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PI m mm wk paidiiio, IXI’fKTOKS 51 PElt j4‘VA7 fc'-^fLF. I" AUVANCE. f,^rTl- 1 JVIRTISIVI t lir of this si/c tyftfj pi. «:U additional ins-tJ lasers V™ wiH bc rc4 g*igffif*88- , I tdn*f c'6r|a 0,,s * lmrP"d rr ^ ‘Jvei-fiscnionts. adverte 8 wiH bc clmr^r P^HBre orl^ insertion ■'rl.#"'1 ■E? ^ uar additi°nal in in11’ ii {E?liief for 8,atc *fs‘ Sofflea, S^T officcs’ *” Tf ’’ vE*liov'b"Ui'a"°C' .1 X^L tcliecnme c:mdil/sri1 p ^fc#rat:t, except whet r*,ni' «^Be ci*re ' l|Sl'ribcrs to 01 :i"'1 • not ordered for a s iihocl ''rnk> f VpertKforbidi' n,|d SLtf/rdtngy. a!rti:t0 d|Pa'fl for rl"!r v’ Mr bjlntlif? Depart’nt. By||jbplied Virselves w»l E°°d Erf Oi l’fjntig Materiaf liru ’Ey tccite <11 Itids of Jol J,mg Edible tori!. Bfereparet (lo >rint Pnmifdtf ata Hjekters, lajrgtfor small, fat Ka'1 '»J1 HeadJ, lllnks of evoytcrip ■i llerks, Shelffs, Justice! the fHwtables, &c. t f j K WOMSOF STHEME Wa) from tfie (crraau cf killer,j Kg V —£ :J Brejree lessons would wr_ Shiifls as wjtliaburnin: f— ■rtf* eternal lira BpMarts of m|n. ^■wfjlbough cljuds en'ynow, Ha,., s hide heifaoe in»n M Itbd ■ lo m\'Jow fr'M ,h-V ■ ■*- its lorn. I 9 ’ bats iriven— 9 h^teih|ei mirth— S fth'.Vw 'ji Hi and not alofor ole, M-i. as man, thyjthe/ call, ■tr, like the cing sin, fcrities on all. j ■we these lessoip tfy soul — ■faith and Lovoidhou shall find ■(when Life’s suicsase to roll, ■here thou olsei blind. |RP RETI RW THE ETEH ■CITY AND ms HIS FRIEND I lOII.W metropolitan Re : Mhtur, Sur: I haot uji to this time Is remarks in pftabout the trials litlations, the lo and crosses, the ligpiddead hossen ou our journey mlhc eternal cittqsliall not allood I, only to remalabour corn'll back l( bo hasty as ottvin. It was in Itf winter, thrmUow and through ler o.reeks wilhotages and bridges IHoora, through ferted and deso II where no rooffas left to crow, p squeal, no doRtark; where the llhappy homes ued the way, and Bchimneys stoof like Sherman’s r a guardin thks he had made. I>ne bos conseritained the highth Porldly possess ponsistin of my h 1°1 us. I reckon we’l git e;n all back alter 1 plulb.” ! “Alter while.," said Mrs. Arp li(ie an ekko, jvnd ever since then when I allood to qur Xoithern brethren she only replies, “after l! iohil?."* ]>y and by the skatterd wanderers begun if to drop in under the welcnm shades of our i s«'-i-owtul citty. It wer a delightful enjoy ment to greet etc home, and listen to the his 1 lory of their sufferings and misfortunes. i Misery loves company, and arter the misery is past there’s » power of comfort in talkin it over and iixin up as big a tale as any body, i wer standin one day upon the banks of the iujun river, a wonderin in my mind who would come next to gladden our hearts, when I sa the shudder of an objek a darknin the sin t hank. . It wer not a load of hay nor an elefant, but shore enuf it wer my friend Big John, a movin slowly, but surely, to the dug out landing on the opposite side. His big round face tfSsoomd more latitood when ho saw me, and without waitin for remarks he sung out in a voice some two staves deeper than the Southern Harmony: “There came to the. beach a poor exile of Erin." “Make him fat," said I, “and you’l fill the j hill.” Prouder to see him than a monkey i show: I paddled the dug out over in double quick time and bid him welcnm in the name of the eternal citty and its humble inhabit ants. I soon got him afloat in the little ca- 1 noo, and before I was aware of it the water! was sloshing over the gunnels at every wab- ^ ble. “Lay down, my trend,” sed I, and he ' laid, which was all that saved us from a wntry grave, and the naborin farms from inundation. When safely landed I found him wedged in so tight that he couldn't rise, so I relieved him by a prize with the eeiid of the paddle. As his foot touched the sacred soil he gently separated his countenance and | snug n i\ u nit'uii mciuuj, “Home again—home again—from dfurrin shore, The Yanks mag cum amt the, deoil too, hut I'll not run ang more.” Ileoollektin some skraps of blank verse my self, I said with much askent, “Tell me thou swift of foot—thou modern Asahel—oh tel! me where is thy chariot and steer? Where didgt thou go when I did see thee driving tike Jehu as we did flee for life'" “I'll tell you alP’Mpl he. “1 won't my fridnds to know it. Bn now a man of war. Bill, and I'm glad olB Ive done the State some servis and sh IBows it. Ive handled guns—yes, guns,;, [Bins of deih. I’ve slept on my ar- !";. 