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Year: 1874

1t seems that BaZaine wishes to make
doubling world believe the romance which
was first published in reference to his escape
from the Isle of Sainte Marguerite. We printed
yesterday an interview with the escaped
prisoner, taken from the Co1oqne Gazette, from
which it will be seen that the ex-Marshal
reiterates the rope story, with new details
Unfortunately for Bazaine, his inventive
genius is very meagre, and one must be
astonished that a man with so little percep-
ton could ever have risen to high command
in the army Of o great nation. He asks the
public to believe that he had no accomplices
in his flight, and at the same time tells us
that he was obliged to use knotted rope
eighty feet long, fastened with an iron ring to
the bars Of the rampant gutter. Admitting,
for sake of argument that the prisoner did
escape by this means, we should be curious
to know how he obtained that heavy iron ring
and knotted rope if they were not furnished
him with the connivance of many persons in
the fort. The tale is too absurd for dime
novel, and the Metz Marshal must have as little
intelligence as honesty if he expects the world
to believe him. The letter of the prisoners
wife is probably true so far as she relates her
personal knowledge, but it does not touch the
main question. It matters little whether
Bazaine got more or less wet getting on
board the yacht which was in waiting to re-
ceive him, but it matters great deal how he
managed to pass the guards of the fort. His
escape could only have been effected by the
guilty connivance Of many men to whom their
country had given an important trust. France
has suffered so much from crimes of this
nature that she cannot with safety allow this
last treachery to go unpunished Indeed, the
security of the country demands an example,
for the escape of the betrayer of Metz is the
best proof how dangerous it is to be lenient
with traitors. Had Bazaine been wise he
would have preserved silence at least until he
had learned by heart some romance which the
public could accept without sacrifice of COM
mon sense
Year: 1874

FRENCH ELECTIONS. The Marshal President
Of the French Republic has signed decree
ordering elections to be held early in October
TO fill the seven vacancies that exist in the
Chamber. The result of the poll will furnish
very fair indication of the state of popular
feeling All parties are likely to put forth
their full strength to elect their candidates.


We shall then be able TO Judge whether the
pretended reaction in favor of the Bonapartes
has in reality set in. 1t would be a curious
example Of the instability SO often charged
against the French people to find them want
ing to get back the dynasty whose tinsel plo-
ries ended so disastrously at Sedan. We are
not inclined to overrate the importance of this
apparent reaction in certain localities, because
the result may have been influenced by per-
sonal or local feelings outside the general
question of party. Seven elections held in
different districts WILL however show pretty
clearly The drift Of public opinion
Year: 1874

The panic OF last year 80 deeply disturbed
the condition Of the country and was made re-
markable by the fall Of so many great houses
that its importance has been unconsciously
exaggerated 1t was sensational panic, and
its events we're dramatic But corresponding
depression of the commercial interests has not
followed. The fears that were felt bv
many Of our merchants that this fall would
find their stores full of goods but empty of
buyers have not been realized. On the con-
trary, the prospects of the fall trade are ex-
cellent, and all the indications are of season
OF usual prosperity. The report elsewhere of
the impressions OF leading merchants in the
principal branches Of trade shows that con-
fidence is the prevailing feeling, and that for
dry goods, grain, produce lumber, groceries,
&C., large orders have already been received
from the West and South. That there will be
economy this season in all parts Of the coun-
try is generally believed; but we have yet to
learn that extravagance is ever o benefit, even
to those who seem to directly profit by its
follies In the end it is sure to injure both
the buyer and seller, and if the people are
disposed to be economical now we shall not
doubt that the season will be intrinsically
prosperous, and that the losses which always
must result from an extended credit will this
year fall below the average.


sound indication of the prosperity of the
season, and one which has never yet failed,
is found in the columns Of the HERALD.
Yesterday tho number Of advertisements
they contained of importers, jobbers and
tradesmen in all branches Of business was
almost unprecedented for the time of the
year. It seldom happens that in August-be-
fore the summer holidays are ended-busincss
activity is so generally resumed. There could
be no more encouraging sign than tho eager
ness of merchants to advertise their goods.
1t is to the fall trade what the return of the
swallows is to the spring.
Year: 1874

convinced or silenced, and their delusion has


given place to knowledge and sounder views.


