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A BORN sTRATEG1sT.

The rowing life of the camp and the habit
Of telling stories around the campfire make
military men not only capital company, but
the best of TdcOHteuTS. Below arr sOR
readable anecdotes from Gen. r. B. Marc q:
"Border "reminiscences
While commanding post in Louis lana,
the Major, upon certain occasion, gave
permission for one of his officers to visit
New Orleans, and the young man. finding
the city very attractive, nver-stsyed his
leave, and expected to be called to account
for it.
Immediately after bis return he called at
the quarters Of the commanding officer to
report his arrival, and not finding him at
| the moment, he endea vored to place him
self on as favorable footing as possible witt
| the lady OF the bJuse. He described to heI
the latest fashions, related the most recent
! gossip circulating among the hdut-tOn O
| the city, ard was ingratiating himself rapid
! ly into Ter favor, when the major entered
and iD very dignifed manner asked him
the Jews from New Orleans.
Now the major possessed no penchGlt fOl
| literary pursuits. He seldom read books o.
any description, but poetry was his abhOr
! rence-he could not endure it. He had
however, accomplished the task of wadine
entirely through the four pOnderOus vol
umes of EmmOns' epic, "The Fredoniad,
| in the vain effort OF finding his own name
! mentioned in connection with the events OF
the campaign of 1S12-14. Instead of ap-
! preciating the merits of the work, he seem
ed most essentially disguised with it, and
even went so far as to pronounce the author
| of it ''humbug."
The lieutenant, aware of this unjust pre-
/ judice against the writer of the historical
eff'usion, replied to the question as follows
"Indeed, Major, there is but little news
| in the city, excepting l heard that Mr.
| EmmOns had issued a new edition Of his
| pOem."
''He has, has he?" said the Major. ''WelI
Mr.. -, I'll tell you what it is, sir, thai
man Emmons take to be a cOnsuInmatt
ass, sir"
"Why, Major" said the Lieutenant, edo
you know he has introduced you into thi:
| edition."
"The devil he has. What, should like
to know, has he got to say about me?"
"Well, sir, he says,
| And there was Maj. c., in a blaze of fire
! He caused the British for to retire."
The majors face lighted up with most
gratifed expression Immediately, and he Oh
| served that, upon reflection, he believed
'EmmonS was a gentle expletive) sight
more of knave than fool"
The adroit lieutenant escaped without ar
! rest or even reprimand.
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THE ALABAMA WAR-OLOUD.
EXcitementin England Unabated
Geneva Board a Certain Failure.
Troops under Orders for Canada.
Our Response to Granville.


NEW YORK, Feb. I0.-A Washington
dispatch says the answer Of our Govern
ment to Earl Granvilles note, on the Ala
bama question, will be even as terse and as
little to the purpose as Granville's commu-
nication. The text of the latter document,
however, is not yet received at Washington,
the knowledge Of its contents being founded
on that sent by cable.
An Inevitable Denial.
A special to the Herald from Quebec
says that Mr.. Longevine, the Minister of
Public Works, denies the truth of the ru-
NOR as to a treaty of separation between
Great Britain and Canada. Lieut.. Gov.
Belleau and Premier Chanvau also make
the same denial.
England Throwing Troops into Can
ada.
A Montreal special says eight regiments
Of British troops are under orders for Can
rda.
Eager Englishmen.
LONDON, Feb. 10.-Great eagerness is
felt for the latest news from America on the
Alabama claims. The dispatches fram
New York and Washington to the press
here are posted On the 'Change bulletin,
and surrounded by large crowds. Yester-
days debate in the Senate on Edmund's
resolution was fully reported by cable, to-
gether with extracts from editorials of the
leading New York journals.
A Moral Certainty.
The Times says it is morally certain that
the attempt to settle the Alabama claims be-
fore the Geneva Board will be failure. We
must therefore make efforts to prevent an
cry recriminatiOn. If we are successful,
the time is possibly near when more dex-
trous negotiators may settle all the differ
ence.
"IntOIerabIy Absurd
The Daily Telegraph asserts that the
treaty of Washington is regarded by Ameri-
cans as an unconditional surrender and
shameful confession on the part of England.
If the indirect claims are admitted, its terms
are such as a victor might impose. The
pretensiOns of the United States are intol-
erably absurd.
The Standard and the Post are silent on
the subject.
The Partisan View.
PARIS, Feb. 10.-It is not expected in
circles here that the difficulty
about the Alabama claims will prove seri-
Gus. Minister WashbUrne has deferred his
departure for the present. 1t is probable
be may abandon his contemplated journey
LONDON, Feb. 10-Mr.I Washburne an
nOunces that he has no intention of leaving,
and he did not, as was reported in Paris,
present his Secretary to the President as
Charge d'Affaires.
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AGE OF MAN.

