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Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

A RETURNING Californian named
Christopher Herbert, of Green's
burg, Pennsylvania, was rob-
bed of eight thousand dollars
in the cars while leaving the de-
pot ct Pittsburg for home. Two
Chicago confidence men followed
him from that city, engaged him in
conversation and took the money
from his vest pocket.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

CLEMENT HUGH HILL, of Massa-
chusetts, has been appointed AS
sistant Attorney General of the
United States.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15
From the New York Insurance Times
THE EQUITABLE LIFE AssUR.
ANOE SOCIETY, NEW YORK.

@ANS4 oSCA1 NG" AO1Ae
This company has sprung up like
a young giant born Of a race of he
roes. On contemplating its amaz-
ing growth our astOnishment is in
creased by the closest inspection of
its proportions. They are solid,
symmetrical, and full of health and
vigor in every part. It became a
favorite at the start for 1t was
adapted with consummate skill to q
great public want, and this want IL
has met with so much Justice,
promptitude, and liberality that Il
is now as firmly rooted in the peo-
ple's favor as a granite mountain
in the earth. II has solid basis in
cash assets Of thirteen million dol
lars invested In the best securities
In the country,
We remarked the precedence
gained by the Equitable Life about
seven years ago, and then predict
cd that its perfect and peculiarly
attractive features would soon rem
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

HARLY K. WoOD, Esq, Of Pi-
qua, O., on a visit at the residence
Of Mr.. J. W. Carey, Sidney, o.,
one day last week concluded to
rensin over night A son Of the
host coming in at a late hour, and
not recognizing the VISITOR, sup
posing him 70 be burglar, shot
TIE nslliea ere all q the
- .-- .----
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

A BROKER, in Philadelphia,
named De Invilliers, was swind'ed
out of $500 by a forged check.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

GEO. WILKES, of Emerson's
Minstrel Troupe, died in Memphis
on Sunday, of congestion. He was
q native of PHILADELPHIA.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

MANY q man who would scorn
to steal song would think moth.
ing of stealing march on any
body.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

DYEING for love-Colorimg your
moustache to please your sweet
heart.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

CUT-THRoAT Depot is the invi-
ting name of a new town in Cal
fornia.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

ONE-HALF of the world don't
know how the other half live, and
it is none of their business.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

SEE Advertisement Of DR.. Butts.
Dispensary, headed, Book for the
Million-MARRIAGE GUIDE
IN anOther column. II should be
read By all.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15

The Meridian Mercury has sus-
pended its daily edition.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15
CERTAIN PHENOMENA.

Slrhalr GAces- -possess o beauty
That Is neither Of dreams nor rules;
II might be he beauty of angels,
lit were not the beauty Ol IUO.s,
speak Of certain phenomena,
Gotten ol needles and spO0s.
oh, the white fash Of their bOsoms,
Flecking he crowds IN the sun!
The spectacle staggcFs our bOyhoOd,
And our pulses ,et OF by the run,
Till we learn that though we could Ivy
them.
Devil q ones. TO be won.
That though they drum the piano.
And twitter The lati Il trash
TwAddls the twad le Of lennysOn.
And quadrllle tbemse YES into u brash,
They are unto woman iieal
What unto joint Is hash.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1870-10-15
HE WEBKLYHERALD.
SUNDAY, OCT. ., 1870.

They have queer ways of doing
things in Chicago. When a clerk
Is discharged because he "don't
suit" he goes back next day and
shoots the proprietor, and when a
fellow is Tilted, instead Of plung-
ing into the mud Of Chicago Riv-
er, or patronizing some respecta-
Bile druggist, he falls to "cursing
like drab," and does up the sex
in satirical poetry. As witness
the following from the Post:
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22

