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Year: 1868

A company of merchants and bankers in
Moscow have formed company for the
construction of grand trunk line of railway
from Nisbni- Noogorod, eastward through the
passes of the Ural mountains and Southern
Siberia to Pekin-thst is to say, from point
near the Baltic to a point near the Pacific.
This project vastly exceeds N magnitdde the
Pacific railroad of this country, as it will be
nearly four thousand miles long. But the inn
portant and significant fact is that the line is
to be constructed by private enterprise alene.
Nc government subsidy is asked-no issue of
bonds-no grants of lands. The merchants
and bankers of Russia believe that such a
railway will command the commerce of the
east, and that it would pay therefore they
are willing to build it. They are intelligent
eisough to know that if it would not pay it
ought not to be built. The United States
government may discover at last that it has
sduandered q hundred million dollars to en-
rieh q score of spectators without gaining
the commercial supremacy which was fancied
al the result of the project.
Year: 1868

The peace that lies on the surface of affairs
in Europe is but a thin covering over seeth-
ing caldron of troubles. The programme of


disarmament ON the part of France and Prus-
sia, of which the cable had much to say not
long back, has been silently withdrawn. The
new treaty between Russia and Prussia, look
ing to a Roumanian Kingdom under their
joint protectorate and impending over the
Turkish territory, has startled Western Eu-
rope and warned it to keep itself on guard
and armed to the fullest for any emergency.


Austria causes uneasiness to the willy Prus-
sian minister by her military preparations.


The memory of Sadowa is a thorny pillow. 1t
is plain that she will not lie on it longer than
she can help. Besides, the Hungarian Diet
has flung defiance at Prussia and Russia by
declaring it to be the duty of the imperial
government to oppose the interference of
Northern powers with the Danubian question.
The precarious and troublous state of things
in Spain may at any time resolve itself
into a deluge of civil war. But
no where, to close scrutiny, do affairs
wear a more ominous aspect than in France.
The emperor's policy is like the tread of
man walking, with consummate skill but at
terrible peril, on the thinnest rim of red
hot volcano. His strength may defy popular
discomfort as long as his splendid army is
ready to back him to a man. But among the
French no change is impossible, in crisis,
within twenty-four hours. Even the support
of his army might be dissipated before the
mysterious and intangible forces of revolu-
ton. More and more the dilemma Of Ma
poleon seems to impel him to final choice be-
foreign war or wrestling in a deadly strife
with the giant of revolution at home.


For the rest, such ornaments as are now
maintained by France, Prussia, Russia, Aus
tria-almost as costly to their people as war,
without any of the possible compensations of
war-tend with cumulative impulse to that
elimination where either peace must end or
warlike preparations cease. Add to these
circumstances the fact that all the nationali-
ties of Europe begin to heave with the desire
to participate directly in the privileges and
responsibilities of goverment-a feeling that
gives increased concern 10 NdPoIoon anu DIS
marck, and even throws its menacing shadow
into the precincts Of the Austrian and Russian
courts, and which must more or less add to
the complication of any national conflict that
may occur-and it is not difficult to under
stand how pregnant with portent the Euro
pean situation is. A great and fearful crisis
approaches. A general outburst cannot be
much longer postponed. The only question
is as to the precise point of the first explo-
sion and the exact nature of the catastrophe.
Year: 1868

say three dollars, the amount of travel would
probably increase ten-fold within two or three
years. Of course this is an illustration of our
meaning, intended only to suggest an applica-
ton of the principle, and not based on any ana
lysis of the returns of the two roads. Such an
analysis might result in very different figures.
but the principle would remain unchanged.
We certainly need some change which will
enable New Orleans to compete with her
rival cities in the facilities of travel offered to
the public, and nothing could be more effect
i've in this respect, or more profitable in the
end, to railway companies themselves, than
a material reduction in fares.
Year: 1868

WHAT WE CAN DO If WE wILL.-Under this cap
ton the Port Gibson Miss Standard, says:


Scattered all around US, in the richest profusion.
are the crude materials of wealth. We need bat
enterprise and skill to convert them into articles
OF great commercial value. We have cotton this
we can manufacture into cloths right here in Port
Gibson, cheaper and better than can be done at
the North or in Europe. We have the cotton
seed this can be ground into oil which is now in
great demand. and the cake is Of great valus in
fattenng hogs and cattle. Indeed, the oil cake
from the cotton seed has become an article of ex-
port TO England, where 1t is coming into general
use for fsttening purposes. Most of the Z" SO.
called olive oil now in use is expressed from the
peanut. These we can raise in the greatest abun-
dance. An oil mill for grinding peanuts would
pay largely here. The demand for them is con-
stsntly increasing, and we have been long import
ing them from Africa. We can raise an almost
unlimited supply of broom corn, which. with little
expense, can here be converted into brooms for
shipment to our large cities. We have now no
market for our wool. Start q wool factory, and
the increased value of that article alone will more
than repay the cost of the factory that weaves it
into cloth. We have abundance of cypress ; one
or two thousand dollars would erect bucket fac.
tory which would supersede the Northern buckets
which cost us 30 large a sum every year. We
have abundance Of peaches; canning establish.
ment would pay as well here as at Atlanta. where
aEs aRpaksa esSas aEs faQs0Ssa 10 q9s taesary
wealth which are lying thickly around us, and
which little enterprise and patriotism would
convert into so many sources OF wealth and hap
piness.
Year: 1868

One Of the down-esst strong minded females
volunteers the following advise " to whom it may
concern " Get married, young man, and be
quick about it. too. Don't wait for The millennium,
hoping that the girls would turn to angels before
you trust yourself to one Of them. pretty
thing you would be alongside of an angel; wouldnt
you YOU brute.n
Year: 1868

MERCHANTS AND OTHERS interested in the trade
of Alabama are referred to an advertisement Of
the Montgomery Mail in another column. The
Mail has an extensive circulation in that Slate and
is q valuable medium for advertising.
Year: 1868

1t is stated that Mrs. Grant has declared that
she will never occupy the White House. She
fortsbe home for the uncomfortable and poorly
arranged apartments of the executive mansion,
although she would be willing to appear there
state occasions and do the honors Of the estab-
lishmanf
Year: 1868

and Strengthening himself up to his full hight.
with quivering lip and flashing eye, he ask
ed the lrishman if be knew anything of the
asarter- staff. An affirmative answer being
giving, he and the offender was soon hard
at 1t, and after few passes or licks, the
lrishman fell sprawling under a heavy blow
from the fiery Frenchman's staff. Our
friend did not know how to regard his old
schoolmaster. Whether he was the genuine
Marshal Ney or not, he could not say, but
that he was very remarkable character
there could not be any doubt.


One word more as to Marshal News death.
Our friend once relating the particulars OF
Peter Ney's life in North Carolina to Colonel
Lauranouski, a Pole, who fought under
Napoleon with distinction, bat afterward g
Lutheran preacher in the United States,
found in him an exceedingly attentive lis
taner. The Colonel was clearly of the
opinion that Marshal Ney was never shot
but escaped, after a mock death, to thi,
country. He was anxious to see Peter Ney
and felt satisfied that he could easily identify
him, if really he were the great Marshall
But taey never met. The schoolmaster died
and the mystery connected with his life lies
buried with him. There is now none to
make it plain.
Year: 1868

compelling to do right if this is the road Yer lead


ing them! TN neither trust ye nor them. Yecan
gang elsewhere for money! But yell find name in
this parish that put more faith in bit O paper
than in neighbor's word o honor and his fear O.
God p a @ Ht4ay.ia.D @ls.
Year: 1868

LINING A T1aER--An ingenious mode of tiger
killing is that which is employed ba the natives OF
Dude. They gather number of broad leaves OF
the prauss tree, which much resembles the syca-
more, and having well besmeared them with kind
of birdime, they strew them in the animals way
taking care to lay them with the prepared side up.
permost Let tiger but put his paw on one Of
these innocentlooking leaves and bis fate is set,
tied. Finding the leaf sticking to his paw, he
shakes it in order to rid himself of the nuisance,
and finding the plan unsuccessful, he endeavors te
attain his object by rubbing it against his face


thereby smearing the ropy birdlime over his noss
and eyes, and guing the eyeids together. By
this time he has probably trodden upon severa
more of the treacherous leaves, and is bewideree
with the novel Inconvenience then he rolls on th'
Year: 1868

