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France and Prussia.
F-om the World.
The sensational telegrams which Informed
ns that Count Binmnrk had .uttered a direct
hu'nace to France in the matter of the cession
, of Luxembourg have already been discredited,
as at th time we bade our readers expoct that
they would be. The Prussian Premier, like
the French Emperor, is evidently exerting
himself to the utmost to avoid, if possible, a
collision, upon the results of which, should it
occur, no woll-informed Kuropean statesman
can venture to speculate with any confidence.
Unfortunately, however, the real peril to the
peace of Europe in the present relations of
France with Prussia is to be found, not in the
Cabinets of Berlin or Paris, but in the inflamed
condition of the popular temper of Germany,
on the one hand, and in the profoundost con
victions and passion of the French people, ou
the other hand.
Were there no Prussian garrison actually in
possession of the fortress of Luxembourg, it
might still be doubted whether the German
people, Hushed with the apparent realization
of that long dream of "Uerinau unity" over
which the Teutonic race has brooded for
ages, would quietly accept the cession of a
territory inhabited by two hundred thousand
Germans to the empire of Napoleon. At a
public meeting held the other day in Berlin,
it was unanimously " resolved," as we
Americans would say, that Luxembourg
belongs to Germany, and that it would be a
derogation from German right to submit the
question of its annexation to France even to a
Tote of the people of Luxembourg themselves.
"Nationalities," it would seem, are just as
capable of lawless ambition ai dynasties or
monarchs; and the Germanic enthusiasm,
which has made so little of Danish claims
upon Danish soil, and of Polish pretensions
to Polish self-government, would not be likely
tostickle seriously at dragooning Luxembourg
ers into allegiance to an Imperial Germany.
But the fortress of Luxembourg is at this
moment occupied by a Prussian garrison.
This garrison holds the post, it is true, by
virtue of an agreement between the King
of Holland, in his independent capacity
as Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and the
King of Prussia; and it cau hardly be
denied that the sovereign who possessed
the power of inviting Prussians to mount
guard iu his castle, ought to be at liberty
to transfer his preferences or his property to
another Government. But whatever the
rights of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg may
be in the premises, possession, which is con
ceded to be nine points of the law in the case
of private individuals, is substantially the
whole law in the case of a great military
monarchy representing the aspirations and
the will of forty millions of Germans. To
withdraw the Prussian eagles from Luxem
bourg, and turn over the city and the
Grand Duchy to trance, would un
questionably be regarded as a surrender
and a humiliation. Whether the occupation
of Luxembourg is really necessary to the
consolidation of German unity is quite another
matter, and of subsidiary practical importance.
It is reported, indeed, that the Prussian War
Minister has declared the occupation of Lux
embourg to be a military necessity for the de
fense of the Rhenish frontiers of Germany; and
this declaration, if it has ever been made, will
naturally intensify the German feeling on the
subject. But we need not travel out of our
own continent and our own history to learn that
a popular feeling needs no such reinforcements
to make it formidable. The old Germanic senti
ment which Heine satirized by saying that the
Germans would never agree to fraternize, even
on the, broadest republican platform, with the
French, until due vengeance had been exacted
for the blood of Couradin, of Ilohenstaullen,
murdered foully by Charles of Anjou in the
thirteenth century, i3 pretty plainly in a blaze
about Luxembourg. The Prussian Ministry
may have agreed to refer the matter for con
sideration to the great powers which were
associated in the settlement of the rela
tions of Luxembourg to Holland and to Ger
many in 1839; and the great powers, if con
sulted, can scarcely deny that the sovereignty
of the King of Holland in Luxembourg carries
with it the right to cede Luxembourg to
France or to any other State. But, as Lord
Palmerston did not hesitate at the time to say,
the so-called "public law" of Europe was
practically torn to pieces when the Austro
Prussian forces advanced upon Denmark, and
Europe aoquiesced in the prostration of the
rights of the Danish crown by the sheer weight
of the German arms. The civilized Europe of
the nineteenth century has reverted to the
good old rule:
"That they should take who have the power,
And Ihey should keep who can."
If Germany abandons Luxembourg to
France, it will be because Count Bismark
doubts the issue of a conflict on this question
with France. If France recedes from her pre
tensions to Luxembourg under her negotia
tions with the King of Holland, it will be
because Napoleon doubts the issue of a con
flict on this question with Germany. In the
first case, the prestige of Count.Bismark, which
rests more entirely than that of any other
ruler in our times upon a series of audacious
and successful moves on the chess-board of
politics, will suffer a very serious check, and
a check which Count Bismark can the loss
afford to risk that he has a past of groat per
sonal unpopularity, and a civil polioy obnoxious
to all that is liberal in the German mind, with
which to contend. In the second case, the
influence of the Emperor Napoleon, which has
already been sorely damaged both at home
and abroad, will Incur perils involving not
only his own reputation, but that for which
liis own reputation may be justly supposed to
be most valuable to him the prospects of the
dynasty he has labored bo hard to found.
