Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 August 1870 — Page 3

wkkklY EXPRESS

TEB.BE HAUTE, IND.

•Wednesday Morning, Aug. 17, 1870-

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K. C. GREGORY. CHAKLTW A. KAY, ANDREW L. 0SI50RN15.

ATTORSKV CKJfRRAJ.. NELSON TRUSS],EH.

BUrVKINTKNUFST Of PCBI.n: INSTRUCTION, BARNABAS C. UOBEo.

CONGRESS,

MOSES F. DUNN, of Lawrcncc. rnosF.ccTon OF CIRCUIT COURT, N. G. BUFF, of Sullivan.

PROSRCITTOR C. C. PI.EAS,

CLARK C. McINTIRi of Sullivan.

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AUDITOR,

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SURVEYOR.

ALEXANDER COOi'EK. CORONER, DAVID L. CLIKISTY.

COMMISSIONERS,

FIR^T DIST—W.M. T. PL'I I INCTEK, ,SECOND —JOS. FKLLEXZER, THIRB —I'LL 1 LI I' KA.NDOL1 II

JUDCiB CRIMINAL COUUT, JOHN G. OKA IIS".

I'UOSEOUTINCI ATI'' CRIMINAL F. M. MEREDI1JL REI'RESENTATI VI-:V, 15. WILSON SMITH,

COURT

II. II. BOUDINOT.

ACOOHDIN'! to the financial logic of \'ooRirKi«, all llie redeemed bonds now held by the Auditor of Stale, to be de-s tioyed by the Financc and Ways and Means Committees of the next Lcgisla ture, are still due!

HALE of DANIEI-'H HICCC!I, prepared with much labor, and intended to last throughout the campaign, has been "wjuclcljed" by the letter from tlic Aci ing Secretary of-the ircasury, which we reprint in this issue.

'j'iIj Xew York }Vorld coiebratc.s the North Carolina election by advising the Democrats to (juit their assaults upon the colored people, to cease clamoring over dead issues, and to silence the cry for white man's party.

WHY does VOOKIIEHS, in his speeches, use the July statement of the public debt, instead of the statement for August first? Ilecausc the August statement gives the lie direct to his garbling of the July statement, by showing that the redeemed bonds have been destroyed by an act of Congress which lie voted against.

VOORIIEES is the only public man in the United States who has insulted hi constituents by an attempt to mislead them in relation to the payment of the public debt, lie must have thought the people of this District more ignorant than those of any other locality—a "little mistake" which will cost him dearly before this canvass closes.

AN intelligent Democrat s-iid, yesterday, that "DAN made a blunder that ought to prove fatal to the political ambition of any man when he attempted to make his constituents believe what every well-informed man knew was false." The gentleman was referring to VOORIIEES' shameful misrepresentation of the public debt statement.

A SAN FRANCISCO lady correspondent, in noticing the fact that two miles of houses in that city are occupied by fallen women, wonders how many miles of houses it would take to accommodate the men who wrought all this ruin, and who now move in respectable circles, cheered bv the smiles of "virtuous" women, to whom their characters are known. ———<>———

"I WILL onlv return to Paris victorious or dead." NAPOLEON. "1 will 11CV31- recross the border un'ess 1 am rietorious or dead." O'NEILL.

The Philadelphia Tress publishes the above with the remark that NAPOLEON is not even original, but borrows his cheap heroics from the poor Fenian arrested by a constable and sentenced the other day in a United States Court to two years for disturbing the peace.

THE Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer states that the American Minister at Berlin has informed the State Department that King WILLIAM, instead of encouraging or inciting the candidature of Prince .LEOPOLD, did all in his power to dissuade lnm from accepting the Spanish throne. It thus appears that two great nations have "been plunged in war and thousands of lives sacrificed because one monarch would not correctly understand the position of ailother.

WHILE VOORIIEES is slopping over with dissembled love for the soldiers, his organ never omits an opportunity to insult the gallant Generals who led the boys in blue to victory. Here is a sample from the Journal of yesterday:

When the American Misistcr made known at the Tuilleries the desire of Gen. Sheridan to join the French army, the Emperor said: "Pray, tell your countryman that 1 propose to respect the small-pox hospitals ol the enemy.

As General SHERIDAN never desired or proposed to join the French Army, the whole thing is a mean fabrication.

KENTUCKY enter:, the field a* a competitor for emigrants. Among the inducements offered are a genial climate, a fertile soil, anil an abundance of room. 'These," says an exchange, "are not to be spised but Kentucky has serious drawin the way of desperadoes, who have the unpleasant but confirmed habit of shooting people who do not agree with them on political and other topics. Instead of being punished, these irregularities are condoned on the score of chivalry, an article much prized in the southwest, but for which emigrants have ever evinced a decided dislike, always flocking to localities where law and order ruled supreme."

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IN MOMENTS of patriotic exultation we not unnaturally plume ourselves on the vast extent of territory over which the President of the United States, by the will ofthe people, has jurisdiction. But the Czar of all the Russians has ccentlv appointed a dignitary of the Greek Church, Archbishop of Alaska and the Aleutian Isles, and by way of make-weight, has thrown into the diocese the whole of the United States and all of our territories, thus giving the new Archbishop a wider dominion than that over which the President presides. To be sure, the Czar's new primate will not have many constituents outside of Alaska, and very few there, for many years to come. But Iris diocese is nevertheless an unusually large

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The Great Victory of the German Troops at 31etz. The Cincinnati Courier received on Monday night the following highly important dispatch abont the success of the German troops at Mctz: 'v? "BERLIN, August 15.—Further particulars of the great battle at Metz yesterday, have been received. The battle was fought at the village of Paiguy, near Metz, and raged fiercely for six hours. The Prussian forces engaged in the action numbered £0,000 men under command of General STEIKMKTB.- The French army was commanded by Marshal

BAZAINE the number of troops engaged tinder him has -not been ascertained. The fire from the French infantry and artillery was tcrrific, but the Prussan linte-did not waver for an instant, but followed up every advantage under a perfect hail of shot and shell from the enemy. Finally, after a hard fought and bloody struggle, the Prussians succeeded in breaking the French lines, when a general panic seized the I'rench ranks, and the troops under BAZAINE were driven in great confusion into Metz, while one corps retreated upon Yerdnn.

The troops under Generals ADMIRAULT and WEICAR were engaged in the action. The loss upon either side has nut yet been ascertained, but it is thought it will exceed that of Woerth."

