Show 4 TIIE THE PRUSSIAN SOLDIER AND THEIR NEEDLE GU GUN N BY AN af americas AMERICAN war WAH copi copit it respondent george georgc Q alfred aifred town townsend send honawa good deal deai of the great war in this ig country writes to the sow now york 11 11 from fran frankfort efort on th the e emain maln main of the appearance pe arance of a regiment of prussians blans blany hu and d theli favorite and namous famous erfle as 1 fallows these thebe troops which I 1 am assured aro axe representatives of 0 the Pruss prussian lail trank sank rank and file are esmaU esman ar small smail complexioned men I 1 not so large so quick nor so ea clean ean can as any representative regiment of ours seen in the field during the war they look like men of low birth or whipped intellect ln their greenish suits arel roughly ted over the common hide shoes shoos of or ft a field soldier their square knapsacks are of nta nned cows leather otheir green kwen coatis have llave little tails bothem like ilke a bib apron embroidered I 1 with tsai tynt 0 white clot cIot cloth hand and und set half a dozen brass buttons blit tons they wear a white band on their alcoves to distinguish them inaction in action and their head coverings coverings are hamlets of 01 varnished leather P ax noh nob bed with brass and buckled tinder under the chin by a brasa brass corselet it is this hemlet alone odd head gear goar ear car for fora oora a foot soldier that gives their cheh hight at all they look not u unlike dismounted cavalry or la lancers and between their officers offic eis cis and aud themselves there is not only a disparity of expressed intelligence but apparently a difre ditre rence renee of half a foot in hight the off omm meers officers are arc ill ili high gb ini im insolent to the rank and nile file mere cattle drivers dismo dismounted dismounts g and n ll 11 better examples of the profess professionally ional I 1 y discourteous soldier than I 1 ever saw on either side in our rebellion with rigid but bubb prompt uniformity the manual of drill with the musket goes on and as the steady tramp dies around the the turn of the street I 1 see the knot of quartermasters teams in the open square near by bow covered and painted black looking like an american charcoal team I 1 all the american officers whom I 1 have seen pronounce a against the needle needie gun un it is li awk awkward ward tA to andle handle and to be fired rapidly must be held hold against the thigh and pointed by dinst instinct for close fighting it is valuable asa as 1 revolver devol but at ion lon long iong distances the springfield rifle is moie more destructive the cause of its effle efficiency lency lencs here seems to have been the headlong and alto 1 gather father brutal manner of warfare there as not yet been a single exhibition of grand strategy save what I 1 may call the Bri arean arcan way in which prussia surprised hait half a dozen states at once nor any example of ingenious corps handling whatever the opposing armies armiel seem simply to have lave marched down town upon one another and had the corps of austria and the confederation maneuvered to fight at rifle distances the needle needie gun g un would probably have been as suddenly discarded as was the tre ire repeater or coaree mill battery that mr lincoln and cyrus field gave to the army of the potomac tle the needle needie gun las haa been described to you ere this it is very heavy and is always used with irith the bayonet fixed before going into action the knob at the bre breech coli which must bo be manipulated to load it is plain plainly ay seen at thirty rods di stance distance 1 THIP MORAL noral MARKET manket the following report in the moral market has lias been made we hope it is not entirely correct honor scarce old stock exhausted and lind the new will bo be a complete failure virtue the old ald growth is nearly all consumed young growth prospects ver very r unpromising honesty none in market i patriotism first quality bearce scarce noue none to be disposed of second quality easil easily bought on speculation at per peu percent cent discount lis ils count prudence all in the file hands of old stockholders erb ere I 1 modesty 14 tock badly damaged none none for sale vlee vice ice market overstocked over stocked pride P ride mat market ct glutted poll poil politeness ten ess cheap holders unwilling to dispose af stock at present rates scandal nune nuno at w wholesale hoie hole sale saie dealt in chiefly by hawkers and sat at retail religion none genuine on hand stock generally adulterated wiy very few investments mostly by the proprietors p of political oli oll newspapers I 1 edve love none 0 except for gi green eeli celi backs i talent talene searce scarce articie article arti cli elt sord hotd ow exclusively I 1 c ciu clu lu for basli caan coils consistency astell cy cu t of rashi fashion rashida charity none th fhi market kept at 1 home el THINK OF OUR MONITORS the engineer a