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Year: 1870




Egypt After Twenty-feur Csuturls,-rhe


Herald Reporting Progress.


The HERALD special correspondence from
Cairo, Egypt, which we publish in our col
umns this morning, presents one of the earli-
est civilized countries in the world to the
citizens of the youngest and most free in its
garb of modern reconstruction and reform.
The land Of Sesostris and Rameses looks to
the country of Washington and Jackson for
fraternal endorsement of its well asserted
truths-that grand nationalities are eternal
and their peoples indestructible. Modern
Egypt is engaged in work OF recu-
peratiOn and progress. Her present
history po ssesses peculiar interest for the
American people in consequence. This we
chronicle by special record In our pages to-day.


The HERALD writer reports the opening of
the fourth annual session Of the Egyptian Par
lament by the Viceroy. The construction and
constitution of the representative assemblage
are also given. The executive speech Is Of q
very gratifying character in the present, and
fruitful of promise and in hope for the future.
His Highness concludes with the words:-"Our
unanimous efforts have for their object the
general good, the development of the richness
of the country and its civilization. make
sincere prayers that the All-Powerful God
will aid us in the accomplishment of our task
and in crowning with success our cordial
efforts" It is the invocation of the blessing
as of old, the land overaowing with milk
and honey" and Gods providence over and
directing all. The members Of the Egyptian
Parliament do not enjoy sinecure
under the Viceroy, as will be seen from
the schedule of legislative work which
he has submitted to them. This State
paper embraces clauses relative to the
construction of lighthouses on the coast 80
as to facilitate access to the entrance Of the
Suez Canal, and the establishment of properly
controlled employment offices for servants and
laborers. Railroads are being repaired and
extended; the navigation of the Nile engages
much attention, and the police system is
vastly reformed and disciplined.


Society was becoming brilliant again in the
old land. The HERALD special writer speaks Of
theatres and the opera, American visitors and
an American romance, which terminated in
fashionable marriage. The birth of grand
son to the Viceroy was made the occasion Of
great rejoicing at court, although the interest
ing event made his Highness' mother grand
mother. The political aspect was calm and
pleasing. Peace was maintained with Turkey
and the other nations. Our special corre-
spondent was thus in fine tone. This ha ppy
state of feeling is fully reflected in his inte-
resting despatch from Cairo.
Year: 1870

THE New POSTAL TREATY BETWEEN THE
UNITED STATES AND BELGIUM. The agta-
ton for cheaper ocean postage is general
all over Europe. We are glad to notice
that the little kingdom of Belgium, which
is always forward in matters of reform,
is not behind In this. The treaty, which has
Year: 1870

TURKEY HAS OPENED the Bosphorus freely
to commerce. Merchant vessels will not be
subjected to delay or visitation in the passage
hereafter--a great boon to the trade Of the
world and grand evidence Of material pro-
gress in Turkey.
Year: 1870

While spectators are racking their brains
to find out what may be the probable course
of the gold market, and as to whether we are
likely soon to reach specie basis, the people
are beginning to settle the question of specie
payments for themselves independent of the
action of the government. In the western
portion of New York, and particularly near
the Canadian border, silver is used at par with
currency by many in trade, and in this city
there are several places where silver
change is given over the counters in
place of fractional currency. At the
present price of gold and the relative
value of silver and gold, silver is
near par with greenbacks. Then there
is undoubtedly good deal of silver in the
country, for it has not gone abroad as readily
as gold. In the British American colonies on
our borders there is a positive glut of silver,
and Of course this will be brought over and
into circulation when at par with currency.
1t is curious fact, which will puzzle the cur
rency theorists who have clamored for con-
traction in order to reach specie payments,
that the precious metals decline as we ap-
proach specie payments, while the volume of
currency remains the same as when gold was
at premium Of hundred and fifty or higher.
This fact knocks all their theories on the head.
The probability is that if we reach specie pay
ments the volume of currency, paper and the
precious metals together will be much greater
than at present or for some years past; for it
must be seen now that contraction of the cur
rency is not necessary, and the gold and silver
that will be brought out from their hidden
recesses will swell the amount of circulation.
In case we reach or approach nearly specie
payments it is possible, therefore, we may
havean easy money market
Year: 1870

SHARP DECLINE IN STOCKS.


