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Columbia, Pa.
Saturday, September 3.1870.
CalcatiatcaTioNs,letters, contrlbalons, generally of
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from friends from all suiwters.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET
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Congress
OLIVER J. DICKEY, City
Assembly.
HENRY M. ENGLE, East Donegal
GEORGE WHITSON, Bart.
Jaws. E. WILEY, Conoy.
A. C. REINCERL, Maphelm.
Recorder.
GEORGE J. HIGH, East Lampeter
County Commissioner.
JOHN K. REED, City.
Prison Inspectors.
LEWIS SPRECHER, City.
EZRA REIST, Warwick.
Directors of Poor.
DAVID LANDIS, East Lampeter
JOHN J. FRY, Rapho.
County Solicitor.
B. C. ICREADY, City.
Jury Commissionc.
DAVID BAIR, City.
A nclifor.
SAMUEL SHOCH, Columbia
LANCASTER County has sustained the
present system of nomination (Crawford
County System) by a vote of 5,990 for, to,
4,273 against it. Such a decided majority
in a vote upwards of tea thousand, estab
lishes the hold the system has upon the
people.
THE nomination of B. C. Kready as
County Solicitor by a majority of only
three votes, shows how near the coveted
prize came being secured by this oppo
nent, and yet lost. The office is elective
, by act of Legislature passed last winter,
and the successful candidate holds it for
three years.
MR. B. F. MEY.Eas, of the " Harris
burg:Patriot" is the Democratic candi
date for Coitgress in the Xlrth District of
Pennsylvania, now represented by Hon.
John Cessna, Republican, who has been
nominated for re-election. The District
is close, and the contest will no doubt be
a spirited one.
EfON. JOIIN E. WrLEY, who, with A.
C. Reincehl, was contemptiously called a
rooster, Bolter, &c." has been re-elected
to the Legislature triumphantly, A. ,T
Hiestand to the contrary, notwithstanding.
We congratulate Mr. Wiley upon this
significant victory. The only 'alledged
objection to his re-election was his manly
determination ?Mt' to support a caucus
nomination unfairly made; and in this his
eneinishave been badly beaten.
The Itesnit.
- The result of last Saturday's priMary
- • •rally satisfaCtory. The
lickey was conceded
rge - majority in his
' ym,e; to himself, and a full'
endorsement of his course.
The :Legislative • ticket suits us vet . :
well. The re-nomination of Messrs. Rein
cehland Wiley is a flat tering'endorsemen
of their previous record, and the nomina
tion of Messrs. Engle and Whitson by
such a large vote is an unmistakable evi
dence:of-their popularity. Roth are un
ex , ceptionable gentlemen, and-we • expec.
to hear a• good report from theiii'nex,
Winter. •
- The other part of the ticket, given
else4here, meets with almost universal
endorsement. We-go into the fall 'cam
paign 'With - a strong ticket—sure to win.
One Of the reasons. says the _Mercury :
why Napoleon has been so unsuccessful in
the present war; is, that he Spent too
muehitime studying up the war maps in
Ainerican newspapers, and it discouraged
him:: The last one he received absorbed
his attention for two whole days, and then
he took it in his hand and went around to
seeßaaaine, and said : Marshal I it's of no
use-; we might. as well give the thiniup.
If.welave got to fight the French around
through sueli geography. as - thati , our
cause is hopelessly lost." And Napoleon
wept. The particular. map in - question
was made out of an- old wood cut belong
ing to a treatise upon the various phe
nomena of the currents in, the Gulf of
Mexico. The publisher cut out some of
the lines :with a gouge-chisel, and ham
mered in a few : carpet tacks to represent
towns.. When it was printed it was called
" Situation .of the. Contending Armies,'
but it looked exactly like the effort of a
blind-man, with a fit.of delirium tremens,
trying tO,draw a ground-plan of the city
of Boston.
The Neiiiinatiotts.
t " the burlybtirly's done
The battle's lost and wbn."
, The result of Saturday's contest will be
found'in the.ticket as placed at the head
Of the celutOna of the EXiMIN,EIt. That
it is such a ticket in all respeCts as ought
to have been nominated, we will not be so
false - to truth as to assert. But the people
hive gene through the; form of expiessitig
their preferences, andlfhey appear to have
eiiersed . the course' ofßeim:chi and Wi
ley. This we believe, an honest vote and
sullenest:min/at and correct return; would
not haie done: Yet as there is no means
of correetirig this , wrong we bow to the re
ceideirwill,,,thOrtgh" we belie've• it to be
fhlse. • Bit we
rather'bear those Ills'we have,
•, Than;lly to others we know not, or."
