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Review and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 13.

Study of Prophecy
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Significant Items.

By F. A. B.

At a convention of Y. M. C. Association's recently held at Boston Highlands, the following question was discussed: “How can we best combat the growing infidelity of the present day?”
Rev. S. E. Upham said “the question assumed that infidelity, which was a denial of revelation and the need of a Redeemer was everywhere spreading.”
Rev. Mr. Collier “believed that infidelity was assuming a new phase—endeavoring to sap the foundation of Christianity by imitating the evangelical methods of work.”
Rev. Dr. Gardner, of Charlestown, Mass., in a sermon during the past autumn, said in regard to Sunday-keeping, “It is time for Christians individually, and for Christian churches and Christian associations, in their united strength to arise for the defense of the Gibraltar of our religion.”
“A solemn high mass was celebrated this morning in St. Patrick's Cathedral, for the repose of the soul of Archbishop Hughes, who died some years ago.” Special dispatch to Boston Herald, from New York, Jan. 3.
“Memorial tablets, in honor of George Washington and Robert E. Lee, have been placed on either side of the chancel of Christ's church, Alexandria, Va.”
The Clinton Avenue Methodist church, now in course of construction in Newark, is to be supplied with conveniences and luxuries, and all the modern improvements. Adjoining the vestry is to be built a church parlor, which is to be furnished like a modern drawing-room, with a piano and elegant furniture. Beneath this room will be situated the church kitchen with a hotel range, and all the conveniences for getting up “big dinners.”
The church bar room is not spoken of in the above, yet no doubt will be soon another “modern convenience.”
Also the “wine cellar,” “big dinners,” would be meager affairs without a score or so of different wines of ancient vintage.
Peace and war. Under this head the Boston Journal of Chemistry, says:—
“Is it probable that the nations of the earth will ever sheath the sword and cease to war against each other, and that all national disputes and difficulties will be settled by diplomacy or a congress of nations? In the light of past and present experience, in view of the exhibition of the murderous spirit exhibited so palpably in the occurrences of the times, it must be confessed that there is strong probability that wars will continue so long as human beings exist.
“Twenty or more years ago, we had the honor of being elected as one of the delegates to represent this country in the great Peace Congress held at Berlin, and at that time, in the last days of a long interval of peace, it did seem as if advancing Christianity, science, literature, art, humanity, national comity, everything was conspiring to place a ban upon war. The kings and emperors of Europe, the great statesmen and diplomatists, looked favorably upon every effort to create an overpowering public sentiment against war. The gentlemen composing the congress in Germany were treated with every mark of respect, and a strong hope was expressed by war-making powers at home and abroad, that the era of continued peace had dawned upon the earth. But alas! what have we seen and experienced during the past quarter of a century? Seven important wars have occurred; at least six millions of nominally Christian people have marched upon the field of strife, and probably one and a half millions of men have fallen victims to insatiate cruel war. This is a dreadful record for a period of time extending over only a quarter of the nineteenth century.
“We have recently read over again an old book—Crevier's History of the Roman Emperors, which is the bloody record of a race of men who cursed the world by their presence. Those men rioted in carnage, reveled amid the desolation of ruined cities and empires; but they were heathen. How much better, more human, more open to pity, are we than the men of pagan Rome? Look at poor France at the present time, bleeding, starving, and filled with the wailings of anguished widows and orphans! What more did the cruel Romans do in their Gallic wars? What more could they do than storm cities, murder and pillage the people, and place them in a condition of starvation? O tempora! O mores!”
F. A. B.
New Ipswich, N. Y.