Never was there more urgent demand
upon all the friends of Conservative
doctrines to unite and pull together than
at the present time. 1t need not be dis
guised that, in this immediate section,
we are assunder. We seem to have no
organization. Every one is on the inde
pendent line. And there is methodical
GOODNESS in it which does not augur well
for the future. We need not say that
this is cause of inexpressible regret. The
consequences, so shameful and so disas
trous, are beginning to tell upon our sue
cess. We are laughed at and derided,
and unless we alter our tactics, we will
soon become a by-word and Kissing
throughout the State. The whole trou-
BILE seems to be in this city. Why, or
how it is, is one of the curious problems
of the age; but so it is, at any rate. We
have our own notions about the matter,
but we will not urge them, though we
may have occasion to does. so hereafter.
This state of things do not exist in the
county. There is no Jealousy and wire
working among the honest masses. They
are disposed to do right, under all cir
cumstances. VIII we not learn wisdom
from the serious lessons of the past 2
Think of the disasters of the March cleo
tiOni Ought they not to admOnish us
and to put us on our guardR One difficult
| ty is, we have too many big men in our
ranks! This one, and that one, and the
other one is clearly of the opinion that he
is the man to direct the movements of the
party. We have before urged, and shall
continue to urge, the necessity of acting
in concert with the popular will We dare
not ignore the masses. They will not
tolerate our arrogance, nor submit to our
dictation; cliques cannot, and ought not,
rule the destiny of a great party. 1t is
the height of presumption to attempt it.
The better way is to defer to each other,
10 consult freely and fully, and always
aim to deal frankly and fairly. We can
not afford to waste our strength by feud:
and hateful factions. The enemy viii
take advantage of this, and thus hasteI
our overflow. United we stand, divided
we fall. We beg, we implOre all true
friends of constitutional libertytO consider
these feeble but earnest suggestions, anc
all come together for the general good
| RROrUilJG Wing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
GEN, VON MOLTKE.

Gen. Won Moltke, the Chief of Staff
of the Prussian Forces, was born in
Mecklenburgh, in the year 1900. His
father was an army officer. He was ed
ucated at the military school of Copen-
hagen, and entered into the service of
Denmark. But afterward when the an
nexation of SchlesWig- -Holsteln, where
his father owned property, was under
consideration, he accepted the German
side of the dispute and took service with
Prussia in 1922, gradually rising to a pO-
sitiOn in the staff ten years later. Shortly
afterward he visited Turkey, and
was invited by the Sultan TO as
sist in the efforts that monarch
was then making to improve the military
standing of the Turkish army by the in
PRODUCTION of European reforms. He
seems to have been engaged in the service
of different States for several years sub
sequently. 1t was not until 1858 that he
acquired his present position in Prussia,
He published a report of the AustrO-1tal-
ian war of 1859, with reference to a plan
of an expedition which he had projected;
but he states that the rapid movements OF
the French Emperor, who had an army
that che could rely on, rendered his plan
nugatory. When at length the Schleswig-
Holstein question developed into war,
his services under Prince Frederick
Charles commanding the Allies against
Denmark, were of the greatest ser
vice. His highest abilities were, however,
not exhibited until the breaking out OF
war between Prussia and Austria. His
knowledge of technical detail and the
science of war enabled him to take part
in drawing up with Bismarck the plan of
that wonderfully successful campaign,
and he expressed himself as never for a
moment lacking confidence in it. He
took personal part in the battle of
Sadowa, and arranged the subsequent ne.
gotiations which resulted in peace.
Prussia has thorough confidence in hi:
abilities, and he shares with her great
War Minister hold on the popular heart.
although personally reserved almost tC
taciturnity, and devoted to the study Of
her favOrite science, his writings upOr
which are of great and recognized value
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
WONDERFUL THEORY OUR
GLOBE AN ANIMAL.