But the jobbery of imitation we assuredly are not


vet done with. There are enormous so-called


enterprises, enormous schemes of corrupt
a sound state Of money as their ruin and the
stimulant effect of an inflated currency as
the breath of life; and the promoters of these,
not only indifferent to the general welfare,
but utterly reckless of any interest save their
own, will still make desperate battle in Con-
gress, by bribery and intrigue and the compli-
cations of political bargains. Will they sue
ceed +? 1t depends upon the views that party
leaders may take Of party interests. Last ses-
sion measures that in operation would have
been utterly ruinous to public and private
credit, and that must have destroyed all hope
of solution of our difficulties, save by the
process of general and universal bankruptcy,
received majority in both houses,
and only failedto become laws because the
vigilant press awakened the country to the
fact that its in terests were betrayed and sold
out by venal Congress, and because the Ex-
SSueA'O woo lOuuu dueudDl0 W Iuc AuuuCISO
of public opinion thus awakened. Similar
measures are just as likely to pass again, and
il new political complications it is not certain
that the Executive will again come to the
rescue. It is evident this spirit of jobbery
has possession of the party organizations
in several States on both sides of the line.
Republican conventions are declaring them
selves freely against sound economical prin-
ciples, and democratic conventions are doing
the same; but it is to be hoped that in these
respects the people are far wiser than their
self-appointed leaders. Whenever candidate
stands on a platform distinctly inimical to
public honesty and a sound commercial con-
diion we believe he will be beaten, for the
people will recognize him as political
sharper, rogue who is seeking some private
interest, and not the public welfare.


Naturally bad political possibilities depress
the vigor with which commerce might revive
if the future were sure in this respect Appre-
hension of a deprecated currency still casts
its shadow over the growing confidence and
limits credit, without the full exercise of
which there can of course be no thorough
restoration of commercial and industrial ac-
tivities. From this shadow we shall not be
permanently free, at least till we have new
Congress fresh from the people; but in the
meantime trade will become prosperous to
certain degree, and as the commercial indca-
tons are so fair for the autumn we may anti
cipate as good season as is possible where
enterprise is crippled by the necessity of
basing transactions on absolute certainties.
Year: 1874

1t is strange to find benevolence up to the
elbows in the slaughter OF its subjects and
still stranger to find that it has friends who
in cool blood can endeavor to belittle offences
of such nature and to impede the penalties
of justice. An attempt is made to show that
the boy whose life was violently taken in the
Five Points charity establishment died from
the effects of bath, but fortunately the Coro-
ner and his advisers are not disposed to be-
come accessories to homicide by asserting to
any such gratuitous science. This defence
gives, however, an instructive side glimpse of
this kind Of care for vagrant children. It
seems that slaughter is not only to be looked
for as an exceptional result of the fury of the
benevolent men in charge of the place. but
that when boy is killed it may perhaps be
q consequence Of the regular daily discipline.
In short, the regular treatment is such that
the managers deem it more likely that
death may ensue from that treatment than
from savage assault. Boys sick or well, with
out regard to their condition or the possible
effect on their health, must take the cold bath
when it suits savage and ignorant person in
charge, and undoubtedly this may, in many
cases, be fatal. We do not doubt it has fire.
quently been fatal in this charity shambles,


but the boy Vandriche was not killed by it


He was beaten to death, and we trust the fact


may lead to thorough official examination of
this establishment and its doings, as well as


OF the doings of the kindred "charity," the


"Children's Aid Society,"" In what is already
shown OF this case the tender hearted old gen.
uemen who bequeath money to public charities
can see what use is made of it, but il these two
establishments are thoroughly investigated
Year: 1874

