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Year: 1870

curious similarity in statements is pre-
sented in our special dispatches from Paris
and Versailles published this morning. Our
correspondent in the besieged city reports
that the result of the recent sortie was salts
factory to the French, as it demonstrated the
weakness Of the German line and their ability
to cut their way through at the proper time.
Our Versailles correspondent states that the
Germans have evaded the truth in their
reports of the battles with Ducrot's army
that not only did the French capture and hold
the peninsula, repulsing every attempt made
to recover it, but that they would
have cut their way entirely through had
not De Paladines been beaten at
Orleans In addition we learn that Paris
contains four months supply of food, and
of. Preparations were making for another
great sortie, and the French were confident of
success Their field works had been pushed
forward with such energy that their artillery
and sharpshooters now command roads which
were entirely out Of range at the beginning Of
the siege.


While this report from Paris is most favor
able to the French, our correspondence from
Versailles is somewhat unfavorable to the
Germans. Grave fears are expressed that the
next sortie will be successful. General Won
Moltke is apprehensive that new armies will
be formed in the south Of France which will
be difficult to get at; and he is unwilling to
allow Prince Frederick Charles to advance too
far from Versailles. There was a great
demand among the Germans for the bonn
bardment of Paris, and three councils Of
war had been held to consider the question.
Meanwhile Count Bismarck was pressing
energetically the political movement for the
destruction of the republic. He is said to be
ton with Napoleon or any other Power willing
and able to make terms.


Such, in brief, is the most important war
news we have this morning, and which the
energy and enterprise Of the HERALD CORES
pondents enables us to place before the
reader. There are some other dispatches
mentioning minor operations, such as the
occupation Of Vendome by the Prus-
slams; an announcement from Bordeaux
that a plan has been agreed upen for
q simultaneous advance OF the French
armies on the Loire, and statement
that General Chauzy has been heavily rein
forced But, on the whole, the gist Of to-
days news will be found in our special tele-
grams They put somewhat different light
had. A few more days, or at most weeks,
will doubtless decide whether the garrison Of
Paris is as strong and the Germans as weak
as is represented.
Year: 1870

COSSaCk-1a6


Gomez


Looking at the current of events and the
signs of the times, it seems that the
famous prophetic expression of the great
Napoleon, that within fifty years Europe
would either be. republican or Cossack, is
about to find solution, though not exactly
within the period mentioned. Though little
over fifty years since this was said, it is not
have commenced in earnest and on the
broadest scale. Napoleon the Third un-
consciously fastened this struggle between
republicanism and Cossack, or military gov
ernment, between the principles Of democracy
and monarchical absolutism. The Gar of
Russia and the King of Prussia, or rather the
Emperor of Germany now, have probably an
understanding with each other for reorganiz-
ing the political condition of Europe, as well
as the territorial map. However literally dis
whatever concessions King William may be
forced to ma Ike to the popular and progressive
ideas of the age, both essentially autocratic,
and their views of government rest upon the
Cossack or military principle. The divine
or anointed rights of monarchy and absolut-
ism form the basis Of their governmen Is.
There are no more determined foes of repub-
licanism. King Williams implacable hostility
to the French arises as much from this as from
the desire Of territorial aggrandizement. In
deed, his chief object, we believe, is to crush
republicanism in Europe in its birth, and in
this he has naturally the sympathy of the
crowned heads and aristocracies of Germany,
Russia and the rest Of Europe. To carry out
this purpose he will probably use his power to
squelch the republicans and liberals of Italy,
as well % of France. From present appear
ances he is threatening Victor Emmanuel and
the liberals of Italy, with view to restore the
temporal power of the Pope, because that rep
resents the principle of absolute authority and
divine right Here we see the tendency TO
make Europe Cossack. On the other hand
there is the democratic sentiment permeating
among the masses. Even in Germany the
people begin to aspire to republican liberty.
IL is the same to some extent everywhere in
Europe. Self-government and the RESPONSE
biity of those who rule is principle that the
peonle are learning everywhere. Here. then.
Year: 1870