Prof. Faraday adopts Flourins' physlolO-
gical theory that the natural age of man is
one hundred years. The dura-
ton of life he belives to be
measured by the time of growth.
When once the bones and epiphyses are
united, the body grows no more, and it is at
twenty years this union is effected in man.
In the camel, it takes place at eight, in the
horse at five; in the lion, at four; in the dog,
at two: in the rabbit at one. The natural
termination of life is five removes from
these several points. Man being twenty
years in growing, lives five times twenty
years, that is to say one hundred years, the
.aniel is eight years in growing, lives five
times eight years, that is to say forty years,
the horse is five years in growing, and lives
twenty-five years, and SO with
other animals. The man who
does not die of sickness, lives,
everywhere from eighty to a hundred
wears. Providence has given man century
of life, but he does not attain it, because he
inherits disease, eats unwhOlesOme food,
gives license to passions, and permits veXa-
ton to disturb his healthy equipoise: he
does not die, he kills himself. The prOfes-
sor divides life into two equal halves, growth
and decline, and these halves into infancy,
youth, virility, and age. Infancy extends
to the twentieth year; youth to the fif-
tieth because it is during this period that
the tissues become firm; virility, from fifty
to seventy-ive, during which the organism
remains complete; and at seventy-tive, old
age commences TO last longer of shorter
time as the diminution of reserved force is
FASTENED or retarded,
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COLORADO.
.r.nnd without Taxes!

DENVER. Feb. 10.-The Territorial Leg
seizure adjourned last evening after an I'M
nlrcoytionably harmonious and profitable ses-
oin,, Among the important measures pass
cd are a Joint memorable Congress, praying
for State organization,
The financial condition OF ting Territory
enabled the Legislature to pass Dill proTid-
ing that no tax shall be levied for the year
1872, and only one and a,half mills per 500
for 1873,
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AYiIIain and His Victim.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 10.-In the city
court to-day, man calling himself Col. C.P,
Cooper, with number of aliases, known
here as a confidence man, having been be-
fore the Court some time ago in that capaCl-
ty, under the name of c. P. Cunningham
and held in bail oftwo thousand dollars as a
suspected felOn, was arrested in company
with respectfully connected young cir
from Cincinnati, aged about II, whom he
had seduced and brought here, lodging at
hotel as man and wife. The girl returned
to Cincinnati last night, and the seducer sent
to iail in default of bail. Officer Leper, OF
Cincinnati, came down and identified the
parties.
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.WHAT THE ALMANACsAYs.o

The following humorous passage from the
preface to "POor Richards Almanac" for
1877, shows that Franklin had no provision
of a weather-signal service such as we now
have: Gas to the weather, if was to fall
into the method my brother il some
times uses, and tell you, Snow here, or in
New England-Rain here, or in South Car
olina-COld to the nOrthward-Warm to
Southwark and the like, whatever errors
might commit, should be something more
secure of not being detected in them, But
l consider it will be of no
service to anybody to know what
weather it is 1000 miles of, and
therefore l always set down positively what
weather my reader will have, be he where
he will at the time. We modestly desires
only the favorable allowance Of q day or
tlco before and ddy or tlVo after the pre-
else day against which the weather is set
and if it does not come to pass accordingly,
let the fault be laid upon the printer, who,
It's very like, may have transpOsed or mis-
placed it, perhaps for the convenience of
putting in his holidays: and since, in spight
of all / can say, people will give him great
part of the credit of making my Almanacks,
Ills but reasonable he should take some
share of the blame"
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ILLINOIS.
The Democracy in Caucus.
All Honest Aid AccepfabIe-AIlianee
not Absorption.