Obituary Notices.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, March 1, 1871, at Douglas, Allegan Co., Mich., of dropsy, sister Phebe Reid, wife of Captain Robert Reid, in the 41st year of her age. Sister Reid was beloved and respected by all who knew her. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn her loss; yet they have laid her away in hope of meeting her again when the Lifegiver shall come. Funeral discourse by the writer, to a large and attentive congregation, from 1 Thess. 3:13. H. M. KENYON.
DIED, in Strongsville, Feb. 16, 1871, of consumption, Thomas White, in the 36th year of his age. He leaves a wife and seven children. We expect to meet him in the first resurrection. Comforting remarks by Eld. A. Knowlton, from 1 Thess. 4:13, 14. IRWIN EDGERTON.
DIED, near Watrousville, Mich., Dec. 20, 1870, of congestive fever, sister Cornelia Van Giesen, aged 70 years. She embraced the truth under the labors of Brn. Van Horn and Canright, five years ago, from which time she lived a devoted, humble Christian. She now sleeps in Jesus; and we confidently expect, if we are faithful to God and his truth, that we shall meet her again on Mount Zion. Praise the Lord for the blessed hope. JOHN WALTON.

The Silent Clerk.

A GENTLEMAN of high position and great wealth in the city of Pittsburg, was converted some years ago. He was a man of much earnestness of character and admirable social qualities. From the moment of his conversion, he took a decided stand for Christ and his cause. He wrote letters to all his impenitent friends, informing them of the change he had experienced, and inviting them, as Moses did Hobab, to join him in journeying to the “good land.”
It was my pleasure to ride with this gentleman in his buggy, soon after his conversion, to Washington, Pa., a distance of twenty-six miles. During that journey, he gave me a full and most interesting account of his religious experience. At the close of it I said to him: “Mr. M——, what, in your judgment, has contributed most to the happy change you have just related to me?” He promptly replied: “The example of one of my clerks.” His answer interested me deeply, and I begged him to explain himself more fully. To this request he responded as follows:—
“When I commenced business some eighteen years ago, I employed a gentleman as book-keeper who was a member of the Associate Reformed church. He was a quiet, but holy man. His religion was his life, rather than on his tongue. He soon won my profound respect, and his example became a power over me.
“I was profane at that time, and uttered oaths at the slightest provocation. My clerk never reproved me for this, but I saw that every profane expression of mine gave him pain. Out of regard to his feelings, I gradually laid aside the habit of profane swearing, until I ceased to utter oaths on any occasion.
“I was also at that time very irascible; and if one of the men employed by me—of whom I had a large number, in any way provoked me, I had no hesitation in letting him instantly feel my foot in my fist. I could not but observe that this also was extremely painful to my book-keeper, though he uttered no word to that effect.
“My respect for him, and my unwillingness to wound his feelings, led me, by degrees, to break myself of this habit, as well as the other. In a word, this man, though he never opened to me on the subject of religion, exercised an influence over me for good wielded by no other human being. He did not preach by words, but his life was a perpetual sermon; and to him, under God, more than to any other, am I indebted for the hope, in which I now rejoice, of eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The Humiliation.

THE German army has bivouacked in the streets of Paris. The treaty of peace has been signed, and France, helpless, accepts the rigorous terms of a relentless conqueror. Kaiser William may be sternly just, but he is not magnanimous.
Alsace, Lorraine, and the municipality of Metz with its strong fortifications, and $1,000,000,000 are the price France pays for the war, to say nothing of her desolated fields, her paralyzed industry, her thousands of slain, and $2,000,000,000 probably expended during the conflict. The first Napoleon gave Kaiser William the example. What France measured out is now measured back to her. The burden is not the less heavy for that.
How France will bear her misfortunes remains to be seen. Her recovery will depend much, both on the government that is constituted, and on the temper of the people. The enormous burden the war has laid upon her can probably be borne, if order shall be maintained, and a wise system of finance be adopted. Just here lies a good deal of the difficulty. There will doubtless be a party of agitation—a revenge party—and inflammable material to work with—who will acquiesce in nothing that is not hostile to the terms of peace. It is doubtful, also, if the country at large is capable of understanding, and therefore submitting cheerfully to a financial system by which all departments of industry and trade may be revived.
Poor France! Ten months ago a proud nation, foremost among the European powers! To-day the heel of conquest grinds her in the dust, her glory gone, and an hereditary foe her master. So the balances rise and fall. She dug a pit, and she has fallen into it. We pity her, nevertheless. We hope for her, but not without misgivings. She is little fitted to be a republic. A constitutional monarchy, strong enough to terrify the terrorists, would probably be a blessing to her. Even a monarchy will have hard problems to solve. But hard things have been accomplished in history. Time is sometimes a great sponge, slowly wiping a people out of existence. It is as frequently a healer of disorders, a harmonizer of conflicting forces, a messenger bringing good tidings.
The question of territory none need trouble themselves about. It is really a side issue. There are twenty questions more important. The Germans of Alsace and the French of Lorraine may care a good deal about it, and national pride may magnify the question. France has a period of recuperation to go through, before she need to care much about a province or even the fortifications behind which the Germans entrench themselves. The map of Europe may experience serious changes, before her “opportunity” will come again.
Up to Sedan the sympathy of the world was with Germany; since that time, and for the future—if she behaves herself—with mutilated, despoiled, and humiliated France—“eating the fruit of her own ways and filled with her own devices,” but none the less, somehow, identified with the glory of our day.—Interior.