The actual situation in Europe, therefore.
it will be seen, is a striking illustration of the
Incapacity of any man, be he never bo highly
Dlaood and largely cifted, absolutely to con
trol the march of human events, or to shape
the issues even ot his own best-laid plans
In the light of pure reason it nitaltt be
easy to demonstrate that neither Couut Bis
mark. as the organizer of German unity, nor
Hapoleon, as the founder of an Imperial
France, has anything to gain from the posses
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BlOll 01 VIHo llltlU llouvu-UOilllim LU1QU1-
bourg, at all proportionate to the risks which
must be incurred by both in a war for win
ning it. Not less easy would it be to show,
perhaps, that neither France nor Oermany
Las any such interest in the mere territorial
o uestion aa can be fitly named in comparison
with those colossal interests of trade and
. r,. of the fiscal and of the private
weal, upon which a mighty war must inflict
such terrible and far-resoundmg blows. If
?.. i,iifi administrators now at the head of
Prussian ffilirs can Uiarcli upou
Eastern
THE DAYLY
France armies more immediately and destruc
tively available than those which France can
at once summon into the field, the magnifi
cent navy of France, on the other hand, ciu un
doubtedly smite with sudden paralysis the vast
commercial and manufacturing prosperity of
Western and Northern Germany, and, by
sealing the Baltic, cut olf as it were in
a day from the resources of Prussia a
trade one single branch of which, as an
English journal recently remarked, repre
sents a full tenth of the whole commerce of
Great Britain, while another branch crowds
the wharves of the New World with German
shipping and fills our markets with German
goods. Twenty years ago it would have boon
considered morally certain that such potent
pleas for peace as these would bo hoard at any
court in Europe high above all passionate or
popular clamors of war. But the temple gates
have been opened; the world has passed from
a cycle of diplomacy and of argument into a
cycle of popular impulse and of arms; and the
chances to-day assuredly are that the year
will close upon one of the bloodiest
dramas even of this strange and troublous aud
turbulent age in which we live.
Votes versus Victual -Which Will Win!
l'Yom the THmes.
There are two classes of negroes at the
South which just now attract attention. One
class is composed of the "smart" men, who
have glib tongues and quick wits; men who
pray almost without ceasing and talk with
fervid eloquence from the hotel steps aud
radical platforms. This class is not particu
larly in need. Their personal expenses are
readily met by the demagogues who use thoir
presence and their utterances for their own
purposes. The otherclass is composed of men
with families men who need food, shelter,
and raiment twenty -four hours seven days in
every week. These aud their little ones ask
for bread and receive the ballot; they desire
work aud are invited to the hustings. The
first class will be abundantly represented at
the North this spring. Fat aud sleek, clad in
irreproachable alpaca sacks and shiny trou
sers, they will circulate about the auniver
saries, sit on the platforms, make impassioned
appeals, indorse the Kuoxville Uig, and
kindly receive any donations for the colored
people of the South that the charitable people
of the North may wish to make. The other
class will brood over their sorrow, grow sullen
with discontent, turn childishly from the
boons of suffrage and equal rights, aud long
for the flesh-pots of the olden time.
The observation of our correspondents, the
records of the Southern press, the otlicial
statements of army people aud the Freed
men's Bureau, confirm the assertion of unpre
cedented destitution among the people of both
colors at the South, aud the growing dissatis
faction among a largo proportion ot the idle !
and famine-pressed freedmen. Unfortunately
for the radical element, the issue has been
clearly made between them and the best meau- j
ing of the Southern leaders, the freedmen t
being given to understand that the present
aud the future are beyond the control of their
late masters, the new element being the re-
sponsible power. Quick as children to note j
the facts of the hour, the negroes will not be
Blow to see that the speculators who occupied
plantations during the absence of the owuers,
aud, after several seasons of unprofitable work,
abandoned not only the plantations, but
omitted to pay the men, are not the oues to
whom they are to look for sympathy or aid of
any kind.
The law protects tho freedmen in their
newly acquired rights; but to whom shall
they look for employment ? In this view of
the matter, the ultimate direction of the
negro vote becomes practically a question of
moment.
It is claimed by the radicals, and loudly
affirmed by the contented orators of African
descent, that the vote will be cast with the
radicals rather than with the conservatives;
and in the class conservative they place every
body who does not adopt the extreme theory.
The last census, after deducting ten per cent,
for casualties in war and disfranchisements
under the Sherman bill, shows the popula
tion and inferential vote, white and black, to
be approximately as follows;
While White Black
Pop. Vote. l'jp.
Virginia 794,818 131.110 50U.563
Noiih Carolina (M,100 1U0,41M 3il,022
fsouih Carolina 201.3X8 4!,10L 412.H20
Georgia 61,5S Ui),833 405,0118
Florida 77,7tW 13,12(1 02,077
Alabama 520,431 88,836 437.770
Mississippi 858,001 65,840 4:!7,401
Arkansas 324.101 54,008 112,23!)
Louisiana 3MI.62!) 63,351 350,573
Texus 421,274 71,070 182,021
lilack
Vole
i'lJ )i '
82,1
03.100
12,5-1.)