The stock market, alter period Of feverish dis
quiet brought about Dy the furtncr depression In
gold, gave way under vigorous attack from the
'bears" who assailed tue list at every strong point
and forced 1t down from to three per cent. The
ciques who are now at work in breaking prices are
the Same who 'Iuedn them few weeks since, at
which time they turned round ana sold out
going "short" at the same time. The present
effort Is to realize upon their short saes
They have orlven the market down, or, rather
have had 1t driven down for them by the unlocked
for decline IN god-a movement which took them
by surprise as much as 1t did the public generally.
In endeayoring TO cover their ''short" sales they
nnd 1t necessary to give the market final attack,
because II gold should stand steady for DAY the
case ana abundance OF money would put stocks up
again ut q, to them, extremely dangerous rate. A
"bear" movement In times Of easy money, when the
s'bus'' have the alliance Of the whole public Is
q very hazardous undertaking. The operators who
engineered the present ono were content at
first TO SIMPLY realize on the advance In
prices since New Years-an advance which
Ehey argued tor then, as now they are
arguing for decline-bus gold happening to
show weakness afforded them q cue and they took
advantage OF 1t to 60 'short' Of the market. They
are Low hammerng away with all their might to
cause general tumbllng out OF the long stock held
by the public purchased at the declined prices OF
last week. SO far they are to be complimented for
the vim and dash with which they have sold down
tine market. IL remains to be seen whether their
execution Will be as sklfu when they make the ef-
fort to Guy the shares which they have pentifuy
disposed Of. The features OF the day VIII be dis
cerned by the following table CT
Year: 1870

We once heard story told OF two
men who started together one bright
morning for a whole days journey
They soon became separated. The one
reached his destination before the sun
had sunk behind the Western hills,
where he made himself comfortable al
the inn. His only trouble was concern
for his laggard companion. He thought
surely some evil must have befallen
him.


Long after dark his fellow-travelel
arrived. When asked the cause of his
delay, be replied: 81 was obliged &c
stop at every other house to whip of
the unmannerly dogs that barked al
me. Didn't they bark at you also ~
YES" replied the other, "but i did
not stop to whip them. i simply told
them that they were ill-bred curs, and
drove on ~


We are generally losers in the end, il
we stop to refute all the baek-bitings
and gossipings we may hear by the
way. They are annoying, it is true,
but not dangerous, so long as we dc
not stop TO expostulate and scold. Oul
characters are formed and sustained by
ourselves, by our, own actions and pur-
poses, and not by Others. Always beal
this in mind, that calumniators may
usually be trusted to time, and the slow
but steady justice of public opinion"
Year: 1870

A San Francisco judge, speaking of
taking the testimony of Ciinaman,
said he would take the testimony OF 9
dog, if the dog could make him under
stand. That reminds us of our taking
testimony of dog once. in a case
where some apples had been stolen
from a farmer. We couldn't sit down
for 4 week. He made rs understand,
you know.
Year: 1870

An Abandoned Child Cared for, and an Old


Lady Done For.


The Cincinnati Times of Wednesday has the
following:-


A young married lady, who has enjoyed a
state of double blessedness for more than o year
past, and to whom an all-wise Providence has
not as yet vouchsafed that crowning blessing
of connubial felicity, to wit, the darlingest,
sweetest little baby that ever was, made call
at one of our hotels few days since, and there
found q beautiful little baby, whose parents had
abandoned it, and which che instantly seized
and carried off in joyous triumph.