1.Be I seed you—night alter night have l siepl on my 'firms, with' hundreds of deadly weepins all around me. Ah Bill, Patriotism is a big thing. When you onee break the ice, great sluices of glory as big as your arm will jest spring up like mushrooms in your buzzum ; and make you feel like throwin yourself clean away for your j country. Let me wet down and I'll tell you ' all 1 know, Bill, but as the foller* said in the theater, “when you in your letters these un lucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am— j nothing expatiate »or setdown hot in malice." j “Jest so," sed I, “exauktly—exaaktly so. j Proseed, my hero.” “Well you see night alter you passed me: iny steer got away. Hang the deseeven boast! j I hunted smartly for him the next mornin. but I hunted more forrerds than backwards. Leavin my wagin with a widdor woman, 1 took it afoot across the country by a settle ment road they called the ‘cut off.' Devil of a cut off it was to me. I broke down in sight of a little log cabin, and never moved a foot further that day. The old man hud a chunk of a nag jhat worked in a slide. I perswailed him to haul me to the e.end of the cut off, and I know he done it for fear I’d oat up his I smoke house. Every now and then he'd look at.the old Oman, and she’d look at the smoke house and then look at me. But that slidiu bisness were the most, ortullest travellin that I ever have had. Every time the pony’d look back he’d stop, and when he’d start agin he give such a jerk that my contents were in danger. My holt broke on one okkashun, a goin down a hill full of gullies. 1 rolld down some twenty feet into the edge of the woods, and cotch up agin an old pine stump that was i full of yaller jackets. Three of the dinged things stung me before I could rise, but I got through the cui off and fell in with some empty wagons that was stampedin my way. “Gitten on to Atlant.y, a fool Irishman stopd me right at the edge of the town and demanded my papers. I dident liav no pa pers. Nobody had ever axed me for papers, but he wouldent hear an argument. As Quarles would say, he wouldent jine isshu'e, but marched me to an offis, and I didcut stay there ten minets. I were sent off to Dekatur with some fifty conskripts who wer all in mournin, exsepin their clothes. I never seed sich a pitiful set in my life. I talkd with em all, and tliur was nary one but what hacf the dyspepsy or the swinny or the rumatics or the blind staggers or the heaves or t he humps ar sumt bin. Well, there want none of us dis charged, for there was bran new orders callin for everybody for thirty days to go to the ditches. As I couldent walk that fur, I was ordered to Andersonville to guard the prison ers. At Makon I met an old akwaintance, who was a powerful big officer, and he had me transferred to^iis department and put me in charge of his ordinance. There’s where I handled guns, Bill, and slep on my arms. Whole boxes of muskets was around me, and I dident no more mind taken a snooze on a gun box than if it had been a couch of fethery down. Its all in gittiu used to it, Bill—all in the use.” “Jest so,” sed I, that’s the way I see it— cxaaktly so, my friend, Proseed. It s blam 11 ucky, Bill, that 1 dident go to Andersonville. , , , , , bey would have had me alongside of Wirz, . , her as principal or wit ness or sumthin, and t , ,, , , , 'tie lyin lank would hav had a swear or two« , , . , . , , , . me about shootin him on the dead line. l!efo„ , ■ , ,, , ■vyns my carkass would hav been eat up bv theV 1 f \orms or cut up by* Doktors, and my pikter sph., ,, ,, ■ , .... . 'V all over a whole side of lhirptr s Weekly as a , , , J 1 "ouster of deth. “Well, dkep handlin guns and bayonets *. dangerous weepius, ontillone day I got. a fur* lo to go to Rome. Sherman was playin bus around Atlanta, and so 1 had to circtiinfereuc around by the way of Selma, and the very da; I got there, overlastin blast cm, the Wilsoi raiders got there too. I wasent no mun lookin tor them kaukccs in Selma than T wer: for old Beelzebub, and both of em was all tin same to me. Blamd if they wasent shootin a me before 1 knowd they was" in the’ State How in the dickens they missed me 1 don' know, for their minny balls sung yanket doodle all around me and over me and undei me and betw ixt me. “I tell you, Bill, I run like a mud turkel lookin ahead of me at every step to find an easy place to fall in when 1 was pluggd. An old woman overtook me, and 1 axd her to take my watch and my money. She took em in n hurry and put em in herboozum. Well 1 found a gully at last, and rolld in kersplosh, for it was about two feet deep in mud and" water. The internals found