The PRESIDENTS PILGRIMAGE The Presi-
dent il apparently enjoying season of quiet,
old-fashfcned pleasure while pursuing his
short Eastern tour He has gone into the
very paradise Of radicals of the old-time
school, and such simple but earnest welcomes
as he has encountered from the common
people must reassure his spirit, if the
discussion of the third term question has Sc
cretly inflicted upon it annoyance or uneasi-
ness 1t would be brilliant and potent stroke
of policy for any popular leader who
wished to perpetuate or extend his power to
bind to his interests through vanity, pride
and fraternity of feeling great religious
organization whose influence is almost un-
measured. The part which the Church SO
long played in politics might thus be revived.
Year: 1874

The GREAT ANNUAL EVENT among the anna
teur oarsmen of this country will take place
on Saratoga Lake to-day. The letter in our
news columns furnishes much interesting data
regarding the crews which will participate in
the american Henley" All have taken their
final practice pull, and each oarsman is now
awaiting, with bated breath, the signal of the
referee which shall summon him to enter his
boat
Year: 1874

The BLACK HILLs.-More information about
the wonderful discoveries of gold in the Black
Hills is furnished in our Rocky Mountain cor
respondence to-day, and some strange stories
are told of the ease with which it has been Sc
cured There is little doubt Of the wealth in
that region, but prudent gold seekers will wait
for more information before risking the dam
gers of o search.
Year: 1874

The LADIES claim share in all outdoor
nmusements and even swimming is a popular
sport with the fair sex. Yesterday four
young ladies had swimming match at Fort
Hamilton, and their speed and grace in the
water was justly envied by many of the
gentlemen who timorousy remained on shore.
Year: 1874

DuycIS, anu LQt leSSeutu tdIullRS anu smaller
remuneration for all sorts of services are found
to bear to the reduced prices of the necessities
and comforts of life nearly the same relation
that inflated wages bore to inflated prices, and
as high wages encouraged the people with the
notion of prosperity so low prices lead them
on to what seem great opportunities; and thus
all the steps of trade follow again in their reg
ular order on lower plane.


Whereabouts do we stand in this process
now-at what point are we in this natural
mercial activities, and what is the promise
of the indications?


Reduced consumption and continued pro-
duction have filled our magazines and ware
houses with enormous stores of commodities
of every description, and the point to which
prices have fallen indicates how great is the
superfuity Our importations. especially in
dry goods, are lessened, but are sufficient to
keep the supply very considerably above the
present demand and to keep prices down
proportionately. Prices are certainly not at
their worst but they are at such stage as
to excite alarm with many dealers. On the
other hand We have good though not
great harvest. Though in manufacturing
districts the times are dull and the people
are poor and apprehensive Of the chances of
the winter, yet with the farmers and all who
depend upon the farmers and in all the varied
industries related to the marketing Of crops
there is good share of the confidence and
elastic spirit that attend upon good season
and as all the processes of legitimate trade
begin with the producer, who sells what he has
and buys what he needs, there is in the ele-
mentary facts of our condition good reason
for hopefulness, and if the case were to be
viewed strictly on its economical features we
should esteem it full of promise.


But the political possibilities complicate our
position very seriously. Are we yet done with
the lunacy of imitation ? 1t is pretty certain
that we are done with the iunacy of it; that is
to say, all those who really believed that what
they called "cheap money would afford q
remedy for our financial difficulties are either
Year: 1874

The seventh volume of the revised
edition of TIE AMERICAN CYCLIC
P.EDIA has Just been published, and
the work, which will consist, like the
old edition, of sixteen volumes in
all, is thus nearly half completed.
1t may be fairly skid. indeed, that
much more than half the labor of
lis editing and publication is over
for not only is the amount of matter
that is now virtually finished much
greater than that already put into
the hands of subscribers, but the
organization and arrangement oi
work, always the most difficult parts
of so great literary task, have long
been so throughly i'll order that all
the complicated machinery involved
in the undertaking runs with the ease
and rapldity of perpect routine.


Let us review what has been done
down to the end of the seventh or
last-published volume, and, first,
by way of gaining some merely
practical notion of The actual worE
involved, let us look at the purelN J
mechanical side.