Alas for human happiness, hers was of short
duration. In few days the mother of the child
made her appearance and demanded her Off
spring, which demand was refused. This was
In the forenoon, and in the evening came the
father of the little waif, who imperatvely forbid
the return of the child to its mother, and
declared he would pay literally for Its mainte-
nance.


sides with the mother, and a sort of a general
scrimmage was carried on for at least half an
hour the result of which was that the nearly
distraught young woman, whose brief dream of
happiness was SO cruelty dissolved, rushed fran
tcally forth In quest of the gentleman with brass
coat and blue buttons for protection, who re-
turned with warrant for the arrest of the high
spirited old lady, who lived with the mother, on
q charge of threatening personal violence. The
parents of the subject of all this disturbance had
taken flight precipitately, and could not be
found; so the sympathizing old lady suddenly
found herself an inmate of the station-house,
where she had abundant opportunity for refec-
tion. Later In the evening, while bemoaning
her hard fate she was agreeably surprised to
the turnkey, who unlocked her prison-doors
and told her to 60 home, as her friend had
given bail for her appearance before his Honor
Judge Straub. She did not wait for q second
bidding, but took her departure for home, VOW
ing she'd never take part in other peoples quar-
rels agail q nr
Year: 1870

Mr.. Fisk's "swclys, r. T'yss r. tionss The Worst


The New York Times pays Its respects to Mr..
Fisk and his new chow piece in this pointed
fashion,


We are bound to say that what is called the
demon Cancan, in the first act Is the most
outrageous exhibition we have beheld on
American stage. 1t is emply obscene. The pub
lie have been slowly and iDsidiously accus-
toned to a federation of the Indecent until
things have reached pass that calls for sharp
warning. We have long been on the dangerous
edge of things, and this "Cancan" of the Grand
Opera House goes a long step too far.
1t realizes, in word, much that Is known
of the nastiness of Pompeii, or that is
imagined of the mysteries of Eleusinia. It de-
serves to be deliberately hissed off the stage It
is q disgrace to Mr.. Fisk, foul stain on his
theatre and an insult to the modest women of
New York, who are invited to countenance IL by
their presence. Mere nudity has been seen here
before, and licentious looks and gestures have
been made too familiar through the medium OF
opera bouffe. But In this case we have both
together; or, rather, we have, In single gross
picture, shameless nakedness and vile portrayal
of Ealaciousness that far exceed what an
American theatre has had the temerity to show
of either In any previous representation. The
ballet of the tournament scene In the second
act Is not so bad. Even In this the drapery
worn by the dancers next their figures Is con-
spicuously transparent. But there is, In this
instance, no barefaced impudicity of action,
which, as we have said, In the former case tran
scends our experience. and leaves scarcely any
thing 10 speak of to even the most lively imagi-
nation.


If no line is to be drawn between what is
suitable for public representation and what can
only be described as characteristic of the orgies
of q bagnio, we submit it Is time for the authori-
ties to interfere. II is no exaggeratiOn to say
that this demon Cancan" is in the latter rather
than the former category. Consequently no lady
who respects herself can afford to sit in the
Grand Opera House and see 1t; and for yonng
Uir1a and y0ufhs do Ia n take muph
moral poison. That the scene Is really like
what vigorous fancy might depict as going
on in certain regions of the space assigned to
the damned is no excuse for its public repre-
sentation. Neither Mr.. Fisk nor any other
manager has right to soil the purity of young
maidens, TO cast an affront upon virtuous
matrons, who are led by the expectation of see
ing decent performance to enter his theatre.
He, at least, who persists in such thing after
its gravity is pointed out, deserves, If not posi-
tive ostracism, the execration of society. We
trust that henceforward the audiences will be
''black" at the Grand Opera House-that is to
say that no respectable females will attend IL
Year: 1870

To this should be added the balance due under
the act of 1856, which amounts to OIL, 1873 5s4,
and s11S, 900 due under the act of 1858, swelling
the grand total to S3,O67, ,595. But when the
lobbyists once get their fingers into the Treasury
they win not stop short of twice or three times
this amount, and claims to bring the figures up
to that point will be trumped up as soon as it is
seen that there is anything in 1t"


Fire In OIL City.


