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The New York herald., 1871-01-04
THE LAST soRTIe FROM PARIS.
TELEGRAMs TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

TELEGRAMs TO THE NEW YORK HERALD
vards--A Call to Arms-The Rendezvous
I'm Route for the Front-rhe Scene-The
Wounded-Disheartened Frenchmen-Home-
ward.
LONDON, Jan. 8, 1871.
have received the following letter from the NEW
YORK HERALD correspondent in Paris, dated De
cember %. He writes:-
EXCITEMENT ON THE BOULEvARDs.
The borlevards presented scene OF unusual ex.
tcemeAi on the afternoon of the 2lst. Officers and
soldiers in large numbers were nastening to Join
their corps, calssons full of ammunition and bate
ries OF mirailleuses were dashing along the thor
Oughfares, and the too well known wearers OF red
crosses were fitting past in the direction OF the
forts. All this hustle and confusion gave evidence
shat military operations on large scale had been
undertaken, and wildly excited groups OF persons
gathered in the bouevards anAiously watching the
movements of the troops, artillery and ambulances.
A CALL TO ARMS.
At two O'Clock In the morning, quite suddenly,
every quarter OF the city resounded the nose and,
as II by encnantment every window in Paris was
Illuminated and heads peered through upon the
streets, as If desirous of ascertalning what had
transpired, that citizens should be summoned from
their beds to report for military duty. Those men
not called to march from the city and meet the
enemy gazed from their windows into the i'm
pcnetrable darkness Of :he morning for few
inmates and then crept back to their BEDS shiyer-
Ing With the Geld.
THE RENDEZVOUS.
Shortly after five O'Clock started for the rendez-
vOus Of the Evangeline ambulance CORPS and found
long Line OF carts and carriages waiting for orders.
The numerous blankets, mattresses and stretchers
told painfully the destination OF the ambulances.
Near by the men employed as stretcher bearers
stood ready to take their departure. Everybody
listened, but no sound OF cannon was heard for
some time.
EN- ROUTE FOR THE FRONT
AT length the order was given to advance, and we
aeft the CITY by the Pantin gate. The houses on the
nutskEts deserted and dismantled echoed the noise
VI our rattlipg cavalcade Passing on to the open
country our ears were greeted by wen sustained
can8onade, the heavy mist which hung over every
thing rendering 1t impossible to see the flashes
THE SCENE.
The ihunder-liKe reports or the heavy guns gave
TO the scene strange effect. On our right was
Forts Romainvine and Noisy with their neighborlng
redoubts and on our left Fort Auberyilliers the
guns OF which thundered until the earth shook,
lie Borrget calne the sound OF sharp firing. At La
Foie the anlbuIances were ordered to halt. There,
As well as OF all other points on the enyirops Of the
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TELEsRAMs TO THE new YoRK HERALD.
Parisians CIamorous for n SOrtie-Trochu
Still Obdurnte.


