, 327 900 to $40, 5O4,-
600. Yet there was not gallon more
spirits, nor pound more of tobacco sold
during the one period than there was in
the other.
The repeal of the taxes on other articles
which yield $50 ,O0e, 900, in no way d.
minlshed the revenue, yet it was a great
boon to the people.
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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The following
is part of the Presidents message:
To the Senate and House of Representa-
ties.
A year of peace and general prosperity
to this nation has passed since the last
assembling of Congress. We have,
through kind Providence, been blessed
with abundant crops and bave beer SPAR
ed complications and war with foreign
nations. In our midst comparative har>
mony has been restored. 1t is to be re-
GREETED, however, that free exercise OF
the elective franchise has by violence and
intimidation been denied to citizens in ex-
ceptional cases, in several of the States
lately in rebellion, and the verdict Of the
people has thereby been reversed. The
States Of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas
have been..restored to representation in our
national councils; Georgia, the only State
now without representation may confden-
TALLY be expected to take her place there
also at the beginning of the new year,
Then let US hope will be completed the
work of reconstruction.
GENERAL HARMONY AND PROSPERITY
With an acqniesence on the part of the
whole people in the national obligations
to pay the public debt, created as the
price of our Union, the pensions to
our disabled soldiers and sailors, and
their widows and orphans, and in the
changes to the Constitution which have
been made necessary by the great rebel
lion, there is no reason why We should
not advance In material prosperity and
happiness as no other nation did, after so
protracting and devastating war.
THE WAR IN FRANCE.
Soon after the existing war broke out
in Europe, the protection of the United
States Minister in Paris was invoked in
favor Of the North German domieiled in
French territory. Instructions were issu-
ed to grant the protection. This has
been followed by an extension Of Ameri-
can protection to citizens of Saxony,
Hesse and Sax Coburg. Cothen, Columbia,
Portugal, Uruguay. The dominican re-
public. Ecuador, Chill, Paraguay and
Versailles in Paris. The charge was an
enormous one, requiring constant and Sc
we're labor as well as the exercise of pa
thence, prudence and good judgment. It
has been performed to the entire satisfac-
ton of this government, and, as | am
officially informed, equally SO to the sat
lsfactlon Of the government of North Ger
many.
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CENTRAL AMERICA,

It is the obvious interest, especially of
neighboring nations, to provide against
injury to those who may have committed
high crimes within their borders, and
who may have sought refuge abroad. For
this purpose extradition treaties have
been concluded with several of the Cen
trail American republics. and others are
in DrOgreSS
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ERRORS OF YOUTH,

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from N.r
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fects of youthful nd=oretion will for the sake of
suffering humanity, send free to all vhe it, the
receipt and direction for making the simple remedy
by which he was cured. Sufferers wishing TO profit
by the advertisers experience do so by addres-
sing, in perfect confidence JOHN b. OGDEN
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To CcnE1ar1a u%Sves

The advertiser, having been permanently cured of
that dread disease, Consumption, fy simple rene
dy, is anxious TO make known his fellow sufferers
the OF cure. To all who desire it, he will send
copy of the prescription used free of charged with
the directions for preparing and using the same
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Parties wishing IL prescription will please ad-.
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TAXATION AND REVENUE

In the report of Mr.. Delano, Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue, he gives the
comparative figures of the collections If
revenue during the last eighteen months
Of Andrew Johnson's administration, and
the first eighteen months under Grant.
The tables compare as follows:
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POLITICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS.

A. II. H. Stuart is expected to be next leader of
the Virginia demo cracy.
Governor Orr does not endorse the Union reform
movement in South Carolina. He didn't endorse the
rebellion, but he went in for it.
The republicans in Allegheny county Pa, are ripe
for an Independent moyement-"to rescue their
organization from the corruptng influence OF selfish
and unprinciped politicians" The county gave
about 1000 majority for Grant in 1868, but only
about 1850 for Geary in 1859. II the republican
majority keeps on being reduced at this rate next
fall 1t may pretty nearly be counted out"
General James M. Negley, M. c. from the Ale
ghany (Pa-) district, has been repeatedly compli-
mented on his speech on the commercial and ship
ping interests Of the country.
It appears from recent disclosures that Jefferson
DAVIS preferred being Commander-in- Chief of the
Confederate armies rather than President As Presi
dent was he not the Communicating Chief?
An Eastern paper says Attorney General Alderman
Is the son Of Benjamin Tappan. Of New Hampshire.
Judging by the surname, one would think he is the
son OF some "other man,
The Tallahassee Florfdtdn gives three reasons and
no doubt the true Ones why Governor Reed vetoed the
Funding bill-First-It was not his bill Second--It
put no money into his pocket. Third-But 1t did
put money into the peoples pockets.