All Honest Aid AccepfabIe-AIlianee
not Absorption.
CAICAGo, Feb. 1O.-A special to the
Times from Springfield, H., gives the fol
low account Of the Democratic caucus last
night:
Gen. McClernand was the first speaker
and be favored aiding the Liberal Republ-
cans, with a view Of defeating Grant and
bringing about change in our affairs. This
could not be accomplished by the Demo
Gratis alone. and it would be the part OF
wisdom to accept an honorable alliance
with the Liberal Republicans.
Col. Turner wanted all honest men to
mite for the overthrow Of Grant whose sole
aim was to build up power dangerous to
liberty. No fair election could be held IN
the South or North because Of the influence
brought to bear by the administration. Mi.
Turner saw signs of better day IN the fact
that such men as Messrs. ScburZ, Davis,
Trumbull and Palmer, had become dis
e1lsted with the administration, and were
ready to array themselves on the side OF the
Deople. a crisis was upon US and we must
ACCEPT the situation. He had great hopes
of the Cincinnati Convention, and wished
TO see Illinois represented in it, as it was to
contain the brains Of the Republican party.
Mr.. Hinchclife, of st. Clair, was in favor
of any plan that would relieve the country
from the control Of Grant. His county
could be relied upon.
Senator Reddick had no hesitancy in eX-
pressing his view. He was glad to see such
an asseInblage Of Democrats from all parts
of the State consulting about the big job
before them. 1t could be accomplished by
a united effort, and the party deserved
defeat if it neglected to embrace the
square, bold Missouri policy. Judge
Davis was his choice for President, but be
vvas for the next best Liberal Republican,
If he could not have Davis.
Messrs. Webb, of Cairo, Cunningham, OF
Coles, Epler, Of Morgan, Washburn, Of VIII
hanson, and Shaw, Of Edgar, all expressed
themselves in favor of acting with the Lib
eral Republican and Labor Reform party,
providing the nominations Of the latter were
endorsed by the Cincinnati convention.
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IRELAND.
The Sentence Of Kelly.

DUBLIN, Feb. 10.-Kelly has been sen
fenced to fifteen years Imprisonment at
hard labor for killing policeman Blenner-
hasset.
The home rule candidate is elected to the
House of Commons from Kerry.
Three Vessels Lost with All Aboard.
A dispatch from Cork reports that ter
rible storm has prevailed for the past few
days on the Southern coast Of Ireland, and
several disasters, with serious loss of life,
are reported. Three vessels, whose names
have not been ascertained, foundered off
Ballycaton, a village twenty miles south
east of Cork, and their crews persisted.
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THE New York Tribune calls upon Sena-
tor Conkling's home organ, the Utica H@'-
aid. to state if J. B. Cushman,'a political
friend of the Senator, nobly earned the Leg
islatiVe postage stamps with which he IS
said to have Hquidated his tailor's bills, and
continues: ave sincerely trust that the
Herald may be able to make an explanation
at least as satisfactory as was that about
the proof-reading. And till it is made we
beg all censorious citizens who are disposed
TO suspect public officers who contrive to
increase postage expenses from $1,000 to
$4,000, and continue to use red postage
stamps for several years after they have gone
out of date, to suspend judgment. Let us
have an affidavit about the postage stamps,
averring, first, that they were never taken;
second, that there were not enough Of them
taken, and, third, that they were all taken
in payment for clerical services rendered"
These New York Radicals have a large
amount of soiled linen to wash at the pres
ent time.
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ARKANSAS.
Fraudulent Bonds,

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. l0.--A dispatch
f,o,n Little Rock on the 7th, in relation to
Arkansas levee bonds fraudulently issued to
tba White River Valley Railroad has caused
an uneasy feeling in financial circles regard
&C. a. these bonds, as it is alleged that the
SitIgation necessarily following WI G b, TO
Eight many things not now known III CON
ection with their issuance.
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CALIFORNIA.
The Nephew of Joaquin sIuratta.