~ buo LdAtON VI Tue OluCluudu ENQUIRER.
Science proves all life in organized pa-
ture in motion, and its handspring is vi
talized air. 1t shows, too, that all life in
| inorganic nature is chemical and physical,
or is mutual exchange of relations by
particles of matter acting and reacting on
each other that have chemical affinities for
each other. In this way our globe had
its origin in natural causes and in natural
conditions of matter, as nebula or gases
in space operated on anG controlled by
universal law. Then out of this chaotic,
liquid, jelly mass emerged and grew our
animal globe, like out of an egg of liquid
animal matter comes organized life, an in
diyidual of its kind. Our globe then is
normal animal, not only on account of
Its self-prOpelling speed of sixty eight
thousand miles an hour in its annual rota-
ton around the sun and its daily reYolu-
ton on its axis of about twelve hundred
miles an. hour, but because it is a living
Individual, and performs the functions of |
life, and by the diversity of its nature |
gives birth to all animal and vegetable ex- |
lstence. Its life and correspondence to an
lmals may be shown by its internal heats |
and gases, which correspond to the heart
and bowels of animals. Its four hun /
dred and seventy-five volcanoes to their
nOstrils, its granite structure supporting
all to the anatomy supporting their soft |
parts, its rivers large and small to their
arteries and veins, its exhalatiOns to their
sensible and insensible perspiratiOn, ifs
surface to their skins, its atmosphere to
their breaths and Odors, its trees and
shrubberY to their hair, its grasses to the
furs of small animals, its flowers to the
gaudy plumage of birds The relations
might be extended, but enough was shown
to open the eyes of those that have not
seen before this monster animal in its
true light. This king animal by the di-
versity of its character becomes at once a
study as the library of nature, and by di-
gesting its volumes pigmies might become
intellectual giants in normal philosophy.
Those who despise the science of nature,
reason from fanciful notions to worthless
conclusions, and are positive hindrance
to the advancement of truth in the world.
But, new truths, like new fashions, are
slow to take root in the mind, grow, bud,
blossom and bear their fruits, but when
they do, they become universally popular.
NATURE.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
GROWN PRINCE FREDERICK
WILLIAM

Prince Frederick William is Inspector
of the First Division of the Prussian ar
my, and holds other military appoint
ments. On the 25th of January, 1858,
he married the Princess Victoria, eldest
daughter of Queen Victoria.
Having been made a General in 1861,
he commanded the Prusslans in the cam
paign against the Danes, and proved by
his strategical operations and before the
intrenchments of Duppel that, with ad-
vancing years, he had learned TO control
the rashness of his temper by prudence
and artful combination, and not only
to make brave attack, but
also patiently to prepare its sue
cess. During the last war, in command
of three army corps forming the first
army, he marched on the 23d of June
into Saxony, pushed on into Bohemia,
won, on the 2Sth, the day at Munchen
Gratz, took part on the Sd of July at
Sadowa, after the first skirmish occupied
Saar Bruenn on the 18th, took on the 10th
Sunderburg as commander of the advance,
went on the 18th into Hungary, and was
at Presburg only prevented by the con-
clusion of the armistice from taking pris-
oners q whole army corps.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
REMARKABLE SYNAGOGUE.

The Israelites of Turin are building a
new place of worship, which, according
to an account in the Paris Temps, is a
very extraordinary affair:
''The most remarkable of all structures
at Turin is the synagogue Of the Israelites.
1t is likely the finest and richest syna-
gogue in the world, and at the same time
the most remarkable monument of Turin.
Upon a small square hill, with adapted
stairs, stands Greek temple in white and
pink. Above, little backwards, is a
kind of second temple. The whole is
trayeTsed by galleries, acOrned with small
pillars and thousands of splendid embel-
lishments White and reddish cOlOrs
predominant. 1t is Greek and
MOOrish-it is Romantic and Gothic; there
is a blending of all styles, without over
straining and without bad taste. But
what makes this structure something
bizarre and unexpected is a massive tow
er, with pierced walls arising above this
Ornamented, beautiful construction, re-
minding of Asia and Egypt, of Thebes
and Nineveh. Surely the architect of
this building was gifted by Imagination
He was an able interpreter of the He
brew dream of the temple to be erected
at the brink of strange river. Never
since the great destruction has Israel pos
sessed a more magnificent edifice in which
the hymns of David resOunded. This
building is entirely fit for the talented
Italian Jews, who are power at the ex-
change, at the press and in the parlia-
ment.n
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
LUXEMBURG.