, If they, will be faithful in the future to
the:pledges given, that will go far to re
deem their treachery to the party and
their attempt to rob the treasury
: of its
sinking fund. We are charitable enough
to, believe that they have ,long since seen
the folly , of
,thetr.past . curse and have
learned wisdom enough to be entrap
ped„again by ,reckiesi,,!,d6bauched, and
corrupted politicians and
,lobbyist Ex-
aminer & herald.
.„.
Observe how jolly Jack accepts the sit
nation, and how- he -bears his defeat like' tt
philosopher: We believe there is heroism .
in defeat as well as in victory, and Jack
acts the hero adiairably.l
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itk,l7.All:o - HALVE*N 15 tO . to die
etnocratie candidate for Congress it the
;Fork district, after all. The Democracy
'did not want him, but he presented argu
'nrcins in behalf of his nomination that were
•
irresistible.—Lebanon Cowrie r.
WITII tit Et. TRADE Haldeman is York
County ; and Free-Trade-copperhead Mey
ers in Franklin county, and with the
prospect of nominating an out and out
free trader in Lancaster, the democracy of
Columbia can not well lay claim to pro
tective principles.
Tue French are now driving the Prus
sians—toward Paris— they (the French)
being a little ahead. Bazaine has the
Prussian comviander's teeth so firmly em
bedded in his nose that he can snake him
into the French capital without difficulty.
When the Prussian army is all in Paris,
Napoleon will surround it and slice up the
men with the guillotine ! There is noth
ing like strategy.
- WORKINGMEN AND FREE TRADE.—The
Free Trade Democrats may get an ideh of
the popularity of their favorite doctrine
from the way it was handled by the
'Working People's Convention at Cincin
nati last week.
The question of the Tariff came up and
after a stormy debate a vote was taken
which showed 60 for a Protective platform
to S against. Workingmen seem to be
beginning to discriminate between their
own interest and• the success of the Dem
ocratic office hunters. They seem to
think their in' erests are best subserved in
the Republican party.—Ex.
Tun Lancaster Express suggests the
the election of Mr. Lewis Sprecher to the
office of Keeper of the Prison in place of
Levi Sensenig„ as a remedy for the evils
complained of in that Institution.
Mr. Sprecher is a gentleman of un
doubted integrity, humane and generous
impulses, in every respect competent for
the position, and one of the most popular
men of the county. We doubt not his
acceptance of the_office would give uni
versal satisfaction and silence all clamor
about Prison management. We will be
pleased to record his election.
TIIE following is the official vote as re
turned by the Board of Return Judges :
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0. J. Dickey, City
J. P. Wickentlutto, City
EZIMES2
Sohn:C. Baldwin, Strasburg 7 28
D. 11:. Burkholder, Ezst Hempfleld 2996
Thomas A. Clark 1617
P. S. Clinger, Conestoga 960
Solomon Diller, Earl .V. 47
Henry M. Eengle, East Donegal 3956
J. C. Gatehell, Marne 3066
C. L. Hunsacker, Manhelm 3316
A. J. Kauffman, Colambi. , 1307
Joseph McClure, Bart 2754
A. C. Relncehl, Manbeim 3600
W, L. Ileitzell, East llempfteld 1554
David Shultz, City • 3129
Julius L. Shunian.Me.nor 2072
George Whitson, Bart 3672
John E. Wiley, Conoy 3662
PECORDZII
Daniel Brown, West Earl 1781
Peter Diffenbacb, East Lampeter 1379
S. W. Frantz, East Lanv?eter 2.59
Lewis S. Hartman, City . ' 1895
Martin D. Hess, Paradise 570
George J. High. East Lampeter .2988
C. J. Snavely, Manheim 1701
Benjamin Urban, Conestoga 270
Daniel Verntz, Strasburg 211
COITNTY COmmirqgrON.E.R.
Peter Johns, East Lampeter
John E. Reed, City -
Isaac L, itoyer,Epnrata
PRISON INSPECTORS,
kunuel Curtis, East Lampetez..