Vooriiees on the Public Debt. Mr. VOORIIEES turned the crank of "organ," yesterday, in a feeble effort remove the odium which his misstate ment of the public debt has brought on him. but KO full of untruth, so at variance with universally admitted facts, so reckles honesty and plain common sense, that

Every man who has read one of Mr. BOUTWELL'.S monthly statements, knows that the above is false, because each of those statements from March 1, "1SG9, to August 1,1870, both inclusive, shows a reduction. Here is a tabic, compiled from BOUTWELL'S official figures,'showing the reduction, as reported, month after month: March 1,1800. ijlril, MTiy, Juno, July, August, Sept. October, Nov., Dec., .January, 1870 .... Kcb'y. March April, May, Juno, July,

S 266,798 27 .. G,3!H),070 05 13,384,777 97 10,410,132 54 7,435,744 29 5,604,324 79 7,467,429 30 .... 7,303,882 75 .... 7,571,4-54 13 .... 4,812,781 92 .... 8,931!,004 39 .... 0,484,811 75 .... 5,700,349 43 ... 17,464,142 82 .... 14,301,902 57 .... 20,203,772 04 17,034,123 74

And again tiie "Artful Dodger" wrings this doleful strain from his "organ:" "The present administration claims that for nearly eighteen months past it has been applying some portion of this vast sum to the payment Of the debt. Yet its friends and supporters arc forced to admit that up to July 1st, 1870, they make no official show of payment or reduction."

The "friends and supporters" of the administration have never admitted anything of the kind, as VOORIIEES well knows, but have shown the reduction, as proven by BOUTWELL'S statements, "or every month since he took the portfolio of the Treasury. Each monthly statement has shown just how much reduction has been effected, and what amount of redeemed bonds were held by the Secretary is hk vouchers for money expended in their redemption. Up to July, these redeemed bonds were necessarily reported as cash on hand, because the Secretary had no authority to destroy tliem, and was compelled to hold them as receipts or vouchers.

But the best answer to this shallow sophistry of the "statesman" is contained in the letter of the 9th lust, from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury to the editor of the EXPRESS. In that letter he says: "By a skillful and deceptive use of figures 1 can sec that a person might claim that by a comparison of the Debt Statement of March 1st, 1S69, with that of Jul 1st, 1870, the bonded debt, bearing interest in coin, had actually increased, because up to that time the bonds purchased and held by the Treasury Department had not been deducted from the outstanding debt, but were called funds on hand, and were deducted from the sum total of all the Debt, like cash on hand. Since the passage of the Act of July 14th, 1870, the bonds purchased have all been canceled and destroyed, and do not now appear in tho account of bonds outstanding, as von will see by a note I have made and printed on the'Debt Statement of Atiifust 1st."

It would have been better for VOORIIEES had lie kept silent under the scathing exposure of his financial trickery but if he will persist ki calling attention to his own political disgrace, his defeat and overthrow will be the more easily accomplished.

We have no more space, to-day, to devote to this matter, but will refer to it, tomorrow, in a manner that will be far from encouraging to DANIEL.

ATTENTION is invited to the appointments of Mr. CURRY, published in the lo- says:

BuwiLAiis are still operating at Plainfield. S&-

THE STATE.-,.

PICK CHOLERA prevails in Switzerland

countv.

Ru KG LA.its are sailles.

"going through" er-

LAFORTE furnishes Cliicago dailies.

a market for 225

THE 73d Ind. Vols, talk of a reunion at Laporte.

THE Good Templar Lodge in Laporte

has disbanded.

THE Indiana House of Refuge naa one hundred and eighty inmates.

SENATOR BEVELS had a large audience at Evansville, on Monday night.

ROLLER SKATING is the popular amusement in Evttnsville, this week.

JOSEPH VAN HORN is mysteriously missing from hi.s home in Rush county.

JOHN SMOLLETT and Dick Ball are training for a "mill" to comc off near Versailles.

"A WILD MAN," in the woods, in DeKalb county, is creating much excitement.

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FOUR rattlesnakes, of huge dimensions,

T11c'ar'i'iclTiiT 1 ng and labored, were killed by a Pike county farmer last Friday. of'

MRS. AMANDA GRAIN, Lagrange coun-

iionesiy ana piain common tcirc, ,r .i ii„ tv was found dead in her bed last Saturonly plunges the M. C. further into the day morning.

pit which his unfortunate speech excav ted for its unhappy author. Almost any other man than VOORIIEES, in the proposition in which the "statesman'' has placed himself, would call tor public pity but, in this case, there is no demand for anything but contempt. A studied and deliberate misrepresentation of facts, involving the interests of every citizen a persevering effort to make the public belive a palpable,notorious falsehood, might be forgiven in a hard-pushed candidate Club at the latter place .o-daj for Constable, btit cannot be even tolerated in a Member of Congress. A want of political honesty is bad enough but when that is supplemented by a gross insult to tlic popular intelligence, there is no language too severe to portray its enormity. Among many other foolish things, in the article under consideration, occurs this statement: "But it is now loudly claimed that a certain amonnt of' bonds were actually paid off, though Mr. Boutwell did not see fit to say so in his July or any other previous statement."

THE Germans of Fort Wajne are "shelling out" liberally in aid of the German Relief Fund.

Two

foolish young men, propose to fight a

county, about a woman."

in Adams duel—"all

THE Indianapolis Base Ball Club will play a match game with the fehclbyville

OWEN MAGILL, Martin county, was fatally worsted in a wrestling match with <delirium tremens>, last Saturday. ———————

MISS REBECCA SARGENT, Jennings county, applied the cowhide, most ferociously, to a gay deceiver, last Friday. ———————

THE Democracy will meet at Wanatali, to ilaj', to nominate a competitor for Gen. Packard.

THE Seventh District Republican Congressional Convention meets at Lafayette to-day.

MICHAEL GXDLEY, Marshall county, lost $800 in money and valuables by a burglary on Sunday night.

PETER IVISER expects to be the next Senator from Allen county. Peter is a statesman of great caliber.

MAJOR JOSEPH ODELL, of the Lafayette Journal, addressed his fellow-citizens on the tariff and taxation last evening.

JOHN S. BUSKIRK, a prominent citizen of Tippecanoe county, died suddenly at his residence in Stockwell on Sunday.

THE State Geologist has gone to Trov, New York, to attend the American Association of Science, which convenes there to-day.

THE Michigan City Enterprise predicts that the Democracy of that District, in their Convention to-day, will nominate Sam'l. I. Anthony for Congress.

ALF. DARLING, Valparaiso, has decamped to escape the wrath of two young women, each of whom has a pressing claim upon his hand in matrimonial alliance. ———————

THE Vincennes Sun has just been enlarged and improved in many respects. The "Old Post" is going ahead at a rapid rate, taking the progress of her newspapers as a criterion.

AN interesting little son of Joseph Goodrich, Ripley county, amused himself, a few days ago, by making a nice little bonfire of $2,000 worth of U. S. bonds, belonging to his father. ———————

THE Richmond Building Association of Richmond, Indiana, have filed tkeir articles of association with the Secretary of State. The cash capital is $100,000, and term of existence eight years.