methere jest at night, and got me out at the. pint of the baynet. They 'marched me to the wolf pen and there i stayd till the fuss was over. “Right here, Bill, I want to make an obser vation. There was a fellow with me when I was cotch’d, and I seed him make a sorter of a sign to the captain, and they turned him loose in two ininets, and he just went about any where as nateral as a king, while I had a crossey’d dut.chman standin over me with a baynet grinnin from mornin till night. There was some Free Masonry about that. Bill, and it anotlter one ol these toot wars comes along. I’lljine cm, if they'll let me. ••But I’m at home now for. good. I'm gwinr to stay here like a sine die. I’m agin all wars and fightins. I’m opposed to all rows and rumpusses and riots. I dont keer nigh as much about a dog tight,as 1 used to. Now, ii one could always see the eond of a thing in ad vance, and the eend lean all right, I wouldent mind a big fuss, but then you know a inan e foresights aint as good as his hindsights. It they was, this war wouldent have broke out, and I wouldent have lost my steer, nor my watch. 1 never seed that woman before not since, and I wouldent know her front any othei woman that walks the yearth—blamed if I'm certain whether she were white or black. Bill, how is your offspring?” “Hungry as usual, [ thank you my freed,' sed I. “How’s Mrs. Arp?" “Rebellious, John, very; but I think she ! tie harmonized—at ter while—alter while,' Mr. Editur, I will not relate further of these trying adventures at this time. Big John are now entirely harmonies, and 1 suppose his fu ture career will be all screen. Yours, as ever, BILL ARP. P. S.—Mrs. Arp wants von to git bank the letters I writ her when she were sweet sixteen. Them oftisers have got cm and 1 suppose have laugh(1 all the funny part away by this time. They contained some foul things that boys will write when they fall in love, and my wife sometimes used cm upon me as reminders ot broken promises. iSlie says, if they'l send cm, slie'l try and forgive cm—utter white. Dont trouble yourself much, Mr. Editur and it will be all the same to me. B. A. -- l O l gjjjf'Tlie National Democratic Executive Committee have held a meeting at Washing ton, for general consultation, but did not come to any determination as to recommending any particular or special course of policy to he hereafter pursued by the Democratic party. A mass meeting is advertised to sustain the restoration policy of the President, to take place on the 22d of February. IjieS^Thc editor of the Louisville Journal, who has lately seen the President, sys lie is in a vigorous state of health. This will bo gratifying news to the country. sgp’Gen. R. L. Gibson, C. S. A., of Louisiana, was among the few of the passengers rescued from the ill-fated steamer W. R. Carter Al though picked up in an insensible condition, lie escaped serious injury, and is now the guest of a relative in Vicksburg. His brother Hari Gilisdii, of Kentucky, was scalded by the explosion g£g“Tke Portland Argus says there is in the possession of a family in that city a Hen which they have had for twenty-four years. This ancient biddv lays quite regularly, and gives promise of good duty for years to come jpjg'-Vfifa (complaining!v l: ‘-I haven't more than a third of the bed.” Husband (triumph antly); “ That's all the law allows you.” Genuine neighborly love knows no distinction of persons It is like the sun, which" does not ask on which it shall shine, or what it shall warm; but shines and warms, by the very laws of its own being. So there is nothing hidden by its light and heat: Probably the largest spring in the world is one in the centre of Huntsville, Alabama, from which a stream of water flows sufficient to float a thirty ton batteau. It is an object ot great interest to the people of the neighbor hood and visitors. Another spring in Flor ence, in that State, throws out a body qf water estimated at seventeen thousand cubic feet per minute. How the Devil Lost. The following is too goed to be lost. We clip it from an exchange paper, and respectfully call the attention to it of cer tain persons who feel disposed to spread in the newspaper line: A young roan, who actually do ired wealth, was visited by bis Satanic Majesty, who tempted him to propose bis soul for eternity if he could be supplied on this : arth with all the money lie could use. ! ' bargain was concluded ; the devil was t*.,,Uppiy (ile money, and was at last ‘ to sav® vo soul, unless the young xnau could spenb, m0re: money than the devil could furnish. yeara pasaed away, the