A NEW STATE IN THE SOUTHWEST. Con
gress may prepare for new sensation. We
have Sambo on the floors of both houses of
our national Legislature, and now our red
brother "Lo' is preparing to take a seat beside
him. At the grand council of all the tribes of
the Indian Territory, now in session at
Okmulgee, it has been determined to unite
together into a confederation, adopt consti-
tuition republican in form, and in due time
apply for admission as one of the States of the
Union This is the true solution of the Indian
question. Education and civilization will soon
effect what bullets and bayonets in a fifty years
war have failed to accomplish-the subjugation
of the savages Of The Plains.
Year: 1870

WINTER AT LAsT.-The first and best
evidence that winter has fairly come at
last-apart from blue noses and frozen
fngers--is the news from cup the Hudson"
that this lordly river is blocked with ice
above the city of Hndsou, and two steamers
the st. John and the Daniel Drew-were hard
aground yesterday. This is very early in the
season for an ice blockade. A month later
than this last year the river was open to
Albany and the navigation all right. We have
just emerged from long spell of delightful
weather, more like spring than December.
The weather, however, has not been very
healthy. What nature bestows in one way
balmy air AID bright skies-she is apt 10 make
Offset for in liabilities to cold and intermit-
tent fever. The cold season, upon the thresh-
old Of which we are now, may bring us all
better health. This is Christmas week. The
next Sabbath will he a double festival. In
view OF this fact and the severity of the
weather let us think of the poor, who,
although they are 'salways with us" appeal
more tenderly to our sympatbies at this holy
season than ever.
Year: 1870

The police records Of every morning fur
wisdom in asking the Legislature that more
power should be invested in the judges Of our
criminal courts to punish homicide with
heavier sentences. AS the law now stands
the judge is restricted to a sentence Of two
years in the State Prison for shedding human
blood where the verdict is manslaughter in
the third degree, while in cases of larceny he
can send the prisoner up for term of four
years or from that to twenty. The Recorder,


in view of the increasing use of the knife and
pistol in this community, thinks (and very
properly that human life should be better
protected by the enforcement of heavier
penalties.


The two last cases of probable homicide,
reported yesterday morning, are of very
shocking character, and WILL probably-if
they have not already done so-result in
death. One poor wretch was picked up in
the street with fifteen knife wounds on his
person. The other victim Of brutal violence
was knocked on the head with a bottle while
engaged in barroom brawl, and had his
skull badly fractured. We say nothing of the
minor cases Of cutting and manning coming
to the knowledge of the police; but il is noto-
rious that their name is Legion. II is evi-
dent, then, that the reform which Recorder
Hackett recommends has become necessity,
and we hope that the Legislature will attend
to it as one of their first acts after the session
opens in January.
Year: 1870

Pulpit laudations of the Pilgrim Fathers are
by no means unknown to the pious where New
Englanders meet in prayer. In point of fact
it is part Of the religious creed of all good
natives Of the Eastern States to occasionally
review the history of their forelathers, from the
landing at Plymouth Rock to-we must write
il In spite of its Irishism-the passage Of the
reconstruction laws. Yesterday Mr.. Merrill
Richardson, at the New England Congrega-
tonal church, delivered a first class puff of
his own and his hearers Puritan forefathers.
In the course of his remarks he alluded to the
fact that ''by blunder or treachery of the cap
tain they Ohe Pigrims) were landed hundreds
of miles north, and thus New York escaped
being the haven of the Pilgrim Fathers;" and
he Immediately added


There's divinity that shapes our ends,


R0ugh-hew them how we Will.