The fortress Of Luxemburg, in the
Grand Duchy of that name, is likely to
furnish the immediate embodiment of all
the European nations in the present war.
This stronghold lies in the corner between
France, Belgium, and Rhenish Prussia,
and is the military key to the German
provinces on the left bank of the Rhine
AT casual glance it would seem that the
first step of each of the belligerents would
inevitably be to seize upon and occupy
this fortress. But here they are met by a
diplomatic difficulty.
When the aggrandizement of Prussia
had been cOnsummated in 1866, France
was, of course, on the alert to strengthen
herself in every possible way against her
growing rival. She saw that, in q posi-
bic future effort to ''rectify her bounda-
ries by conquering the German Rhine
Provinces" this German federal fortress,
garrisoRed under old treaties by Prussian
troops, would be lion in her path. The
Grand Duchy, containing only 991
square miles, was under the prac-
teal protectorate of Holland. France
sent secret agent-a woman, it was
said-to the King of the Meth
erlands, and offered to buy Luxemburg;
the King was disposed to negotiate, but
suddenly remembering that his posses
siens lay on the Prussian side of the
Rhine, and that the Prussian armies were
flushed with their recent victories, con-
cluded that one-sided bargain of this
sort was hardly fair. He informed Prus-
sia of the pending intrigue. Prussia said
no; the diplamatic fire flared up, and the
''Luxemburg question" for time Sc
riously threatened the peace of Europe
A conference was summoned at Lon
don, and a treaty signed by France,
Prussia, Belgium, Holland, Austria,
Italy and England, placing the Grand
Duchy under the guarantee of Austria,
France, Great Britain, Prussia and Rus
sia, to thenceforth form a State perpetu-
ally neutral, bound to observe that same
neutrality toward all other States, and
further providing that the fortress should
be evacuated by the Prussian troops, and
be dismantled by the Grand Duke.
The Prussian troops were wifhdra1h,
and the Grand Duke made q pretense of
keeping his promise, but never did il
The fortress still remains strong by art
and stronger by nature.
There it lies, a coveted prize for each
of the belligerents- France for attack,
to Prussia for defense. Each party will
probably violate the treaty of neutrality
each will certainly find abundant diplO-
matte reasons for asserting that the other
has violated it and the remaining Eu-
ropean powers can ''pay their money and
take their choice" on which side they
will wage diplomatic or military battle on
the subject Chicago Republican, July
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
FRENCH INTERVENTION IN
NASHVIILE


By request we publish the following
editorial from the Nashville Correspoa
dent (German) of yesterday:
In to-day's issue of the Banner ap
pears an article over the signature of E
Loiseau, certainly Frenchman by birth
apparently endeayoring to ridicule tht
German patriotic meeting of Tuesday last
The call was for the meeting of ''all Ger
mans and those who sympathize with TIT
German cause.p
While the Germans of Nashville claim
the right to hold such meetings, they dc
not deny the right TO French-born citi
zens, nor would they feel themselves the
least faggrieved by it; nor after they had
expressed such sentiments as would be
natural, just and proper on the occasion,
and in harmony with those patriotic emo
tions which do honor TO every true lover
of his "Fatherland" would they resort TO
the newspapers to disparage them. r
We assure Mr.. L. that the Germans of
this city entertain no unfriendly feelings
towards their French born fellow-citizens
and deeply regret the existing unfortunate
necessity for a bloody war between the
two most powerful nations in Europe.
While we are not disposed to an elabo-
rate enumeration of the immediate causes
precipitating the terrible struggle, yet to
every impartial student of the history of
the Old World it must be known that
France, (or if it please Mr.. L. better, the
rulers of France) since 1S43 invari-
ably interfered with all efforts to
unite in one common national brother
hood the German States. This national
unity cOmmends itself to every true Ger
man heart as partaking Immediately of a
republican, or representative form of gov
ernment, and becoming the immediate
precursor of the most liberal civil pOlity
that can possibly exist in Europe. Be
sides this, We fOndly cherish the idea of
German unity, because it allays all sec
tional jealousies, develops enlarged ma
tional sympathies, presents the attractive
tie of a common language, blends in har
mony all conflicting interests, enables the
people to select for all important POSI-
tiOns the first ability of the entire Ger
man nations, unites under one impulse
the tremendous energies heretofore sepa-
rated, if not divided, and places Germany
in the van of the civilization and enlight-
eminent of the world, and in that
progress which now characterizes
only such nations as permit free
dom of thought and conscience. We
conclude with only bare reference to the
imputation Mr.. L. makes of despotism to
Prussia. Prussia is military, but not,
therefore, despotic power. She is mill
tary simply because it is necessary for
national security against foreign powers
and not to enslaVe her own people. And
so to be military each citizen capable of
bearing arms must be trained in military
exercise, as her defense is a citizen sol
diery. She is monarchical because it
gives greater efficacy'to military strength.
Let German unity be secured, German
nationality established, and the brave SOL
dier becomes the peaceful citizen, the
weapons of war implements of hus-
bandry, and the monarch the chosen civil
magistrate of the people.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
HANCOCK AND GRANT.