In TRouBLE.-A Washington dispatch states
that letters have been received in that city from
the Secretary Of the Mississippi Convention, an
nouncing that unless the law requiring the vote to
be cast by the majority of the registered voters be
repealed, the Constitution framed in that State win
fail, lust as the Alabama Constitution did. g
Year: 1868

the cordial support OF an aWaKeueu people. Lie
Radicals of the House will delay as little as poss-
BILE in presenting the articles of impeachment to
the Senate, but once the latter body obtains control
of the case, the proceedings will become slow and
cautious to the last degree.


Your correspondent has just returned from the
White House, where the President and his advls-
ers have been in consultation for the last two hours
I am enabled to inform you that the President has
determined upon change Of tactics tomorrow.
Heretofore his adversaries have enjoyed signal
advantage in having Judge Cartier, bitter Radi-
cal, presiding upon the bench OF the District
Court. The official position Of Cartier enables him
to postpone the Presidents legal redress from day
to day. and gain time for the partlsans OF Stanton
To remedy this the application for writ of quo
,oarranto has been abandoned, and tomorrow the
sureties of the new Secretary Of War, General L..
Thomas will proceed to surrender him to the Uni
ted States Marshal. General Thomas will refuse
to give other bail, and will then be sent to jail
Thereupon writ of habeas corpus Will be applied
for and the matter in that shape will be brought,
without delay, before the Supreme Court Of the U.
States. This is the programme which has been
arranged for tomorrow, within the last hour.


An intimate friend Of Mr.. Bingham, who has
seen the draft of the articles of impeachment in.
forms me tonight that one of the leading com,
ments of that document will charge the President
with being IAN obstruction to reconstruction.
Year: 1868

Be KIND TO YoUR SIsTER.-We recent
ly saw it stated, on undoubted authority,
that Sabbath School teacher, in address
ing his class, gave the following warning :
" Boys you ought to be very kind to your
little sisters. L once knew little boy
who struck his sister blow over the eye.
Although she didn't slowly fade and die
in the early summer time, when the roses
were blowing, with words of sweet for
giyeness on her lips, she rose and hit him
ouer the head 'tiM a rolling pin, SO that
he couldn't go to School for more than a
month, on accd unit of not being able to put
on his hat p
Year: 1868

A person who was recently called into
court for the purpose of proving the cor
rectness of doctors bill, was asked by
the lawyer whether the doctor did not
make several visits after the patient was
out Of danger? No, replied the witness,
II considered the patient in danger as
long as the doctor continued his visits. .
Year: 1868

The sons of the late Emperor of Austria
got into a quarrel. In the height of pas
sion one of them said to the other: "You
are the greatest ass in Vienna" Highly
offended at their quarreling before him, the
Emperor said: "You forget that am
present."
Year: 1868

"A SECULAR freak of nature
was seen in an Arkansas town
recently, in the shape of a man
with three ears, one on each
side of his head, and the third
which belonged to another
fellow between his teeth a&
Year: 1868

MURDER OF POLICEMAN BUTLER The
Coroner's jury have exculpated Barlow and
Duffy. arrested for completely in the assas-
sination of Policeman Butler. They found
verdict that he came to his death at the
hands OF an unknown person. Duffy has
been discharged and Barlow released on
bail in the sum OF Sl00 to answer to the
charge of assault and battery.
Year: 1868

Robert Carter and Brothers have bought
out charming book entitled - The Weaver
Boy who became missionary" by II. G.
Adams, the same being biography prepared
in Il style adapting it to juvenile use, of the
famous missionary, and African traveller,
DE- Livingstone. A mystery still hangs over
the fate of this intrepid and truly christian
explorer. Those best qualified to judge, pro-
nouncc the Doctor still alive, and the sym
pathies of Christendom certainly coincide
with this decision, and yet tenaciously cling
to this hope. On the other hand, month
after month and year after year rolls by with
out bringing any reliable tidings from the
missing man. But whatever may have been
the fate Of this Christian hero, whether he
may have fallen martyr to his devotion to
the cause of science and religion or not, he
has left us the lesson of sublime, self-denying
fe