And fortunate circumstance it was for the
Dutch that the divinity did not shape the
ends of the Pilgrims Manhattanward. In
another part Of the sermon the preacher
declared that ''they loved freedom and hated
despotism, both in Church and State" Per-
haps they did, but they had a queer way of
showing it to everybody who did not agree
with them religiously and politically Further
more, Mr.. Richardson said that ''they
lived in peace with other colonies and with
the Indian tribes" If he calls a war of forty
years, ending with the determination of the
poor savages, living with them in peace, we
cannot conceive what his idea of discord is.
The fact is that the unfortunate Indians must
have felt like doing towards the Pilgrims as
the poet felt when he wrote
Year: 1870

becoming President by the death of Taylor, was
ambitious to be President in his own right,
and made very good fight for the whig nomi
nation of 1852, though General Scott was too
much for him. In 1856, hswever, failing to
get the republican nomination, Fillmore ran as
the candidate Of a third party, and had his
satisfaction thereby in the defeat of Frem ont.
In 1860 the squabble among the democratic
leaders, which broke up the party and brought
on the Southern rebellion, never would have
happened had such a man as Jackson held the
place of poor old Buchanan in the White
House


Now, if history is philosophy teaching by
example, we can understand the drift of these
disaffections of Fenton, Schurz, Sumner,
Trumbull and others, still claiming to be
among the lights Of the party of General
Grants administration. These rebeious
movements are aimed at Grant, and, as third
party Is the most convenient stepping-stonc to
the regular opposition party, we have these
biz of third party organization. What.
then, Il the policy of General Grant as the
recognized head, representative and candidate
of the republican party? 1t is clearly the
policy Of General Jackson, the simple military
policy of cutting off all mutineers from the
recognition of the administration. From all
we can learn this policy has been adopted in
the case Of Schurz; but why not apply the
bowstring as well to Fenton and Sumner,
upon the safe ola rale that che who is not
Year: 1870

speedy consummation Of arrangements for peace
and restoration Of the empire.


SIGNIFICANT RECEPTION.


Great significance is attached 10 the manner IN
which the Empress was received BY Queen Victoria
at windsor.


FRANCE ANXIOUS FOR THE EMPIRE.
Tne feeling is strong that victory for France is
hopeless under the republic. Private advices from
ali paxts OF France indicate reaction everywhere
in fayor OF restoration OF the Emperor. The peo-
pie arc contrasting the twenty years Of order and
prosperity with the present misery ana anarchy
The Tours government have proved incompetent
either 70 conduct the war or negotiate peace.


NAPOLEON FAvoRs INAcrIoN.


Napoleon refuses to give his sanction to any
schemes for his restoration at present. saying that
his part Is silent lnaction until the republ leans
either capitulate or are dispersed.
Year: 1870

TOW OFTEN Is THE HOUSEHOLD


Ill loaf buried with the household head, and
families that might have been comfortably
p1 divided for, lett destitute by the want OF y
proper foresight in its deceased protector?
Year: 1870

Here is a new rule for computing in
terest. 1t is so simple and so true that
every banker, merchant or clerk should
post it for reference. BY no other arith-
metical process can the desired informa-
ton be obtained by so few figures:


Six per cent-Multiply any given
number Of dollars by the number OF
days of interest desired, separate the
right hand figure and divide by six; the
result on such number Of days is the in
isrest at six per cent.


Eight per oent-Multiply any given
amount By the npmber of days upon
which il is desired 10 ascertain the inter.
est, and divide by 45, and the result will
be the true interest forthe time required.


Ten per cent.-Multiply the same as
above, and divide by 36, and the result
will show the interest at ten per cent.
Year: 1870

The Chicago Common CoHnoil is still
engaged in deyising plan for regulating
the social evil in that city. Several
plans have been suggested, but none Of
them meet the entire approval Of the
Board.
Year: 1870

The IOCA SIH1U UH WITH II
makes is more durable and beautiful than


any other, presenting the same appear,
ance on both sides Of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
recurring oNE-THRD LESS cotton than
any otser kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear
Year: 1870

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right-which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequlre
an inclination Of the body forward ldetri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use.
Year: 1870