The Nephew OF joaquin Muratta.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 10.-The famous
Mexican desperate, Tomas Rodunda alias
Procopio, who is charged with many muir
ders, stage robberieS and other crimes was
captured at his hiding place in San Francis
co to-day. He has been the terror ofSOuth-
ern California for years. He was surprised
to-day and had not time to draw his pistols
or would never have been taken alive. He
is nephew of the famous bandit joaquin
Muratta killed here in early days.
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The Parisian View,
WASHINGTON.
More Radical Frauds.


| WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-Information has
/ been received at the General Land Office of
extensive frauds by land Spectators in
Southwestern Kansas. The lands in qUes-
! ton are open only to actual settlers, and in
/ order to evade the law, a well organized
! system was arranged by which the lands
were entered upon false represe nations of
! settlement by parties using fictitious names
and manufacturing bogus testimony. The
| Government officials are prosecuting the
offenders.
A Happy Family,
Washington correspondents and rep
resentatives of the press gave an elegant
dinner this evening, at which there were
present President Grant, Vice President
Colfax, Speaker Blaine, Senators Anthony
and Cameron, Representiye Brooks, Gar
field, Cox, and Sargent, Gov. d. D. Cooke
and other eX-iOurnalists now in public life,
together with a number Of newspaper men
from other cities including Murat HalSted
and Thos. Mast.
FOrney Wants to he Independent.
The following letter was handed to the
President this afternoon by friend Of Col.
FOrney:
TVaShingtOn, D. c. Feb. 1O.-Dear Sir:
When YOU did me the honor TO tender me
the appointment of Collector of the port of
Philadelphia, l accepted it most reluctantly,
because l apprehended it would seriously
interfere with my business, and especially
with my independence as a journalist. Ten
months experience have so entirely con-
firmed this impression that l find myself
constrained to send you this my resignation
of office. to take effect lst of March next. |
shall then return to my profession as far
more congenial field Of usefulness, and de-
vote my efforts to my newspaper and to the
energetic support of the principles of the
great Republican party. Most earnestly
thanking you for your kindness and consid-
Grafton, l remain, dear General, very truly,
j. w. FORNEY,
To his EXcellency President Grant.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1O.-The
House met for general debate only, Mr..
Beatty, Of Ohio, IN the chair, and but
small gathering of members. Speeches
were made by several members on various
subjects.
After a speech from Mr.. Wilson, of Indi-
ana on a subject Of mere local interest to
his State, no other members manifested any
desire to read speeches to empty benches
and the House adjourned.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
A PoIiticaI Tie.


PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.-HenTy S.
Evans. State Senator from the fifth district,
died al West Chester last evening. lis
death creates a tie in political parties IN the
State Senate, and renders difficult the set
Element of the contest of Col. Mcclure for
the seat now held by Mr.. Gray, recently re-
turned from the fourth district.
The Mayor, in his address TO the Court,
,{udge Bedford presiding, said: As It Is an
nounced that your Honor leaves the city to
Obtain Relation from arduous labOrs,
and desire immediate trial, and IS tie
other Judge of this Court ought not, from
socia, reasons, TO act in any case OF mine, l
suggest that any one Of the eX-othcio jus
tees of this Court, to whom such reasons
cannot apply, be substituted.
Tbereupon Judge c. p. DAILY, whom
NIayor Hall said was the man who was
elected at the last election by the general
consent of all parties, and against whom
nothing could possibly be said, was deter
mined on.
In the Quarter Sessions to-day decision
was rendered refusing a rule for trial, and
overriding motion in arrest Of judgment
In the case Of Joseph +. Morey, the default
ing CITY Treasurer, and Charles I. larkes,
broker. Morey being sentenced to pay fine
of 100000, with Imprisonment in the East
err Pen Gentiary, in separate or solitary con-
cement at labor for five years and nine
III lbs: and YaTkes to pay $500, with like
mon: 0ment, for the term Of two years and
lmpTlSOA =
nine month -
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WEST VIRGINIA.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 10.-The Constitu-
tional Convention at Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, yesterday adopted several sections of
the bill of rights, not materially changing
them from the old bill. A provision was
adonted prohibiting political test Oaths.
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FOREIGN.
FRANCE.

LONDON, Feb. 10.-Information has
been received from Ajaccio that slight dis
tIlrbances in the interest of the Bo-
napartists have occurred in the island of
Corsica.
Italy Aggrieved.
ROME, Feb. 10.-The Cheyaler Nigra,
late italian Minister to France, has been ap-
pointed minister to Russia. The position
vacated by Chevalier Nigra viii not be re-
filed. as the Italian Government feels ag-
grieved at France having no minister at
Rome
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MISSISSIPPI.
Going to Gras.