87,534
87.481
22,2 W
70,074
30.5S4
In this table the radical prophets find cause
of great gratulation, for in South Carolina the
negro vote is twice as large as the white vote;
in Mississippi and Louisiana there is a large
negro majority, and in the other States there
is abundant evidence of the strength of the
colored element. If indeed this element would
unreservedly cast its strength with the radi
cals, they might well rejoice; but will it ?
The Southern pontiiyans were never slug-
cards in political matters. Scheming and
managing are their normal political habits.
The Southern press is unanimous tor kind
treatment, fair argument, free discussion, and
immediate cooperation with the negro. Horn
and reared among them, the Southerners best
understand their adaptable natures; they see
their troubles, their anxieties, aud their lack
of friends and food, and to the uttermost ex
tent we believe they will share with them, and
in the end by gaining their affections gaiu their
suffrage.
Keports and public meetings, anniversaries
and tracts, bombast and flattery are all very
well in their place, hut a needy man will
longer remember him who relieves his hunger
than the one who complacently talks ot the
eternal verities aud the "rock of everlasting
freedom."
Pounding Children.
From the Tribune.
The public sensibilities have recently been
outraged by several well-authenticated reports
of protracted, persistent, inhuman tortures
inflicted on mere infants by their parents or
guardians respectively tortures which have
repeatedly induced death. Some of the tor
turers were low, ignorant, drunken brutes, as
might be expected; but others held respectable
positions in Bociety, one of them being a cler
gyman in fair standing. That some of the
cmu.wiw. maer years, heedlessly "bound
to service by some asylum or other publio
charity, should be fearfully misused, though
deplorable, is by no means amazing; but that
a father should maul and maim his own little
child, even to the extent of beating out its ten
der life, would seem 0 contrary to nature,
such a libel on our race, aa to be absolutely
incredible, "i et the evidanoe that it has been
done not once only, but many times not
among savages in some dark age, but iu this
focus of Christian civilization m t)ie year of
grace 1800 is too direct and irresistible to be
doubted.
EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY,
Nor will it do to assume that tho perpetra
tors of these horrors were moral monsters.
Some of tliem, we know, are men brutalized,
or rather demonized, by habitual drunkenness;
but others were persona of good habits, fair
moral character, anil even of unexceptional
church standing. The clergyman who killed
his little son at Medina, N. Y., though men
tally weak, had not previously been regarded
as depraved. Had he known enough to stop
beating his child a little short of killing hiin,
he might have lived out his owu days under
the mantle of respectability and iu the unmiu
gled odor of sanctity.
We deem him, with others of like unhappy
fortune and evil fame, victims of a false con
ception of parental rights and duties. They
had been told that to "spare the rod" was to
"spoil the child" that it was their duty to
constrain him to obedience at any cost. Ho
had failed to do what was required of him he
must bo made to do it at any cost and to
effect this, the infliction of physical paiu was
bis only resource. So ho by turns beat and
exhorted (or prayed), until the exhortations
having proved ineffectual, tho beating did its
perlect work; achieving not subjugation, but
death. Can we wonder that the hapless
parent regards himself as rather unlucky than
depraved ns misjudging rather than criminal.'
The great mass of parents have yet to learn
that their displeasure with a child is no rea
son and no excuse for beating it. Nor does the
pimple fact that it has done wrong give them
warrant to s-ubject it to physical torture.
Here, for instance, is a child of five to ten
j-ears, who, in the hope of thereby attaining
enjoyment or escaping punishment, has told
a lie. The father, naturally indignant, there
upon gives it a beating. What relation has
the penalty to the offense ? or, rather, what
good rer-ult may be fairly expected from the
beating ? Can you rationally expert it to love
and speak the truth because you have mauled
it ? Is it not far more likely to hate and
loathe you ? That child will be a good deal
more apt henceforth to tell one lie to hide
another than to abhor and shun lying al
together. "But may not a parent justifiably use
force to restrain a child from evil doing f"
Certainly. If the child insists on throwing
the hammer at the looking-glass, or doing auy
wanton, malicious mischief, the requisite
force may be employed to constrain it into
better behavior. But to restrain from evil
doing is one thing; to inflict pain because evil
has been done is quite another. Many a
child has been hardened into inveterate de
pravity by chastisements inflicted under the
mistaken notion that its evil propensities
niiht thus be subdued and eradicated.
We beg every parent who is prone to beat
ing his child to recall the experiences of his
own childhood, and consider what were the
effects on his moral nature of any and
every penal infliction he ever endured. We
doubt that so many as one in ten cau fairly
say that the parental beating to whicli he
was subjected did him as much moral good as
harm.
We are not pleading for indulgence. Every
child should be taught to know the right and
to do it. What we urge is, that the rod, the
whip, the cudgel, are implements of parental
discipline which have, on the whole, (lone far
more evil than good that more children have
been confirmed and strengthened in wrong
doing than rescued therefrom by the infliction
of physical pain. How many have been
bludgeoned into idiocy or permanent mental
infirmity by misjudging fathers, can never bo
known till the sea shall give up her dead.