On Friday evening, while ayoung married woman,
twenty-five years OF age, named Bridget Ryder was
walking along the track near Montrose station, on
the Morris and Essex Railroad she was struck by
the locomotive OF coal train and killed almost In
stantly. The body was horribly mangled, the upper
part especially. the unfortunate womans husband
was so affected with the shocking intelligence that
1t was with difficulty be was restrained from putting
. period to his own existence also. Tho young
couple were just preparing To take possession OF
their new home The county physician has been
notified.
Year: 1870

LONDON Feb. 26, 1870.
In accordance with the resolution adopted by the
Convention Of the Chamber OF Commerce bill Will
soon be brought before Parliament for egazlng the
sale OF all cereals by weight.
Year: 1870

Two or three friends in the City
Council, for whose views we have the
highest respect, have recently suggest
ed the discussion by the newspapers OF
certain abuses alleged to obtain in some
departments of the City Government.
So far as indicated to us, the matters in
question are subject to the correcting
control of the City Council. This
Council was elected upon the basis of
Reform-the various Irregularities
which, it was claimed, had crept into
our local affairs were all to be investi-
gated and corrected. Now if our infor-
nation is accurate the public idea in
this regard has not been realized; Re-
form is still demanded.


Accepting this as true, we submit that
the discussion and agitation proper in
the case should commence in the City
Council. Members who are aware of
transactions prejudicial to the public
interest should make their exposures in
the Council Chamber. Then, if it be
true that our representatives have not
the disposition or nerve to stand square
ly up to the work, the people will just
take the matter in hand, and if need
be, reform the Rsformers.
Year: 1870

Reverend HORACE COOKE closes his
sensation engagement by retiring to
the seclusiJn If an Insane Asylum


Having brought disgrace upon an hon.
ored profession, ruined hereputation oi
trusting young girl and thrown the
gossips of the country into coHyulsions
over a scandal that ranks next 10 the
RICHARDsoN-MCFARLAND affair, he does
well to hide himself in an institution
where under the plea of having kind
friends minister to a mind diseased, ,,
be may bury his crime ont of sight.
Few take stock in his extemporized in
sanity and few will object to his retir-
ing from public life and quitting the
sight of honest men.


A single fact will explain why this
man and his folly have engaged 80
large q share of public attention. He
belongs to that profession which is
first in dignity, first in Importance, and


first in influence among the vocations of
men. An error there is more talked of
and worried about than an actual crime
anywhere else. A crime in that profess
sioa eelipses the crimes of all other
men, in the stir it creates and the GEN.
sure it elicits. People get exercised
about spots in the sun, who would never
notice the flare in a tallow-dip. And
yet there is no sound reason why min
ister should be more rigidly faithful to
his duties than other men to theirs.
The moral obligations of duty, of in
tegrity, purity, honor, rest no
more heavily upon the clergy
man than upon the coal HEAVIER. Bnt
society does not so hold in its prac-
tise; society seems to measure trans
gression by rhs stition of the trans
gressor. And so taking things as we
find them, not as they ought to be, we
reach the conclusion that the occupant
of the pulpit must be pure indeed if the
breath of scandal never pollutes his
name. Even under this condition it
must be admitted that the great body
of American ministers faithfully illus
trate the purity and holiness of their
Without discussing whether
the excitement raised by the occasional
lapse of one of their number may not
make the remainder more scrupulously
upright in word and deed, the fact re-
mains that they do not, even in these
degenerate days, come short of the
highest ideal of true and faithful
Chris ian ministers.
Year: 1870

and thus avoid reminding the public oi
the rascally record of Rsdicalism in
this State. But their comfort is not
alone to be considered. Surely if their
West Virginia friends can do for the
party so many disgraceful things, these
pulled up brethren in other States ought
to be willing to stand the odium con-
sequsnt upon recognition of their al
lies. Let there be no more unkind OBJ
.livjoususss.
Year: 1870