roan married, w*Sxtuvaganti in his living, built palaces, speott^ widelyt ]lMlt and gave away fortunes. «v, yet his coffore were always full. He tv,1(id politicians and bribed his way to powy, nnd fulne ; witliout reducing bis pile ofv0jd. u berime a filibuster and fitted oy K]iipS and armies, but his banker honi'vej a|l his drafts. He went to St. 1’aul tepr^ and paid the usual rates of interest for .1] the money he could borrow; but though1 the devil made faces when he came to pay the bills, yet they were all paid. One expedient after another failed, the devil 1 counted the time, only two years that he must wait for the soul; and .mocked the j efforts.of the despairing man. One more efforts was resolved upon; the man started a newspaper ! The devil growle 1 at the bill at. the end of first quarter, whs savage in six months, melancholy in nine, and broke, dead broke, at the end of the year. So the newspaper went down, but the soul was saved. I'rom Lord's Detector.] New asd Dangerous Counterfeits. One of the most dangerous counterfeits of the national-currency that hits yet been uttered Is the fifty dollar compound inter est note. It is a fac simile of the genuine note. The general appearance, like the ‘ one hundred dollar note of the same issue, | is calculated to deceive the best judges. I All that have come under our observation thus far hear date of d uly lb. 18(14, and i letter O'. The date and letter, however, ; nitty easily be altered. The female figure on the left end is rather coarsely executed, and the visage of tlie male portrait on the rigl t end is not so well done, having much the appearance of a mulatto face. The lettering is almost faultless; hut the shading is heavier anti much darker than i on the genuine note. The counterfeit is irrower than the old note and a fraction shorter. Counterfeit twenties of the national cur rency aie being extensively circulated i throughout tlie Western States- All that i we have yet heard of have been on the First National Hank of Indianapolis; bu; the plate may he easily altered to represent i the same denomination of any other na tiotVtil hank. There tire, some three or four different ! plates of counterfeit twenty-dollars logal | tender notes iu circulation. In many ca - ses the defective engraving and had gene ral appearance of the fraudulent note will i enable its detection. The discrepancies noted in the following engraved points will be found useful in many cases in deter mining the genuine from the had hills though it does not hold good in all cases. The point to which we allude is the letter •‘h’’in the word “ the,” in the inserip non in lower centre. Lady Subscribers.—Tl/.$ editor of a Boston weekly paper pays a high, and we ! believe deserved compliment to the fair ; patrons of the press. “ Woman," he says, | ‘‘are the best subscribers in the world to i newspapers, magazines, etc. We have ! been editor now going no for eight years, and we have never lost a single dollar by female subscribers. They seem to make , it a point of conscientious duty to pay the ppeaeher and the printer—two classes of | the community that suffer more by hail ; pay, and no pay at all, than all the rest put together. Whenever we hare a wo man’s name on our book, we know it is just as good for two dollars and a half as a picayune is for a ginger cake ’’ The vaults of the Bauk of franco, which contain more treasure than any other single spot on the face of the globe, are accessible through an iron door, which has three keys, and these keys an ! ,it by three leading offi cers. The iron s . use which leads to file vault can be detached, nud, by a chemical ap paratus, a supply of deadly gas can be made to permeate every part, destroying human life in a few seconds, while the vault can be submerged in ten minutes. lt@„, In Minnesota, the gophers are very annoying to the farmers. They are devising ways and means to go for them. Newspaper Influence.