FINGERLING, the man who was so severely injured by the runaway, at lndanapolis, on Friday morning, is much better, and the doctors now think he will probably recover. ———————

THE Crown Point Reyister, noticing the sudden exit of the Rev. Father Schmidt, says:

The cause of the Rev. Father's departure lieth chielly in his eminent success in the father business.

Now let us see the footing up of this little account of Democratic rascality: ],„5t by Georgia land fraud 5 300,000

Swamp 2,000,000 Stover forscry 2,300,000 over redemption Stnto Scrip 32,000 ." cxp's for closing asylums... 100,000 reprint of old documents 50.COO increase of State debt. 2,350.000

Total lost by Democrats $7,132,020 That is a nice exhibit of honesty rind capacity to be made in about seventeen years of power. It is a swindle of nearly $200,000 a vear.—Ind. Journal.

SPEAKING of B. W. Smith, of this city, the Valparaiso, Porter county, Mdctte

eal department of this paper. 11. II. This gentleman has been nom a ted by i-1.rthe Republicans of igo county us a canLOUDINOT Esq., candu. for i{0pre#entative in the State

a'ivc—and proablv other county candidates—will attend all the meetings. Let otir friends, in the various localities, see to it that all necessary arrangements are promptly made.

Legislature. This is a nomination eminently- lit to be made. Mr. Smith is a

.-an of decided talent, considerable culture and unimpeachable integrity. The Republicans of Vigo county owe it to themselves, and to the State, to sec to it that their candidate is elected by a good olid majority. Our next Legislature 1 ptible men, and B. Wilson Smith fills the bill.

IN his letter of the .Uh, published in composed of able and incorthe Express, the acting Secretary of the ,'.,i w:i,„„ c~:,i. r. ii. Trcasurv admits that up to the 1st of Julv, 1870, the official reports monthly, did*not show any reduction of the debt, although he asserts that there was an actual reduction.—Journal.

Whoever wrote that, if lie possessed ordinary intelligence, wrote what he knew to be false. The Acting Secretary, in his letter of the 9:h, says no juch thing. On the contrary, he states that" the bonds redeemed prior to (lie last monthly state ment, "were deducted from the total of the debt, like casli on hand."

Every man who ha £ver-read one of BOUTWELL'S monthly statements, knows that each of them has shown the reduction effected, just as tlie Acting Secretary says. And any man who will make, or authorize, such gros? misrepresentation a.s is attempted in tho paragraph quoted above, cuts himself off from every claim on the respect of his fellow citizens for no man can respect one who attempts to deceive him, by false statements, in relation to a matter in which all are deeply interested.

THE Republicans have paid the State debt entirely havenererlok or stolen one cent of public money have paid for the Northern State Prison House of Refuge Female Reformatory, in part the enlargement of the asylums Soldiers' and Orphans'Home State office building Normal School, in part have increased the school fund $3,500,000 aided the State University with a large annual donation, and applied tho Congressional land donation for an Agricultural College, without stealing a copper of it. That is the other side. Just compare the two. The Democrats never paid a cent of the debt on the contrary,they increased it f-2,350,000 in four years, and they stole and lost, including that, $7,132,000. The Republicans have paid the debt of $10,100,000, expended $2,000,000 in the war, paid a direct national tax of $900,000,

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and in public structures and otherwise expended $2,000,000 more, honestlg. The Total honest servicc is $15,000,000

Democratic loss 7,132,000

There is the balance sheet-—Ind. Journal.

IT IS surprising that the Sentinel does not come to the defense of Moreau. Is he too hervy a load for a State organ to carry? ....

OSCAR BOND, a poor drunkard, residing in Orange county, was found dead in his barn, the other morning, with an empty whisky jug beside him. ———————

THE New Albany <Ledger> shows its interest in home institutions by supplementing its abuse of our State Normal School with a fulsome puff of the Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio.

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FIFTY-FIVE car-loads of watermelons have been shipped from Princeton this season, eqnal to 00,000 melons. Nearly the same number liave been shipped from Ft. Branch, and more than double that number have been shipped^ from this city.

THE Lafayette Journal of yesiOiday gays: We learn from Mr. Anderson that the project for a rin' and hall is progressing finely, and if those from whom subscriptions may justly be expected, come down with theirstock, the enterprise will be an assured success. Some §17,000 has already been subscribed. It is desired to raise $23,000."

THE Democrats think that Governor Baker "is a very poor stick of an Executive." According to their notions of official duty he is. He received $400,000 from the General Government to reimburse the State for expenses on account of the Legion during the war. He did not steal a copper of it. "That was foolish," says Democratic precedent. He didn't lend it and pocket the interest, "That was a plain dereliction of duty," says Demcratic economy. He didn't deposit it in bank and get six per cent, for himself. "That was what might have been expected of such a noodle," says Democratic censoriousness. He is a very good for-notliing Governor for Democrats. They wouldn't have liini as a gift. Willard suited them. He didn't steam himself, but he loved to see it going on. He saw Jacob Merkle "come up missing" with $177,000 of swamp land money. For fear the poor, suffering, swmj-brokerDemocrat hadn'tgot enough, he put him back into his office to get more. And, for fear General Bob Hilroy would liarrass him at law for what he had got, he dismissed the suits and stopped the law from doing anything further. Governor Willard said Mr. Vooriiees was a poor man and a noble Democrat. He was. If it hadn't been for him the State would have saved $300,000 out of the Georgia lands. Democratic State administrations of the Willard pattern are the very thing we may look for when Democrats get power.— Ind. Journal.

GLEANINGS.

Boston disposes of dogs by hanging. Sweden has a population of little over four millions.

New York has three false alarms of fire to one real fire. The permanent population of Newport, R. I., is 12,500.

Southern California aspires to become a separate State. California is going to make a fine, stout rope out of milkweed.

Alabama gives gypsy fortune tellers a coat of tar and feathers. England has abolished cutting a man in four pieces for treason.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad is being built by the labor of convicts.

North Carolina is building a railroad with a gauge of two and a half feet. Hayfi is trying to borrow two millions of dollars in gold from England.

A hat belonging to the first Governor of Massachusetts is still preserved. The fishermen along flic Hudson are smoking and drying sturgeon for market.

A colored base ball club of Washington is aboutto make a tour of the country.

An effort is being made to locate the New York State Fair, permanently a Syracuse.

A New Yorker has invented a microscope which magnifies nine thousand million times. [!]

A candidate for Congress in Arkansas originally went there as "bones" in a minstrel show.

A Kansan, who was bitten by a rattlesnake, saved his life by taking repeated doses of arsenic.