---- cane. (irnham; City SaS
Christian C Landis, UPDer LA , .. 00 0 1 r -40 / 9.
Bzra'llelet, - Warwick 53e0
Lewis Sprecher, City ti 73
DIR.ECTOES Or room
John J. Fry. Roam 5705
David Landis (miller,) East Lampeter 7109
!Leonard Pickle, hart 3415
Jacob S. Witmer 4353
COUNTY soLxerron
B. C. Kreatly,City 4490
William Leaman. City 1579
D. P. itosenmiller, City 4497
JURY COMUSSIONER.
David Bair, Jr., City
P. G. Eberman, City
AUDITOR
Isaac L. Groff; Strasburg..
Jacob Seitz, Sr., Manor....
Samael Shoch, Columbia
NODE OF Z.:OXL‘TATION
For Present System
Against Present System
Democratic Corruption.
The Democracy of Lancaster county are
constantly prating about Republican cor
ruption and radical dishonesty. 'They,
,hOweve'r, forget Berks county,' which for
many years has been the scene of the
most disgraceful wrongs. Bucks county,
an old 'democratic stand-by, comes in for
a full share of the " corruption and pee
'ulation," and here is a specimen from the
, Bucks county Intelligencer, the, ablest,
largeet and most influential paper in the
county. It says :
Very few of our tax-payers have any
idea of the extent to which corruption and
peculation prevail in the management of
our county affairs, under the present Dem
o ceratie dynasty.' If the actual truth was
known to them, the honest citizens of both
parties would unite as one man to expel
from office those who have been using
their positions almost entirely to increase,
their private gains, without reference to
the interests of the public. There is a
general impression among the people that
our county affairs are not :,s honestly and
economically managed as they ought to be,
but of the actual truth the masses of the
taxpayers. have no conception. They
,only know that fer several years past,with
no acknowledged county debt to pay, taxes
to the amount of nearly a quarter of
,a
million of, dollars per year have been ex
pended. The county statement does not .
develop the particulars, and it is only fie.
easionally, in cases like that of the 'inset
tled.accoun t of Andrew Ott last year,that
the attention of the people is especially
directed to the subject. We know, that
this is only one among many cases of offi
cial dereliction. There are some things
that we cannot print without a violation
of private confidence, but we are justified
in assuring our readers that the manage
ment of the public business has never been
worse • than during the last year. The
Treasurer is now • collecting a tax of one
per cent., which will produce a far larger
sum than is necessary for current expen
ses. Much of it must_go to pay a float
ing debt of unknown amount, incurred
without the knowledge of the taxpayers
for the sake of giving out jobs 'to party
friends. The voters of Bucks county are
just now in a humor to reform some of
these home abuses, and they understand
well .that the point of attack is among the
Commissioners, the Directors and the Au
ditors. , If all of them knew what is known'
to some of, the citizens of Doylestown,they
would demand with one voice a radical
and thorough purgation, and' they would
have it too. The time to do so w.th prac
tical effect will soon be here, and we trust
they will not miss the opportunity.
TILE mittailleuses have to lon'ger any
terror for the Prussians. They did not
create among the Germans the slime con
sternation as that which the American
troops for a time regarded the masked
batteries of the Rebels. Indeed the first
engagement at Wissenburg revealed the
weakness of the " coffee pot" guns, and
the Germans are filled with contempt for
them. It seems that, unlike lightning,
they are open to the objection of sticking
always in the same place, and after the
first fire the balls can be more easily avad
ed than the range and airs of the gun can
be altered.
Duties ofAssessors and Registers.
Governor Geary issued a proclamation
on Saturday last, directing the "County
Commissioners of Montgomtry county—
(where there seems to be now a defective
enforcement of the Fifteenth Amend
ment)—to instruct the several assessors
and registers of voters therein to obey•and
conform to the requirements of constitu
tional amendments and' laws ; and the
Sheriff of said county is hereby authorized
and required to publish in his election
proclamation for the next ensuing election
thE herein recited constitutional amend
ment, act of Congress and act of the Leg
islature, to the end that the same be known,
executed and obeyed by all assessors, reg
isters of voters,eleetion officers and others,
' and that the r.ghts and privileges guaran
teed therein may be secured to all citziens
of the Commonwealth entitled to the same."
Of course the same duties will be required
in all the counties of the State.
