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Year: 1870

The women of Prussia are said to be
as mprehensively organized for the
care of the wounded as the men are for
military service. Little may be heard,
amid the din of arms, of what these
women are doing; but the service, says
the London Economist, is diligently
and efficiently performed. So thorough
is said to be the organization that the
societies know where to turn for lint
and every kind of store in any requisite
quantity that may be of service to the
wounded; the system being nearly as
effective for utilizing the resources of
the country as those of the active army.
Again, there are numerous societies for
assisting families whose heads are called
into the field, and the calamities incl
dent to compulsory draft are thus
ameliorated as far as possible. Hardly
Il single person in Prussia escapes from
doing something toward sustaining the
burden of the war, and it is this scien.
tific adjustment which has made posi-
BILE the concentrated effort whose pro-
digious results we have seen.
Year: 1870

The old man was toiling through the
burden and heat of the day, in cultiva-
ting his own land, and depositing the
promising seed in the fruitful lap of
yielding earth. Suddenly there stood
before him, under the shade of huge
linden tree, vision. The old man
was struck with amazement.


81 am Solomon" spoke the phantom,
in friendly voice. "What are you
doing here, old man ?"


"If you are Solomon" replied the
venerable laborer," show can you ask
this? In my youth you sent me to the
ant? l saw its occupation, and learned
from that insect to be industrious and
to gather. What 1 then learned l have
followed out to this hour"


"You have only learned half your
lesson" replied the spirit. "Go again
to the ant and learn to rest in the win
ter of your life, and enjoy what you
have gathered up"
Year: 1870

CREBILLIoN the younger once said
that really fine woman never reaches
her full lovelihess until she was at least
thirty. There is encouragement for
women to tell the truth about their
age.
Year: 1870

The MIDDLETowN TRANSCRIPT is widely
appreciated as a business end advertising
medium. by business men. AS an evil
dence of the fact, look over its advertising
columns, and compare it with any other
rural journal, and see if one can be found
which presents more business-like aspect
1t circulates widely, goes into every family
of any note, in all this region, both in
Delaware and Maryland, and is always
filled with useful, instructive, and enter
tanning matter. Scarcely a week passes
that fresh accessions are not made to its
subscription list, and if its advertising pa
tronage continues to increase in like ratio,
it will impose upon the publisher the ne
csssity of an early enlargement. Our ad-
vertisements represent the active business
interests of the community. We admit
no obscene, offensive, fraudulent or half
pay publications, from huckstering agents
who find some papers, in city and country
willing to publish anything, however filthy
and improper, at any price which is offer
cd them. We could fill the Transcript
with such trash. if we would, but we hav,
not SO learned our duty as a publisher
as thus to impose upon and abuse the con
fidence of our readers.
Year: 1870

THE INCOME TAX LAW TO BE TESTED
The Philadelphia and Trenton Railway
Company has secured an injunction against
the Internal Revenue Collector in Phila-
de1phia, restraining him from collecting
or levying the income tax of five per cent
against the declared dividends and net
earnings of the road, on the ground that
the tax is not applicable to incomes paid
or-payable in 1870. The question is to
be argued in the Court of Nisi Prius on
Friday next. Nearly all the leading rail
roads in Pennsylvania have refused to pay
their taxes and will await the decision Of
the court.
Year: 1870

PRICE OF CoAL.-The prospect is that
during the next winter the price of an
thracite coal is to be kept fully up to the
mark at which it was held during the win
ter through which we have just passed
Whether this is to be through conspira-
cy between the coal operators and the mi
ners, or by concert of action among the
miners themselves, is question of no spe-
cal moment, in view of the fact that
"strikes' benefit the mining corporations,
whether the latter promote them or not.
At this time, throughout the whole of the
Schuylkill region, which furnishes annual
ly from four to five millions of tons of coal
the miners, to the number of eight thous-
and men and boys, have suspended work.
There is, of course, the usual quarrel be-
tween them and the companies. The con-
sequence is that the works are all idle and
the supply of coal on hand is gradually
lessening. When the winter demand sets
in, the plea, as usual. will be that the
strikes have kept down the supply so low
that the total amount of coal that can be
mined later in the season at high rates OF
wages will be inadequate to meet the wants
of consumers, and extra prices must be
charged accordingly.