—A corrcs-j pondent of the German Reformed Messen- ' ger mentions the impression produced I upon a traveller, from Europe, while in a Western city, by witnessing the eagerness of Americans for newspapers. He says: , “ He hastily approached me with eyes gleaming with admiration and delight. ■ What a wonderful race the American people are.’ w as his earnest outburst, every man with his newspaper ! See the dray man there, sitting on his dray, eagerly reading his newspaper; and yonder that laborer, stopping on the comer to buy his newspaper and further on a workman with his paper just sticking out of his pocket, where lie has just placed it for further reading as lie has leisure. So I have seen it in every American town and city. There is nothing like it in Europe. No other people through all its ranks can he so thoroughly versed in the currency information of the country and the world. Wonderful people,’ watt his pointed sum ming up, as if to hint at the profound i.ihilosopy embodied ip this popular phase inj fact. This expression brings up to 'l,w *he vast educational value and effect o . ° •cwspaper,secular or religious in : Amenc.., T^ciety, touching our social, i h il iu in(li ,iftla| interests—moulding and fashioning Kocial or politica, , character.” A Tough Stoky^^^ or t1L Olh Woman of the'^ Ctt0?Xr_A cerrespond ent ot the Polk presg ;s responsible for the fnllowing^yi j ^ true, makes the venerable Josep^m. ie comparatively an infant: v , modern times lives now, or did a time since, in Wisconsin, near the head waters in the St. Croix lives. Her age is unknown, when the oldest indians, who know her, were young, she was an old woman. They called her “ Nemonia.” the Chippewa for an old woman. She is a marvel and a wonder to all who see her, Her body is bent nearly to the ground by time and heavy burdens. Her face, wrin kled and smoked in the wigwams for over 150 years, has little left of ‘ human face divine.’ When inquired of by white men, who were cutting timber near her wigwam, in regard to her age, she could not tell it but could well recollect when those tall pines they were cutting were no larger than the staff she held in her hand, and when she could bend them down and break off their branches. The lumbermen cut down those trees and counted their yearly growth, and many of them proved to he nearly 200 years old. And Nemonia could once bend them to the ground. So, if Nemonia tells the truth, she is nearly <100 years old.” --—.— Mkannkss.—The Boston Herald tell,, the following anecdote of certain church officers in the ;‘ll ub About four months ago Mr. Lewis Fisher, a fresco painter, while engaged in his occupation in the ceiling of a church in Chelsea, Mass., acci dentally fell from a staging to the pews beneath, a distance of 25feet, breakingsev eral of his ribs and receiving serious inter nal injuries, which will disable him for life, and from which he is now confined to his house. A few weeks since the unfor tunate man had a hill presented to him by the trustees of the church, for repairing the pews on which he fell, amounting to the sum of $7 70, and he paid it! The Empress of Mexico comes into a very pretty fortune by her father's death. She gets seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds, or about three and a half million of golden dollars, which sum is very good consolation for the loss of a father who had lived to ». great age. Most of this money is placed solely in her power, and unless the lady is very unlike her pTndcnt " papa, she will not waste it in keeping up the Mexican Empire. Royal personages have learnt something of the value of money in the last ninety years, and they can invest it as thriftily as if they were qutilified to compete with the Rothschilds in the banking business Empress Char 1 tte will hold on to the spelter with a first I as tight as it is pretty, and prefer any other i investment than. Mexican bonds when she settles down to live on her income. Washington dispatches state, as if by authority, that the Government has decided that Mr. ltavis shall be tried for treason and other high crimes before a military commis sion. The signiiicant siftnmoiiing to Wash ington, therefore, of such distinguished Gene rals as Gherman. Sheridan and Meade, and the arrival, also, of Burton Harris, who was j the private secretary of Mr Uavis during the war may now be understood.—[Memphis Appeal. A CMvkniEvt Custom.—fil tJfhtii'ny a vtrry mnvenienl matrimonial cuslx.m prevails. On ■crtain fete days, the young ladies appear in •ed under petticoats, with white, or yellow (orders around them; the ntrtriheT of tltf*io leuotos the portion the father is willing to ;ive his dnughter ; each white band represent - ng silver, betokens a hundred francs of rent, did eactj yellow band means gold; and stands or a thousand francs a year. Tims, any ■’oiing farmer who sees a face that pleases >*>n. Imsonly to glance at the trimmings of he petticoat to learn in an instant what imount accompanies its wearer A • tSt" Another case of .interference with Ger nan emigrants bound for the 'South, occurred m the eighth, dt Indinnapolis. A car load of ■migrants bound to Memphis arrived at the lepot in that city, when the agent \yas arrest 'd and carried before a German magistrate, vho frightened (he agent into abandoning bis largo of laborers, and quitting the place, mr i .ate Mexican advices have been recei reti nt New Grlcans. It is announced that' lirougli tho disintortested intervention of Napoleon, tho misunderstanding •betwmq* daximillian and the Pope will be amicably idjnsfed. In several engagements trie f hip if-' ialists are reported te> have been nnsueoesst 'ul. A plot against the life of Mnxintyljjotija var minister has beeii discovered? Several tersons hava been arrested'.1' Twri'oxCbloncls ire among the number. ,,>v A New. Use fob Mummies*.