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larity that he, the foreigner, without any ante
cedents to give him claim on the affection OF
the Spanirds, can boast of.
In Austria the complications between the
Germans and Czechs have entered new phase.
After the resignation of Count HoHEswARr,
an Ultramantane and Feudalist of the deepest
hue, who, although a German himself, was en-
tirely committed to the cause of the Czechs,
and after the failure Of his successor, KELLERs-
PERG, to make his way through the labyrinth of
conflicting interests, political questions and
national animosity that confronted him, the
Emperor seems to have become conscious of the
impolicy of course that must necessarily
produce general dissatisfaction, not only
among the Germans in Bohemia, but among
the whole German population of the empire,
who have made the cause OF their country
men in Bohemia their own. A new Minis
try has been appointed of decidedly Ger
man tendencies, and Count ANERsPERG, under
whose auspices it has been formed, is known
as a liberal and progressive man, who enjoys
| the esteem and confidence of the whole Ger.
man party. The more Objectionable ne will
consequently be to the Czechs, who, although
| not morally entitled to rule over the large
| German minority in Bohemia, who are vastly
superior to them in knowledge, culture, and
enlightenment nevertheless have just claims to
autonomy, as far as legal. historical and ma
tional rights are involved. 1t seems, indeed
| next to impossible for monarch or statesman
to steer his way between this ScYLLA on one
| side aud CHARYBDIs on the other without
injustice to one of the contending parties. 1t
is the falseness of the whole position, the forced
union under our sceptre, of two distinct ma
tons, who have nothing in common save thei
mutual aversion, which thus far has defed al
attempts TO reach peaceable and satisfactory
| settlement.
| The French Republic does not offer sigh
more cheering or hopeful than any of the Eu
ropean monarchies. Sentences to capital pun
ishment. imprisonment for life and exile, passed
on unfortunate Communists, suppression o
radical papers, and prosecution of their editors
are still the order of the day; Bonapartis
conspiracy for diversion, and state of thing
| generally to disgust all true Republicans. N
one can presume to foretell how long this is t.
last, or what will follow next; yet so much i
evident; the whole fabric is too false in itsel
to stand through its own strength.
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Oar Election.

The result of the election last week in the
District of Columbia was highly gratifying to
the friends of Improvement Governor COOKE S
administration was fully endorsed. Twenty
Republican nominees were elected to the House
of Delegates. We have gained two colored
members of the House of Delegates, though in
one case strong efforts were made on the part
of white followers of the Republican party to
defeat the colored nominee by nominating a
third candidate against him.
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iHE Illustration is little old, bu. there is M
more iorclole one of the utter absurditv of tbs
pea 'nat Tree trade will cheaper prices than
'""' gwen oy the lrishman who when boastinr
Una, ne could buy more with a sixpepee in Ire
'ai'd 'han with two shillinss here, was aske5
WY ne oidnt remain there! His answer was
be Jaoers, | couldn't get the sixpep,ey IF
,'e' 'ra'e should cheaper prices here. it wop,d
uePF've US OF the means of buying by DESTROY.
ing all demand for labor It.would throw ,w,
millions OF men out Of employment, and t,to
IRON, ITO, them all the means to buy anything
" nateVer depgeciates the price of labor is
public calamity. however much IL may lo.so,
the price of other things.
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rHs New York World, following in the
wake OF holder, if not wiser, Comprehend
sheets, trantically appeals to it's disorranizad
and demoral'zed party to unite with the other
opponents of Gen. GRANT, with the sorebeads
OF our party, and the "rag.tag and bobtails"
OF all parties, in one desperate struggle to de-
feat the Republican party. It cares not who
their candidate is-whethcr Copperhead or
sorehead, loyal or rebel, black or white. Chris.
tian or Jew, knave or honest man. if he can
bring together the discordant. hungry. I'm.
happy enemies of President GRANT. The
country may 81 to destruction if they can but
defeat him.