The alleged cause of the existing strike
in the Schuylkill region is that the coal
operators there have combined to reduce
the summer wages of the miners thirty
per cent. below what they were few
months ago.
Year: 1870

If you are in any trouble or quandary,
tell your wife-that is, if you have one
all about it at once. Ten TO one her
invention Will solve your difficulty
sooner than all your logic. The witof wo
man has been praised, but her instincts
are quicker and keener than her reason.
Counsel with your wife,or your mother
or sister, and be assured that light will
flash upon your darkness. Women are
too commonly adjudged as verdant in
all but pure womanjsh affairs. No
philosophical student of the sex thus
judges them. Their intuitions, or in
sight, are the most subtle, and if they
cannot see cat in the meal there is no
cat there. In counselling one to tell his
troubles to his wife, we would go fur
ther and advise him to keep none of his
affairs secretfrom her. Many a home
has been happily saved, and many a
fortune retrieved by mans full conf
dencc in his better half. Woman is far
more a seer and prophet than man, if
she be given fair chance. AS a gen.


eral rule, wives confide the minutest of
their plans and thoughts to their hus.


bands, having no oinvolvements to screen


from HIM. Why not reciprocate, if but
for the pleasure OF meeting conffienc


with confidence? We are certain tina
no man succeeds so well in the world as
he who, taking partner for life, makes
her the partner of all her purposes and
hopes. What is wrong in his impulses
or Judgment, she will check and set
right with her almost universally right
instincts. "1elp meet" was no insig-
nifcant title, as applied to mans COM
panion. She is meet help to him in
every darkness, difficulty and sorrow
of life. And what she most Graves and


deserves, is confidence without which


love is never free from shadow.
Year: 1870

TIE sale OF government gold was fairly counter
balanced In its effect on the market by the larre
number OF bids. The In the Gold Room remain.
Ing steady al ll4k lis until after the board when
some small transactions took place at ll44. The
Is an increased short interest apparent In rhe de-
maud for cash gold for the Clearing House each day,
AM the spectators who have been de.erred by the
Carrying rate are more disposed TO purchase under
the present easy rates for carrying large amounts.
Tie market on the whole was dun. The chi fiuctu.
Al ms OF the day are shown III the tablet
Year: 1870

The NAVY DEPARTMENT has determined to
Increase the European squadron at once in
view of danger to odr shipping there in the
pending war. This is wise step, and 1t is
owing simply to the wretched economy OF
Congress that we have not at our command y
navy large enough to keep the shipping at
every port in France or Prussia well guarded


How quickly the imbecle legislation OF Con-
gress in this matter, as well as in the matter OF
transferring registers, has come home 10 us
Year: 1870

SENATOR SoHURZ. III has been uttered as
reproach to some Of our citizens of foreign
birth that they do not sufficiently determine,
In becoming citizens Of the United States, to
which country they adhere, whether to that OF
their birth or of their adoption IT is certainly
a just cause of complaint against the Fenlans
that by so much as they pretend 20 be particu
iarly good Irishmen they prove themselves
bad Americans. The --latest offence against
good order and good taste in CHS direction is
that Of Senator Schurz, who comes out as
platform orator for Prussia wben his position
N q member Of the United States Senate
should restrain him from the cheap defamation
of the multitude on dispute in which his
adopted country takes no part.
Year: 1870