—The editor pf lie liiniker IIill Auro ra says that a few Sun lays agb, lje heard a clergyman, in illtlstrnt ng a point in his discourse, state that during he late war, a New York merchant at Alexr tndria; in Egypt, having occasion to furnisri i ship with a freight homeward, was led; mrtjy through a fear of pirate^, *o load her. vith mummies from, the famous Egyptian Catacombs. On arriving here, the strange :orgo was sold Ip a paper manufacturer in lounecticiit, who threw tlio whole .mass, th<if inen cerement, the bitumen and the poor etuuins of humanity, into the hopper and had "‘’H ground to powder. “And," added the. spun ^ “the words 1 am now reading to you arekwrn . „ n o^jSome ot tins paper A'Nin 'j|^XCVRf)I0N—a pleasure trip ttt Lima, Peru, 1. , , . . . - proposed by a select party of jouttny mu. to jqew yorb about the In st of t irunry, • 4 q0 occtijiy tw6 month* time, i lie route laid-jh . : ~kii in the programme is by steamer to AspinwB . ,, , . 1 m ana Panama acij down the coast to CkMuo. , , .. . is announced that a tow berths may be it , . ,, , Hired by any agreeable persons who are not i. , , , . - ■ . ; old or too stupid to enjoy the haps and mishaA ^ an expevimental excursion in j novelty, excitement and hnppificanon, ,nj the “nub” of the affair is peatl^ suggosleu the further information that the prise ol tickets for the entire trip will be one thousand ^ dollars far each person. No doubt those who go will have a first rate time of it. Somethin-!} New—An Ink Mine.— The San Francisco Mining Press says a party has recently arrived at Los Angelos from the vi cinity of Huena Vista Ladle and the oil springs there, having in his possession a bottle con taining “a mineral substance very much re sembling crude petroleum, but without any smell, and possessing all the qualities of a fine writing fluid. Several experiments were made by different persons und all pronounced it a good quality of ink, or fluid, for writing. We dippedour pen in the fluid and wrote seve ral linos, and could not distinguish the .differ ence between it and the best writing fluid now in use. When first used the color is a deep, rich black, but after exposure to the air the color moderates* little, still retaining a good, and, to all appearances, durable color. A company is being formed for the purpose of testing the above discovery.” A bachelor and a young lady bought some tickets in partnership in a lottery at the recent sanitary fair at Milwaukee, agreeing to divide the proceeds equitably. They drew a double bedstead, baby-crib and lunch bas ket, und the question is, how to divide them, or whether they shall not use them “jointly ” Tho eit'/piiH of Amnifltfl Da nrn roia. ing funds for the erection of a monument to the soldiers from that city who perished in the late war. B@„.Numerous citizens were deprived of their Confederate insignia, last week, by order ofGeneral Terry at Richmond. It appears that a gentleman in Liverpool, Hngland, shipped a lot of swiue to New York. During the voyage, a sow had a litter of pigs, which upon their arrival at New York could not be landed, us they were not included in the original manifest. The collector of cus toms immediately telegraphed the Secretary, asking whether the stock is liable to seizure, whereupon the stock is liable to seizure, whereupon the following laconic decision was the result: » “Land the pigs.” • U&f The Paris Journal Des Debates says in an editorial. “We wish Mexico had hot become such an embarrassing mat ter to us, and an obligation originating in a false point of honor. Let Us try to see the serious and actual dangers which threaten the French policy in America, and which make us wish our Government would take one or the other of two resolu tions—either boldly augment our army oi occupation in Mexico, in order to prepare against adjacent perils, or take counsel as to the most suitable and prompt means for the evacuation of the country."