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THE efforts of Governor PALMER, of Illinois,
20 procure the Indictment of General SHERr-
DAN by the Grand Jury of Cook County lin
which Chicago is situated) for the alleged muir
der Of Colonel GRosv ENoR, during the great
fire, by soldier under his command, has proved
a miserable failure. Not only did the Grand
Jury not indct him, but they did exactly the
opposite thing by adopting resolution heartily
approving his action throughout the trying
ordeal to which he was subjected The conduc,
of the Governor in this matter is warmly de
nounced by the Judge, the Grand Jury, and
almost the entire press of the, city and State
The conduct of PALMER and those who unite
with him in caviling about the usurpation o.
the Government authorities at such time, il
exactly parallel to the malignant cutlery raised
by rebel sympathizers against President LIN
COLIN for usurpatons III taking prompt meas
ures to save the nation.
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The Lynchburg, Virginia, rebel ConserOa-
tFUe is in favor OF union of the rebel and
Cepperhead Democracy with sorehead Repub
licans upon some moderate and respccta
ble' sorehead Republican as the " Conserva
tive rebel-Copperhead candidate for Presi
dent These fellows are in for anyone or any
thing that offers the slightest prospect of bring.
ing the party which inaugurated and prose
cuted the rebellion back into power. Il
BENEDIcr ARNOLD or AARON BURR were alive
they would much sooner support either than
the man who defeated their armies and tn warted
their treason, and who has done 80 much to
restore the Union that they had destroyed
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In the Supreme Court Circuit, held by
Judge Tappen, last week, in Rockland county,
N. y, novel petition was presented to the
court. "A jury went out to determine upon q
yirdict: After being detained nearly whole
day without coming to an agreement, they
were at last discharged by the court Sub
sequently the following, signed by ten mem
bers of the jury, was presented TO the court !:
1--WE, the jurors ia the above trial, hereby
petition this honorable court to order the
name of - out of the jury-boX for the follow
ing reasons: la our opinion he is the most
stubborn and contrary man that the Almighty
ever made and is not fit tn sit as Juror in
any case. lie was never known to agree to
any question of law with either Judge or
Juror
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Marriages a hundrd years ago in England
are described in an old paper thus Married in
June, 1860, Mr.. William Donklin, a con
siderable farmer Of Great Tossom, near Both
bury, in the County of Cumberland, to Miss
Eleanor Shot,cn, an agreeable young gentle
on this occasion was very grand there being
no less than 10 quarters of lamb, At quarters
of veal, - quarters Of mutton, and a great
quantity Of beef; IL hams, with a suitable
number of chickens, &C., which was concluded
with eight halfankerS of brandy made into
punch; II dozen of cider great many
gallons Of wine, aud 80 bushels of malt mado
into beer. The company consisted of $50
ladies and gentlemen, who concluded with the
music of 20 Gddlers and pipers, and the whole
was conducted with the utmost order and
unnnimitY.
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ACCORDING to the Washingtos correspondent
an interview with Hon. b. +. WADE last week
intimated that he should urge no policy with
regard to Santo Domingo in his forthcoming
message MIR. WADE united with him in DENY.
ing ia TITO story printed a short time ago in
a New York Journal that the former is acting
as the agent of General GRANT to secare the
purchase Of Santo Domingo, and working with
prominent politicians to that end. The Pres
dent added that il President WHITE, of Cor.
nell University, DR.. s. g. HOWE, Colonel For
NEY, and the Union League Club of Phla
delPhia, or any one else, is engaged in work.
ing up any annexation scheme, he was not
aware Of the fact
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Robert ColIver the brave Cb;caco r-ooob

Robert Coliyer, the brave Chicago preacher,
VIII IN the fire left nothing but his courage
and his opportunities, says he don't know
anything about the story that the students of
Cornell University have invited him to make u
'frst-class horseshoe, for which they will pay
him 81 ,0OO the money to go to relieve the
Chicago sufferers new Unity church.