Sixty persons died In one day in this city
from the effects of the heat--a fact which
indicates what might come to pass II there
should be any permanent considerable eleva-
tion of the temperature Of the atmosphere;
for these sixty were generally the feebler, the
old or the very young, or persons weakened
by excesses, and these, OF course, succnmb
first; but after few days of such heat as we
had on Sunday last all persons are numbered
among the weak. In fact, our temperature
already goes to tho verge Of human endurance,
and In the facts about MS we SEQ that an ap-
pareutly uncomfortable modification would
depopulate the whole district In which II ope-
rated; and thus we might glimpse at the be-
ginning OF the end and speculate upon the
tlmo whom the earth, II It should not abso-
lutely perish by dre, would at least be-
come uninhabitable by reason Of the heat,
and at least perish as the dwelling place
Of man. II will be remembered that
the past winter was anomalous. II was
very mild In all the earlier months, and the
Hudson was open to an unusual period but
late In the season cold weather came on with
some severity and pushed the spring from Its
place. All this modification Is so much evil
deuce Of the verify of the remarkable observa-
tions recently made OF changes in tho sun
and they tell us very clearly how intimate Is
our dependence upon the stability Of existing
conditions in that lumlhary. TO tho specula-
tive view the appearances described in the
sun are such as might be occasioued by great,
suddenly up.bursting conaagrations Of gases
or other highly inflam Unable matters and It
seems possible that these fires, II they really
are such, exhaust themselves after time.
Do they not, then, meanwhile exhaust In
enormous degree the heat-producn2 power Of
the sun, and shall we not pay for ull this by
loss of proper heat at another time, by a
winter perhaps as excessively cold as the
summer is hot9


p. S.---No argument is intended in favor Of
high coal.
Year: 1870

TIE LATEST DISTRESS to which New York
city finds itself subject is an ice monopoly.
War recently broke out between the two CON-
panies who have the exclusive right between
them to cool the city at this season, and we
were on the verge Of dissolving without know
ing it. Luckily, however. ice dissolved
faster, and the rivals, finding their stock
on hand melting away, came to terms. So the
ice famine was avertcd, but the fact brings
viyid'y before US the danger we are in FROM
this monopoly, as from so many others. If
some kink gets into the wool of one company
which the other company doesn't like the two
between them may leave us sweltcring for the
rest OF The dog days
Year: 1870




Our latest West Indian, Mexican and South
American mail news gives very graphic aad
interesting RESUME Of the progress Of events
In the countries from which 1t comes. The
most prominent undertaking at present In the
Antilles is tho preparations being made for
the laying of the West Indies and Panama
cable. Everything so far works well. aud
under the personal supervision of Sir Charles
Bright we expect the work will be pushed
on without delay. In Mexico, among other
things, we learn that the rebel general Mar
tinez, who some time since threatened Mata-
moros, and was subsequently reported annihl-
lated, is not only alive and at liberty, but with
an increased and reorganized force is preparing
to make demonstration in the State OF San
Luis Potosi. Possibly the next report Of this
celebrated pronouncer may inform us that he
has nominated himself for the Presidency,
to succeed Juarez. From Rio JaneirO we
learn of how matters progress in the great
South American empire. Ii would seem that
the Church and government are not destined
TO work as harmoniously together as they have
in times gone by. The question OF taxation
on Church property may prove the opening
wedge TO breach that will eventually result
in a total separation between Church and
State. The present difficulty, il it can so bs
regarded, is an indication Of future movements
In this direction.
Year: 1870

II appears to us that the Paradol inquest did
not satisfactorily 60 to the bottom Of
certain Of the difficult points in the case. An
insufficient history is given of the night--of all
the time between one A. NJ. and five A. NJ
when the servants were alone In the house
with the corpse and made no sign. Is this
the natural conduct of such persons in such
circumstances Neither, 1t seems, ever thought
OF calling Tor help or that physician might
DO or use. The man Augusta thought his
master was taken with At, and Immediately
ran down stairs for vinegar. Down stairs, he
found blood on his own clothes, and said. ssSome
ono has killed NJ. Paradol;" so that he had tho
conception, first Of a at; second, OF wound
yet never thought Of a doctor. When he went
up stairs N. ParadOl was dead, yet he lived
three quarters Of an hour. During the greater
part OF that time apparently the dying man
was alone and his servants were down stairs
looking for vinegar. 1t Is said that as they
were strangers to the country and language
they knew not what 10 do; but the servants
knew the residence Of other members OF the
Legation and as to the country, there are Ger
tain customs that are naturalized the world over,
and one of these is for servants to call assist
ancs to the help Of an injured master In all
cases where they have nothing to conceal. Tho
letters produced are not without peculiar
character. When did M. Paradol write the
exclamation, "Je me tue?" Its time assumes
to be ooincident with the act 1t refers to, but
was 1t written before or after, and how did it
come to lightp The letter in the possession Of
M. DE Jardin is not above closer scrutiny than
has been given it. Specifically, appearances
point to suicide, but the conduct of the servants
was certainly strange, and some other points
are not less so.
Year: 1870