A perfect paradise for bounty-jumpers is offered in Paris, where substitutes already command $l,500.in*gold.

An Ohio hotel porter challenges the world to a trunk-smasher match for $50 a side on the championship.

Terrapin Tower, the old lookout at Niagara Falls, is partly undermined, and must soon jo the way of Table Rock.

A Paris Agricultural journal says that Europe has not suffered from so severe a drouth as the present one, for 200 years.

An esthctic Frenchman wants railroads abolished, because the sm oke of the locomotive kills roses along the line ol the roads.

A California paper finds it necessary to explain that the peculiar taste of the water in an Alameda well was caused by the presence of six dead cats.

The American Colonization Society still lives, and will send to Liberia, during the fall, an expedition of about 1,200 negroes, mostly from North Carolina.

A floating match for a bathing suit is the latest Long Branch sensation, the winner of which lay toon his back in the water for three hours and forty minutes.*

A Delaware man, who went to California, last year, and purchased $38 worth of stock in a gold mine, has recently been offered $40,000 for his claim.

San Francisco workingwomen have an organ, which nominates Geo. W. Julian, of Indiana, for President in 1S72, and Senator Sprague for Vice President.

Cincinnati rejoices over a lately established manufactory of looking glosses, which is the only one in the country west of New York, except one at San Francisco.

A row in the Free Methodist Church in Canandaigtia turns on the question whether a man shall sit with his wife in church as he insists upon doing, despite the rules.

The Tureos, mentioned as being captured from the French, are not chassepots nor mitrailleurs, but veteran soldiers, •.-ho have seen long service in the Alge-

rine region of Africa.

A store-keeper of Hawley, Pa., beat his wife nearly to death with an iron bar, because she failed to charge a customer enough by twenty cents for some article he had purchased.

A lady of Bengal has struck a new path for woman's industry by taking to highway robbery. Foot padding is something new for the sex, however naturally it may adopt padding in other localities.

Commodore Vanderbilt has presented the congregation of the Church of the Strangers, in New York, a check for $50,000, with which to pay for a new edifice.

Mrs. George Vandenhoff, wife of the celebrated reader, will make her debut on the platform, next season, with a lecture on the "Rights and Wrongs of Children."

Francis Lieber, of New York, has the last verse of the German national hymn, "What is the German's Fatherland?" in the original manuscript of its author, Ernst Molitz Arndt, who presented it to him in 1S4S.

The circus man Rem, of Hamburg, apparently envious of the reputation of our Dan Rice, heads a subscription list for the German cause with a subscription of S2,000. His three sons have volunteered in the Prussian army.

Colonel Albert Morgan, the State Senator of Mississippi, who married a colored girl, has reached Cleveland with his bride, and she is described as a handsome lady of stylish appearance, finely educated, and showing but a slight tint of the Alrican color.

'^PnnciincIIo's Poetical Production. IRGELSCK 1VFEKIAL.

_~VE.—aeuare fronting the Buriav. of tie chetnin deferforVltalom and Metz. Time lliau The Prince Imperial, on hia way to the so»t of war, is seated upon a milk waeon =teed. Beneath his left arm ho convulsively carries a struggling game-coek, with gigantic g-ftfis, while his right hand feebly dutches a Jance, the flapping of whose pennant in nis face appears to give him great annoyanco.and suggests the services of a "Shoo-fly. Around him throng the'ladies ofthe imperial bedcham'er and a cohort of nurses, who cover his legs with kisses, and then dart furtively betwen his horse's jatnbet. as if to escape the pressure of the crowd. Just beyond these a throng of hucksters, market-women, butchers, takers, Ac., vociferously urge him to accept their votive^offerings of/garden truck, carrots, cabbages, parsnips, haunches of beef, baskets of French, rolls and the like, all of which" the Prince proudly declines, whereupon the rast .concour-^o b^f&ks forth into this wild chantto the air of

BI5GBN OS THE BHUiB.

From the fountains bright at fair Ver9MllJft And gardens of St. Cloud— With a rooster of the (Gallic broed .i

To cock-a-doodle-do—

Behold! our Prince Imperial comes, And in his hands a lanee. That erst, he'll cross with Herman spears

For glory and for Franco.

They've ta'cn his bib and tneker off

And set him on a steed That he may ride where soldiers ride. And bleed whoTe'soldiers bleed.

They've cut his curls of jetty hair, And around him cap a pie. Until he looks a* fair a knight

As Franco could wish to see.

IIo! ladies of the chamber, IIo! nurses, gather near Your charge upon a, charger waits

To shed the parting tear.

Comc! kiss him for his mother. El pour ta Majcste, ^•1 And twine his brow with garlands of

The fadeless flcurt de lit.

Like any other man

Voiln who but a few moons gone «!v Of babies held the van. Now wears his spurs and draws his blade

Then come, ye courtly damos ol Franco,^ Oh take him to your heart, And cheer as only woman can 3i

Our beardless Bonaparte .: i'

For ere another sun shall set, Those lips cannot bo kissed ®, And through tho grove and in the court

Their prattling will bo missed.

The light that om thoso soft blue eyes. Now kindly answer thine. Will flash whoro mighty armies tread,

Upon the banks of Rhino.

Tea, hidu from him, as bestyou in, All womanly alarms. Nor smile with thoso who mocking cry, "Behold! A babc-in-arnw!"

A babo, indeed! Oh! sland'rous tongues, A Prince fresh from his smock, Shows manly proofif ho can stind H!i

The battle shout and shock.

Ancl this is one on whom tho gods Have put their stamp divine The latest and perchance tho last

Coreica'sdread li-ie.

Then for th« Trince Imperial Citoycn* loudly cheer. That his right arm may often bring

Some German to his tier.

The distant Rhincland trembling. May hear his battlc-ciy. And neutral nations wondering ask

Oh! line is thUfor high I

iJii :•". PERSONAL.

Carlotta Tatti is singing at Rio Janeiro. Neither the elder or the younger Dumas goes to war.

Lady Franklin is going lo pay a visit to Mrs. Stowc. Mrs. Lucas, a sister of John Bright, is stopping at Saratoga.

An English Earl lately lost a matter of $500,000 at billiards. Blot's own cookery lias given him the worst kind of dyspepsia.

Colonel Tait, of the British Royal Geological Socicty, is going to survey Georgia.

Major General Keycs, since he left the army, has been raising grapes in Napa Valley, C'al.

Died, at Fortress Monroe, August 4, Mrs. Caroline Barry, mother of General Barry, of the army.

James Harris, a citizen of Jefferson county, 111., lias a spn .three months old that weighs only two pounds. .»«:

James Gordon Bennett, Jr., went to work as managing editor of the Herald, the day after the ocean yacht race. ...