The Blessing of the Lord

THE blessing of the Lord maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Items.

By Jos. Clarke

REPROOFS should be mingled to a greater or less degree with encouragement.
Proper rest does not hinder labor, but rather makes it productive.
God has provided the teacher for the school, not the school for the teacher.
Some sins are like an ague, periodical; wisdom dictates foresight in dealing with such sins.
The worker who divides his labor wisely, may often rest while he labors.
The true student is one who not only reads, but studies, meditates, thinks, arranges, investigates.
Those who most scorn the idea of the advent, may perhaps be spared to see the last of the terrors of that event without experiencing its benefits.
That God requires obedience, is not strange; but his mercy and long-suffering are wonderful.
We should examine our hearts as a seaman does his ship before a storm, not as a coquette does her person and her dress for a ball.
The Christian esteems it his greatest pleasure, and highest privilege, to work for God; the sinner considers such expense lost.
If your room is cold, you build the greater fire; so if your heart is cold, have the more of the love of God in it; this will warm the coldest heart.
The more wealth you possess, the more grace and humility you need; for want of this, many are overthrown by wealth.
Get in the habit of looking long and steadily at your own heart, gazing down into its depths of corruption, and do this, until you look your sins out of countenance, and they flee abashed.
Many examine their hearts as they would a den of wild beasts, only to run away affrighted.
Errorists and surmisers are on a par—both are blinded by Satan. A well-balanced mind takes no pleasure in error. Wisdom sifts carefully the chaff from the grain.
The ways of humility are admired by all; but few, however, attain to the practice of this virtue.
We are exhorted to follow the example of Christ; yet how many instead of this, take erring man for a pattern, oftener copying the vices than the virtues of this poor pattern. Many excuse their sins by the poor apology that others sin too. What but the insanity of sin could produce such fruit? Poor sinner, has Christ ever directed you to adopt any standard less than his own? Can you be so demented as to follow the example of a sinner like yourself, when you have such a noble example as Christ has given?      JOS. CLARKE.

Encouragement from a Suffering Sister

By Sister N. A. Brooks

SISTER N. A. Brooks of Green Co., Wis., speaks to the readers of the REVIEW from a bed of suffering:—I feel more and more encouraged as I see the increasing signs of the soon coming of our dear Saviour. What are our sufferings here compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us if faithful? I would say to the afflicted,
“O, be faithful, be hopeful, be joyful till then, And a crown of bright glory we’ll wear.”

New Believers in Bates County

By J. F. Klostermyer; L. E. Klostermyer

J. F. AND L. E. KLOSTERMYER write from Bates Co., Mo.: We thank the Lord for the light we have received on present truth from one of his servants who labored faithfully here although he met with strong opposition. Some added to the few that were here trying to keep all the commandments of God. We have Sabbath meetings and Bible-class. We would be glad if some minister could visit us this season. We prize the REVIEW to that degree that we would not do without it for double the price; and seeing that some of the Lord's people are not able to pay, we feel like throwing in our mite, so that some, at least, may not be without it for a time.

A Romanist's Tribute to the Protestant Bible.

DR. NEWMAN, the Roman Catholic convert, gives in what follows a just idea of what is the stronghold of Protestantism:—
“Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvelous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country? It lives on the ear like a music that can never be forgotten—like the sound of church-bells which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness. The memory of the dead passes into it. The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of man is hidden in its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him forever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a Protestant with one spark of religiousness about him whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon Bible.”