TIE FLORENCE SoANNEL INQUEST is still
going on, and is not being conducted in a
very decorous manner Whoever may be
found to have fred the shot that proved fatal
10 the political desperate there can be no
doubt that in the eye of the law he is guilt
less for Florence Scanned at that time was
himself seeking lives indiscriminateIy, going
about with his life In his hand ut the head
of a band as desperate as himself, and the
shot that disab ed him doubtless saved some
life as valuable as his own.
Year: 1870

The situation in England begins to look
serious. The Queen has sent for Lord Gran
vile and rebuked him, if report speaks truth.
The Queen will not, she says, have war under
any of the circumstances which the present
complication justiies. The Cabinet has met,
and Lord Granville has been scolded by the
Cabinet even more than by the Queen. His
note in reply to Gortchakoff was hasty. Such,
it is now said, is the general Judgment of
the British people, He did not, as he was
bound to do in circumstances so grave,
consult his colleagues. His was brave and
daring stroke of policy, worthy Of man who
believes in the glorious English past, and who
is a wsrshipper of Palmerston. It is not yet
known, however, that Granville is Palmers-
ton. For the moment it seems that in court
and parliamentary circles the feeling is
against him. 1t is not impossible that
Granville may have to resign; but if Gran
vile is as brave man as many think he is the
British people will stand by him, and not even
the Queen will be able to injnre him. More
than once in her life she has had to submit to
Ministers whom she did not love- and it will
not be wonderful if Lord Granville should be
added to the number. 1t is said that Russia,
although protesting to be open to reason, is
determined to abate nothing in her demands.
II this be SO Parliament must meet and decide
for or against the Ministry If the Ministry is
defeated Parliament will be dissolved and
general election will follow. 1t possible, but
it is by no means certain, that the nation will
stand by the Queen and peace policy. It
will be well for the world if peace eounsels
prevail but the traditionarily bsllicose spirit Of
the British people is just as likely as not to
declare for war. Premier Gladstone is not vet
committed, and for this reason, among many
others, the news Of Monday will be anxiously
awaited by the millions Of American newspa-
per readers.
Year: 1870

MAIL NEWS FROM Mosoow-THE FEELING
AGAINST ENGLAND By the European mail we
have very interesting report of the govern
mental and political situation which existed
in Moscow some few days previous to the 18th
instant. The ancient nobility OF Russia the
Muscovite aristocracy, was excited and
agitated. The members of the body were
impressed with the conviction that the nation
was hampered in some way that the empire
required a yindication. In this fevered con-
dition of the public mind the voice of the
people was, as will be seen in our pages
to-day, turned against England first and
ominous indication Of the approach of the
governmental crisis which we chronicle by
cable to-day. In this view alone this Moscow
latter is af very great Importance.
Year: 1870

The Eastern Quesrion-A Cabinet Crisis and


ministerial ssTumuit" In England.


The kilograms from Europe which reached
us by cable yesterday report that the Eastern
question difficulty remained almost unchanged
in its general aspect at late hour OF the even
ing Russia is not disposed to recede from her
position. England appears resolved not to con-
cede the demand Of the Gar for the revision
of the Treaty of Paris under any circum-
stances. The case was narrowed to the
point of an anxious public canvass Of
the diplomatic communication which was
being carried on between st. Peters,
burg and London-its tenor, tone and
probable consequences. or the real state Of
feeling which exists in Russia we are not
exactly informed. There is little doubt,