Dr. Van Grafe, who died at Berlin last week, at the age of forty-two, had a professional income of $100,000 annually.

The New York Tribune was so unkind, the other day, as to speak of Miss Susan B. Anthony as "our old friend." ',

Dr. J. W. Parker, for thirty-four years Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Columbia, S. C., has been removed.

The Duke de Montpensier is believed to have spent $2,000,000 in his unsuccessful efforts to secure the Spanish crown.

Ex-Post master General Randall, of Elmira, N. Y., is talked of as the Demo' cratic candidate for Congress from that district.

G- F. Train, while talking Chinese labor in San Francisco, was the unwelcome recipient of an unfragrant egg from a favorite son of Erin.

Some one reckons that the guests at the Grand Union Hotel, in Saratoga, where where Stewart and Belmont are, are worth three hundred millions.

The newly created post of Appraiser for the port of Louisville, pays $3,000 salary, and Col. Holman an Gen. Burbridge are after the place.

The last from Feebler is tha1 1 will not have Selwyn'sTheater at Bos'c-u next winter, but is engaged for the Grand Opera House at New York.

The Rev. J. Sells Martin, the colored preacher of Boston, has been appointed special agent of the Post Office Depart ment, and has been located at Mobile.

The Dayton Journal's Snake Story— "A Remarkable Discovery." The Dayton <Journal> has the following: We were shown yesterday by Prof. J. W. Glass, who is interested in the stone quarries on the hills of the Patterson farm south of the city, the bones of an enormous serpent. Some time since the Pro fessor, while superintending a force of men engaged in the quarries, discovered lying immediately on the top of the upper stratum of the lower Silurian rock a few bones, apparently the vertebra of some animal. Being of a scientific turn of mind, his curiosity was excited, and he at once commenced inspecting the remains and well has he been repaid, as his discovery has turned out to be no other than that of the remains of an immense serpent deposited there in primeval times, ages and ages ago. Mr. Glass has already secured over four hundred joints of the vertebra, and has not yet reached the end of the huge serpent. Specimens of the joints have been sent to Professor Leidy, of the College of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, who pronounces them as undoubtedly belonging to an immense serpent of the antediluvian age. The length of the serpent, so far traced, is about twenty-five feet, and judging from the usual proportions, it is estimated that its original length could not have been short of forty feet. The bones of the vertebra are large, and would indicate that the reptile must have been at least six or seven feet in circumference. The bones

undoubtedly, have laid there for thousands of years, and consequently much decomposed by time, the rib bones being entirely gone. The animal was carniverous, as in the location of its stomach were found a number of bones, apparently the wing or leg bones of large birds. At the point where first discovered the bones were only a couple of feet below the surface but lay laterally into the steep hill. They were not in the rock, but in the clay between the strata. At the time of its death, or when deposited, there was no deflection of the body beyond a dip at one point of six feet, but it immediately arose again to the original level. It is more than probable that the serpent belonged to the saurian age, and they may have been the once famed ichthyosaurus but of this there is no proof, as no indication of legs or arms have so far been discovered. The formation in the vicinity gives every token of former volcanic eruptions, though the bed upon which the remains rested was quite smooth.

The Professor is inclined to the opinion that the serpent was not indigenous to this country, but was deposited there by an iceberg when they swept over this country thousands of years ago. Additional interest is lent to this discovery by the fact that it is the first of the kind ever made in America. The matter, we are happy to say, is to be thoroughly investigated by scientific gentlemen.

THE COBDEN CLUB.

Mr. Gladstone Deplores the War— American Free Trade Talk. •.

In the London papers of the 25th July we find the report of the dinner of the jDobden Club, which we abridge from the columns of tie Daily Telegraph:

The annual festival of this club was celebrated on Saturday, when a large number of the members and friends dined at the Ship, Greenwich. The majority of the party went by steamboat from the sraiars of the House of Commons. At 6 o'clock upward of two hundred noblemen and gentlemen gat down under the presid«ney of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the premier, and among the company were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Hon. Mr. J. Bigelow, Baron Melvil de Linden, Chevalier de Schaffar, of the Austrian I^ation J|i. Emile de Lavetaye, of Belgium the Duke of St. Albans, Lord Houghton, Sir Colman Q'Loghlen, Senor Arturo de Morcoartu, Sir L. Mnlle\t, G. B., Mr. J. Beal, Mr.

Edmond Beales, Sir Joseph Whitworth, Bart., Sir R. An3truther, M. P., Mr. Dowse, M. P., Solicitor General for Ireland, Sir.C. Dilke, M. P., Sir W. Lawson, Dr. L. Playfair, Mr. Caird, C. B., and other members of the House of Commons.

Mr. Gladstone rose amid loud applause to propose the' toast of the evening. He said: "My lords and gentlemen—I rise for the purpose of proposing to you that yon drink 'Prosperity to the Cobden Club.' [Cheers.] "My lords and gentlemen, it is imposible, in meeting you on an occasion of this kind, not to admit-, and to admit with grief and concern too deep for words, that the moment is not that which best harmonizes with the spirit of peace belonging to the name of Mr. Cobden. Within the last few days has gone forth, .as with the voice of a trumpet, the proclamation of war, a proclamation of war between two of the greatest millitary powers of Europe, between two of the nations most civilized and most distinguished two nations whose names are inseparably mixed with the history of all that is great and good in the past records of Chrisendom two nations fitted with the apparatus of destruction, in a state of perfectness higher, perhaps, than ever has been known, and animated with the motives of unshrinking patriotism. "However innocent, or honorable, or admirable these motives may be in themselves, as they dwell in patriotic breasts, yet we can not deny thst great misery and devastation must ensue, when we reflect on these bloody engines of war. When we see that so much as man's energy has been turned to the invention of weapons for supplying the destruction of mankind, unspeakable horrors must attend many afield of battle before this lamentable war has run its course. "It is not for us who are here assembled, still less is it for me in the office I hold, to attempt to anticipate the judgment of posterity upon the great events that are now of daily occurrence but this I may say that the pen of the historian will be able lierafter to relate that among all the wars by which the course of the nineteenth ccntury has been checkered there is none so unspeakably a drawback to the progress of the age, more unmixedly sorrowful, more painful by every association to those who love their kind, than that war which is at this moment prevailing. "We are here as Christians, we are here as brethren, we are here as men, upon the broadest ground, upon the ground marked out for us by the man whose name is commemorated in the title of this association [cheers]—and I am glad to think there are others besides ourselves assembled round this festive board who testify to the bredth, character and idea that belongs to the Cobden

Club." [Cheers.] The Lord Chancellor then proposed "The foreign members of the club," toast which lie believed would command the deepest sympathy, and coupled with the name of the Hon. Mr. Brigelow, who had done so much to promote the objects of the club in America [Cheers.]

