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wits Anom Pag:s, Aug. 16 -The Presse gives the follow-| ing explanation of thé movements of the Prus- glans, ~ Afterthe battle of Forbachk, on the 6th] - - inst., the army of the Prince Royal advanced: and established its quarters at St, Avold,. After| the battle of Weissenbourg the army of the Prince Royal went by way of Savern -to Nancy \While this ariny, having no opposition on its frontier, advanced .on its route to Paris as far as Bar Le Duc, Frederick 'Charles making a. * bold curve endeavored to turn the French troops at Metz, going towards Verdan and Obhalons.- Before reaching the corps of Gens: L'Admirault and Dekan encountered the army: of Frederick Charles. Thus began the battle on Sunday, Aug. 13th, in which the Prussians were| victorious. ; , i On Monday, the Prussians in front of Metz, thinking the French were about. withdrawing their whole army, attacked. them:with about 60,- |- 000 men, and. after a desperate défense. complete- ly routed the French army driving them back: into the fortifications around Metz, in great haste: and confusion.. » | - > e '- ,_ THE ADVANCE ON. METZ. -__ The followiig is a dispatch from King liam to the Queen ; - a 20. , Aug. 15-9:30 8. .-I bave just re- . turned from: the battlefield, near Metz. 'The ad- vance of the seventh corps attacked the enemy, who was instantly reinforced from the fortress, The thirteenth divigion and part of the fourteenth, sustaized the advance. 'The conflict was desper- ate, involving the entire line. The enemy was repulsed at all points, and were pursued to. ghe places of défached works near the fortress, which enabled the enemy to give shelter to their wound- ed. © Our wounded were instantly cared for. By day break the troops returned to their first biv- onacks, All fought with incredible and admira- ble energy. I bate gone among them and con- gratulated them with all my soul. On Wednesday. there was manouvering on the _- part of the French to reach- Chalons before the Prussians, and on the Prussian side to intercept the retreat of the French Some fighting ail day. $5’hl'll‘sdfly there was a great battle going on at Mars la'Tour, a point about ong-third the way on the road from Métz to Verdan. . _ 'The Fronch accounts seem to be fall of hops and confidence, claiming. they have checked the advance of the victorions Prussians ;- while Prus- sian accounts say they have divided the French army, and Marshal Bazine, unless be can cut- his way through the Prussian lines will have to sur- rendér. He has dealing with him Prince Fred: erick Charles and Gen, Steinmetz,. While Ba- zine is thus placed, the Crown Prince is on the road to Chalons, which place is held by the French Gen. Trochn, with about 150,000 men. London dispatches gay the Prussians gained a. great victory at Mars la\Tour separating the French, as stated above. It is said Napoleon wants peace, but King William says-an armistice can be had only is the usual way. - - ‘ wil: Prussian accounts say they taken about 75,- |/ 000 prisoners. All seems to depend on the great engagement about to occur. Paris is much agitated, and the | Napoleon dynasty issbeing talked of as a thing ~ of the past, . ' | \I he following seems to be about the force that can 'be used in a grand general engagement : believed-on the beét authority that the| French wil} concentrate at Obalons with 300,000- men and 1 000 guns, und that the Prussians will attack with 500,000 men and 1,400 gins. . The preparations for the defense of Paris are progressing rapidly. 'The beautifal iron gateway at the entrance of Bois -de Boulogne, at the end of the Avenucl'imperatrice, is removed.. Blocks | of trees bave been 'eut down - 'The wall of cir- ._ cumvention is nearly: finished.-uniting the. two | formerly open spaces, and is pierced with loop-] holes. 'The great ditch is dug across the road, cost $130, and & drawbridge is ready <to be thrown across | it.\ Barthworkgare glso being thrown up in| front of what were the . gates, and will now be| only-entrances guarded by sentinels instead of| Custom House officers.. . The big guns are being | mounted and the Hittle ones craftily concéaled in | ugly litlle unsuspicfous corners; ~Many' of the barriers arc entirely closed, and the people throng the ramparts- holiday-making and commenting. upon the novelty of the thing. e Connecticut, is having fun. 