The revision of the CYCLOPEDIA,
at the time when the literary worl
on the seventh volume had beer
practically at the editorial office. haC
been going on for little more thai
two wears. The beginning OF Thu
period, however. It had been neces
sary to con sumo in that preparation
which constituted one cf the mos
important portions of the work. Il
was necessary, first. to examine thor
oughly the old edition, and to an
notate it throughout carefully anC
accurately with directions for th'
guidance of the revisers; second, t.
fully organize and arrange the system
on which the work was to be done
to mark out the divisions of labor
and to make arrangement with spec
ial writers; and, fually. to get al
the complicated machinery of th'
actual office labor into the runnin;
order of an accurate and smooth
routine.


Counting the whole two years
however, or six hundred working
days, as fairly consumed in the re
vision, rewriting, and complete
nreparatlon of the seven volumes
or FIVE thousand six hundred page
thu far published. and We have
result chat sufficiently shows the ear
nestness and energy with which th'
work has been pushed. For, ac
cording to this minimum statement
the CYcLoPEDIA Office, with stat
of editors about equal in number t
that of an ordinary newspapers. ma
completed and put through all tn
various processes, and sent to pres
every day, an average amount equ:a
to ten columns of editorial matter
Year: 1874

Mr.. EDITOR.


Since the announcement of the COM
mittee that we are to have a conven-
tion to nominate candidate for this
Congressional District, there has been
n great deal of interest manifested as
TO who will be the nominee.


Having been over the county OF
Tazewell recently, can state Win
certainty, that the people are unit
for our present faithful and efficient
representative, Gen. Bowen.


Never has a public servant gwen
more general satisfaction to the entire
people. BY a straight forward and
honest course he has again endeared
himself to the entire community, re-
gardless of party lines.


In conversation with Gen. Bowen
a few days since, 1 am glad to state,
he occupies the position he did two
years ago, that he did not then, nor
will he now, canvass for a nomination
that he will cheerfully abide the de-
cision of the convention, and give his
earnest support to the nominee. The
Year: 1874

BY virtue OF the power In me vested by the
Board of Police Of the Town OF 0pelousas, I viii
proceed to sell at public auction. Tor cash with
out the benefit OF appFasenent. at the Court
Year: 1874

ity which constitute the Indispensable OF
military education culture broad and schoarsnip


as generous compatible with the resources OF ,no
institution and with the time allotted to Instruction
within its walls. The Visitors therefore recognizing
the importance Of q wider and moro varied euf
tempated by the existing course and not being entirety
agreed the best mode OF changing the Curriculum
at the expense of the branches now pursued wisn 70


indicate their sense OF tho value OF the study OF law ana
Of the French and Spanish LANGUAGES as tending 70 hs inc
hope time devoted to these departments VIII
not be abridged. ~


In the epnon OF the Board IL is desirable that the law
now should far m0ithed as TO require tna
candidates TO the Military Academy shouo
not be younger than older than 81 years OF age
Year: 1874

THE Treasury officers of the State of
South Carolina are In New York seek
ing a conference with the bondholders
Of that State in regard to funding the
bonds at fifty cents upon the dollar and
promising to pay interest upon the
funded bondss in July. This amounts
to exactly the same as the three per
cent plan lately broached in this State.
Has Tennessee fallen to the low estate
of negro-ridden South Carolina?
Year: 1874

IT is evident to every one that IN
less some determined action prompt
ly taken on this subject midsummer
viii come and find Congress still al
work on the Appropriation bills Some
of the most influential members OF the
House express the opinion that it will
not be necessary for Congress TO re.
main in Washington after the LIST OF
June.-Washington correspondence Ne'7
Y5yL. Tribune.
Year: 1874

WHITEwAsH is still abundant IN
Washington, though not always Of a
good quality. An immense amount
has Just been applied by the Commit
tee on Ways and Means to Messrs.
Richardson, Sawyer and Banfeld- The
damning spots which the investigation
into the Sanborn contracts has left all
over them has been most industriOusly
pIastered over with whitewash by the
committee; and yet they remain to be
seen of all men, and are even more dls-
gustingfrom their superficial whitening
than they were before.-Ne'0 York Sun.
Year: 1874