There are abundant means whereby a parent
may evince his displeasure, his sorrow, in
view of the faults of his child, without maul
ing it. Withdraw or withhold indulgences
which you would gladly have accorded, had
not your past confidence been abused let
your child realize that your loss of faith in its
integrity inevitably subjects it to privations
and restrictions show that yeur love for it
constrains you, most reluctantly to render it
less happy because of its transgressions but
keep the lash for unreasoning brutes, and
beware of employing it to deface and disfigure
the image of God.
Our Bonds In Europe.
JVo?)i the 7'imes.
With or without reason, gold tends upwards,
and the war rumors from Europe are the im
mediate cause. For the moment, of course.
tue euet upon the prices of our gold-bearing
bonds is lavorable. The higher the market
value of gold the higher the currency value
of securities which yield returns in gold. It
does not follow, however, that the rise of one
will produce a continued rise of the other. The
probability is the other way. Not only will
the further advance in gold quotations be
equivalent to a decline in the intrinsic worth
of bonds, but even the market rates of the
latter may be expected to fall. We see only
the beginning now. By-and-by, if gold keeps
on its course, we shall witness the return
from Europe of large amounts of bonds; and
being no longer able to settle our balances
with promises to pay as the substitute for
specie, we shall in all likelihood be compelled
to draw heavily upon the Treasury reserve.
If this stage be reached, tho upward move
ment of gold aud the downward movement of
bonds and other securities held abroad will
proceed with something like corresponding
pace.
This view is hypothetical, of course. Argu
ing by analogy ith reference to the Prusso
Austrian war of last year, we might, perhaps,
predict confidently that the double disturb
ance of which we speak will not occur. There
may be no stronger reason for its occurrence
now than then. But it were unwise to con
clude that because gold declined and bonds
rose last year, therefore the same phenomena
must be reproduced during a Franco-Prussian
conflict. These matters are not goverued by
logic, or even by mercantile laws. They are
in the best of circumstances arbitrary, aud
are subject to influences and contingencies
winch it sometimes impossible to anticipate.
Whether our finances suffer seriously or
not, the noticeable fact is, that by refusing
thus far to authorize the negotiation of a loan
in Europe, and the issue of bonds with ex
clusive reference to the European market, we
have exposed ourselves to the difficulty which
many among us begin to dread. Our bonds
have gone abroad in large amounts, but
Instead of being sent in a manner that would
have removed the chance of their sudden
return, they are in a shapo which exposes us
at any time to their reappearance in Wall
Street. As a European loan, negotiated there,
held there, and payable there, they would
have been out of the way, so far as their
bearing upon the price of gold is concerned.
In their present form they are an instrument
of speculation which may at any moment be
used to our prejudice. The consciousness
that they may be so used produces muoh of
the nervousness which exists in financial cir
cles. Aud the mere possibility enables gold
gamblers to renew the unsettleuient of values,
aud introduce a fresh uncertainty aud diffi
culty into all business relations.
Fortune-Hunting.
From the Tribune.
The Bard of Stratford was a little wrong
when he asserted that there was nothing in a
name,' as he admitted afterwards, when he
declared a "good name" to be the bouPs im
mediate jewel; and, perhaps, if he were living
now, he would have something additional to
say of its value in Wall street. We do not re
member a time when by virtuo of the family
name numerous enthusiastic folks upou the
strength of being Joneses or Smiths, Thomp
sons with a "p," or Thomsons without a "p,"
were not expecting to come into something
comfortable in the shape of money wickedly
detained by the British Chancery or the
Bank of England. We once knew an excel
lent lawyer-who seriously thought himself en
titled to millions of pounds sterling, and who
spent more time and money than he could
well spare in the unsuccessful endeavor to
reduce his fairy gold to possession. It would
be a melancholy business to ' attempt a
computation of all the deferred hopes, tho
blasted expectations, the fierce but fruitless
struggles, and the wasted lives which are to
be attributed to such dreamy and dreary delu
sions. Circumstances make them very com
mon in this country, in which it is almost im
possible to prove a clean and unbroken de
scent lor more than live or six generations.
Not long ago in Boston two bundled and fifty
people held a meeting, all of thoiu being named
Church, to take measures for securing the
snug little sum of M.OUO.OOO said to belong to
them as the descendants of Thomas Churah of
Plymouth, Mass. The property consists of
$10, CI00, 000 in tho Bank of England, and the
balance in real estate "upon the River
Thames." The Churches 'yvent to work with
great regularity. They formed a society. They
adopted a constitution. They elected officers.
They employed an agent. They raised a fund.
Now begins the hope soon will follow the
weariness of waiting when does the reader
suppose that the money will begin to come in?
Hie main difficulty, ns we have intimated,
in such cases as these, is to prove descent.