The Hon. Mr. Bigelow, in responding, said that he felt it the highest honor in having his name associated with the toast, and iu being allowed to take an humble part in commemorating the memory of the late Mr. Cobden. lie enjoyed the friendship of (lie lamented gentleman at the time America was in the agonies of war, and lie well remembered the breath of sympathy, the soundness of understanding and the love of humankind wliic'i characterized him. He was sorry to find that Mr. Cobden's opinions had not taken deep root, as yet, in American soil but it must be remembered that the country had passed through great troubles of late, and much forbearance and patience must be shown. The policy and acts of the Legislature at Washington showed, he thought, that the days of pro tcction were fast drawing to a close, and there was good reason to believe that ere long the principles of the greatFrce Tra der would be adopted. [Cheers.]

WIT AND WISDOM.

A match game—Incendiarism. The dress-circle—Crinoline.

Advice to doctors—Live and let live. The height of the season—Fahrenheit

What auctioneers like to see—For-bid-ding'countenances. If "years roll on," time must "come round."

French arms don't sceui, after all, to be superior to German Hans. On the 9th instant a lady in Chicago thanked a gentleman for a seat in a street car.

Could it 'i ive been? That "Hogg's Tales" v. u. l- it ten with a Hogg pen. Sparrows arc so thick and troublesome in Germany,that boys arc paid for killing them.

No wonder eyes sometimes look pleading and sorrowful they are under the lasli all the time.—S'cw Orleans Tunes.

When women come to sit in the jurybox possibly infants may get to be criers in courts.

A New Era—In Greece it is not the golden age, nor the silver age, nor the iron a£-', but the brigand-age.

A man in Iowa City, in drawing his check to pay a railroad bond tax, made it payable to "highway robbers or bearer

Folly—To iiiink you can make pork out of pig iron, or that you can become a shoemaker by drinking sherry cobblers.

A Philadelphia paper gives U13 following grammatical illustration: Positive, ean comparative, piano superlative, peanuts.

Wanted a pupil from"* tlie school of reform hair from the head of an old cane a few tears that a man shed when he cried fire the chair the sun sets in th^bed the moon rises from.

People who are always fishing for compliments do not need very long lines. They will get their best bites in shallow water.

The following notice appeared upon the west end of a country meeting house: "Anybody sticking bills against this church will be prosecuted according to law, or any other nuisance." ,.u,

A New York tailor was startled, the other day, by the return of a bill which he had eent to a magazine editor, with a notice that the "manuscript was respectfully declined."

Not having heard from the debating societies in relation to the conundrum: "Why do hens always lay eggs in the daytime?" A cotemporary answers, "Because at night they are roosters."

A Sunday School scholar, when asked the" question, was uncertain who it was that tempted Eve, but believed it was the gentleman who lived in h—11.

An anatomical observer asserted a few days since that there were four hundred and eighty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-one feathers on the wing of a butterfly. "I don't believe it," said one of his hearers. "Then count them yourself," was the reply.

The echoes of Killarncy—Captious Lady Tourist: "Boatman, why do you play that air out of tune?" Boatman: "Musha, me lady, how can I help it? Sure that's the way the fairies play it in the mountains! Just listen to thim:

A French cancan dancer named Marie was arrested as a spy the other day, near Konigsburg. He had been seen sneaking around the moats of the fortifications, hut proving that he had only endeavored to catch frogs, he was set free.

UEICrN.

ThiMsat of War!

ENGLAND.

THE MILITARY PREPONDERANCE OF GERMANY. LouixjN, Aug. 16.—A successful meeting "was held to.-day of the English Volunteef.Artillery Association. Tlisre^waa much enthusiasm. The British army is rapidly recruiting, and at clubs and elsewhere the feeling is hourly gaining ground that Europe is in danger from tlie military preponderance of Germany, and that England must be prepared to maintain her traditional policy of keeping the North Sea out of the control of any preponderating military power whatevcr.

ASSAULT ON JUDGE SL'CCNN." LONDON, August 16.—The following are the details of the assault'on Judge McCnnn, of flNew York, seized on the 13th inst., during the celebration of the raising of the siege of Londonderry. Judge McCunn was on a visit to Col. E. Raine, at a town a few miles east of Lon donderry, and in the eame coun'.y. While at the railway station, accompanied by Mr. McKenna, one of the editors of the Belfast Star, and some other friends, a mob of Orangemen made an assault upon him and his companions. McKenna was roughty handled, cud others of tlie party were hurt, but the Judge escaped without serious injuries.

TIIE FRENCH CHAMBERS V-S-V"-The Telegraph's Paris correspondent writes that the French Chambers are unworthy of public respect. Were tho members not elected by fraud and coercion they might be trusted as a Committee of Public Safety.

TERRITORIAL AGGRANDIZEMENT. LONDON, Aug. 16.—A document ascribed to Bismarck has been circulated in Prussia declaring territorial aggrandizement as the result of the war.

NEEDLE GUN.

Bavarians have not yet been supplied witli the needle gun. APPREHENSIONS.

It is feared in Paris that McMahon's corps at and around Strasbourg are entirely cut off. ill 3

WAR ITEMS.

The following items are from French official bulletins: Prussians are not in any great force before S.rasbourg.

The town of Bitsclic still holds out against the enemy. The railroad bridge at Fergesheim, on the line between Strasbourg and Basle, has been destroyed by the enemy.-'

PERSUADER.

The Times says a French victory is necessary to predispose the Emperor to treat for peace.

FALSE STORIES-

Stories of the arrival of the Empress and Princc Imperial oil English soil are repeated to-day. They are untrue. It is certain the Princc is now in Paris.

THE STEAMSHIP PENNSYLVANIA. LONDON, August 16.—The dispatchthat the steamship Pennsylvania was entirely destroyed by fire was erroneous. A great part of the cargo was destroyed, but the vessel was not badly damaged, and will sail on the 20th for Havre and New York. ,, j-

PRUSSIAN WAR DISrATCnES.

MITRAILLEURS. 'l' 'Li':

Experiments with mitrailleurs at Slioeburyuess indicate the instrument is destructive in close quarters, but that troops dependent on it may be annihilated by artillery before the mitrailleuse can be got in range.

SYMPATHY WITH PRUSSIANS. The Times sympathises strongly .with Prussians and rejoices at their recent successes,

HOSTILE FEELING IN PARIS.

Advices from Paris state that a very hostile feeling exists towards the Emperor. The same feeling is evinced towar.d the Empress from recent ministerial appointments. Cries of "Vive laRepublique" are heard in all parts of the city,

THE EMPEROR. »t4

Reliable information has been received oftlie dejected state of the Emperor, who is constantly overheard repeating to him self "On in'a cou/k."