'The] Rev. Mr: Richards has been overhauled by his congregiition for having Horace Cook symptoms, | only in a more violent form. He acknowledges to have taken nndue familiarities with fifteen la- dies of hisflock. - His congregation Lasaccepted his resignation, and has given him a certificate \_ of good ghagmei‘. ' The charch that speaks frat a 1 : rdo ads a nage _ W <_ gets Richa spotted'dog, has just been sent to the penitentia- ry for six mon taukenness, .She belongs to a respecta Hy, and a ~yeat ago was en- gaged to be married 40..8. mien who afterward. married.another. . How a.man, by failing to.do a little gct of kindness like that, which he could o . 163000: ~ a voor > bebo ug ® H. Hall re: YiVty by, caging California, &nd had lost He was obliged-to haut | fder to- A giv] : ing. at Norwich, -C fell a~distance~ of 43-fect, badly breaking on6 fnkles; and bruising and shocking her 'whole system. -- Hor escape from instant death was fortunate,. & k \1 off the tax roll. Court H 'mitted suicide witha jack-knife, from which he died almost in- stantly. and a brother of D {with perfect succese.: iff, agéd. nineteen, handsome, as a | .a woman. to- | {portions of B : gifi€ a , ° FO Soil 17 s\ 19 [Ae A * U + Wuhan\- O. Tuxsoar, avausr 2s, 197 R@s*Arazsren.-During the war, two persons: brought certificates of ealistment in a Ogavalry Company to be attached to the 101st Reg.. N. Y.. Volunteers, to the authorities of Kortright, and. received mbout $300 bounty, each, but never went to act to havethe town credited on her quo- ta. Last week Wesley Turner made his appesr- ance, and the town authorities caused his arrest. He gave bail to answer. Rer-We call attention to T. B. Seley's adver- tisement found in another. column. The farms are known as the Coan property, and are very desirable. UK Also, the retiring of Mr. Oliver, as noticed in 'another columo, affords a good. openitig in Fer- «gusonville for some enterprising business man. nn e remmmmighe @ io u oo. | bas We wish the Postmaster-General would. turn his attention to the' Brushland post-office ?: 'Our subscribers at that office continue to com- plain to us that they can't get their papers with: any regularity. Ona informed us he was at the office weekly, but couldn't get -a. Mirror for about six weeks, when he got them all at once. Won't the post-master be 'mors carefal in fu- tare ? Lz ' Mippin eine commie ian THE BEST YET. - . 'George EB. Perine, the best Engravar on Steel this country ever produced, has been a long time engaged on a 10x24 Portrait on steel of M. M. (= Brick\) Pomeroy, which will bo the best and | most elaborate work of Art of the kind ever made in America. It will be printed on heavy. plate paper for framing, and will rank with the choicest Art works of the world. The price of the engraving will be $2.00-very low for so fine a work. C. P. Sykes, P. O. Box 5217, New York City, Publisher of Pomeroy's Democrat,| offers one of these beautiful Pictures as a premi- um for three new srbscriptions to that paper, at | regular rates ($2.50) received at the office in New| York City, before the first day of December, when the engraving will be ready to send out, by mail, wrapped on a roller, prepaid. ‘ We shall soon see how looks the man who writes | Senge and Nonsense; political and descriptive articles, and those strangely beautiful Saturday Night Ohapters. rom~ @ ege -~ The Prohibitionists of this State met at Syra- cuse last week, and nominated the following ticket to be supported at the November election: For Governor, Myron H. Clark; Licutenant Governor, 0. C. Leigh, of New York ; Comp- troller, James H. Bronson, of Amsterdam ; In- spector of State Prisons, H. Wilcox, of Tomp king; Canal Commissioners, John B. Edwards, of Oswego, and W.. W. Dowd, of Washington. county. «enate nmmirion mew O eom The neighborhood of Griffin's Corners is live- ly with railroadérs at present, The work is be- ing pushed forward with much vigor, and if the present large force of men are retained, but a. short time will elapge before the grading will be completed from the county line to Dean's. “W - « j e Champ-Your correspondent 'attended the \Glorious Fourth\ at Delhi, and had lots of fan Never saw more girl hugging, whisky drinking and nigger racing in my life. 'They all seemed! to enjoy it hugely. Did not hear much of the speech. Only heard the speaker say, .