THE Cumulative System 'of voting—a
System which secures for the minority a
proportional representation—is gaining
friends every day. The justice of the
measure is no longer in doubt. Its entire
and absolute expedience is not yet estab
lished, and whether it can be practically
enforced without being subject to all the
various species of Corruption, has not yet
been demonstrated. In legislative dele
gations, in the boards of County Commis
sioners, Prison and Poor House manage
ment, the minority can have, by the Cum
ulative System,a potent voice. But where
there is but one person, or but one officer
to be voted for, the remedy will not ap
ply, unless the law be-so radically emend
ed as to change the ritiniber of officers, &c.
The whole System of our State Govern
ment must undergo a change in order to
make the System entirely practicable.
That it will be done we have no doubt, as
the minority counties are in earnest in the
matter, and they will push their plans
with vigor. Whatever may come, we
welcome any change which will have a
tendency to brook corruption, prormt the
" stealings " everywhere, and work deep
rooted, wide-spread reform.
We believe in minority representation
—it is Republican, it is Democratic, The
people are moving earnestly in all these
important subjects, and the proposed and
much talked of State Convention will no
douberesult in immeasurable good.
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TIIE UIILANS, who are creating so
-much alarisl in France by their raids upon,
- towns and ,illages, far ahead of the line of
march of The Prussian army, also - give rise
to perplexing reports as to the position of
the German forces. The TJhlans are
light cavalry, of Asiatic origin, and were
introduced into the North of Europe along
with the colonies of Tartars, who estab
lished themselves in Poland and Lithua
nia. The name is derived from a Tartar
word signifying " brave." They are
mounted on light, active horses, and are
armed with sabre, lance, and latterly with
pistols and carbines. The lance, from 0
to 7 feet long, is attached to a stout leath
er cord fastened to the left
.shoulder, and
passed round behind the back, so as to al
low it to .be couched under the right arm.
Immediately below the point of the lance
is attached a strip of gaudy-colered cloth,
designed by its fluttering to frighten the
enemy's horses. The early dress was
Turkish, and the regiments or " polks"
were distinguished from each other by
red, green, blue and yellow uniforms.
The Austrians and Prussians firskborrowed
this kind of light cavalry from the Poles,
and in 1834 Marshal Saxe attempted to
introduce the Uhlans into the French ser
vice, and a " polk" of 1000 men was or
ganized, but it was disbanded after the
Marshal's death. Russia, Prussia and
Austria are the only Governments main
taining Uhlan regiments, whi ch are' re
cruited from Western Russia, Poland and
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['he County Committee,
Below we give a list of the members of
the Republican County Committee, elect
ed on last Saturday. The new Commit
tee will meet int he Orphans' Court room,
at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
on nest Monday; for. organization : -
Adamstown—E. Blllingfelt.
Bart—Daniel Eby and Geo. Knox area tie. The
matter was referred for settlement to the
new County Committee.
Brecknock—D. H. Sollenberger.
Carnarvon—C. Hertzier.
Clay—H. S. Eberly. ,
Cocalica East--Nelson Wolfskill.
Coe:Lilco West—John W. Mentzer.
Colerain—Sohn P. Lovett.
Ist Ward—Geo. Souders,
Columbia, 42d Ward—J. S. Strine.
. ad. Ward—Wm. Boyd. ,
Conestogo—Samuel S. Welsh.
Conny—Frederick Smith.
Drumore— Wm.. T. Clark.
Donegal East,—Mity,town—H. S. Book.
Springvlle—Henry Haistancl.
Donegal West—Jos. B. Breneman.
Earl—Christian Musser.
Earl East—Theo. A. Kinzer.
Earl.West—A. K. Hornberger.
Eden—J. H. Gilbert.
Elizabeth—S. H. Miller. •
Elizabethtown—D. W. Balmer. .
Ephraty--Jacob W. Landis.
Fulton—Robert IC. McCullough.
( A.iouritville—John P. WOll.
Hempfleld West
Northwest—John Earn°.
N orwood—Jn o. B. Eshleman
Silver Spring—A. Alumina.
Indiantown—lsal 1 Herr.
Lampeter East—Amos. Bushong.
Lampeter West—A. J. Rockafield.
Ist Ward—J. P. Weise.
1.31 Ward—J. K. Barr.
3d Ward — Gee.F. Breneman.