The history of Livingstone furnishes a
splendid example of what may be accomplish
Ell in the face of overwhelming difficulties by
indOmitable perseverance. He sprung from
the ranks Of the people he was factory
operative IN a cotton-mill near Glasgow, and
oIten DOasted that he never received the as
ei~tance of farthing from any man in his
lie From his scanty earnings during GER
tain months he saved sufficient to carry him
Trough medical and theological curriculum
of University study during the other part of
the year and by his industry and at
his own expense he thereby qualified himself
u be both physician and missionary. In
lis bosom a stern infie1ibility of purpose, an
u conquerable energy of will, were imbedded
IN the softest, sweetest, gentlest human af
fectIons, encoated by all the kindhesses and
charities of the gospel, Just as the granite
rock Of his own native land is sometimes seen
Year: 1868

A ToUcH1NG INCIDENT-The following
incident of travel is narrated by cores
pondent of the Daily Saratogidn. 1t took
place on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga rail-
road, on one of the Northern trains, be-
tween Saratoga and Whitehall. When the
train halted at Saratoga, among the pass
engers from the West came man of about
thirty years of age elbowing his way
through the crowd, and bearing in his arms
child. He was poor man, his clothes
were poor, he looked poor. Around his
hat was tied a piece of soiled, worn Grape.
1t was evidently all the mourning his
scanty means would permit, for the moth
er of the child that was dead This
man was rough in exterior, yet his face
was an honest one He handled the baby
awkwardly, yet there was a tenderness in
his sad look that showed the purity of
fathers love- The little fellow lay asleep
on his coarsely clad knee stray sun
beam glanced across its tired face. They
were both tired, the father and the child,
for they had come from the far West !;
and as he placed his hard, toil-worn hand
to shield it from the golden rays, there
was in his look mixture of sadness and
care, as if his pent-up feelings had been so
crowded back into the inner cells Of his
heart that even tears could have been no
relief to the hidden anguish that was
making his life misery.


The poor child cried; it might be the
Year: 1868

CRIME IN GERMANY.-A late number of
the Criminal Zeituug contains the follow
ing singular items of crime:


A young lady of Munich, named Ermin-
ia Schlug, was recently detected in sin
gular crime For some weeks the families
inhabiting the hotel in which Miss Schlug
lived had been subject to frequent, alarm
ing, but exceedingly varied attacks of ILL
ness. After long police investigation, it
was discovered that the young lady had
lover, a student named Won Beck, who was
so enthusiastically devoted to physiology,
toxicology, and similar branches of study,
that he spared no one a subject for his
experiments. Much Of his time was spent
in devising or investigating the most sub
tie poisons, and those most difficult of de-
lection, and his mistress aided him in these
studies by administering his drugs to her
fellow tenants.


The trial revealed the fact that Won
Beck and Erminia had spared themselves
as little as other people, their bodies being
which had involved a terrible amount of
long-continued pain, while the young lady
boasted with triumph of the poisons and
antidotes which she had swallowed. The
pair escaped with nominal punishment,
and received a decided eulogy in the col
umns of the Tafblatt for their +" heroic,
though mistaken devotion to the cause of
science"


At Heildronn, in Swabia, a little boy
noted for his honesty and goodness, the son
of miller, was detected in stealing money
from his father, and on being questioned,
declared that Black John, a well-known
rascal and outlaw of the neighborhood, had
threatened to cut off all his fingers unless
he would bring him, Black j ohm every day
a certain sum- He was let off with a rep
rimand, but was in a terrible alarm lest
John should carry out his threat The
next day he came running into the mill
in extreme agony, declaring that Black
John had chased him with knife, and be-
ing seized with convulsions actually died
of fright.


The father of the boy being a man of
great strength and impetuous passions, at
once seized knife and rushing forth, en-
countered Black John with the irresistible
fury of a madman, and having beat him to
helplessness and bound him, deliberately
cut off all his fingers and thumbs, needless
of the screams of his victim. The editor
of the Criminal Zeitung observes that
while every detail of this case is reported
with fidelity, it resembles in a striking de-
gree an event which occurred near Altott-
ing in 1874, the only difference being that
the child in the former case was little
girl, and that the criminal actually did cut
one of her fingers off
Year: 1868

clasped by the clinging ivy and garnished


with all pleasant flowers. While proclaim
| ing a world unseen he has seen more of the
. actual world than his own shrewd country


men-a Bruce, Park, a Clapperton-his
precursors in the African field He has en-
larged the domain of geographical knowledge,
perhaps, beyond any man of his time.