Family records and registers of birth in New
England are few, and even these have been
kept loosely and with many mournful inter
missions. Every lawyer there knows how
bard it is sometimes to make out title to
real property against adverse possession by
proving a genealogy. In the course of years
surnames undergo curious transformations,
and there is many a Yankee w ho, to save his
soul, or even to make a little money, could
not show who his great-graudlather was.
Surnames are at the mercy of bad spelling
and of local pronunciation. The name of
"Devoll," for instance, a common one in
New England, was formerly written "Duoll,"
and, no doubt, originally was "Jlu Val,"
and precisely the same name as "Vale,"
a frequent and respectable name in New York.
How is descent, in the absence of records, to
be proved when names are twisted about m
this way So "Church" is one of the most
frequent of surnames, having its equivalents
in "Kirk," and even "Chappel," and entering
into several compounds, such as "Churchill,"
"Churchman," et al. Analogous names are
"Clerk," "Parson," "Priest," "Sexton,"
"Bishop," "Sincer," et al. In the days of
ecclesiastical greatness there yvere thousands
upon thousands of servants who wrote or
called themselves "of the Church," and who
in time became churches. It is jumpin,
rather extensively to a conclusion to assume
that because a man is now named "Church"
he is entitled to $55,000,0(1(1. There are scores
upon scores of families of the name who have
not a globule of common blood. No similarity
of name can ever be safely considered as indi
cating affinity. , Ve might as well suppose all
the blacksmiths, glovers, carters, wheelers, to
be first or second cousins, or all the Jacksona
to be descended from one ancient original Jack
J nomas I nurch ot l'lymouth, Mass.," un
doubtedly had descendants; but how many
Churches, ot the thousands ot that name, are
prepared to prove, not by guess-yvork, or sur
mise, or any rule of probability, but by such
evidence as an English Court of Chancery will
accept, that they are m the direct line of do
scent from ihomas 1 lhat yvhich satisfies
them that the money should be instantly paid
over to their agent, with interest since the
demise of old Mr. Church, may be very unsat
isfactory indeed to the Lord Chancellor. Miss
Elite, in Bleak House, expected a judgment,
but how vainly the readers of that useful story
Know
The truth of the matter is that, in cases like
these, everything is shadowy and uncertain
It is by no means probable that there are
seven millions sterling lying unclaimed aud a
begging for an oyvner in the Bank of England.
It is by no means probable that real property
in the heart of London valued at four millions
sterling should remain so long in abeyance,
and without the creation of a good adverse
title by lapse of time. It is by no means pro
bable that the American "Churches" have a
better title than the English "Churches." It
is by no means probable that if suits were
instituted any living "Church," or the sou of
any living "Church." would see the end of
them. It is possible that some "Church
family may have a title; but we warn all of the
name that the name is of little or no value
and that enormous estates are not transferred
as a matter of course by English Courts to the
lust applicants.
The AVar Panic In Europe.
From the Herald. -.
According to our latest telegrams the
Franco-Prussian question remains unchanged
The other great powers of Europe have re
newed their efforts to prevent the outbreak of
hostilities. Napoleon is still willing to con
sent to a reasonable arrangement. Bismark,
however, is obstinate, as before. When first
the Luxembourg difficulty was mooted
between the two powers, Bismark, we were
told, threatened to throw the onus of the con
sequences that might follow on Napoleon.
Napoleon, it is not to be doubted, now
promises, without threat, but by dexterous
management, to throw the onus of possible
consequences on Bismark. The game runs
high; the stakes become heavy; the moves on
both sides are skilfully made; the world looks
on with bated breath. Some go in for Bis
mark, some for Napoleon. We go in lor
neither. It is the excitement of the game,
more than the result, of which we are ena
mored. At the same time we are not alto
gether indifferent as to consequences, nor are
yvo in the least unwilline to nnnfutia tlmt it
wiu not surprise us if in the long run the very
J-
"M,U renuer is caught napping by
the wily, watchful, far-seeing ruler of France.
Bismark lias no doubt been an apt scholar, but
he was somewhat late in taking his lessons;
and it would scarcely be matter for wonder if
the long-pract sed hand and eye of the master
B- . h. 4b,ttar 8tead in th0 great crisis
which seems to be approaching than the skil-
J&S r '-Ponced hand
neutral aud unprejudiced standpoint. We
APRIL 2C, 1867.
have no special likings or dislikings either for
France or Prussia, either for Napoleon or Bis
mark. We consider Napoleon, notwithstand
ing his many faults, to have been perhaps the
ablest and most intelligent ruler of his day
to have been, on the whole, a publio benofao
tor; and it is our decided conviction that his
tory will Judge kindly, and grant hhn a lofty
and honorable niche in tho future temple of
fame. We yield to none in admiration of the
talents of Count Bismark. He certainly has
not been without his faults. Yet he has done
good service to the cause, not of Prussia only,
but of the whole of Germany; and if the time
should ever como, as como It must, and that
at no distant day, when tho unity of Germany
shall be no mere poet's dream, but a realized
and visible truth, the name of Bismark will
bo enshrined m tho nation s living heart. We
have no desire to see France shorn of her
strength. We have ever been anxious to Bee
German unity made an accomplished fact. It
is neither, therefore, in a pro-French nor pto-
rman spirit that wo write when wo state
that this Luxembourg question is too paltry
an affair to justify a collision between two
such powers as France and Prussia.