OIL CITY, March 11.-A large fire is raging
across the creek opposite the Gale House The
large Oil tanks are burning and whole train of
car oil tanks have exploded. The oil is burning
furiously, and will probably sweep the lower
part of the city, the buildings in which are now
taking fire.
Year: 1870

Several weeks ago there were published in
the papers the particulars of a strange Russian
tragedy including the finding, I'M IL trunk, al
nle OF the railway depots of Moscow, Of the


body of one De .Zohn, formerly rich French


merchant and at last Russian noblenlan, who


had been inveiglrd to o certain house in the


city of the Cars, and there. iat the height of q


wild reyel, slain and cut to pieces at the behest


of a wonderfully beautiful girl named Afraia


Upon the arrest Of this girl with her colnpan.


ions, she not only vaunted the crime she had


directed but fercely declared that the nutllat.
I'd remains were those of her own father, and


that she had caused the murder in fulfIlment
Of a vow which she had made in infancy to her


mother, who had been betrayed and then left
to die of want hnd misery by De Zohn, in his
younger days. BY late journals it tappeaEs that
the trial has begun in st. Petersburg, and fur
ther details of the tragedy have been devel.
oped. After the uDsuspecting nobleman had
BEEN brought into the house, and was rendered
unsteady by deep drinking. he was deliberately
robbed Of all the money and jewelry upon his
person. In answer to his protest and threats
of complaints to the police, he was told that
the robbery had been merely quizzical joke
to try his nerves, and that he must drink again
in honor of the excellence of such wit The
girl Afraia presented him with glass of wine
III which the cyanide of potassium had been
dissolved, and no sooner had he drank half the
deadly draught than he fell backward, gaspng,
upon the diyan upon which he had been sitting.
with the cry "wOman, you have poisoned me''
With eyes on fire with hereditary hatred, the
girl Afraia bent over him in his agony, and told
him that she was his child. and that his death
was the penalty of having wronged her moth
rr! While yet the wretched man glared at
her, IN CHASTITY discredit of such frightful ret
libution. one Of her masculine accomplices put
IA leather strap about his neck and dragged HIM
to the floor, while another beat out his brains
with bar OF iron. The disfgured body was
then cut into pieces, placed in trunk. and the
latter sent to the railway station at Moscow.
where its timely discovery by the police led to
the detection, aud arrest of the murderers-
NetU York H0rid. .-t
Year: 1870

A WILD NAN OF THE WOODS.-The people
of Magnolia and Chatawa have had sensa-
ton Of their own during the past ten days. It
did not come in the shape of a base ball match,
or an atrOcious murder, or of the accidental
poisoning of an entire family, but simply in
the appearance of wild negro, an insane if-
teentn amendment, whose wardrobe is as
scanty as that of Adam before the fall, or any
colOred brother who roains the forests or fields
of Congo or Dahomey at this day, from the
monarch downward. The creature, whose ac-
tions SD far as they have been observed. must
certainly be insane. When first seen in that
neighborhood, he was observed by white man
near Magnolia, seated upon fallen tree. eat
ing pine cones. On being approached he ceased
to eat, threw himself on all-fours and began
scratching up the earth like u terrier on tho
scent OF rat, or other vermin, until he man
aged to get out of sight When next seen it
was eight miles below, near the, railroad sta
ton ut Chatawa. Every effort to get him to
talk to any one, even of his own color. failed,
and on being approached he fled away rapidly,
until he was seen no more. He manifests no
savage or brutal qualities, but seem to enter
tain an absolute dread of intercourse with hui
man beings. He appeared to be about twenty
FIVE years of age, we'll built and healthy. His
finger nails have grown to an enormous length,
resembling the claws of so,lie wild feline ami
NAL 1t is believed that he was originally
runaway, and that he has for years lived in
the woods and swamps, and is not aware of the
emancipation of his race. Some parties also
believe that he is Identical with the wild man
described in Harper's Weekly as having been
seen near Vicksburg year or more ago.--N.
0. Picayune. asuoL sa,
Year: 1870