He is one of the noble band to whom be-
longs the high distinction of having laid
open to our view the interior of the vast
African Continent, and discovered that it is
not an impenetrable, inhospitable wilder
ness, of burning sands and kissing serpents,
and'' gorgons and chimeras dire but land
of broad streams, and mighty rivers, and
sweeping valleys, and towering hills, and
vast forests. teeming alike with plenty and
with population. And, whether his career
may have been abruptly and horribly closed
by ferociOus savages, or he may happily still
be living to complete his vast undertaking,
among the ultimate results of his discoveries
we may safely assert that new channels of
extensive and lucrative commerce Will be
thrown open-that new tribes and peoples
will be given for our customers, and new
markets for our enterprlse-that the demand
will be created where none previously existed
for the comforts and commodities of civilized
life-that the resources will be developed and
the destinies shaped of vast tracts of human
ity that would otherwise have lain waste and
sterile, smtten with unrelenting barrenness
that our countrymen will be enabled to do
still more to expiate the wrongs and oppres-
siOns that for many generations we perpe-
trated on the bruised, down trodden sons and
daughters of Ham-and that his name will
be emblazoned in history as one of the most
honored instruments of Providence in sweep
ing away from the earth that atrocious vii
lainy of slavery by which Africa has 50 long
been cursed and desolated,


Africa seems to have been enstamped on
every fibre of Livingstone's heart in his
enterprise of mercy to her he has traversed
her appalling deserts, he has trodden her
blistering sands his brain has burned in de-
lirious throbbings beneath her vertical sun
to carry to her the tidings of salvation he has
confronted many ghastly terror of fever and
pestilence and inpatient of honor and dis
satisfied with ease while Africa was wrapped
in darkness and weltering in misery, he
hastened back to her, that on that altar on
which he had already laid the enthusiasm of
his youth and the bloom and fulness of his
manly vigor, he might pour out all the re-
naming energies OF his body and soul till
life's latest hour. All honor to such men
who combine genius and enterprise with the
loftiest Christian devotion and disinterested-
ness-in whom the courageous intrepidity of
the hero is associated with the serene and
patient fOrtitude of the martyr
Year: 1868

little thing was tired; it might be it missed
its mother perhaps it was hungry; per-
haps it was sick, and so it cried. The tears
rolled down its baby cheeks; the father
wiped the dewy drops as they fell, and
then tried to feed it. He was 80 awkward
with the bottle-his had been life of toll
and hardship-that he knew not how to
give his darling its nourishment. As he
made effort after effort to stife the cries
and check the tears of his motherless babe,
how he must have missed her who in his
life of labor and privation had been his
solace and comfort, An unbidden tear
started to his eye, but he brushed it quick
ly away; All who saw him pitied him.
At length a woman richly appareled, with
an infant resting on the lap of its nurse
beside her-she had been watching the
man-said in a gentle tone " Give me the
child The poor fellow looked at her with
look of gratitude, for there was moth
er's tenderness in her voice With humble
resignation, as though it were pain to part
with him, even for moment, he gave her
his boy The woman took it its soiled
clothes rested on her costly silk, its tinv
head was soon beneath her shawl, and in
moment all was still Like the Grecian
daughter, who through the iron bars, fed
her starving father, so did this high-born
lady from her breast feed the hungry child,
and when on her gentle bosom the little
one lay in calm, unvexed sleep, she put
aside the shawl


The fathers heart sweled with gratitude.
He said, as tear welled in his eye. and
his voice was thick with emotion Thank
you; I'll take him now" Then the wo-
mans nature spoke forth, as she answered,
" Not yet you will wake him." and for
mile after mile, that noble-hearted woman
held that poor mans child and it was not
until her Gown required such nourishment
as only mother can give, she gently rose
and placed the stranger boy with his father.