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Show TELEGRAPHIC FICTIONS. A great amount of contradictory news may be expected over the wires during the war excitement It is no unusual thing in the quietest times and with the best facilities for obtaining information, for unreliable dispatches to be received. But now there is an unusual appetite appe-tite manifested by the great public pub-lic for the latest advices from the seat of war, with rigid measures , adopted by the belligerents to prevent information informa-tion of their movements being given to the world. Yet enterprising news-gatherers news-gatherers will always have abundance to report, and wheie authentic itelli-gehce itelli-gehce cannot be obtained, flying reports and unfouneed rumors, will! be eagerly seized upon and transmit- j ted by cable and wires. In the meagre dispatches received yesterday evening was another report, obtained "by private advices," that the reason why fighting had not sooner commence com-mence was because further peace proposals pro-posals had come from Napoleon, which Bismarck would not listen to, We print it, but don't believe a word of it. Napoleon had no thought of peace from the moment he made the demand on Prussia that a perpetual veto should be put upon any Ilohen-zollern Ilohen-zollern receiving the crovrn of Spain. He meant fight end means it stilL Nor has there been any necessary delay de-lay in getting ready for it. To get the vast armies in position that are opposed op-posed to each other on the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian border was not the work of a day, and no good general, under the circumstances, would have risked a great battle without taking the necessary strategetio measures for safety in case of defeat. But the world moves so fast now-a-days that it wants a million of men to meet on hostile hos-tile ground, leave a quarter of a million mil-lion of corpses to fatten the soil, change the map of a continent, startle civilization with the results of a terrible terri-ble campaign, and have it all over and peace once more reigning in a couple of weeks from the time the first angry word was spoken. There is every prospect pros-pect that the present will be a long and terribly hard contested war; and all kinds of reports will be received, favoring favor-ing first the one side and then the other, as the news comes from French or German sources. |