The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-21
FRANCE.
A New Dnuxer-Defc,ency OF Fuel.

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France is singularly ill-provided with coal,
and now the coal fields of the Saar valley are
removed hopelessly beyond her reach. Her
reliance, says the Pail Mall Gazette, was in
great measure upon her forests, and these forests
very frequently the property of the State or
thrifty communes have been cut of late years
on the most scientific principles, and husbanded
with the greatest care. The effect of the sea-
sons waste will be long felt and very serious
Villagers may SOW their fields again with seed,
lent or given, cottages can be rebuilt, and in a
year or so the plough will everywhere have
eftaced the traces of the sinister grave-mounds,
as the plough has already done by Woerth and
Weissenburg. But for twenty or thirty years
to come the poor will have to buy the fuel
they used to cut on their own commonalty,
and as each bitter winter brings novel hardships
in its train, they will curse the ravager who
caused their misery, and annually vow VEN
geance. The German may have abused the rights
OF victory but little; but his victims will be
scarcely likely to regard his conduct from dis
passionate point of view. passage in letter
from Normandy published the other day struck
us as very forcible. 1t depicted the frugal Nor
man peasant looking on savagely at Teutons of
great appetite making free with his food and
drink as men do make free with the property of
their neighbor. That feeling will be universal
in this matter of the woods. Habituated to have
their fuel doled out to them, accustomed to use
it sparingly even when there was no necessity
except instructive sympathy with the tone of
the country, the suppressed rage at witnessing
the destruction wrought by the invader must be
and materially nothing will prove graver or
more lasting grievance than this destruction of
the forests.
An Evacuation Story Spelled.
We may as we'll advert in a word or two SAYS
the Pail Mall Gazette, to the ingenious hypothe-
sis of some people that Trochu intends to with
draw with his troops to the fortified peninsula
OF Mont Naleran as to citadel, after the fall OF
Paris. This profound surmise has been concocted
by some of the super clever hangers-on of the
staff at Versailles and is based chiefly the fact
that good many carts go backwards and for
wards between Paris and that peninsula. He
must certainly be an uncommon clever general
who chooses to construct for himself a citadel
on a low alluvial peninsula surrounded on all
sides by commanding heights, from which the
camps of his troops can be surveyed like
panorama, and consequently fred into at easy
ranges. But as long as the Prussian staff has
existed 1t has been troubled with the presence
of some men OF superhuman sharpness. With
them the enemy is always most likely TO do the
very unlikeliest thing of ALL AS the German
saying goes, ''they hear the grass growing"
Whoever has occupied himself with Prussian
military literature must have stumbled over
this sort of people, and the only wonder is that
they should find anybody to believe them.
New Hampshire has sent female school
teacher to prison for three years for forgery.
The Governors of Virginia and Maryland
are still exchanging letters about the oyster
troubles.
As the Massachusetts, volunteer militia costs
the State $500, 600 year, the economical citi-
zens insist that the force may be reduced.
LATEST SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 2l.- Arrived steamships HOl-
land, from Liverpool and South America, from Rio
JanerO.
CLEARED THIS MORNING.
Steamship Norfolk, Platt Richmond and Norfolk,
steamer q. II. Stout Ford, Georgetown and Alex
andria W. p. Clyde a. Co.
Brig Erin, Wiley Barbados, L. westergaard s. Co.
ARRIVED THIS MORNING.
Steamer Benefact0r, Sherwood, "a hours from
New York, with mdse to John r. Oil.
steamer II. Franklin, Pierson, II hours from Bati-
more, with mise. and passengers TO A. Groves, Jr,
Steamer New York. Jones, from Georgetown and
Alexandria, with mdse TO W. p. Clyde Co.
Sehr Manaway, Hampton, from MilVilleB with
Schr Henrietta simmons Godfrey, from Salem.
SehI Stephen Morris, Seaman IN Delaware O!tR