He seems to wish il were true, however, as
must all his friends, and says: Il write this
to stop the thing if it be bogus, or to hurry it
along if it be real because | am now ready
to go to work right Off at the price named /,
and when | have made one shoe for the
Cornell boys, price 81 900, and got the money
into the treasury of the Rellefand Aid Society,
| will reduce my price one-h half and make "A
many more as the whole world has mind TO
order, and apply the whole income of the same
to rebuilding, first my church and then my
home" There is chance that Colyer's horse
shoes may be in demand.
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A Paris pbyician writes TO the papers to
remind the public that about eight hundred
persons were secretly assassnated, in patches.
night after night, in the underground cellars
of the prison OF the CoDcergerie, and their
bodies carried away to the Cemetery of Mont
Parnasse. Can anything be more terrible or
more hearIrsnding than those midnight fusilades
In which eight hundred innocent persons were
cruelty murdered by those for whom Nj. Theirs
promises moderation, or clemency, for that
is the word for which the other was substituted
Those unhappy victims are already forgotten
by the public, although the doctor in question
points to certain persons as being able 10
give all the information that can be desired,
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Death Of Eieat. Gov. Dunn.

By the death of Hon. OSCAR Dunn the Re-
publican party of louisiana has lost one of its
ablest leaders. His political career was of a
character to arouse the strongest emotions of
pride in the breast of every colored man in the
country. Once slave he may be said to have
risen from the lowest depth of degradation to
eminence and power, making for our race
another link in the chain of evidence of the
black mans capabfty, and showing how ut
terly futile has been the effort of more than two
centuries to imbrute the African race upon this
continent
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The public debt of Virginia is larger by sew
eral millions than that of any other State in
the Union, not excepting New York and Penn
sylvania. 1t has reached the startling sum
total OF forty seven millions of dollars And
yet that State has never been under the control
of carpet baggers or Republicans, but is a
model Democratic State. How do those
Democrats who have raised such an outcry
over Republican corruption and extravaganza
in other Southern States account for their
enormous public debt aud what have they to
show for
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Prejudice i'm Oberiiu.

We hear complaints coming up from colored
students at Oberlin College of determinations
on grounds of color on the part of the faculty
of that institution. We dislike very much TO
hear that O6erin has not fallen int, line with
those who ignore the foolish prejudice of the
days Of slavery, and who are willing to accord
10 the black man his full share of whatever his
abilities entjtle him to We have WllberForce
University, Lincoln University, and Howard
University with open doors ready to receive
and in ,ruct colored men, and to allow them
all their merits entitlc them to. OF such col
leges should the eolorcd people of the United
States become patrons; and if Oberlin is OF
the opinion that it is inerpeI'ent for colored
siu tents to teach, let Oberlin understand that,
in the opinion of colored people, it is inexpe-
dent that colOred students should be in
strueted in college whore they are considered
"A prescribed and an inferior class.
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Tue Democratic organ of Judge NELSON, of
the United States Supreme Court, published at
Cooperstown, New York; closes a labored
editorial exposition of the melancholy condi-
ton of the Democracy by frankly declaring
that the leading Democrats of that State admit
that they have no hope of cecting the next
President under the present OrganizItio of
the party, through tho nomination of Demo
cratic National Convention
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AT her recent lecture in New York, Mrs
VICTORIA Woodruff came out squarely, and
in terms that no one will mistake, for free love-
She declared, without any beating about the
bush, what her principles were. Il am" said
she, ga free lover; have an inaiienable, con-
stitutional and natural right to love whom L
may, to love as long or as short a period as
can, to change that love every day, if please,
and with that right neithor you nor any law
you can frame have any right to interfere"
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TnE Boston Advertiser, (Republican,) refer
ring to the next Presidency makes no question
that there is opposition to President GRANTS
denomination. earnest and determined, but not
formidable. 1T is nothing" it says, "but OPP
position. 1t has no Affirmative side. 1t repre-
sents no separate policy, no common purpose,
no recognized candidate or hope of one It is
no rash prophecy to predict that the National
Convention in June will nominate Gen. GRANT
again with very little opposition
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IT was runored that General SCHENc& has
decided to terminate his mission to Eagland
and to accept the position of law officer of the
Northern Pacific Railroad. This ru,nor is be-
heved to be untrue. by the late ruling of tho
Supreme COurt OF OHIO the General was de-
clared 20 be elected 90 the House of Represen-
tatlves, it having been decided that the rejec-
ton of the votes of the soldiers residing at the
Dayton Home was illegal.
