Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-08-25
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
THURSDAY. AUGUST Is, 1870.
TUE EUROPEAN WAR NEWS. The dlspatch'

gathered from Tue mass VI couuiolinS iepoi'sf
is stated to be as follows :-Marsha Bazalne's
army at Metz; Marshal McMahou holding
Chalons, and the road from there to Verdun;
the original Chalons army at eouziers, and
from that point to Montmedy keeping open |
the communications between Bazalne and MIC
Mahon. The armies OF Prince Frederick Charles
and Steinmetz are south and west OF Metz, !
awaiting reenforcements from the army or the
Crown Prince, who has concentrated IN the
vicinity of Bar le.Duc. The Paris Constltu-
tionnel yesterday printed report that another |
engagement had occurred on Sunday last, in
which the French gained some success.
The Richmond Wing remarks that 1.-THE use
of labor saving appliances in Virginia IS con
stantly extending the employment OF steam IN
many agricultural operations is only question
of time The benefits to be derived from these
accessories to the labor force of the country
will be greatly enhanced by their operation
upon large scale. Their cost. which is no
small matter where they are extensively used,
is but little greater for large than for small!
farms. In addition to this there is the general
dimiuution of waste and expense, which attends
all enterprises on an extensive scale. ABOVE
all, such system will attract to the pursuit
of agriculture the best talent and energy that
the country can command. instead OF making
it, as is too much the disposition at present,
the dernier resort when other attempts at pro-
curing livelihood have failed
The New York Star ys:-The Radicals IN
Maine think the party ought to encourge free
trade as soon as it is possible to have it; those
in Pennsyvania think they ought to have pro
lection for coal and iron forever; those IN
Michigan insist upon perpetual protection Tor
copper those in New York demand 1t Tor salt
those in New Jersey claim it for pottery, glass
and iron; those everywhere else claim It tor
the peculiar commodity which is indigenous to
their special locality. So they ell get together
at Washington and legislate on the ~ GU
aoratch my back and I'll scratch your back
to death, and all but the monopolis.s have to
scratch for living.
The object of the National Labor Union, as
set forth in the Constitution adopted at the
Congress" lately in session 10 Cincinnati, is to
''discuss all grievances, laws and customs which
Cypress labor and to elevate the condition Of
the working Masses" but the bulk oil its pro-
visions pertain to the raising of money for
the support of the officers of the union. The
President and all the members OF the Execu-
tive Committee are to receive salaries of 81 500!
year, each; and the President has the power
of appointing subordinates with salaries, to be
paid out Of the hard earning Of such 1aborers
as are green enough to be fooled out of their
money by those who are too lazy to work.
There is scarcely 'rumor' or report from |
Europe now: especially from London, that does
not turn out to be false Notwithstanding the
posstire assurances to the contrary, the En-
press is still in Paris; the Prince is with bis
father; the Emperor is neither demented nor
dead; Olivier is not fugitive, but living
quietly at home; the Prussian King has made
no conditions of peace, or has Eugene written
to Queen Victoria imploriog peace, nor sent
all her jewels and vaIuables to Madrid Why
these stories should be so frequently repeated
tradicting them the day after they are tele.
graphed.
The Baltimore Sun says: king William
Of Prussia says Of his last terrible battle that
he ''shrnks from learning his losses" How
prodigious, then, the slaughter must have been
may be partly guessed from the fact that, in
previous dispatch, the King had reported
destruction Of forty thousand men, while the
carnage seems to have been as terrific in some
preceding battles The French estimate that
the Prussians have lost ninety thousand, killed
and wounded, since crossing the frontier seems
moderate. On their part, the Prussia0s CAIN
to have put fifty thousand French hors du
combat.
The whole action of the State authorities of
North Carolina looks very much as if the whole
things as charged at the time, was an attempt
to prevent free election by intimidation and
terror. The result of such tactics having been :
the opposite of what was intended, it may sue
gest to the radical politicians that if they would
have their party prosper, force is not the most
effective instrument to be employed in other
States for that purpose.
The National Labor Convention, which, for {
some time, has been sitting at Cincinnati, Ohio,
finally on Tuesday last The Irish !
National Convention is now meeting with !
,losed doors, in the same city. If all questions
10 this country are not satisfactorily settled it
will not be for want of Conventions
In view of the near approach of the time
when the use OF coal will be Indispensable it is =
onsoling to hear that there is prospect Of o
|ecIine in the fuel. v
Littelrs Living Age for this week has been T
eceived and contains its usual vsrety OF inter. Il