4th Ward—J. W. Johnson.
Lancaster City- sth Ward—Adam Snyder. '
6th Ward—Saml. H. Levan.
7th Ward—W. W. Hopkins.
,
' Bth Ward—Samuel Erisinaw
tatti Ward—J. 13• Ainivake.
Lancaster twp—Samuel Horst.
Leacock—Amos Hershey.
Leacoek Upper —Jacob B. Musser.
Little Britain—Robert Gibson.
Manhelm.bor—E. H. Hershey.
Madlielm-twii.--Peter S. Heist.
Manor—New—B. U. Shuman.
Marietta—Theo.Hiestand.
Martie—J: C. Gatettell.
Millersville—Chas. Denne.s. •
Mount Joy- bor—J. L. Zeigler.
Mount Joy-twp—Upper— Wm' F. Hamilton.
Mount Joy-twp—Lower—D. E. Gingrich,
Pequea.—J. B. Good.
Penn—John M. Stehrrian.
Paradise-3111ton N. Woods.
Providence—P . H. Gochenaur.
Petersburg—H. W. Grabill.
Raptio (Newtown)--L. IL Shenk.%
Hapho (S. S. HO—Samuel Hassler.
notterstown—Dr. S. G. Grey. - . •
Sadsbhry—Samuel Slokom.
Salisbury—N. Einanicer. ,
Strasburg-bor—W. T. AlcPliall. Esq,
litrasburg.twp—H. N. Breneman.
Warwick—J..l o Frueauti ,
Washington-bor.—E. L. House.
GuiTAVE DottE has executed a picture
designed to illustrate the horrors of war.
It shows a burning village, with the
corpses of soldiers heaped up in its
streets with dismantled houses and per
ishing cattle; over this scene of ruin and
distress rises a lurid moon. He has also
drawn one portraying the blessings, of
peace.
TUE war in Europe was an aggressive
war, on the part of France—trut,'she is
fortifying her own capital. From the big
words indulged in at Paris it was natural
ly to be expected that France would
make Prussia fortify Berlin. On the
contrary, Paris is mounting a thousand
cannon for her own defense. That tells
the whole story. She will need every
gai I
A Useles3 'fowl
At a meeting of the colored citizens of
Lancaster, they passed a resolution in ref
erence to public school privileges, which
has create.' a terrible howl in the camp of
the great " unwashed," Yet laying aside
all prejudice, and giving to the resolution
the interpretation which the colored peo
ple meant it should have, there is nothing
alarming in lt after all, Here is the res
olution :
Resolved, That in the future we will
only support such candidates as arc most
favorable to our equal educational advan
tages, to the best of our belief ; for we are
equally taxed for school purposes. In
Lancaster, we have a separate"' primary
school; and for white children there are
in Lancaster primary, secondary and high.
schools. We cannot have equal education
for our children as long as such a state of
things exist.
What is there in this to excite so much
professed indignation. The colored peo
ple merely ask that they have a secondary
school and a high school for the education
of their children, just as the white child
ren have them. Where the injustice, or
where the impropriety of this ? Our
democratic citizens howl so much against
the blending of the white and colored
children, and here is an opportunity to
avert what they consider such a terrible
disaster.
Our colored people ask for equal (that
is, equal in degree, and equal in quality)
'school priviledges, and that is Thist - ifliat
representation and taxation entitle them
to. Give the Lancaster or Columbia col
ored children equal primary,equal second
ary, and equal high school priviledges and
they will want no more.
If we may be allowed to digress, - we
might add that our catholic friends de
mand as much, and in the same spirit.
They want equal monies to appropriate to
building and maintaining their own church
schools. But in their case they are the dis
set) tists, they are the dissatisfied, and
they are the ones who, under the law, now
enjoy equal school priviledges. But in
the case of the oppressed colored people,
they are now debarred of theie rights,and
they merely ask that they have equal
(in degree and quality) school priviledges
with other children.
The Free Trade Democracy.
f The attempt of a fr-and-far-between
democrats to make tbr readers believe
that protection is a democratic plank, are
referred to the record of Hon. B. F.