How to Use a Day.

“The day,” says the greatest of German poets, “is extremely long if one knows how to appreciate and to employ it;” and in conformity with this maxim was the minute and orderly arrangement which ran through his life, husbanding to the best advantage all the moments of each day. It is said of John Wesley, who accomplished an almost incredible amount of labor, that “when you met him in the street of a crowded city, he attracted notice, not by his band and cassock, and his long hair, but by his face and manner, both indicating that all his minutes were numbered, and that not one was to be lost.” “Though I am always in haste,” he said, “I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.” It is not he who works the hardest and the longest, but he who plans his work most wisely, and thus labors to the best advantage, that accomplishes the most. As all our time is measured out to us day by day, that plan of life is the most perfect which includes within itself the most distinct and profitable employment of each day as it comes.—Religious Magazine.

The Throne of Grace.

If you want your spiritual life to be more healthy and vigorous, you must come more boldly to the throne of grace. The secret of your weakness is your little faith and little prayer. The fountain is unsealed; but you only sip a few drops. The bread of life is before you, yet you only eat a few crumbs. The treasury of Heaven is open; but you only take a few pence. O man of little faith, wherefore do you doubt? Awake to know your privileges! awake, and sleep no longer!
Tell me not of a spiritual hunger, and thirst, and poverty, so long as the throne of grace is before you. Say rather you are proud, and will not come to it as a poor sinner; say rather you are slothful, and will not take pains to get more. Cast aside the grave-clothes of pride that still hang around you. Throw off that Egyptian garment of indolence, which ought not to have been brought through the Red Sea.
Away with that unbelief which ties and paralyzes your tongue. You are not straightened in God, but in yourself. Come boldly, for you may, all sinful as you are, if you come in the name of the great High Priest.

Men and Things.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

JOHN WESLEY'S INDUSTRY.

WHITEHEAD, in his Life of Wesley, says of him:—
“The industry of Mr. Wesley was almost incredible. From four o’clock in the morning till eight at night, his time was employed in reading, writing, preaching, meeting the people, visiting the sick, or traveling. Before the infirmities of age came upon him, he usually traveled on horseback, and would sometimes ride thirty, forty, or fifty, miles a day, and preach two, three, or sometimes four, times. He had a constant correspondence with some persons in the different societies all over the three kingdoms, and with the preachers in every part, and would answer his letters with great punctuality. He knew the state of the societies in general, and of many individuals in each of them. He read most publications that were deemed valuable if they related to religious or natural philosophy, and often made extracts from them. If we consider the whole of his labors, and compare them with what most men of industry have done, we may say that he has lived two or three lives.”
Brethren, I feel ashamed of myself. I feel condemned for my indolence and lack of industry in God's holy work. How many minutes, hours, and days, I have let slip away without improving them to the utmost! I must work harder. Ministering brethren, are we clear before God in this thing? Time flies, and we must catch it on the wing, or it is lost. Many of us from year to year report little or no success. What is the matter? It is nothing but a lack of energy and industry. It is idleness.

HEAPS OF TEACHERS.

PAUL mentions it as one of the signs of the last days that there should be heaps of false religious teachers. 2 Tim. 4: 1–4. There will be a great abundance of them, so many that they will crowd each other, and they cannot all readily find employment. Has this come to pass? Look around almost anywhere and you will see it abundantly fulfilled. They swarm by hundreds in all the cities. Every little village has from one to ten or a dozen. In the country you will find one on almost every four corners. Let a revival start up in any country school-house, and there will so many “ministers” attend it that they can not all speak once a week. Indeed there are heaps of them everywhere. Look at the following from the Christian Union:—
“The Congregationalist says of the New England ministers of its denomination, who are without a stated charge, that the Boston office where temporary Sunday engagements are effected, ‘finds the supply of clergymen every Saturday in the year, on an average, about twice as great as the demand.’ Indeed ‘it is not unfrequently the case that ministers who would be glad to preach, who know how to preach well, and who need the pay to meet their current expenses, find themselves without a pulpit.’”
This is only a sample of what we find all over the land. The chief point is, they “need the pay.” Micah 3:11. In the days of Elijah, the prophets of Baal were four hundred and fifty men, while Elijah alone stood in all the nation to preach God's commandments. 1 Kings 18:17, 18, 22. In the days of Jesus there were multitudes of priests, scribes, and Pharisees; but the laborers were few. Let us not be discouraged if it is so in our day.