Still Obdurate.
BORDEAUX, Jan. 3. 1871.
Advlces from Paris to December 80 received here
state that the Parisians unite in urging General
Trochu to make sortie with an enormous force,
which can readily be spared for the service as the
weather is moderating and the artillery for the
defence Of the city Is now so numerous and well
manned that the enemy will be unable to make any
serious impression upon the Notifications
TROcHU STILL oBDURATE.
1t appears tnat General Won Motke, after the
battle at Pont Noyees between the armies OF Gene
rails Faidherbe and Manteuffel, sent message to
General Trochu that the French Army OF the North
had been annihilated. General Trochu paid no at
tention to the statement.
News from the City-Provision suppIy-Field
Operntions-Chauzy's Succ esses-Spirit OF
the Press-Threatened Points-Severity Of
the Weather.
LONDON, Jan. 3, 1870.
correspondent OF the Tribune at Paris sends
letters and papers to the 3lst uit. He says
PROVISIONS SUPPLY.
Coal cannot be bought as it has all been used for
casting cannon and by the railways ana mills.
Wood is nearly gone; the trees Of the Bos Bouogne
and the boulevaras are now being cut. Children
are dying for the want OF milk. The total number
OF deaths for each Of the last two weeks was q 7Oo
Bread plentiful it is not rationed and expected
to last to the end Of February.
FIELD OPERATIONS
The Prusslans continue their field operations,
Notwithstanding the cold weather. Trochu says
Fort Avron was evacuated voluntarily to escape the
Prusslan shells, their guns being Of longer range
than those of the French.
PREMATURE.
The French papers here are joyful over the report
or the resignation OF the Gladstone Ministry.
CHAuZY's SUCCESSES.
The continued victories of Chauzy over Frederick
Charles causes general enthusiasm.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
the Electeur Ltbur admits discussions to its COL
umns as to whether the French should prolong re-
slsance or not The Etecte,u Ltour of the 31st De-.
cember demands more energetic military measures.
makes incessant attacks upon the provisional gov
ernment, and quotes the Presse as saying that the
authorities show sluggishness and hesitation.
lie Francois complains that the Inhabitants OF
Ruen and Nanterre have been notified to take
refuge in Paris to escape the Prussian Shells and
says that an attack on yalerien is expected to CON-
,,,anoo trnn,o.,,o.aiv
THREATENED POINTS.
The same paper explains the slight loss at Avron
by saying that the garrison projected by caso-
mates.
Eecter Ltore says that cannoneers OF the national
guards are distributed among the threatened Iorts
OF Rom ainvil!e Noisy and Rosmo.
SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER.
The same correspondent at Paris writes on the
2t,n ultlmo:-
The Pan1e has been suspended for three days for
giving information to the enemy, The troops are
cantoncd because OF the severe cold. No less than
600 cases>of frostbite occurred In one night Field
works are Impossible. the frost being twenty inches
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MISCELLANEOUS REPORTS.
TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
French Victory mt Gray-Thc Prussian Com.
plications with England.
LONDON, Jan. 3, 1871.
severe engagement, in which the French were
Gray by the Germans.
THE COMPLICATIONS WITH ENGLAND.
The London telegraph announces on authority
that the demands made upon Prussia by the British
Cabinet relative to the seizure and sinking OF Eng
lish coers in the Seine are fair way Of adjust
ment
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DEEP SEA TELEGRAPHS.
sale Of a telegraph Line by the British
Governmental Cash Loss Somewhere.

sale Of telegraph Line by the British
Governmental Cash Loss Somewhere.
LONDON, Jan. 3, 1871
The submarine telegraph cable which commun.
Gates between the British possession OF Malta and
Alexandra, Egypt, has changed hands OF proprie-
torshp. The line has been sold by the English gov
ernmeDt, and passed under the control Of the Malta
and Alexandria Telegraph Company. All the stores
and material in hand on shore go with 1t.
The price realized is s126,O00 The property cost
the English government over $2,O0oOoO in the first
instance.
The Europe African Cab!e-C Continuity Ceased.
MALTA Jan. 3, 1871.
The submarine electric cable which opened and
has maintained communication between this island
ana Trpoli, the most eastern point Of the Barbary
States has ceased to work. The interruption OF
communication occurred quite suddenly. 1t is feared
mat the wire Is broken.
The Atlantic Cables-Searching for the Point
Of Rupture.
ST. JOHNS, n. F., Jan. 3, 1871.
The steamer Robert N. Lowe put IN here last FRI
day evening. already reported short OF coal and
wanting provisions.
The Robert N. Lowe is engaged In the service OF
the AtlanticCable Company. She VIII take her de-
parture to-day ana proceed TO sea, continuing to
watch for the ADVENT OF more favorable weather,
that she may be enabled to grapple the broken or
injured cables
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F r A N G E
Herald Special Reports from
Versailles and Paris.
The Duke Of Mecklenburg in
Disgrace.
Prince Frederick Charles Army
in Danger.
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Details of the Last Sortie from
the Besieged Capital.
PARIS ClAMoROUS FOR ANOTHER S0ATIE
The German Army Retreating
from the Loire.
Speech of King William ON New
Years Day.
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Severe Battle and French Victory
at Gray.
REPORTS FROM GERMAN
HEADQUARTERS.
The German Army Retreating
from the Loire.
Speech of King William ON New
Years Day.
Severe Battle and French Victory
at Gray.
REPORTS FROM GERMAN
HEADQUARTERS.
TrtEssAm TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.

TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD
TIE Duke Of Mecklenburg Disgraced-Prince
Frederick Charles in Danger-German Pros
poets Becomisg Gloomy-something Start
ling Expected.
LONDON, Jan. 8, 1871.
Ihave received the following despatch from the
NEW YORK HERALD correspondent at Versailles
dated december 80. Your correspondent writes:-
MECKLENBURG DISMISSED.
1t is reported here that King william has summa-
rily dismissed the Grand Duke Of Mecklenburg from
the command OF the right wing Of Prince Frederick
Charles army. The reason for this is stated to be
the failure Of Meckenburg Keep the French forces
At respectful distance from the investing lines
around Paris.
PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES IN DANGER.
At the present moment it appears probable that
the French armies commanded by Generals Bour-
baki and Chauzy will assume the offensive and make
q combined attack upon Prince Frederick Charles.
1t Is feared that such an attack viii result
fully for the French, who reported to be in supe-
rior numbers.
GERMAN PROSPECTS BECOMING GLOOMY.
1t is evident here that the German soldiers are
growing tired and weary Of the struggle, the in
cessant marching and counter marching and the
repeated battles without decisive results Outside
OF the investing line before Paris the French ring
daily contracting, While from inside OF Paris the
French ring is continually expanding.
SOMETHING STARTLING EXPECTED.
The Seine river Is now frozen hard, and the Ice
Is solid enough bear the weight Of large numbers
of and artillery As the French garrison in Paris
Is quite plucky you may hear Of their doing some.
thing astonishing shortly
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March4 1851. $685. lS0.S55 jan l. 1869 $40 7O7 2O1
July l. 1851. S6,49S,670 Fen. 1859. 556 205 65s
July l. 1852. 502 92l, ,404 March L. 1869 545 N38 s04
July 1858 093, 464 900 April 1862 542 ~ SOS
July l. 1864 l72l S4Iy34 May l. 1882 q 520 l5S 205
July 81 1885, % 157 253275 June l. 1869 52l s25
Sept. 1865 ,6s957l July 1862 3 509 l6O T73
JAM l. 1866 .27l6, s5l536 Aug. 1862 Z. sos 70S 533
Aug. L. 1866 633 029 2T6 Sept l. 1869 4gs COS O32
JAM 1867 5i3, 323 liz Oct 1859 O. 4S5 5gS sos
April 1857 .2523 42s.07o Nov. L. 1859 4e9 ST. 773
July 1857. .25l1 s000l3 Dec. L. 1899 Alb 237 l62
Oct. /, 1885,. 2496277.443 JAM 1870. 1872 AIS 1873
Nov. 1867. 249l 504 $50 Feb 1870. 2475 l4275
Jan. 1888. 59s 1875 $50 March 1870 463 027 S55
Feb l, 1858. q 527 3l5.373 Aprl L. 1870 2sq IT'S
March 1S6s2 519 S29, ,622 May /, 1870 43I 6S S79
Apri ls6s. .25l9 2096S7 June l. 1870 q 42s 2 016
May 1868 q 500 52s, ,s27 July 1870. 20S 363
June 1868. .251O 245 SS6 Aug !, 1870 3g9 423 466
July 1868. sos 95, 1872 Sept. 1870 q 3s3 Goa 030
Aug l, 1858. 523 5344s0 Oct. L. 1870 369 4O7 257
Sept. l. 1868 q, ,535 6l43l2 Nov 1870 2 356 364 306
Oct l. 1s6S..2 534 643 113 Dec. l. 1870 10000
Now l, 1S6s 527 129 552 Jan. 3, 1871 234s 664
Dec. 1868 81, $780, OBJ, ,s44
The following is statement OF bonds issued to the
Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in law
full money. the acts of July l, 1862, and July
2, 1864. Rate OF interest six per cent payable thirty
years from date Of the aCthGrz ng ac's 4 January
aud July
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s p A I N :.
The National Loan OF the Spaniards
Concluded i'm France.
Financial Position and Material Resources
Of the Kingdom.
LONDON, Jan. 3, 1871.