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Hon. JOHN Scorr, one of the Senator's in Con
gress from Pennsylvania, has been suggested in
quite number of papers as the Republican can
didate Tor Vice President. Mr.Scorr is one of the
very ablest men in the Senate, and what is better
still, he is man of sound principles and un-
impeachable integrity Of character, political as
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THE free lovers, free traders, free whisky
champions, and all men of free morals and
loose principles, are the bitter enemies of Gen.
GRANT and his administration. But both have
the entire confidence of vast majority of the
interrupted and unselish people of the nation
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Tue Lancaster (0hio) Eagle, ferocious
Democratic paper, is indignant at the sugges-
ton of Col. Tom Scorr. Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, by some of its Democratic brethren,
for President. Better an age of GRANTS AID.
ministration. exclaims the wrathy Buckeye.
than a fortnight of such bundle of ignorance
and tyranny as the administration Of The great
railroad monopolist would be!
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The report of the colored mass meeting sent
as by our Philadelphia correspondent r. L. g.
is, owing to press of other matter, crowded OUT.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-15
THE OPENING CONTEST.
Trial of tIsc .~sSpraguc" and SEX
crlSicr" Mowers.
The Sprague Triumphant.

The trial of mowers, growing out OF
Messrs. Hough q Church's challenge, on
behalf of the ''Sprague,' to McCorkle d
Co., agents of the Excelsior came off
yesterday, according to promise, at Straw
berry Plains.
The contestants selected the judges for
the trial, as follows;
McCorkle & COD. Ii. Meek.
Hough Il Church-B. +. Ketchum.
BY the Committee-J. NJ. LuttTell.
And the moving then began. We print
the report of the committee.
The Committee on tie moving contest,
between the Spraguc and Excelsior mowers.
beg leave TO report as follows:
LIST. Which is the cheapest machine
The Committee believe the Sprague is.
I'd. The most simple in construction :
Taking the machine as a whole, we believe
the Sprague has the preference.
Sd. Which is the most durable? Your
Committee without the test Of use cannot
say.
4th. Which requires the most power?
Your Committee is of the opinion that
the Excelsior does.
9TH. Which has the least side-draft =?
Your Committee is of the opinion that it
depends upon the length of cutter bar and
condition of grass being cut.
9th. Which does the most work in the
least time? No test.
9TH. Which does the best work? Your
Committee are of the opinion that both
machines do excellent work.
Sth. Which is the most portable when
in operation or otherwise? Your Com
mittee think the Sprague is.
9th. The arrangement for throwing in
and out of gear? Your Committee are
of opinion that both are we'll arranged.
10th. The accessibility ofparts for con-
venience of oiling, tightening nuts, &c?
Your Committee give the Sprague the
preference.
18th. Convenience and safety of driver?
Your Committee has no choice.
18th. Adaptation to uneven surface and
cutting at different heights. Your Com
mittee is of the opinion that the Sprague
is the easiest adjusted.
Respectfully submitted.
The committee was governed in the
above conclusion by a special agreement
between the contestants.
RECAPTULATION.
Spragucs-6 points of excellence.
Undetermined-6 points.
CARD OF HoUGH & CHURCH.
KNOXVILLE, June 6.
The two Sprague Mowers which Messrs.