Napoleon, who has au eye to the future, as
well as to the present, and who never allows
himself to become indifferent to the judgment
posterity, rightly estimates the present
crisis, and is wining to accept a reasonable
compromise. Bismark, on the other hand, is
too keen, and m his anxiety to clutch a pos
Bible present advantage he sacrifices a certain
and infinitely greater gain iu the future. The
Germans are not better prepared for a defen
sive than the French are eager lor an aggres
sive yvar. If the love of Fatherland is strong
in the one case, the pride of military renown
is strong in the other. Prussia is doubtless
strong in herself, and has made herself
stronger by the alliances she has formed with
the other German States; but the new German
machine which Count Bismark has invented is
complex and unwieldy, and as yet untested by
the terrible ordeal or war. prance, on the
other hand, is a powerful unit, not without
war experience, and moves like a living
frame, and with terrible energy, under the
guidance and control of a potent central will.
The Emperor, besides, by the cautious policy
he is now following, is creating for himself a
powerful public sympathy among the people
of other nations, and yvhen delay is no longer
possible and the signal is given to strike,
trance will spring to the summons, and the
name and dynasty of Napoleon will be fouud
to be more popular than ever. We do not
say that if it should come to blows France
must win; but wo do say that Bismark plays a
bold and hazardous game in refusing all com
promise.
The Mexican Savages Again at Work.
J-'iom the Times.
We had a shocking report yesterday of
another massacre of Imperialist officers by the
Mexican Liberals. While Puebla was under
siege the Imperialists refused two demands for
surrender; and after the capture of the place
on the 2d instant, Porfirio Diaz refused to give
any quarter to the officers who defended the
city, and caused the entire body of them, from
lieutenant upward, to be executed. Accounts
differ greatly as to the number thus disposed
of, one report making it twenty-nine, and
another over a hundred. We should refuse
to credit all . this if we had not
got official confirmation from the
Liberals themselves of their pre
vious massacres at San Jacinto and other
places. The official journal of the Juarez
Government, published at San Luis Potosi,
has lately given an elaborate defense of the
shooting of prisoners, with reference especially
to the San Jr.cinto affair, but showing that this
was rather the carrying out of a policy than
an exceptional thing. Some of the prisoners
do not even receive a soldier's death by the
bullet, but suffer the most disgraceful execu
tion. A recent report of Leon Guzman to the
Liberal Government mentions the capture of
several prisoners at Cerrode SanGregorio, and
coolly adds: "These are hung up on the road
frcm Queretaro to Zelaya." Not only do the
military officers carry out, but the civil officers
proclaim the policy of execution. At a ban
quet recently given to President Juarez, at
San Luis Potosi, by the Governor, the Foreign
Minister cried out, among many other things
of the same kind: "It is war, war war to
the knife and no conditions." In fact, judging
only from what the Liberals themselves say,
we aie compelled to credit the most horrible
reports of barbarities that have yet reached
us. We think that but a small proportion of
the American people will be inclined to agree
yvith those Congressmen and journalists who
argue that these things should be allowed to
po on without protest or remonstrance from us.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
rf M'TICE. THE STOCKHOLDF.ttS OF
the 1KNNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COM
PANY (pursuant to adjournment hail at ttielr annual
meeting) will nieei al Concert. JJall.No. 121DCHK3
MT Mreel, In the City oi .Philadelphia, on TUlv-4-JjAV.llie
suth day of April, A. JJ. lbu7, at 1 o'clock
A. II., aul notice ih hereby given lhat at said meeting
the Act ot Assembly, approved March 22d, lsi7, eu
titled "Ad Act lo repeal an act entitled A lurther
mipplt nieiit to the act incorporating tue Pennsylvania
liailroud Company, authorizing an increase ot capital
bioi k and to borrow money,1 approved the twenty
lii'Ht (lay ol March. A. I), one IhoiiBund eight hundred
and Hixiy.Hix; and also to authorise the 1'eunsy I vaula
Hniiroad Company by this act to iucreaae tin capital
block, to IhBiie bonds aud secure the same oy mort
approved the twenty-aecoud day of March,
A. I), lh.7; a proposed lncieu.se thereunder ol the
capital stork ol tins Company by auo.uno shares, aud
tii issue of the same lroni lime lo lime by the Hoard
i t lurtctors, and the proposed exercise by the said
J.ouril ol Directors of the powers granted by the said
let ol issuing bonds aud securing the same by uiort
nges for the purposes in tiie said ucl mentioned aud
wiihln the limits therein prescribed, will besulimUtbw
to the btockholtleis lor theii action iu the premised.
l:y order ol me .board oi Imtcu is.
i.i jii UAD SMITH,
4 61 j becretary.
fST PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 18, 18G7.
hsj 'luTiiK i iu i.J)i. us of ciry uasujax,
Gentlemen: The municipal authorities have It In
contemplation to take possession or the Gas Work
and convert llieui into a Department of the cliv, be
lieving lhat by Hie change the city will be beueliled,
mid the )n-uvy tax lor Uus be greatly reduced.
li to believed lhat this cannot he doue, however,
v iihoul the consent of the holders of the original lias
j. i aus.
yv e respectfully ask yon whether you will consent to
exel tmne lias Loan for City blx per tent. Loan, free
flOllI t.iA?