FRANCE.

A FIGHT NEAR METZ.

PARIS, Aug. 15.—Last evening at eigh,t o'clock, by order ofthe government, all telegraphing throughout the French Empire was suspended. This A. M. at nine o'clock these restrictions were again removed.

The following important dispatch to tlie Empress Eugenie is just made public

LONGEVILLE, Aug. 14.—10 P. M. Tlie army commenced to cross to the left bank of the Moselle this morning. Our advance guard had no knowledge of the presence of any force of the enemy When half of our army had crossed over Prussians suddenly attacked in great force. After a fight of four hours they were repulsed with great loss to them.

NAPOLEON.

PROCLAMATION BY THE EMPEROR. METZ, August 14—8) A. M.—The Prefect of Moselle telegraphs to the Minister of the Interior that the Emperor left today at two o'clock for Verdon, accompanied by the Prince Imperial. Before leaving his Majesty caused the following proclamation: "On quitting you to fight the invaders I confide to your protection the defences of this great city. You will never allow the enemy to take possession of this bulwork of France, and I trust you will rival the army in loyalty and courage. I shall ever remember with gratitude the reception I have found within your walls, and I hope to be able to return to thank you for your noble conduct."

ALGERIA.

PARIS, Aug. 16.—Algeria is declared in a state of siege. GERMAN UHLANS.

An official dispatch from the Prefect of Metz to the Minister of the Interior says, a body of German Uhlans have been seen in the neighborhood of Commercy marching towards Basle Due. He therefor cut the railways in that scclion to impede the advance of the enemy.

BREVITY OF WAR DISPATCHES. French journals complain of the brevity of dispatches from the seat of war. Even the Constitntionel, semi-official, pays the dispatches do not give a very precise idea of the position of either army.

CONFIDENCE AND RESOLUTION. '.. Tlie Moniteur de Soir published yesterday an article full of confidence and resolution. The following is an extract, and is a fair exhibit of the French press: 'Everything progresses well. The enemy makes haste to finish his work. He knows full well the prolongation of war exhausts his forces and augments ours, "His tactics alone show we have only to gain time to divert the Prussian from his base of operations, while defending our ground inch by inch. The passage at arms which look place yesterday under the guns of Metz is the first act in the new drama. Eight days hence the energy that has marked the first operations of the invaders will have given way to discouragement and exhaustion. Our fortified towns all hold out. Bitsche, Pfalzbourg, Verdun, are all defended by our army and their inhabitants answer with their guns tbe arrogant summons of the enemy. The national defence commences. See your National guards, Guards Mobile and volunteers who are on the way to the Vosges mouutains. There shall Prussians find their graves. They have asked for a war of races, and such they shall have."

PRUSSIAN PLAN OF CONQUEST. The Constitufionel says the plan of conquest of the Prussians cannot any longer be a matter of doubt. The German empire takes advantage of the IIohenzollern dynasty to inaugurate its policy of spoliation of French territory in the departments which the chances of war have given to the enemy. The King of Prussia commands at present as a territorial sovereign. The Prussian govern-

ment, which pretends to be so well informed about men 'aadfjMftjgs in Paris, does not seem

to

Dispatches from the Prussian government to the ambassador are full of triumph, and express tlie greatest confidence in an early result of the war.

be feryslrong in the

towns of Al§ace,*whichifill know how to t'mean%(fr rejoin

the

national flag.

place of conscript^ all men from 16 to 50 years rush, to 'arms. Prussian journals continue to pbur forth their insults against the Frmch nation. We underline these two "Words because Berlin newspapers formally declare that the war is made not only against the government, but the entire Freneh people. -y -™--1

STATE OF SIEGE.

The Journal Official contains a decree declaring Cherbourg, Brest, L'Orient and Rocnefort in state of eiege. mm

DISPATCH BOATS.

The French left two dispatch boats in the Tiber on evacuating Rome, ii POPULAR COMMOTION. £YONS, Aug. 16.—The Courier has a long statement of the popular demonstration which recently occurred here. Yesterday evening about 11, a popular commotion arising from the bad news from the army took plftce'ln Place Croix Rousse, which enued in,a deplorable conflict between the police ana, the people. The particulars of the affair 'hare been much exaggerated. The originator of the trouble was an old' notary, Lenlillan by name, well known for political eccentricity. This person clambered npon the pedestal of the cross in the centre of Place Croix Rousse, to make a speech to a group of laborers. His hearers were few at the start, but in a short time a large crowd assembled. Cries of "Vive in Republique" were heard on all sides. Though called on to stop by the police Lentillan persisted in declamation, calling on the audience to defend him by aid of stones.

Theauthorities seized the orator, notwithstanding the violence offered. But one of them having allowed one of the rioters to draw lus sword from the scabbard, was struck by one of the infuriated people in the abdomen, from which wound he died in a few moments. Five or.six policemen were wounded. Leniillan and other principal rioters were arrested and taken to prison between two files of soldiers. The mass of population of Place Croix Rousse took no part in these-violent proceedings. It was all caused by a few turbulent characters. These demonstrations are generally de nounced. FRENCH ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE NEAR

METZ.

The Sub Prefect of VerduYi telegraphs as follows to the Minister of the Interior: VERDUN, Aug. 16—6 A. M.—No news from Metz. Nothing is known to have occurred to-day. All day yesterday the roar of cannon was heard between Metz and Verdun. Persons who reached here from that direction say a great battle was fought, opening at daybreak, and that tbe Prussians lost more than. 40,000 in the combat and were completely defcated.

During yesterday A. M.at the extremity of my arrondissement, 28 kilometres from the fortifications of Verdun, the enemy had been seen directing his retreat to the South.

Though this intelligence is transmitted by authority of the government it has not been able to verify it, and it is given to the public under reserve by the Minister of the Interior. IMPATIENCE FOR OFFICIAL TFXFT

5NEWS.

PARIS, August 16—EVENING.—Official confirmation of the news of the great victory over the Prussians is impatiently awaited. Great ciowds have collected at the Bourse, at the Ministry of the Interior and in the streets.

FROM STRASBOURG.

Important news was received from Strasbourg to-day. The Prussians that vicinity seem inclined to retire Some shots exchanged. The people of Strasbourg are dotermined to defend the place to the last extremity.

CORPS LEGISLATE S'IRLIFT

Proceedings of the Corps Legislatif today exciting and important Deputy Kellor said for three days now troops have been fighting and no news received as to what has been accomplished. In such situation of affairs the Chambers could not think of any other matters. The meeting of the Corps must be permanent to await communications from the Minister of the Interior.