\Thank God we areall free ; nobod latch now,\ ' T heard t one assessor y dare lift a nigger's and there was great cheering. , hat a rich man in Delhi had given $100 to leave his personal property The work goes along on the ouse.. I was told six men -were working on one chimney-some worked, the rest watched. _ esides materials, to build one] himney 18 feet high. - © Three men asked me i this fall, use. C o help them for Sheriff] I told the, Colchester man it was col > Ororox. &@&° Mr. N eal Davidson, of Downsville. com-5: Agust 11th, by cutting his throat | He had some time s ince been prostrat-| ed by sun-stroke. He was about 40 years old,| istrict-Attorney Davidson . of Delhi. o > n examen Mr. Harry Every, who some time ago: . 5 N , the eye 'entirely re- moved through consequence of excessive-ifrita- tion and inflammation.: \ 'The 'opération was per- formed: in Albany, last week, by Dr. Robertson, |_ Rey- Schultz's wagon shop was anudaciously en- tered by an unwelcome visitor one day last week, 'One of the \cow's husbands\ deliberately entered: 'the front door, and passed ' out of the rear wi dow, taking sash and all, receiving a fall of about #even feet. Schultz couldn't find out what he wanted, not tinderstanding his language. Co a Tn By the rece heavyrains the roads . in. some, n have - been ~nearly as badly. s of Hamge damaged .asithey. were in September last. . Pottia® Brook is cleared of bridges, and the bridge this gide of the village is gone, brookroads are-washed out. i- A Radical paper wants to know if there i | ahy national interest neglected by Grant's ab sence from Washington.\ No, he cuts of his coupons with regularity, ' t ul g |, The latest fair, 1g that p00 ‘(Tog the ming to Shandaken by the first of No ascertain. When I tur 'had one of his eyes severely injured by a thorn | bush, was obliged to 'have - of the rear win-} __ [for its action at each and a number of the! Ca y ._ , . Lbeenloogely ran or not; *meetings; iat Connelly has-driven out husband No- 2, and taken tha woman unto himself 835m?\ a ~ Tho fado & Vsreg» Taun , Commit _ ey bondedfor the Rondout and Oswego Ruilroad : - As the time for the annual meeting is in. the [second Tuesday of September ext. you will .par; don me, being a tax-payer, for urging theneces-) sity of your mttendance at that meeting, for the purpose of : electing suitable businessmen as Di- rectors, as well ag to makes proper investigation. 'of the buginess transactions of the agents of the Company. : And Some persons apparently possess the idea that {the President and Directors of a Cogpany are the Company, and sometimes such officials act as| though they deemed themselves'thefiompany. but| as it respects the Rondout &£.Oswego Company| it is not so, for the Directors own \but a small proportion of the stuck of the Company; and: \the entire individual stock subscription will not individual subscribers are the: Company, and the , President and: D'ipeetorfiggggagents for the Com- pany, is you are agents for veral towns.- And you being agents for your . towns, have an important trust committed to your care, for it 18: you. and you alone, that must se to the interests amount from several thousand to several hundred. thousand dollars.\ Buch a trust. is not a small one, and if any of you possess the idea that the, you having bonded your towns, need take no then the business of your towns is intrusted in poor hands. and you prove yourselves unworthy of the trust. Perhaps you may say, what more can we, or what more shall we do. You can, and you should gee that every. Director you elect is one that will act for the true interests of the: stock \olders and will see that all due progressis made :o the construction of the road ; you have the right of access to the books of the Company;; and your agents hate no right to withhold them. been made, and if any is unpaid - You should see what the expenditures . by your agents have been, and what for. Yom should know what the disagreements are between your agents and the several contractors. You should know why the work 'on the road has not progressed faster. things through you. Novarnished repert should. satisly you, (Go to the records themseives. You may say Iom casting imputations on the Com- investigate, because by so doing you present a clear recotd for them to those for whom you are' agents. * : As to the progress made in constructing the road, it is unsatisfactory tomany. - Perhaps there, is a good reason for it. That is for you to as- certain. - One thing your agents may be at fault in. Yor have been told that by such a tims the: cars would be running to such & place, and by such a time at such a place, and that the road was under contract to be graded 'to Harpersficld by the first of January, next ; that there would be when spring opened (last spring) oné thousand men at work between | Shandaken and Harpert- field. You