LONDON, Jan. 3, 1S71
The Bank of France has Just agreed to take the
balance OF the Spanish loan on the terms which
were originally agreed to.
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A meeting OF the Brennan Society will ne held this
evening at Lion Park 10sth street and Eighth ave-
The special object OF the meeting is to consider
the question Of "Puplic improvements and Wants VI
the Pe0pe,n
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THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The January Statement, Compared with That
Of the Corresponding Month Of Last Year
and with That Of December, l870-De-
crease for the Past Year $l12, 753, 1858
and for the Past Month o., ,726, ,688.

The statement Of the public debt as it stood
yesterday, January 3, has just been issued by the
Treasury Department We compare the figures
with those OF the statement made a year ago.
DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST.
Jan. l. 1870. ian. 3, 1871.
Five per cent BONDS $22l 5S9, 800 $2l4 267, 800
SIX per cent bonds. 1885, 349, 500 ,72o 775 400
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Chauxy Strongly POsted-Frcnch Successes-
Germans Drowned.
BORDEAUX, Jan. g. 1871.
Aportion Of General Chauzy's army is now strong
ly posted near vendome.
FRENCH SUCCESSES.
The engagements along the Loire for week past
have all been successes for the French. Near La
chatre 1900 prisoners were taken by the French.
GERMANS DROWNED.
A Prussian column recently lost 300 men by
drowning in an attempt to cross the Loire on the
Ice.
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THE ARMY OF The LOIRE.

TeLEGRkMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Retirement Of the German Army.
LONDON Jan. 8, 1871.
The reports that the German Army OF the Loire has
retired on Glen are apparently confirmed.
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The following table compares the statement Just
made with the previous one of December /, 1s7o-
DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST.
Dec. l. 1870. Jan. g. 1871.
Five per cent bonds.... S2lS977,300 $2l4 267, 300
SIX per cent bonds.... LIZA 774,SC0 1,72O 775,400
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THE BESIEGED CAPITAL.
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Total In Treasury. $2O9,3S7,716 $l3S0S6,572
Debt less cash In Treas. 49, 6ls7S3 2349 ,326
Decrease Of the national aebt since
January l. 1870, 7O,................ fIl2 753 963
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-14
WE CALL FOR THE PROOF.