Count Palikao said he was ndt prepared to speak of the defeat the Prussians are said to have sustained, but of a serious check, forcing them to retiref and forego their attempt to disturb there treat of the French army. He had no official dispatches touching the events of ywterday, but he had read news from reliable sources and might state that the Prussians had been checked several times and wore retiring towards Commercy. He

was full of confidence, but could not at present enter upon details. In a few days a much greater force would be under the command of Marshal Bazaine, the-enly and true Commander-in-Chief, .j}

The Minister then retired, and deputy Ferry took the floor. He referred to the Emperor's proclamation to the inhabitants of Metz, as having created an unpleasant effect on the public.

The speaker was interrupted by expressions of disapproval. The tumult became too great for him to be heard, and he took his seat.

The Chambers then voted several laws for the prosecution of the war. SOME OF THE FIGHTING:"

The Moniteur says in the battle on Sunday Marshal Bazaine had in position a masked battery of mitrailleurs. Four regiments of Prussian Royal Guards approached, the batteries were unmasked and two of the regiments were completely annihilated.

ABSENCE OF OFFICIAL WAR NEWS. The Patrie referring to. the fact that Paris is without official news from the front says, Marshal Bazaine is evidently determined on secrecy so far as his movements are concerned. He is in commution with tlie camp at Chalons.

THE PEOPLE WARLIKE.

News received from various departments show the people determinedly warlike. The public depression occasioned •by recent reverses is giving way to desire to drive the Prussians from French soil.

MINISTERS OF CONSOLATION. The Bishop of Luxembourg and several clergymen have gone to Metz to administer consolation to the dying. ORDER OF THE DAY ISSUED BY M'MAHON.

The following is an order of the day issued by Mar.-hal McMahon: SOLDIERS—In the battle of the 6th of August fortune betrayed your courage, but you yielded your positions only after heroic resistance, which lasted no less than nine hours. You were 35,000 against 140,000, and were overwhelmed by the force of numbers. Under these conditions defeat is glorious, and history will say that in the battle of Frashweiller the French showed the greatest valor. You have suffered heavy losses, but those of the enemy arc greater.

Although ye'.i have not been Micce-wfnl, you see a cause in your misfortune which makes the Emperor satisfied with you, and the entire country recognize that you have worthily.sustained the honor of the flag. Let us show that though subjected to the severest tests, the first corps forgetting these, closcs up its ranks, and God aiding u», let us seize a great and brilliant revenge. ,-i

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GERMANY. l{i ii. .1— COMBAT SEAR METZ,

BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The Queen of Prussia to-day received the following dispatch dated "In the vicinity of Metz, Sunday evening: A victorious combat occurred near Metz tO-day, the troops of the 1st and 7th corps participating. I hasten to the scene of conflict. WILLIAM."

VK,U EXPELLED GERMANS. BERLIN, Aug. IO.—Hundreds of German families expelled from Paris have just reached Cologne. Subscriptions have been opened for their relief in different parts of Germany.

TUB SECOND BATTLE NEAR WETZ. BEKLIN, Aug. 16.—The following particula3 of the second battle near Metz were received late last night: Late in the afternoon of Monday the 1st and 7th' Prussian army corps vigorously attacked the French forces under the walls of Metz. A sanguinary conflict ensued, and the French were at length driven within the city with a loss of four thousand men.

RECONNOISANCE.

£On the same day a grand reconnoisance under KiDg William, in person, maintained itself some hours within the two lines of the French defenses, without any effort on the part of the French to dislodge it. This fact shows the utter demoralization of the French.

CELEBRATION1, r'-.: ..ii

The North German Gazette yesterday^ nrged a general celebration of the last Napoleon defeat.

AUSTMA.

*. Mil DESnA^1w-— VrKNNA, August 16.— Bttron Beusl publicly denies any attempt on his part to mediate in the war between France and Prussia.

SPAIN.

INCORRECT REPORT.

MADRID, August 16.—The report recently circulate*! that Frussia is seeking an alliance with Spain is untrue. .m •. ...

VISIT TO THE F.LG1N WATCH FACTORY. President Grant, Vice President Colfax, Governor Palmer, General Lojjan and a party of friends visited the Elgin Watch Factory to-day, going in an elegant train tendered by the Pullman Car Company.

DEPARTURES.

President Grant left here this evening at5 o'clock for the East via Cleveland. Governor Seward left for San Francisco and China this morning.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

This morning Christopher Theers, at Hoosier Grove, near this city, aged 18, while attending to a threshing machine fell among the works and had both legs frightfully lacerated. He lived but a a short time. ———<>———

PORTSMOUTH.

IN MEMORY* OF ADMIRAL FARUAGUT. PORTSMOUTH, N. H.. Aug. 15.—Flags at the Navy Yard and all over the city at half mast to-day. The Masonic fraternity, of which Admiral Farragut was a member, have been invited to the funeral on Wednesday. The Odd Fellows have also been invited. The body is being embalmed. All business1 will be suspended here on Wednesday.

IEW YORK.

-V'~TIIE POSITION OF THE FRENCH. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The World's London special correspondent telegraphs that the position of the French is most critical, and it is doubted if they can retrieve themselves. The Prussian army is believed to be a million strong. He also telegraphs from Paris, "I learn that the health of the Empress, as well as the Emperor is bad. There is immense popular excitement in Paris, and great difficulty in controlling the population impressed with the belief that the government is responsible for the disastrous condition of affairs."

The same correspondent telegraphs, "I have it on the best authority from Brussels that the whole of the Belgian army is moving to the frontiers of Holland and Dutch Luxembourgh. It is supposed that the neutrality, of both these States is threatened by Prussia. Belgians have voted an appropriation of twenty million of francs to fortify Antwerp immediately, and Belgian artillery are experimenting with the newly invented mitrailleurs."

DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.

'"A special dispatch from Newport, Pa., announces the renomiDation of Hon. Richard S.- Haldeman for Congress, by the Democracy of the 15th District.

NATIONAL STOCK EXCHANGE An order was yesterday made by Judge Barnard directing J. B. Romar and 79 other members of the National Stock Exchange, to show cause on the 17th inst. why partnership should not be dissolved and a receiver appointed to take charge of property and wind up concerns.

CAPTURE OF FORTRESS MASALL. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-12 60.—The following'is just received:

SAVF.RNE, Aug. 16.—Fortress Masai 1, a smalltown a little northeast of Nancy, has been captured by a body of Bavarian troops, after a short bombardment. Sixty cannon captured.

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GERMAN DEMONSTRATION.

ST. LOUIT, August 16.—The Germans of this city are preparing for a monster demonstration in commemoration of the lale victory of the Prussian army. The programme will consist of a grand procession through the streets and a festival at the Fair Grounds, or some other convenient place. All German singing societies, bands of music and other organizations are expected to participate. All money received to be applied to a sanitary fund.

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