The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-12

ny HldSJeIS OI OIHeT SCHOOLS IMAM Jn6lr
own, when time and circumstances per-
nit. In large number of the Prussian
schools it has been found necessary to re-
duce the studies to half day on account
of the want of tutors, and the situation
of these institutions becomes worse
daily"
A NUMBER of German savans were
lately taken in and done for by speci-
mems of pottery manufactured in Jerusa-
lem, and sold at a high price to the
Berlin museum as genuine Moabitish
antiquities. English and French scholars
exposed the forgeries; but the clearer
the impOsture became the angrier the
German savans got, Ike the professors
who stood sponsors for the Cardiff giant
in this country. Prof Mommsen said
of the controversy, the other day, in the
Prussian Diet: 81 know of no interna-
tional scientific controversy which was
ever fought upon either side in so ungen-
tlemanly way as this by the German
professors"
y QUESTION concerning the origin of
the phrase BLACK Friday" elicits va
rious answers from correspondents of the
New York Evening Post. 1t was on
Friday, the Sth of June, 1858, that King
James ii. sent the seven bishops to the
tower. The day was long called "Black
Friday" by nearly the whole English
nation. Again, the London panic of 1866
was at its height at midday on Friday,
May II, and that day was named "BIack
Friday" by the London Times. Jim
Fisk's Black Friday" was the last, and
fell in the month of September, 1869.
1t may be worthy of note that the panic
of 1878 also broke out in the closing days
of September.
IT seems that the London financiers
have played n pretty sharp trick upon
the Partisan Bourse and have unloaded
immense quantities of English securities
upon French capitalists. The English
appear TO have taken advantage of Mr..
Caves report, of which they first ap-
preciated the significance; and by dex-
trous manipulation the Paris operators
were induced to bite at the gilded bait
offered by their shrewd English rivals
So enormous were the operations and so
terrible the losses that real distress has
been suffered by those interested, and
an appeal was made to the French gov
ernment to help them out of the scrape.
But President MacMahon and Ihis min
isters could do nothing for them, and
loud are the outcries against "perfidious
Albion" This is not the first time that
the English have showed themselves too
smart for their continental rivals.
MUKHTAR PAsHA has been badly
whipped in his last attempt to succor
Turkish garrison of Niksiki, and the
fate of those halfstarved wretches is
sealed. The Turks have rarely obtained
any advantage in fighting the insurgents
of the western provinces. 1t is a most
difficult country for regular military
operations, and as the insurgents fight
after the fashion of guerrillas they have
the advantage. The mountains of Her
zcgovlna form deep hollows, at the bot
tom of which are frequently found
streams, the banks being in many in
stances 5000 feet nigh. The roads are
mere bridle-paths, and riders have to
dsmount going down hill. In many
places only two men can march abreast,
and good sharpshooters, stationed among
the Overhanging rocks, can do deadly
work. In certain places, as at Nevesinje,
large plateaux are found. and to keep
the Turks from operating on such van
tage ground has been the aim of the in
surgents. 1t is likely that Mukhtar
Pasha has been forced into the fatal
gulches, and the dispatch probably cor
rectly states that his army will be ami
hilated. In the meantime the porte is
hurrying forW ard recruits from Asia to
continue the warfare against the chris
tian dogs"