Jly doing this you will aid inbrlnglng about achanga
In I Tie gas supply desired by the citl.ens at large, and
w ill hold a security amuly sullicieiit for your protec
tion, navinii a market value several percent, higher
than that which you now hold.
An answer, addressed totlie undersigned, Chairman
ol the Committee of Councils having Hie subject in
charge, previous to the first day ol Muy, prox., will
much oblige.
Very respectfully, 11. P. GULLING Ft AM,
4 24 wlintao No. K7ua CliKSNUT btreet.
fif THE COLORED PEOPLE'S UNION
Ll'.AUUK ASHOCTATION will celebrate the
l'assnge ol the City Passenger Car bill by a GRAND
lltlMUM FKhTl VAL, with Addresses, Vocal and
lui-tiumenial Music. ltecitatluns, etc., at NATIONAL
HALL, on tlUDAV J!. Vr.NlNG. Mill IllStUUt. Ilia
hxo'llency Governor JOHN V. GKAltY, Hons.
JIUH'JO.N McMlClIAKL (Mayor), M. 11. LOWBV,
J. N. KKKNH. J. J'KKlSliOltN, Members of the
Legislature, and other distinguished speakers, have
been I n hi eel to address the meeting. Tickets, 25 cents,
The citizens generally are Invited to participate
Wllhus. JOHN C. BOWLHS, Preslilent.
Aniiiivw F. Ptkvkinh, Secretary , 4 'H wf itt
r MERCANTILE LIBRARY COMPANY.
PHlLAlllCl.PHtA. Aurll 10. 107.
A Fpeclal Meeting of the (Stockholders win um
at thS Library ou TUJuIAY. the '"'';"
o'clock 1". M.,ln order that the Board ot Managers
"nay submit i 1 report of their action In the purchase ol
anew building, aud lor otheres. BAJfOEB
41514t Iteoordlug Becretary pro leiu.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
OFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA.
AMI I. II A N k FOIt I) PAHHKNGKK KAMj-
WAY CUMtfAN Y. No. I4r FRAN K FOltil KOAII.
Piiii.aiiki.i-iiia. April 23, ISK7.
All Persons who rta uiiarrllirn to or holders of the
capital stock of this Company, and who have not yet
iiu me niAin iiiHiaimeni of r ive doubts per suarw
thereon, are hereby untitled that the said sixlli In
stalment has been called In, and that they are re-
iiuireu to pay the same at the above utllce on the lutu
day ot May next. Isii7.
iij resolution of the Hoard of Til rector.
4iam Jacob binpkr, president.
OFFICE OF THE LEHIGH COAT.
AND NAVIGATION COMPANY.
l'ltii.AiiKi.eiiiA, April 20, 1sb7.
The stated Annual Meeting ol the Htockholdeni of
this Company will be held at Hie HO A HI) OF TttA DK
toOOMw, north side of CUKHNUT Mtreeu aoove
FIHII, on TUKhliAY MokNING, the 7th day or
May next, nt hall-past 10 o'clock, alter which an F.leo
tion w ill he held at the same place lor Olllcers of the
Company lor the ensuing year. The Election to close
at 1 P. M , ol the same da v.
4 20 14t JAMF.S B. COX. President.
1ST.
BATCHEl.OR'S HAIR DYE.-TniS
snlfmlul llulr live Is ihe best In the world.
The only true nntitin trri ltyr Harmless, Reliable. In
stantaneous. No disappointment. No ridiculous Unta,
Natural illack or Brow n. Remedies the ill ellects of
Jltiit I'yii, Invigoraies the hair, leaving It soil and
lieaulllul. The genuine Is signed WILLIAM A.
HATCH KLOH. All ol hers are mere Imitations, and
should be avoldeu. Hold by all Drugglsis aud Per
fumers. Factory, No. bl BAHCLAY street, New
York 4 6fmw 1
K- CAMDEN AND AM HOY RAILROAD
AND '1HANSPORTATION COMPANY.
Okkick, Boki.kmown, N. J., March 27, 187.
NOTK K.'l lie Annual Meeting of the Mlockholdera
of the Camden nun Am hoy Railroad aud Transporta
tion Company w ill be held al the Company's otlice, la
Jtordi'litow n. ou BATl'KDA Y. the 27lh or April, 1S87,
Bl 12 o clock M ., lor the election of seveu Directors, to
serve for the ensuing year.
SAMUEL J, BAYARD,
29 Her retary C. and A. K and T. Co.
Kgi NATIONALBANKOFTHEREPUBLIC.