Good sweet wheaton bran is in ninety
nine cases out of hundred better thar
physic, if it is given in time. Let any
animal eating sinking mouldy corn
stalks or brittle hay, making it looi
bad, have some bran to help its pool
stomach, and it will soon appear in bet
ter plight. When q cow in milk doe.
not do we'll as she should on other feed
add some bran no matter what ails the
horse, COW, sheep or pig, little brar
will do good-but don't feed bran alone
for long,
Year: 1870




1t was clearly shown, by the meeting
st Belmont, that the people of this
county are in favor of the removal of
the county seat. Five thousand prop.
erty holders have signed petitions for
removal, while less than three Thousand
have demonstrated. If the friends of
removal can adj just their differences and
earnestly unite in favor of one point,
there can be no doubt of the success of
the movement. without union, how
ever, it is useless to proceed further
The st. Clairsville managers played the
old game of "divide and conquer" to
perfection, and the curious spectacle is
presented of a minority of the people
controlling the majority.


ANOTHER CLAIMANT.-It seems that
the people of GAINESVILLE have at last
decided to make some effort to procure
the location of the seat of Justice at
this point. They contend that although
on one side of the county, the town il
practically as accessible as any that
claims the honor, while it will also af
ford the people of the county ample
facilities for the transaction of private
as well as public business. Our citizens
propose to pay the entire cost of the
new county buildings if the people de-
eide to locate them at this point. This
is more than any other place has of.
ferred, and as the question of expense
has been the main objection to removal,
this proposition ought to secure Barnes
vile the much coveted prize. Upwards 8
of twenty Thousand dollars have al
ready been subscribed, and there is a
fair prospect of securing tie whole
amount this week.


MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM INSTANT
DEATH.-Elijah Moors's Portable Saw.
mill, near the Chestnut street railroad
crossing, was the scene of peculiar &C.
cident last Monday afternoon. James
Hunt stepped down into the dust-box
after key, and while leaning forward,
his coat-skirt was caught by the saw
shaft, and in an instant he was thrown
forward on the shaft, and would have
been whirled around and crushed had il
not been for his presence of mind.
Selling the cross.piece of timber for.
ward of the shaft, he held to it until
every particle of clothing except his
pants, were stripped off of him. His
coat, vest, shirt and cap were literally
torn to shreds, and he was left naked,
but fortunately not otherwise hurt.
The young man who runs the engine
was 50 nearly petrified with astonish-
ment at the accident, that he did not
notice his own proximity to the, saw,
and was only relieved from his danger
GUS predicament by the timely inteTpo-
sition of the sawyer.
Year: 1870

In the published proceedings OF
the Board Of Supervisors nearly
every road is reported in good, fair
or passable order. In the majority
ofcases such reports are false, and
If the Supervisors have done their
duty in examining said roads they
know them TO be false.


The roads are horrible-horrible
In the name Of the people we insist
the county roads shall be kept in
good order in truth and in fact.
We insist that road overseers be
held to q rigid accountability for
the exact performance of their du-
ties, and that the old method OF
working roads at regular intervals
be so changed that a road shall be
kept in good order all the time,
even If 1t requires twice or thrice
the time usually so employed.


After o heavy rain are always
washes in the road which, though
at first almost insignificant, soon
become terrible sink holes, and al
for want of an hour or two of labor
thereon.


Will not the Board have this
fault remedied ? If sthe working
out Of taxes don't "cover the
ground" let the work be done at
any and all times when necessary,
even at public expense of the
county.


We call upon citizens In every
quarter of the county to report to
US any piece Of road out of repair
and the overseer thereof and we
will give the whole "tea party" our
richest blessings.


But let the Board personally SUI
pervise Gas they ought) the roads Of
their districts. IL has been order
ed that ell gates across public roads
be removed by the Let of January
next. The next meeting Of The
Board g September 6lh.
Year: 1870

is Just charming. We have cool
nights to sleep in and cool days to
play in, so that we are getting on
gloriously, and, so fast do we live,
It has been suggested by young
lady that the old man with the
scythe and hour glass will have to
get 3 moving machine and watch
Ia order to keep anywhere near
US. Yours, &c,


ASHLEY.