Meyers, editor of the Harrisburg Patriot,
and candidate for Congress iu the XVlth
District. The Chanabersburg, Repositorjj
gives a few precious extracts which will
serve to define Mr. Meyers' position, and
set right this fain attempt to steal glory
which does not belong to him :
Myers is a notorious Free Trader. The
Harrisburg Patriot, of which he is an ed
itor, is the great Free Trade organ of
Pennsylvania, and it would be bard to
ffnd a single issue of the daily Patriot
which does not contain one or more edito
rials against protection to the industry of
this country. * * * The people of
the Sixteenth District,irrespective of party,
have too much at stake to send a Free
Trader to Congress. For no part of the
old Keystone State has Nature done so
much and the Government so little as
for the five counties lying on the So-uth
ern border between Fayette and York.
Their wealth in iron ore and coal and fer
tility of soil is boundless; but all these
were rendered of little account because
they were cut off from the great lines of
commerce, and the many years of Free
Trade policy of the Government offered
no encouragement for their development.
Trader the fostering influence of the Pro
tective Policy of the last half dozen years
has come a change, and the greatest in-
dus try now prevails. Fulton
like Bedford is full of mineral wealth, but
hemmed by mountains from all active in
tercourse with the activities of the busi
ness world. But railroads are creeping
towards her both from Franklin and Bed
ford, and she is already dreaming dreams
of a happy future. Myers can do noth
ing for the realization of these
_dreams..
He is pledged to defeat them. Tie is
pledged to impoverish farms, to the dis
truction of manufactures, to low wages. *
* He is the proprietor and editor of the
Bedford Gazette, and is also one of the
owners and editors of the Harrisburg. Pa
triot, both of which papers persistently
oppose the policy of protecting and foster
ing the manufacturing and laboriug inter
ests of this country, and urge the removal
of all duties frotu foreign importations
which have been imposed to help build up
domestic industry and enable manutac
turers to give a fair day's wages for a fair
day's work.
My.zreits, Aug. 29.—There is great ac
tivity in the preparation of the feitifiea
tions. Guns are arriving. A large, park
of artilery is encamped outside the - gates.
The 'Prince Imperial returned here, (Ne T
ziers) to-day from Sedan, where yesterday
there was an alarm of the Prussian ap
proach. The national guard and citizens
turned out with great alacrity. The alarm
was false, but it was thought prudent to
to'send off the Prince.
During the fight in the battle on Tues
dayithe army of the Crown Prince of Sax
ony, composed of Prussian corps, is said
to have captured over ten thousand pris
oners. A. number of French soldiers es-.
taped into Belgium after the fight, but
were promptly disarmed.
Gold closed yesterday at 110
THEE WA].
Another Great Battle—
MacMahon . Again
Defeated.
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The French Army Driven &cross
the Meuse with Great
Loss.
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TUE PRUSSIAN FORCES COM
MANDED .wk"rziE CROWN
PRINCE FREDERICK
WILLIAM.
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THE CONFLICT IN THE
' - v,ILLLEy 01E"FlIE
'MEUSE.
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Terrible Fighting Between Maelffahon
and the Prussian Princes
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Immense Slaughter—The Prussian
Armies Victorious at AU
Points !
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FRENCH room DEMORALIZED ANN FLY
ING TOWARD BELCITTIN
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SUPPOSED FLIGHT OF THE
PRINCE LIKPERIAL-IVIXERE
IS NAPOLEON ?
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Germany Determined on a Go.nplete
Triumph—Foreign Intorven
tion Discarded,
ME
BuzANzY, August 30 via London, Au.
gust 31.--The Prussians attacked McMa
lion's army to-day near Beaumont, defeat
ed it, and drove it hack upon the Belgian
frontier. The French camp fell into the
hands of the Prussians. The pursuit of
the French was continued for several
miles, and was interrupted by the number
of cannon and prisoners which were tak
en. The extent of the battlefield was so
vast that it is impossible to obtain further
details at this moment.
BRUSSELS, August 31, via London,
Sept. I.—The King of Prussia has sent
the following telegram to Queen Augusta :
VAREIsNES, August 30.—The Crown
Prince has been in action with the
Fourth,. Twelfth and Seventeenth Corps,
and the Fourteenth Bavarian. McMahon
was beaten and driven beyond the Meuse.
Twelve guns, some thousand 'prisoners,
and material of war was captured.