ACCORDING to the Nev York Tri-
bHne's Washington correspondence, a
general feeling prevails that Congress
and the President will not agree upon
Currency bill this session. The bill
reported by the Senate Finance Com
mittee suits no one exactly, and very
few in any considerable degree, and it
is the general impression that it WI
be impossible for that committee to
frame bill that can become a law.
Year: 1874

The District of Columbia Investigation
Committee remained in session with closed
doors several hours to-day inquiring into
the safe Burglary in the District Attorneys
office. The committee refuse TO disclose
the nature of tie testimony, but it is said
that the developments will ultimately show
that the burglary had mUre connection with
the district Investigation than was gener-
ally supposed.
Year: 1874

Hay TEA FoR CALvEs.-A farmer
who had = calf of value and no milk
to give it wss advised to give it hay
ter He did 30 aud the calf is doing
finely though it has neither received
hay nor meal since he got it. lie cuts
the best and finest hay he has, about
Two inches long aud p'u.s boiling Wa
ter over it; lets it stand until cooled
to about the heat of milk from the COW
when the tea is given to the calf and
the hay to the COW. Both calf and


COW thrive on their feed. We have
fed great deal Of hay tea to calves.
with good results.-Rural New York.
Year: 1874

How can rubber bouts be men ded !
Cut patch out Of the rubber. and rub
the patch aud the boot with sand paper.
Dissolve little pure rubber in turpsn
tine to the thickness of uolasses snear
he patch aud boot five times with this,
letting dry each time then smear once
more and press together.
Year: 1874

bidding, will, when they have the
! power in their own hands, and the au.
thority of the Constitution to support
them, and the expression of public
opinion directing them to go forward,
casting off these good temperance men,
snd rejecting the alliance, not longer
having any use for them. You may
vote down the Constitution and with ii
the obnoxious license clause, but have
you seriously considered the conse.
quences that will result?


DRUNKENNESS OF A JUDICIAL OFFICER
During term time, or while otherwise
engaged in the transaction of official
business, shall exclude him from Office.
Now, we have that much temperance
embodied squarely in the Constitution,
and if you vote it down you will lose
the benefit of that much temperance,
at all events. And say to you that Is
no idle provision, for the bench Of
Ohio has been, unfortunately, disgra-
ced by intoxication. You yourselves
have witnessed it. And above all
scenes that beggar description is that
of a drunken Judge sitting upon a
bench of justice trying a fellow citizen
for his life or his liberty, while so ut
terly maudliu drunk that he can scarce
ly distinguish light from darkness. 1t
is the most wretched, most disgraceful,
most damning picture Of humanity
that can be portrayed by the pen of an
gels or devils. applause.


Every instinct Of humanity or de-
cency must shrink back to think of one
who will permit his brains to be delib-
erately stolen from him while in his
hands he holds the scales Of justice, and
while from his tongue should come
forth utterances of wisdom and truth.
1t is u shame, and If for no other reason
under heaven, we ought to adopt our
new Constitution in order to save at
least that clause it.


CONCLUSION.


Let Us arise, friends, in our strength
and in our might, and call upon the
people, as they love Christianity, as
they love civilization, as they love the
right, az they would avert the miseries
and calamities of the domestic impov-
erishment, as they would preserve our
scutcheOn, and aid in the prevention
of crime and all the dire consequences
that would flow from an expression of
public opinion In favor of error, and
let us cast majority vote against the
license clause, and there will he no
danger of these fearful consequences.
Great applause. Should a majority
expression be given in favor Of license,
welding its club over the legislation of
the State, its temperance, its tempe
rance reform and its Temperance re-
formers will be swept WAS going to
say into oblivion. But no, not into
Oblivion, for they will rise again and
seize upon their banner, and lifting it
from the dust will fling it in the face
of the foe, and if not victorious in this
generation, will continue through the
next and the next, fighting on and
fighting ever, until, in defiance ofli
cense and license clauses, the will and
the power and the glory of Almighty
God will be vindicated in the wisdom
and pow er and virtue OF an Ohio Gem
eral Assembly that will bring good out
Of evil. [Great applause.