The Kansas City Journal man has just
read Louis Blanc's appeal to the world to
save civilization" by interposing to keep
the Prussians out of Paris


The siege OF Paris is a monstrous phe-
nomenon" only in the disordered magma
ton of such men as Louis Blanc and Victor
Hugo. In the eyes of all sensible and un-
prejudiced men, the siege of Paris is the
direct and legitimate result of the folly of
Paris The city is by no means hallowed
ground. Neither wise men nor good angels
would weep over its fall. Roues would
swear and cyprians tear their hair at the
sight. Milliners and pastry cooks would
stand aghast, but civilization. supposed by
such semi-lunatics as Louis Blanc to be inn
prisoned within the walls of Paris, would
look on with Indifference. We have reason
to believe that the gay French capital is not
the conservatory Of civilization. There is
a much more luxuriant growth OF that
exotic outside its limits than within. The
highest degree of Partisan refinement is so
tainted with vulgar vice that it loses much
of its charm and all its virtue when care
fully analyzed. We trust, however, that
Paris will be saved, but feel assured that its
salvation will never be secured by the va
pOrings Of its poet-pOliticians.
Year: 1870

BY TELL E GRAPH.
Grand Meeting at Shreveport
GREETINGS TO THE GOVERNOR
HIS ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE
Senator Pinchback on the Stump
GENERAL SHERIDANS SPEECH
Ill Manners Of an Editor
Especial Dispatch to the Republican.l
Year: 1870




The crispy autumal air had begun to
color the foliage but the forest, and the
green leaves were but sparsely scattered
upon the boughs of the trees. A myriad
of gray hues dccked the woods, but the
atmosphere was raw and chilly, except
at noon-day, and yet a lover of nature,
who Glanced to be abroad. might readi-
ly find enough of the beautiful to while
away an hour in raptures in gazing at
the fading bat still gorgeous loveliness
of the scene where our sketch opens.


1t was in the year 1910, before any
settlement of consequence had been
made in Ohio, that family went from
New York State to reside upon a branch
of the Great Miami 1t consisted of the
parents and two children, son and a
Gaughter-the eldest fifteen, the other
less than ten years of age. The land
they selected was wild but lovely spot
in the valley and but few weeks
elapsed after their arrival ere small
but comfortable log hut had been erected
beneath the shadow of the forests edge,
and Roger Grey very soon cleared re-
spectacle patch about him, which he had
sown with spring grain.


The region was romantic vale, and
far down to the southwark the river
flowed by in majestic silence. The spot
had been well chosen by Roger for agri-
cultural purposes, but the newcomers
had been there scarcely a week ere they
found that the neighborhood was only
visited by wild beasts-for several sheep
had been destroyed in the night, and
the howl of the wolf had been repeat
edly heard at distance in the lonely
evenings. The nearest neighbor of the
emigrants was one farmer, Holland, an
Eastern man." also, where Grey
family had remained during the erection
of their cabin, and his house was full a
mile distant to the westward.


Mr.. Holland had but one child-a
son, some 90 years of age, who had been
brought up literally sin the woods" but
a braver heart or a kinder disposition
than that of young Wallace, could moi
be found in the State. His father was
one of the original Buckeye" pioneers
and Wallace had seen and encountered
all the rude treatment and everyday
hardships incident to 20 year. residence
in the backwoods.


But his arm was a practised one-he
had met the wild red man iu hostility
and conquered him-he had grappled
with the fiery wolf and the huge bear Of
that region, and destroyed them-he had
Year: 1870

John Smith fell in love with maId
Each night meath the window he stood
And there, with his soft serenade,
He awakened the whole neighborhood.
But vainly he tried to arouse,


Her from sleep with his strains so be


witching
While he played in front of the house,
She slept in the little back kitchen.