STICK TO THE POINT.

If you ever succeed as a speaker, you must learn to have some prominent point before the minds of your hearers, and then stick closely to it, and make every argument hit that point. Scattering arguments never convince any one. Preachers of the present truth need to learn this as much as any one thing. The following words are worthy of careful thought:—
“It was the conviction of my friend that what is most desired in a lawyer is a certain cool judgment, which holds on to the main point in a given case, and allows no side issues to warp the mind from its anchored position. I have often heard him say, ‘In the end, the lawyer who, having hit the nail on the head, keeps driving it in until it is countersunk in the conviction of both judge and jury, is the leader who succeeds best at the bar of justice. I always select for my students such young men as have this quality, and I almost invariably find it lodged in minds that are inclined to stick to the point.’”
Get the point clear in your own mind, then hit it from every side.

WHAT IS THE TROUBLE?

My brother, why are your prayers so dry, so irksome, so little affecting? Why are your testimonies so weak and powerless? Is it because you have not talent, ability? This is the way the devil would have us deceive ourselves. It is false. The fact is, we lack Christ in us, the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. Let us get where the fire is burning, where the Spirit of God is moving among our brethren, and how soon we feel different! Our hearts are full to overflowing, and our mouths are opened. Oh! for more of the life and power of godliness.
D. M. CANRIGHT.

True Christian Growth

THE slow, modest, moderate, compact, muscular growth of the healthy body is the type of true Christian life; nourished by love, and faith, and truth; and increasing slowly and surely in every grace of the spirit. Be this our growth; substance, not show; reality not pretence; building up in holy faith, rather than puffing up by mere worldly knowledge.

Eradicating Faults

MANY persons have quickness to discover their faults, who have not energy enough to eradicate them.

Love.

“Get the heart, and you have got the man.” Love “makes drudgery divine.” Love cannot help itself; it outruns and leaves law far behind. The question is not, What must I do? but, What may I do? In grieving its object, love grieves itself. This is the secret spring of the believer’s actions, which makes him often pass in the world as an enthusiast. Love will stop at nothing; it takes up its cross and travels after its object over every mountain and hill of difficulty. It was this that strengthened Mary when the soldiers quaked with fear. It was this that kept her hovering round the sepulcher when all the disciples went to their own homes. Love desires all to be partakers of its own bliss; it overlaps human opinion; it runs on with an unceasing cry, “What shall I render for such benefits?” “Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.”

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News and Miscellany.