JACKSON, Miss, Feb. 10.--The Legisla-
fure met this morning and Immediately ad-
iouraed to Thursday next in order to
allow Tie members to attend the Mardi
Gras festival at New Orleans. Alarge num-
her of citizens Oh Jackson and Nicksburg
will also attend.
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CINCINNATI.
One Hundred Armed COLLINS Vanish
into Thin Air.

into Thin Air.
CINCINNATI, Feb. i10.-The gentleman
from Tennessee who gave the information
upon which was based newspaper articles
and dispatches, concerning a scene Of rowdy-
ism on board of train on the Memphis
and Ohio railroad few days ago, in which
there was indiscriminate firing Of revolvers
in one of the passenger coaches, and the
engineer fired at two or three times, ex
plains that he did not in any way intend to
ascribe it to the Ku-Klux; that the facts
so far as the shooting on the train and at
the engineer are concerned, are true, but
that he had no intention of connecting the
offenders with the Ku-Klux or any other
organization.
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A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th inst.
says:
ssThe House to-day, bya unanimous vote,
unseated Mr.. Edwards, pretended Demo
crat from Arkansas, and gave the seat to
BoIes, Republican. This was one of those
fragrant cases where Senator Clayton, when
Governor, counted in Edwards by throwing
out several hundred votes. The action of
the House was purely nOn-partisan, and is
perhaps the seveTest censure that could be
passed on Clayton"
Now what viii the House do in the case
of Gi5..luIgs against Clark from Texas?
The latter holds his Eseat exactly as Ed
wards held his.
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THERE is an obsolescent prOvRrb TO the
effect that shoemakers' children always 60
barefoot. The significance of this is, of
course, that mechanics and professional men
are slow to give themselves or their families
tbe benefit of their special avocations. The
proverb is strikingly cOrroborated by some
vitality statistics that have recently been
elaborated BIZ a learned gentleman at Ber-
lin. These Show that of all classes of man.
kind, the shortest lived are the doctors.
There is anotherfact developed by these
figures that conveys grim sarcasm; among
the classes whose average of longevity is the
greatest are military men. The inevitable
Inference is that to destroy human life is
healthy; to save 1t, fatal.
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A SACRAMENTO paper says: "Anumber
of sheep on PattOn's ranch, north of the
American, were not sheared last fall, and
hence the fleece is very long. During the
fail it got very dirty, and probably grass and
other seeds fell into it. At all events, since
rain commenced to fall, grass, with blades
say two inches hong, is growing luxuriantlLy
out Of the wool, and the sheep travel aboT II
carrying their pastures upon their backs
ANY grass which the sheep cannot reach
itself, friend is allowed to nibble, and he
or she reciprocates. We haven't seen the
sheep ourselves"
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CHICAGO.
DiRerentiaI Calculus.

CHICAGO, Feb. 10.-The Commission
ers appointed by the United States Court
to appraise under the condemnation law the
value of the block of ground at present
partially occupied by the CustomhOuse have
agreed upon sum which they regard as a
fair price for the ground. The same is
S1,671, 812. The sum agreed upon by the
owners when requested to put in their bids
was S2,18O,OOO, a difference of over one
half a million,
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Stuck.

OMAHA, Feb. 1O.-Reports from Union
Pacific stations, west of Cheyenne
to-day say weather is very cold, and wind
high and snow drift ting. Seven trains re-
ported stuck in snow at Summit, a few
miles west of Rawlins station.
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RAILROAD ReNaEd.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 10.-The ROckfeld,
Rock Island and St. Louis Railroad Com
pany, have offered a reward of $500 for the
apprehension of Fred Baker and Pat Hal
pin. conductor and engineer of the freight
train which Collided with the passenger
train near Alton, Wednesday last.
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BALTIMORE.
Iufem Masses for Bishop SpaId

Requiem Masses for Bishop SpaId-
ing.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 1O.-Mass viii be of
fered tomorrow morning in all the CathO-
lie Churches of this city for the repOse of
the soul of Archbishop Spalding. The eX-
terror Of all the Catholic Churches are
draped in mourning. All through yesterday
and to-day a countless throng Of persons OF
All denominations and classes, visited the
residence of the Archbishop, where the
body lies in state. The funeral ceremonies
on Monday will be of the most imposing
character.