THE GRAND ADVANCE ON PARIS
LONDON, August 31.—The Prussians
conceiving that McMahou's aim was to
gain the frontier to effect a junction wiili
Bazaine, advanced on their lines. The
Crown Prince, south of Nancy, marched
by way of Commercy, Bar-le-Due, St. Diz.
ier, and Vitry. The 4th Army, under
the Prince Royal of Saxony, keeping
north of Pout-a-i%lonsson', moved toward
Chalons, at the same time investing Metz,
while Steinmetz, reinforced, proceeded
through Verdun to Rheims, his, right
sweeping the Belgian frontier, in hope of
Meeting, McMahon. Thus the German
advance covered the country from Belgi
um, along the Meuse to the Aube, and
rendered it impossible for 31c3Inhon to
reach Metz.
TERRII3LE SUFFERING OF THE PEOPLE OF
STRASBURG
Losnos,A.ugust 81.—The sufferings of
the inhabitants of Strasburg are, terrible.
They are starving, and are compelled to
live in their cellars, day and night, to
avoid the increasing fire of the beseigers.
Another fruitless sortie was wade by the
garrison on Monday. Prussian sharp
shooters are within five hundred yards of
the glacis. Many houses have been
burned, and the arsenal was at one time
on fire. The ammunition was safely re
moved. The fortress continues to resist.
Public meetings are held all over Prus
sia to sustain the government in prosecut
ing the war to the end, and to discourage
all attempts at premature legislation.
The French were so sure of victory at
the opening of the campaign that they
made no arrangement to send their bag
gage in case of retreat, and hence they
have been compelled to abandon it in
great quantities.
BRE 3lEig ,' Wednesday, Aug 3
A. letter from the Prussian headquar
ters explains how Bazaines'attempt to es
cape from iletz was defeated. A copy of
certain instructions of Bazaine was found
near Metz from which the Prussians
learned that the enemy was, to retire - in
two bodies, one by tlya• high road to Mars
la-Tour and Verdun, and the other by the
Conflans turnpike. This plan w.ts dis
concerted by the Prussian attack on the,
11th. The French subsequently took the
road via Briey, bat were again repulsed,
and finally driven back in the battle on
the 18th to the walls of ?*letz; there they
have since been confined, their only way
of escape being to cut a passage through
the Prussian line; which they have not
attempted. •
FIIIDAY'S VERY LATEST NEWS
Notwithstanding the terrible defeat of
Marshal McMahon on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, the Paris newspapers have won
him several " glorious victories," and ac
cording to their statements, ho and Be
zabfe have been completely successful.
The ministry, of course, have no news
from the Valley of the Meuse, and Count
Palikao majestically waives the questions
put to him concerning recent events
thereby stating that a large number of
German cavalry (two or three hundred at
most, probably), are surrounded at a cer
tain point, and their capture is' certain.
This announcement, we presume, caused
an immediate rise in candles, in anticipa
of a grand illumination.
Into igenee from the scene of the late
conflict is exceedingly meagre, owing
probably to the destruction of the wires by
both be igerents, but enough has been
received within the past twenty-four
hours to warrant the belief that the en
gagements near Beaumont resulted disas
trously to the French i that McMahon
has utterly failed in his attempt to reach
Metz, and that his broken army is
now making a desperate effort to escape
from its perilous position by way of Sedan
and Mezieres. Fighting is reported yes
terday, and doubtless with truth. The
Crow' Prince will not be apt to let his
enemy get away without another struggle.
The 'whereabouts of Napoleon seem to
be a mystery. Should lie cross the Bel
gian frontier,guards of the latter country
have been ordered to demand his sword.
Other severe orders have been issued for
the purpose of guaranteeing the protection
of Belgian newtrality.
The North German Gazette (Bis
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from the best source that English opinion
is reconciled to the lino of the Vosges,
and' even on the Moselle, as the future
boundary betwebn Germany and France,
with 1,000,000,000 francs indemnity for
the expenses of war.
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R, HAYES' GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE,
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Begs leave to inform his old friends and patrons that he has
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R. HAYES ,
South-east Corner Fourth if; Cherry Sts., Columbia.
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GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES.
1870.
FONDE.RSMITH'S STORE,
127 & J 29 Locust St., Columbia,
HERO & UNION FRUIT JARS !
Which we are selling at Manufacturers Prices
FIRST , OPENING OF
AND SHIRTING CALICOES,
ME
DRESS.
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WILLIAM G. PATTON'S
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1870.
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