Correspondence of the New York Herald.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE question
as to whether or not Gen. Hancock, when
in Washington in 1865, was guilty of
rudeDess to Gen. Grant, thereby sab
solving the President from regarding Gen.
Hancock's preferences" as set forth in the
letter of Gen. Sherman, published some
time since, is likely to be revived by the
publication of correspondence between
Hancock and ex-GOv. Flanders, Mayor of
New Orleans. Gen. Hancock wrote to
Mr. Flanders some time ago, enclosing
the Associated Press dispatch of May %,
giving an account of a street meeting at
which Gen. Grant said, in friendly way,
''GOod morning, Hancock, and extended
his hand, to which Hancock made 70 re-
ply, but merely touched his hat and
walked on. Mr.. Flanderszwas asked as
matter of justice to relate what transplTed
on the occasion referred to in this dis
patch. His reply is in effect that he re-
members the occasion well; that he was
in conversation with Gen. Grant on Lou
isiana affairs, opposite Jay Cookies bank,
and that Gen. Hancock's passing at the
time was a curious coincidence, Whlch
impressed the occurrence on his memory :;
that the greeting on both sides was free,
natural and courteous that neither party
came within thirty feet of the other, and
consequently there was no attempt TO ex-
tend the hand; and that. under the clr-
cumstances which he knew existed, the
impression made on his mind at the time
was that the meeting was exceptionally
pleasant. Had there been the sllghtes'
discourtesy or disrespect he would have
noticed it. The Hancock party lay grea'
stress on this denial, from the fact that
Flanders and Hancock are political ana
personal antipodes. Flanders is strong
Radical and was removed from the GoV-
ernorship of Louisiana by Hancock.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
CONDENSED TELEGRANIS

Captain General Rodas has abolished
drum head court martial throughout Cuba,
except in extraordinary cases.
City of Mexico advices of July, 10, state
that General Martinez with a reorganized
force, was threatening the city of San Luis
Petosi.
The Bark Berkshire, ran into and sunk
on the east coast of England, an American
vessel whose name could not be ascertained.
All on board lost.
The Supreme conclave order of Seven
Wise Men, met at Baltimore, yesterday;
Anthony Samboli, of Louisiana, presided.
Delegations are present from most South
ern States.
By a heavy storm on Wednesday night
at Rochester, N. Y, three buildings were
burned by lightning. No lives lost.
Considerable damage was done by the
storm, Wednesday night, at Toronto.
It is estimated that the decline in the
number of German emigrants to America
this year will reach fully 10000, on &C.
! count of the war.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-22
PRIm AT KICHK.

Marshal Prim having set middle Eu-
rope by the ears, calmly takes his seat by
the health-dispensing fountains of Vichy,
in France, and, undisturbed as the gods
of Olympus, contemplates from afar the
shock of human passions. Specula-
tions upon the part likely to be taken in
the great conflict by Spain would seem to
be rather superfluOus in the presence of
this serene fact. Although there is hardly
reason yet to suppose that the Spanish
forces win be actively engaged on the
side of France, it may be taken to be al
together certain that Prussia has no aid
to expect from the Peninsula.
1t would be curious thing enough if it
should prove in the end to be true, as it
has already in quarters usually well in
formed been asserted to be, that Marshal
Prim's negotiations with Count Bismarck
and the HOhenzollerns on the subject of
Prince Leopold were conceived in his deep
and crafty CatalOnian mind solely for the
purpose of entrapping Bismarck into a
position which might lead to war be-
tween France and Prussia, and by engag-
ing the Emperor Napoleon in so grave a
struggle secure for Prim himself greater
freedom of action in deciding the destinies
of SpaiDsto suit his own views.