“Can ye not discern the signs of the times?”
Paris, March 4.—Not a German soldier remains in Paris. The Saxons passed out at ten o’clock yesterday morning, marching in front of the Arc de Triomphe amid the profound silence of a few spectators, and by noon the evacuation of the city was complete. The German Emperor afterward reviewed 100,000 men in the Bois de Boulogne. The Prussian leaders were disappointed at the coldness and implacable attitude of the Parisians.
Several journals have resumed publication to-day. They are unanimous in the opinion that the impression produced by the preliminary terms of peace is very bad. They declare that no peace is real when obtained under such duress; but they recommend calmness and concord as the means of making the country great and prosperous.
M. Thiers declines to make a treaty of commerce with Germany on the ground that it is necessary for France to imitate the United States and restore an equilibrium by high tariffs.
Brest, March 5.—The cattle plague is raging in the valley of Sonderneau, with such violence that 500 men are engaged in burying the dead animals.
London, March 6.—The negotiations for the definitive treaty of peace will commence at Brussels. It is said that Favre will be the French plenipotentiary, and it is probable the main points have already been settled, but the details will occupy several months.
London, March 6.—At a review of the Prussian Guard, at Longchamps, the Emperor William addressed the troops. He thanked them for the heroism, endurance, and devotion, they had displayed, and added that they must thank Providence for choosing them as the instruments to bring to pass events of such magnitude and renown.
Versailles, March 6.—Numerous conversations held at Bordeaux and Versailles with deputies to the National Assembly, including M. Grevy, Gambetta and Favre, compel the belief that a civil war will soon occur, ending in the Orleans restoration.
Versailles, March 6.—An extensive organized emigration from the ceded provinces will occur immediately, and large bodies of Alsatians will emigrate to America.
The spy fever is prevalent in Paris, and there have been at least a dozen cases of Englishmen being insulted. The state of Paris is very alarming, and the mob is better armed than at any time in the history of France. There was no demonstration against the Crown Prince at St. Cloud.
London, March 7.—I learn from good authority that Bismarck is preparing a circular to be addressed to the diplomatic agents of Germany in foreign countries, reviewing the history of events in the progress of the past war, and the changed political position of the German Empire. In the circular he comments with severity, almost amounting to offensiveness, upon the attitude of England during the war, and the tricky and evasive policy of the British government.
Rome, March 7.—The pope has held a secret consistory, in which he delivered an allocution of considerable length. The Holy Father, in an address to the cardinals, attacks the motives and acts of the authors of the recent Italian events, and particularly the occupation of Rome, and rejects the guarantees of his spiritual power proposed by the bill which recently passed the Italian Parliament. He also laments the occurrence of the Franco-Prussian war, and expresses his gratitude for the devotion to himself of the church of the whole Catholic world.
Paris, March 9.—The National Guards are strongly entrenched with 31 guns on the heights of Montmartre, awaiting a signal from their leaders to proclaim open revolution in favor of the commune.
London, March 9.—Napoleon has addressed a communication to the President of the French Assembly, protesting against the vote by which that body declared his dynasty had forfeited the throne, as unjust and illegal. The Assembly, he says, was created only to make peace, and has exceeded its powers. The foundation of all public right is the plebiscit, and to that he is ready to bow, and to that alone.
London, March 9.—The Morning Post affirms that a secret treaty between Russia and Prussia was concluded about the time of the outbreak of the war, and says the following were among its provisions: Russia was to intervene between the belligerents in case the French were successful and should menace Poland; and in the event of an Austrian army’s encroaching upon the Prussian frontier, Russia was to checkmate it by a demonstration upon the Austrian frontier; and in case any European Power should combine with France, Russia was to join Prussia.
Napoleon III. seems to have been released with the other French prisoners in Germany, and he has started for his wife’s residence at Chislehurst, where he will doubtless set up, in business as a martyr, and live on the sympathies of Cockneys. Those who claimed that Bismarck was keeping him at Wilhelmshöhe, preparatory to restoring him to the French throne, will doubtless be disappointed and disgusted to learn that the fallen Emperor was permitted to take himself off without remonstrance or attentions from the risen one. Meantime only his former private Secretary, of all France, has been poor enough to do him reverence.
—Among the “strange revenges” which the whirligig of time is bringing upon the old pope, it is reported in the Jewish Messenger, that a rich Jew, Mr. Alatri, is the most prominent candidate for mayor of Rome under the Italian régime. Consider that the Jews have for hundreds of years been subject to the most unreasonable and cruel oppression in Rome, and that the severity of their condition has never been relaxed there, while all the rest of Europe has been growing more tolerant; and then think of a Jew mayor of Rome!
London, March 8.—The Daily News’ special correspondent at Versailles telegraphs that Bismarck has begun his homeward journey. The Emperor and the Crown Prince are to hold a review of the German forces to the eastward of Paris, and will not return to Versailles. The evacuation of the neighborhood of Versailles will probably be accelerated to enable the French National Assembly to meet there.