Church & Hough had atthe moving con-
test, were so greatly admired by the far
mers present, and their excellences so
thoroughly appreciated. that both ma
chimes were eagerly sougth for and were
sold before leaving the ground.
Ii HoUGH & CHURCH.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-15
Washington.

WASHINGTON, June 1O.-The Polaris
sailed to-day.
Orders from the Internal Revenue office,
to-day. discontinued the use of the fine
spirit metre.
WASHINGTON, June 12.-Belknap has
returned.
New hundred dollar notes were placed
in circulation to-day.
The Comptroller of the Currency di-
reefs banks throughout the country to re-
port their condition by June 10th
The Commissioners nave appointed the
following persons to take testimony in the
South insuch cases as cannot be brought
to Washington for hearing:
Theo. v. Farmer, Columbia. South
Carolina james o. Pierce, Memphis;
VIM. Grant, New Orleans: Charles w.
Hill, Shreveport; O. III. Brewster. Mon
roe, Louisiana; Z. p. jacobson, Vicks-
burg Harry G. Blackman, Holly Springs,
Mississippi: c. Cadle, Jr., Selma, Ala
bana; w. B. Figures. Huntsville. Ala;
Frank E. Wright, Little Rock; John L..
COnley, Atlanta, Georgia Calvin l..
Robinson, jacksonville, Florida. There
arc other appointments to be made, but
they have been put off temporarily. The
Special Commissioners are to receive three
dollars per day for attendance. and twenty
cents per hundred words for taking, re-
cording and certifying to the testimony.
The Claims Commissioners have also de-
cided that their jurisdiction does not ex-.
tend to claims for rent, or occupation OF
buildings and grounds for military pur-
poses, and that they are not empowered
to report to Congress on the merits of
any such,
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Prof. Huxlcy's Plan Of Education.

Iconceive the proper course to be some
what as follows: To begin with, let every
child be instructed in those gen.
eral views of the phenomenon of nature
for which we have no exact English name.
The nearest approximation to a name
for what | mean which we possess, is ply
steal geography" The Germans have a
better. Erdhunde, (earth-knowledgc, or
geology in its chronological sense), that
is to say, a general knowledge of the earth
and what is on it, in it, and about it. If
any one who has had experience of the
wa; of young children will call to mind
their qustions, he will find that, so far as
they can be put into any scientific category,
they come under the head of E'rrihuRde.
The child asks, what is the moon, and why
does it shine? What is this water, and
where does it run? What is the wind?
What makes the waves in the sea? Where
does this animal live? and what is the use
of this plant? And if not snubbed and
stunted by being told not to ask foolish
questions. there is no limit to the intellec.
tual craving of a young child, nor any
bounds to the slow but solid accretion of
knowledge and development of the think
ing quality in this way. To all such ques-
tions, answers which are necessarily incom-
plete, but true as far as they go, may be
given by any teacher whose ideas repre-
sent real knowledge, and not mere book
learning ;sanda panoramic view of mature
accompanied by a strong infusion of the
scientific habit of mind, may thus be pla-
ced within the reach of. every child of
nine or ten.
After this preliminary opening of the
eyes to the great spectacle Of the daily pro,
gress of nature, as the reasoning faculties Of
the child grow, and he becomes familiar
with the use OF the tools of knowledge
reading, writing and elementary mathema-
tics-he should pass on to what Is in the
more strict sense physical science.
Now there are two kinds of physical
science the one regards form and the re-
lation of forms to one another the other
deals with causes and effects. In many of
what we term our sciences, those two kinds
are mixed up together; but systematic
botany is a pure example of the former
kind, and physics of the latter kind of
science. Every educational advantage
which training in physical science can give
is ob.ainable from the proper study of
these two and 1 should be contented for
the present if they, added to our Erd-
kunde, furnished the whole of the scien-
tifc curriculum of schools.-Lay Ser
,edes, Addreseesand Rec;,rs.