however, that the nation will sustain the
position and follow the lead indicated by its
ruler. England reveals herself agitated and
excited, perhaps alarmed. The Gladstone
Cabinet remained divided in opinion during
Friday. 1t may be said, indeed, that the
Ministerial Council was distracted, and the
Ministers, consequently, hesitating. Queen
Victoria is averse to war. Her Majesty,
as we are informed, is decided and stub
born in her position, evincing very con-
siderable show of the self-will of her race, with
a good deal of the early spirit which she
showed during her very first difference with
her Cabinet Ministers on the Maids Of Honor
appointments question, Immediately after her
accession to the throne. Earl Granville had
audience of the Queen at Windsor by special
summons from the Grown. We are told that
his Lordship had barely reached the royal
presence when her Majesty ''assailed him
violently" with respect to the issue Of his note
in reply to Prince Gortchakoff, and declared
that s'she would not hear Of war under any
the ''peace at any price or ''let us have
peace" desire of the throne in shape which
is unpleasing to the national spirit of England
and greatly at variance with the constitu-
tional privileges Of the British Parliament.
The Queen must, consequently, give way
should the nation will it. The royal decla-
rations had their weight, however. The
Council room in Downing street was in s'tn-
multi, as we are informed, Immediately after
the resolution of the Crown had been an
nounced, and ''bear garden" scene such as
has been witnessed there at various dangerous
epochs in the history of England was repeated.
Prince Gortchakof's note was on the table,
unaltered. An adjournment Of the Council
was had, after very angry and lengthy de-
bate The consideration of the case remains
postponed. Another meeting of the Cabinet
will be held on Monday and Queen Victoria
will meet the Council on Tuesday. The crisis
We may repeat our question-peace or war?
Year: 1870

THE WANDERERS CAPTIvEs. The seizure Of
the American slave schooner Wanderer by
a government cruiser in 1859, her recapture
bv a mob at the wharf in Savannah and the
carrying into captivity of the Africans found
on board are facts still fresh in the memory
of most readers. Nothing was heard Of the
fate of the unfortunate negroes after they had
been dispersed among Southern planters
until some two years since, when
they were discovered by missionary
under somewhat remarkable circumstances.
These Africans, since the commencement
of the war, have been living in Georgia
in one community, keeping alive the love Of
their far distant homes, to which they now
are most anxious to return. The Secretary Of
the Interior has been applied to for assistance
to send these unfortunates to their native land,
but decides that he has no authority in the
premises. The matter will be laid before
Congress at its next session, and no doubt
will at once receive favorable consideration.
Year: 1870

IMPORTANT IF TRUE.-A delegation of four
from the Cunacunas, tribe of the Darien
Indians who live on the banks of the Atrato
river, were, by last advices from the isthmus,
on their way to Bogota to consult with the
Colombian government. Rumor attributed
their mission to the capital to be for the pur-
pose of entering a complaint against the
United States Exploring Expedition, but the
most popular belief is that the delegation is
charged with secret mission in relation to an
easy route for an interoceanic canal. 1t has
long been the opinion of learned men that an
easy route across The isthmus is known TO the
Indians.
Year: 1870

CANDID AND SENSIBLE were the remarks of
Mrs. Somerby---a pleasing little brunette-at
the woman's rights meeting in Union square
the other night when talking on female
suffrage She said, very frankly, speaking
for herself as one to whom the franchise
might be given, that if she had the right to
parties, she said, are equally corrupt, and it
would require new system Of government it
Year: 1870

remainder of the enlightened nations the
impression Of master people residing in that
space of territory chiefly bounded by the
English Channel, the Pyrenees, the Medter-
ranean and the Rhine. Arts, arms, laws,
population, genius, soil, climate, situation,
products, skill, all appeared to have been
combined for them upon peculiarly favorable
conditions, and the Muse of History seemed to
have dipped her pen in sunbeams when she
sketched their annals.


Yet, even with all this in her favor, such
was the earnest striving by the Napoleonic
government to develop and improve, that
even before the war with Germany broke out


France had to expend from twenty-seven to
twenty eight per cent of her yearly income to
pay the interest Of her public debt But at
that time her three-percents were worth
seyenty-four francs in the hundred How
shall we gauge them accurately now? We
are told that they have fallen at least as low
as forty-fve francs, thereat suggesting an
outlay of more than fifty per cent of her entire
income to meet the public debt demand of in
terest alone. Now, in the spring Of 1870, the
national debt OF Prussia called for no more
than seven per cent of the income of that
country, aud snpposing il to have only doubled
the rate as that of France has done, what an
immense difference between drain of four
teen and of fifty-ive per cent


But let us endeavor to get the exact figures
of these totals, as official hands very lately
summed them up in the papers OF Bordeaux
in the effort to illustrate what this strug-