Fiiii.adki.piua. March 12, lso7.
In accordance with the provisions of the National
Currency act, and the Articles of Association of ibis
Hank, It haa been determined to increase the Capital
t-iock of this Hunk to one million dollars (l,oou,iiiu),
bubscrlptlons from stockholders for tiiesliares allotted
to them In the proposed Increase will be payable on
the second day ot May next, and will be received at
any time prior to that date. A number of shares will
remain to be sold, applications for which will be re
ceived from persons desirous of becoming Block-
iiouieis.
Hy order of the Board of Directors.
8 15 7w JOSKPII P. MUM FORD. Cashier.
NEW LONDON COPPER MINING:
COMPANY.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders, for
Flection ol Directors, w ill be held on TUUKSUAY,
May 2, at No. 1UU b. FUONT Street, at 4 P. M.
4 24 7t SIMON l'OFJY. frecretajy
MILLINERY, TRIMMINGS, ETC.
107 EIGHTH STREET 1Q7
RIBBON STORE,
FOIB DOOn.H ABOVE A lit II STREET.
JULIUS SICIIEL.
Has JuBt opened a fl ne assortment of MILLINERY
4M1M lor the ensuing Keasou, consisting of
MltAW IIOSMlS A.U HATS, the latest
shapes and stylos,
KlItlMKNN in all colors, widths, and qualities; the
best assortment in the city.
Bonnet tsilks, Balms, Velvets, and Crapes, all quail
tlesraud shades.
French Flowers, a superb assortment iu the la tea
novelties.
Ye. vet Klbbons, black and colored, In all widths and.
qualities.
Ihe best French and New York Bonnet Frames
always on hand.
Boutiet Ornaments, Bugle Fringes, the handsomest
styles; In lact, every article used m making or trim
ming a bonnet or hat.
The above goods are all selected with the best care,
and will be.auld at the lowest market rates to suit the
times.
JULIUS SIOHEL,
N 4. 107 NOIITII EIGHTH STREET, tit
iwk Dooaa above abch.
F. S. No trouble to show goods. 4 2 lia
AMBER, PEARL.
CRYSTAL ANU MET TIlIJIMIXCiS.
ZEPHYR
HKMiHT, AT
WORSTED, SOLD FULL
IIAPSON'S
IBlmBp TRIMMINGS AND ZEPHYR STORE,
N. W. CORKER EIGHTH AND CHERRY.
No. 720 CHESNUT STRBET.
Weooen to-dai
a full and splendidly a.
sorted stock ol
FRENCH AND NEW YORK
FltAJlES
BONNET
STRAW HATS,
klKAW UONNETS,
liOMMKT stlftbONS,
TRIMMING It I It It 4 MS,
VELV 1.1 ItliUliONS.
SILKS,
V EI.VETS,
LACKS, ETC. ETC.
PARIS FLOWER AND ORNAMENTS.
All oi the latest and luust approved styles, aud at
the lowest prices.
Please give us a call.
Country orders promptly and accurately attended to.
WEI L V ROSENHEIM,
8291m No. 728 CH 1kN U T btreet.
(MgO U R N I NC MILLINERY.
ALWAYS ON HAND A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
MOUKNING BONISETS,
AT NO. 90 1 WALNUT STREET.
3276m MAD'LLE KEOCH.
MltS. II, DILLON,
NOS. S33 AND 881 SOUTH STREET,
Has a handsome assortment of SPRING MILLI
Ni-ltV.
ladies', Misses', aud Children's istraw and Fancy
Bonnets and Hats of tne latent styles.
Also, bilks, Velvets, Hlbboiu), Crapes, Feathers,
Flowers, Frames, etc 7 HJ
FURNISHING COOPS, SHIRTS,&C.
Pa HOFFMANN, JR..
NO. 82 ARCH STREET,
FURNISHING GOODS,
(LateO. A. noffmuu. formerly W. W. Knight,)
FINE SHIRTS AN, WRAPPERS.
HOSIERY AND GLOVES
SILK, LAMRS WOOL AND MERINO
8'8rmwm UNDERCLOTHING.
J W. SOOTT & OO.,
SHIRT MANUFACTURERS,
AND UHA1.KBS III
MEN'S FU KN I SUING GOODS.
No. 814 ESN UT STREET,
FOITB DOOMS BliLOW THE ''CONTINENTAL,)
627rp ruiLADau.l'UlA.
PATENT SHOULDER-SEAM
SHIRT MANUFACTORY,
AND GENTLEMEN'S FURWMINGSTOHJ
PERFECT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWER'S
made Iron) measurement al very short Doltca,
snort notice
LEMEN'H DRESS
All other articles ot UJUN'l.
GOODS In full variety
WINCHESTER CO.,
No. 706 CHESNUT Street.
1111
POSTER'S RESTAURANT
NO. 191 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
OPPOSITE GIRAItD BANK, PHILADELPHIA
Oystfrisndlltilf Mf Ubouis 4 51m