The Dispatch having charged that 'IIon.
Charles Ii. Porter, Lewis Lindsay, ST..
Maddox, and Joe Cox were four of the men
who made the most Infamous gerrymander
ever made in Virginia" we have taken the
trouble to "exanine the apportionment
in the constitution" and find the state
ment of the Dispatch correct in every par
ticular, except that MEssRs. PORTER,
MADDOX AND Cox, VOTED AGAINST
THE NEW APPoRTIoNMENT, ON THE
MOTION OF MIR. PORTER TO LAY
THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
ON THE TABLE, and on its final pas
sage, not only did all four of those named
by the Dispatch, vote against the apportion-
ment, but they were sustained by large
majority of Republican members of the
convention. Out of thirty votes cast
against the apportionment TWENTY-FIVE
of them were Republicans.
We having performed our duty and car
ried out our pledges in this matter, now
call upon the Di,patch to retract its state
ment, so far as the gentlemen falsely ac-
cused are concerned. We await with some
anxiety the reply of our neighbor.
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might be punished. Some who dared TO murmur
have been silenced by threats, or mysterious
hints to guard their tongues.
BE it remembered that the foregoing is
the language of one of the most influential |
Democratic journals in the State of Geor-
gia, and we desire right here to call Che at
tention of our readers to the similarity OF
the sentiment contained in the foregoing ex-
tract to that which has been expressed by
us over and over again when speaking upon
the question of these outrages, and for using
language not one whit stronger than that
we have just quoted, we hazel been soundly
berated by the Democratic press from one
end of the State to the other. We have
repeatedly called upon the people to rise
in their majesty, and by public ex-
preston in open meeting, and by COM
bined effort in the cause Of law and or
der to put a stop to the inhuman barbarities
practiced by these self-constituted admins
traitors of "wild justice" Our appeals
have been Knocked at, and our language in
behalf of good order and obedience to law
has been derided and misconstrued for
| political effect. When we have asked that
the people assemble and stop these out
RACES. we have been told that no secret
organizations existed, and that our detailed
! stories Of cold-blooded murders and brutal
whippings were but the offsprings of a
''dsordered Imagination or tho ''wild
rawlings of Radical Politician an1
We are content that it should be thus,
satisfied that time will settle all these ques-
tons of intent. If the Democratic journals
had taken the stand last winter now taken
by the Constitationalist, there would be no
occasion for the suspension of the writ of
kabeds corpus in nine counties of this State.
Here is sound doctrine from the same
source, which we commend to the calm re-
Election of those who might have stopped
these Ku-l<lux outrages, if they had de-
sired: -.G.est fat 4
The evil which this mistaken prudence is liza
Bile to bring down upon counties where these
things have happened is that of martial law. If
the citizens of Georgia do not, through their
own grand juries, and through their own courts
of Justice, take cogniZance of the attractions of
its laws, and the violation of sthe rights of pro-
perty, person and life of its own citizens, white
and colored, they can, with but poor grace raise
a clamor against the unconstitutional Ku-klux-
ism of the Congress of the United States, which
has authorized the President TO suspend the writ
of habeds corpus, and to send Federal troops TO
preserve order. ~t aaI
This reasoning applies with equal force to
this section. We repeat the proposition
If the citizens of our own State do not.
through their own grand juries, and through
their own courts of justice take cognizance
of the infraction of its laws, they can, with
but poor grace, raise clamor against the
action of Congress in clothing the President
with power to protect the citizens and pre-
serve order.
We quote again:
There is bul.one mode 10 escape such results
1t is for the people of Georgia in the several
counties which have reason to fear Federal inter
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-11-14
TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. ID, 1871
PERMANENT GRASS LANDS.

Few persons in this country, either
North or South, seem as yet to appreciate
the value of lands well covered with sod.
Our ordinary rotations involve the blowing
up of grass lands every three or four years,
following with a hoed crop and one or two
crops of small grain, and again seeding with
grass. The system which we advocate in
all portions of the State where the land is
adapted to form permanent green sward is
radically different.
We would never pillow field while,
with good treatment, it continued to yield
its maximum crop of grass, or a paying
crop. By good treatment, we mean gene
rous maneuvreingsand such alterations of
feeding as would prevent injury to the roots
from drought or freezing.
The English farmers have learned this
great secret of the value of old pastures,
and by all possible means seek to stimulate
the growth Of grass on old sod. They es-
TEEN it almost sacrilege to pillow upon old
pasture, and always great waste. 1t
takes years, at best, to get a well establish
ed sod of the mixed grasses, so valuable in
dairying and lattening animals.
When we have thus covered and filed
the surface soil with roots, we are in pos
session of a perfect chemical laboratory for
manufacturing from earth, air and water,
milk, butter, beef mutton, wool, hides and
all forms of food and clothing that depend
upon grazing.
To pillow it up without good reason is as
foolish as for q man to tear down the fur
mace where he makes stoves or car wheels
every ten years for the mere purpose OF
building another like it.
The fame county Of Loudoun, so fresh
and fair at the foot of the mountains, owes
more to good farming than to any advan-
tage ofsoil. 1t is very favorable to grass,
and its rolling and broken surface rendered
cultivation expensive and the soil liable to
wash. 1t was settled by good farmers, and
for three generations has been worked upon
an intelligent system in which grass has
been growing more and more prominent
In Loudoun one sees some fine specimens
of old pastures, though much remains to be
done there in this regard.
There is no portion of Northern or East
em Virginia where grass will not grow, j
properly cared for. Everywhere in the
villages one sees fine lawns. If ten square
rods of good grass can be grown, ten acres
can with the same treatment. This sub.
ject is one Of intense interest to all farmers.
We must change our modes Of culture, and
grass farming is one resource in which VIC
are most deficient. We have to send all
over the North to buy butter and cheese al
high prices. Till we supply these at home
we should expand our grass lands.
This, also, is the mode of improving lands
for grain.
Pillow an old sod ten years down and
what crops it will raise we can restore q
virgin soil TO Virginia in twenty years by
grass.
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lFrom the Columbia Is. c. Daily Union.)

