Show IN PRUSSIA on the last day of thia month the voters of prussia will meet at their respective polls to elect the primary electors whose will on the ath of next month give to prussia her new house of representatives this important legislative lody one of the most intellectual of europe counts members in the last session of these belonged to the national liberal party which with the accession of the 62 progression ests and 21 independents generally hold the balance of power and exercised in the whole a beneficial influence the welfare of the country at last however one fraction of the national liberals commenced to pander and too obsequiously to the whims and notions of bis marck whom they thought to embody the nation while the left wing launched out in a really liberal or radical strain and insisted on untrammeled development of the popular rights and prerogatives since bismarck has again found his natural centre ot gravity reaction and receives the support of the centre the conservatives aristocrats etc a split has taken place in the ranks of the liberals a part of whom are too intimately identified with the givs eminent to be able to take an independent patriotic stand against the go on the rights of the nation the different parties of the new reactionary royal government conservatives Ultra montanes Cen triem etc have all issued their manifestoes manifest oes with regard to the impending contest at the polls the chief arguments with which they endeavor nd eavor to gain and secure the favor of the voters are not so much promises of the good they are going to achieve or remembrances of the good they have achieved for the nax tion as rather slanders and calum nies of the liberals accusations for the evil they are supposed to have done and to be about doing As according to one of the prominent organs of the liberal party the very essence of liberalism treason and justice forbids it the of the means most efficient in the con test of parties the slandering and reviling of the opponents the exciting of blind passions the alliance with prejudice and ignorance lib is exposed to the most in warfare as carried on by the enemies of progress and democracy arguments principles eternal truths these battle cries of liberal ism and patriotism resound unheard in tho din of the savage combat slim are therefore the chances for the liberals of prussia reaction is rampant and militarism and bureaucracy tha oppressive and in suiting of tho sword and the officeholder are basking in the sunshine of success all or most of this the liberals have to blame themselves for during the triumphs of the franco german war and long years efter they neglected the peoples true interests of peaceful growth in commerce and industry being obfuscated by tho incense burnt to the victorious heroes the glories of the last war and the preparations for one already anticipated engrossed all their attention and the steady still and sober work of material domestic development of the national resources was overlook ed they estranged from the sympathies of tha common people who were either fascinated by the serpent charms of the conser vai nivea or entrapped by the wild harangues of utopian socialists thu th nation has been vacillating between the two equally noxious ex red socialism and black and th fw nen of true patriotism and clear statesmanship who preached a gospel of abber ailini progress keeping pace with tho natural growth of the circumstances cum stances were unheeded and unnoticed preachers prea cheis in tho desert IP THERE la not a small sized volume bound in guilt in the follow ing paragraph from an exchange we have lost our reckoning faculty secretary shermans Sher mans wife is now spoken of as an estimable lady who loves her farm home near mansfield ohio her daily occupation is to go about the country distributing fruit and vegetables to the poor the wives of all candidates for the dency are remarkable for charitable dispositions miner sept 23 even tho steerage passenger among the mor anon immigrants point out the flaw in evarts letter in which he states that he right of asylum wilt be refused cormons mormons reaching U ports the assumption that man as yet innocent will sometime in tho future become n criminal is a little too violent to obtain recognition of the law is a ahot right between the eyes from the philadelphia times if president hayos is justified in his statement that tilden would be the weakest candidate the brats could nominate for the presidency it ia absolutely appalling to think what would have become ot iiames if they had nominated somebody else in 1876 GEAST HAD an elegant reception when he landed in but was ungrateful enough to decline to receive the boss of the village when abo latter sent n his card declined te receive starney Kt arney tho question is would he be at home jf mayor elect kalloch call a |