were told that the cars would be run- vember last, then by the first of December, then by the first of January, then by the first or fifteenth of April this year, yet alt these months have passed away and it is now in August and the cars are not. running to Shandaken yet, | Are the owners 'of the toad F¥lfZe childern that they must be quicted: in this way? Ig it proper for agents to deceive their employers for the purpose of quiéting them? satisfied with such progress especially when there was no lack of means to accomplish what was C Oa Now om whom should the reprimand fall (if any is proper)? I cin not'say. I desire you 10 é i 1 turn to the By-laws of the Company I1 read as follows : ©@ 8. There shall be an executive committee: [appointed by the board which shall consist of fire, memosrs of the board, in addition . to the President who shall be ex-officio the Chairman. ** 4 9. The exccutivecomiitteeshall have the general siperintendance of, and shall be vested withfull authority for procuring the right of way, and constructing and equipping the road ; and they shall: beaunthorized to credit all demands the fssucs of stock and bonds, and, gengrally, the the moneys of the [ner of keeping the books and sctounits.\ © LL Tho executive, c the minutes of their kept bythem and to te __ You sie by. the above that .the President and Exeontive committed th sal Q e greater part of the bu Company. ,, Therefore it seems see whether the affairs I , learn- been Garminious in their actio <(iifaunyzibeen. learn whether that which h | by .one,or two or the whol -For not the executive.comm All thig-seems you are thé agents for towns, and the law authorizing the to ‘ to be your phase-of the Shandaken eloping &F- wns to bond, . Comanissioners for :the 860W“ towns| drag along and then th 'the mortgage 'bonds and thas movers of the hen I say agents of the Com-] Of the Coripany.\ -. pany, T vish you to on oie Cemoing.| the President and Directors of the Company.- | O° a-meeting the day before algae sn long as he keeps p exceed the sum for which even the town of Rox-| ***P; ; 0,00. 0. -| bury is bonded ; therefore -the, several town and the several towns.-} groaning. excessi 'al blessing\ of $2,500,000,000 1: Ectgken from the people 'does: no President and Directors are the Company, and | OCOunty - and Municipal. tuxati | é awell it many millions more, further trouble in the matters of the Company,| cy to keep in a bun {money is needléesly You should see what stock subscriptions bave] Fou, the care can be suppressed by |ficials. - Drunken loafers often emb For the people have a right to know All these pany. I do not mean so, and if everything is all right, they will be pleased with your desire to- How would a farmer, a mechanic of merchant be | | their appetites so Ion |agalnat the Company, and to draw warrants for ° | the payment of the same. . S ol +g 10, They shall also kave the general di- rection in respect to the collection of installments,\ supervision of all receipts and\ disbursements of Company. They shall, at] 0 ROG C P L C d ARM A00 GWO DAME least once in three months examine the .ac-|P0X-in all forty-seven distinct joints, al} of counts of the treastirer and seport to the board: the amountof money on. hand, the sum§ colléct- ed and expended since the last report with voirch. ers for the fame; 'and, also, ditect as to the man-] committee ghall enter :éedings in a book to be: s presented to the board: ecting (of .the Director8.\| oop 'q bear- prosperity, ' - onimittes are the. ones to whom-is siness of the ; ) s proper you should know bow {hey. have discharged : their duties ; of the . Company lave. whether they have; ng; . leach who hag: prompt: to. act ;{. as been done, has 'been! e num ber, and whether; itteg has had its regular A duty. a8 you for tha people of the several 'O erty of #\-few and the t investments, | But when you find ap f the project to 'be active ho ah /s (h ® y CF o, for the 'interests of :the (} n preference to all others, faithifal - 3&1? In order to acquire necessa voll #2 _+ . t: a , town Commissioners and other maa s ts might ry informa st'clmkh‘n'lde . the, agng ing or early on the day 'of the same, will be prepared 10 act \anderst poli for the election of officers. Ary c = ..A Tax) Paar, same, then andingly stthy - 2 nee ne vs a* ul ~?:::‘r E: —:.'r(1¥“”‘75 Lord g NFF ct < s _ The Republicand .propdse, to'. continue Granitit - Qy'iygwpfl'! madam,“ 20. () -E - , to d} SH Vs , ._ Grant pays off the debt . yebyfrégdilng man knows Grant's administration costs more