The Bank of France will commence issuing balance sheets on Thursday.
The letter of Jules Simon is placarded everywhere. It announces the deposition of Napoleon, and declares him responsible for the ruin and invasion of France.
Paris, March 8.—The Minister of War proposes a complete re-organization of the army and defenses of France, including the erection of fortifications upon the new German frontier.
The Emperor William and staff have left Versailles for Ferrieres, and the Prussians are to completely evacuate Versailles by the 11th, and the neighborhood by the 19th inst. It is hoped that the difficulties in Paris will pass over without serious disturbances.
Paris, March 8.—The Assembly will leave Bordeaux on Saturday, and meet at Versailles on Monday. The disorder and excitement of the past few days continues, but no further collisions have occurred. Detachments of Chanzy’s army are arriving. The press urge the Republicans of Montmartre and Belleville to stop their disorderly demonstrations, or force will be used to suppress them. They complain that by such conduct by its would-be friends, the Republican government is compromised, and it is hoped that the excitement will subside. The agitation is condemned by a great majority of the citizens.
In consequence of the disturbances, at a meeting of the Mayors, Jules Ferry resigned.
The Emperor Napoleon will not leave Wilhelmshöhe until the peace is definitely signed at Brussels.
M. Thiers, in replying to a question, said the expenses of the war outside of Paris exceed 1,100,000,000 francs.
A committee of the Assembly made a report in favor of annulling the election of Garibaldi to the Assembly from Algiers. Victor Hugo proceeded to make a speech warmly defending Garibaldi, but he was interrupted by great tumult in the Chamber. And when he attempted to continue, was met with a storm of hisses, and he thereupon announced his immediate resignation, and abruptly quit the Assembly.
—The opposition to the grant of a dowry to Princess Louise on her marriage with the Marquis of Lorne seems to increase in force. At Birmingham the popular Liberal members could hardly get a hearing from their constituents in defense of it; and at Nottingham a mass-meeting which condemned it broke up with shouts for the English Republic. We suspect that those shouts had some significance. It is not simply that the Queen’s persistent retirement has worn out her popularity, though that is true enough; nor that she is accused thereby of injuring trade, while hoarding the income lavished by the State, that it might be spent as lavishly; but the lower and middle classes of the British people are becoming rapidly saturated by the doctrines of their popular Beales and Beesleys, and cannot see why a wealthy woman should not dower her own daughter, nor why a government that is practically a republic should carry the burden of an utterly useless and not even ornamental Royal Family. There will be no serious attempt to change the present order of things so long as Victoria lives; but, on her death, the scapegrace Prince of Wales will be lucky if he peaceably becomes King Albert Edward.
—A correspondent of the Boston Transcript writes from Geneva of one of the methods which the pope has resorted to for replenishing his treasury. In 1865, France, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland agreed upon an equal coinage, which should be current alike in each country. The pope, although invited, declined to come into the agreement; but soon adopted a similar coinage of his own, which obtained ready currency, until it was discovered that nearly all the coin in Switzerland was that of the pope. An examination was then made, and it was found that the pope’s coin was twenty per cent below par in value. The pope made at least $800,000 by the swindle!
Reports from Southern Kansas state that there is likely to be a repetition of the reign of terror that existed there last fall, which culminated in the hanging of six or eight reputed horse thieves.
Howell, March 6.—A very singular phenomenon was visible in the heavens here on Saturday from 10 o’clock until 2 in the afternoon. Three circles were visible, the largest of which was very bright, commencing and terminating at the sun, and extending across the entire heavens. The two smaller were variegated in color, and extended around the sun; that of the latter in a true circle, and the smaller in the shape of an eclipse. The appearance created quite a sensation.
Gov. Scott has called upon the President for United States troops to suppress outrages in the counties of Union and York, South Carolina, where he reports that men are marched or driven from their homes nightly because of their political opinions. Gov. Scott informs the President that there is no sufficiently armed and equipped militia to give the needed protection, and that if he did have at his disposal a competent military force, there are no funds in the State treasury to transport and subsist them. He says that nothing but a permanent garrison in the disaffected sections will give protection to the men who are threatened with murder or exile, solely because of their fidelity to the principles of a free government. As an evidence of the condition of affairs in South Carolina, facts are stated that on last Monday a company of United States troops left Columbia for York, had the railroad torn up in their front by a body of armed men, and were obliged to march by road. On Friday last the Republican members of the Legislature, now sitting, paid men to picket the road leading from the capital, because of well-grounded fears of a Ku Klux raid upon their body.
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