[From the Columbia Is. CO Daily Union)
Manly Sentiments from Democratic Source.
Our Georgia exchanges are waking up to
the fact that Ku-lKlux ontrages are being
perpetrated in that State, and have come
to the righteous conclusion that it is about
time for them to stop.
We publish in another place, from the
Augusta Colastd,aiondiist of the 9TH,
strong and manly editorial, from which we
clip the following:
1t is about time that the communities in which
the operations of the Ku-Kiuxers have taken
place, should speak out and call on these secret
champions of society to unmask. II is time their
faces should be scrutiniz9d and their credentials
should be examined. They assume to act in the
interests of the community. The community
should be entitled TO know their representatives.
1t is time the community should, IN public meet
ings and through the public press, declare its
true sentiments There has been too long a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES on this subject Ia the alb
senee of the voice of protest. it has been assumed
that these organizations possessed the approba-
ton and sympathy of society. That silence has
been misconstrned 1t has been partly on account
of the Ignorance of peaceable and orderly cit-
zens as TO who constituted the members, that
they have not been talked to plainly, and their
operations censured. 1t has been partly through
terrorism that the timid have preferred not TO
speak, for they feared that their interference
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PRINTERS WAREHOUSE
PRINTERS WAREHOUSE.
rTNHE LARGEST TYPE FOUNDRY
AND MORE EXTENSIVE
PRINTERS FURNISHING WAREHOUSE
South of Philadelphia, is the establishment of
IL. L. PELOUZE & Co,
9W RICHMOND, VA.

The Richmond Dispatch says:
"RIoHMoND TYPE FoUNDRY.-The new dress I'm
which the Dispatch has appeared for some weeks
was furnished by Messrs. ii. l.. PELoUzE Co.,
proprietors of the Richmond Type Foundry.
We have been using their type for eight or ten
years, and have found them equal in durability
and style of finish TO the best foundries in this
country and England. Their prices are uniform
with all the other foundries''
The Richmond Wing says:
THE RICHMOND TYPE FoUSDRy.--We have been
guilty of an inadvertence in failing to mention
that the beautiful suit of type in which the Wig
now appears was manufactured for us at the
Richmond Type Foundry. This is the third out
fit we have obtained from that establishment
one before and two since the war-and we are
prepared TO bear emphatic testimony TO the fidel-
ity with which the proprietors (NIessrs H. L.
Pelouze & Coz execute their contracts, to the
beauty and durability of their work. and to the
fairness of their prices.
The Richmond Enquirer says:
The handsome typographical appearance of
this paper has been noticed and complimented by
the press all over the country. We take pleasure in
stating that sour outfit procured from the
Richmond Type Foundry, Messrs. II. l.. Pelouze
& Co.. proprietors. ie 16-deod&w6m