h. | many thoutand dollars, thin that. of any n that. .of any. preced. . Feason jthfi’f‘dg Ft “1310le n fact that the peopleare . > ve. taxation.... ° mearned treasupy- ° ing one. * And the only dimibisticg, is from. the 000,000,000, of 'the people's hard of your spveral towns, which interest varies in| D88 beenextmacied from them-since Republicans' |raled,-and still to-day, we- can- boast .of & And this amount - t include State, ony . which~would If a man's. business. economically managed. should psy him $10,000 income; is :it good son'\ y to k gling, manager, because he restores to the owner $5,000 income? ° Fust so 'with the government.: It.is-notthatsome of the debt is paid, whith is gratifying .to Democrats 'as well as Republicans ;. but because so fuch des ded, and so little of the - debt actually paid, out of the immense gifts year- ly bestowed to Goyermmént. |__ _ ~ © Patitoad w, Said 'to hold 9635“; \M9117. Coxpucrots as Poutoryex,< conductors in this- Stato Ard commissions \From the \Gy enipowéring them to make argests in all \c b necesary, - If 'this 1 the case, several great of travel f the railroad of F ark on a train 'and disgust the passengers with their profane and indecent remarks. «Formerly there wat no jihezlp |for this, Now the condactor can arrest the dis: [turber and pass- khim-over to the'authorities At the next station. . He can also prevent to 'a great extent the practicerof confidence ganies on un wa- ty travelers, The commission: system ought to be generally adopted. - - fee e C Fire Dornars ror $60,000.-Exchanges tell about the peculiararity of. a man by the name of Russell, of Glen's Falls, who: recently dropped a pocket book wadded with. $60,000, while in a cireus tent. 'Time passed:on and -the wallet and money were found in a wood. pileat Gloversville. Everything is safely returned to Mr. Russell; and - he magnanimously sends the finder five dollars to cover telegraphing, correrpondénce, care, time and honesty - Great snd good man that Ruseell, Mis. Ralph Wright, formerly \Miss Griswold, who was born and -pa<sed her early life near One- onta, N. Y., was brutally murdéred by her hus- band at their bormme in Conneaut, Ohio, on the night of the 13th of July last. 'After killing his wile with an ax, and setting: fire to the house, in which were his fourdaughters, the murderer hung himself in the baton. 'The fire was extinguished, gud the childrenescaped unharmed. Mr.: Wright - is supposed to have been insane. | - Portsxouta, N.H., Aug. 14. Admiral Farragut died very peaceably at 12 | o'clock precisely, surrounded by his family and friends, abt the residence of Commodore Pennock, at the Navy-yard. - Hig remaing will be deposit- ed tempororily in a vault here until his final rest- | ing place is decided upon. . Thirtean years ago a party from Portiand, Me., deposited on the summit of Mount Washington, a bottle of brandy. On. the. 31st of July; this year, the bottle was taken up from the place | where it dad been deposited, all safe and sound. 'That bottle of brandy is not to be opened during this generation, if the party are able to control g. sos rion vene tC a+ ccs 2C | _ A man in Wisconsin with a genius for useless _ industry, has whittled seven. pairs of dentiat's for- reeps, three pairs of pliers, six pairs, of black- smith's tongs, one pair of horse-shoe pinchers, one twisted-dink chain with swivel, one straight- linked chain,'a horse in a stall, and two balls in a 3 which are connected and play with the utmost freedom, out of -& two-foot pineboard. - , The Susquehanna Railroad has been discharg- - mg a lot of conductors because they stole over three-fourths of the recéipts. 'One would sup- posc.condustors would learn 'after a while that no well regulated road allows their conductors 'to keep over half they take in. Butsome people An observing dog attacked a pig which had entered a dry goods store in an Eastern town the Other dayy lit off his vail, and then seized it by the car and led It shrieking back to his quarters 'in the rear. | Hé thenreturned to the store, pick- 'ed up the tail, carried it out to the pig, and then {withdrew from the scene . |_ eevee B etic M (Rus mam age + ,_ James Garnet, an imprisoned thief, at Virgin fa, Nev., was discovered, some time since, While in the act of drinking his own blood from a vein in the right arm. He informed the jailor that he had been in the habit of esisting on that kind . of fare, at certain intervals, for years. 'A blood- ! provides for a compentation for you r'services and thirsty fellow truly.