scientific imper paper of very high authority utters an emphatic opinion in favor ol 01 of khemoni the monitor whenever she hns has cast anchor she sho has been regarded with almost unparalleled curiosity and an ah interest not of awe wo quitted e d her sides with the unavoidable lm impression rc s that she is the very incarnation of a fell feli 11 power an ini impression resembling we WON fh lucs lues incy that with which title ancient ta t marines heard the talo tale odthe of the krakon kraken kc en a tale ofa ill lii monstrous on fish floating float n just nt at I 1 tle the surface of the water covering acres with its flat body intangible mysterious and setting the dower power of the slayer blayer at defiance nce after all a comparison between the and tho kraken is not very fi farfetched far tr fetch fetched eq and we feel certain that in powers of dt destruction ruction she would far exceed anything which even the kraken accod according anything ln 1 0 to norse leg legends ends was kas yam tas capable of accomplishing 1 hing an any y doubts to which we may haip hayg continued to cling as reg regards ards tho tha good qualities of tile monitor system disappeared before we left lift the we confess with humiliation humi humik lation tion that it ia is impossible to visit lier her without carrying away the conviction that should it ever be our hard fate to try conclusions at sea with our amerlean american consina co ubina usina the tho nifty fifty six monitors which they nax now posses would probably produce bli on our naval power very in much tieh tich the astvat as that produced on At austria austrin istria by the prussian shin sein needle needie gun wun oun 11 SiX hix ealan taLAn phenomenon at endyke bendyke Oen Oz dyke near ulleskelf Ulle ulie looking cloud of the shape of an elephants trunk appeared in theair the nir air just overhead it was wide at the top and r tapered off onto ohto to a very small point at the bottom within yards from the earth this appearance continued about lo 10 minutes all the time very rapidly and making anilse like a large manufactory at vork work cork it jt was waa apparently extending and er to the earth with its tail tall when all at once it seemed to burst and emit what we thought water causing a great i mist though ft was more like a lar large ge when the steam is let off immediately after there was an in alarming whirlwind or tornado tearing up everything before it the first thing we saw it strike was a large poplar tree on mr nir farkars Farr ars farm which chic ft t nearl nearly stripped of its branches branches breaking 0 ou the would weigh more than a quarter of a ton each these it carried more than a hundred yards high and afterwards dropped at a distance of to 00 oo 00 yards forming a circuit round the tree it afterwards went in the direction of mr farr farrara r orchard where lydid it did great destruct destruction io to the fruit trees these it twisted like a corkscrew although many efthem of them were a as thick as a mans body it afterwards passed in the direction of the river which it crossed taking liking a large amarge quantity of water up tip an immense height eight after crossing the river it laid t the c meadow in bolton ings about loo yards wide quite fiat fint flat in a straight direction it the near bolton clough dough and was seen again to take a quantity of water up higher than the loftiest loftless loft iest lest tree in the neighborhood all this thiis took place in 14 the presence of eight oi or ten people locis england 1 SCIENCE AN AND D RELIGION IN ix SPAIN the minister of public instruction in spain has published a circular from which neli the following Is an extract the catholic religion Is the only state reli rell religion ion lon as aa it has always been nell in spain to attack catholicity is to wound what Is most deep and precious cious clous in our social organization it is to conspire against the happiness of the country the person who does this ia Is not only a wretched infidel but deserves the name of a bad spaniard conati tut ional nion monarchy Archy is another of the fundamental pr principles of our society if it is not allowed to any one to ti ralso ills llis hand or voice against an institution so sacred I 1 it 1 is still less permissible to tho the professor who exercises his high mission in virtue of a solema oth oath of fidelity ideality and mid bears on his breast a medal illustrated by the august name of dona isabella II 11 upon this point as well for the interest of science as of the the government is determined to show itself inexorable the government avern will aid and encourage scientific ir ogress regress by every means in gelts its power ut it never will permit science to be into an instrument of political or to become a danger or so bobial elal elai truths and still less lesa for re tle the the government respects science and for this ve verr very r reason reabon it desires to see it puro pui e and e elevated abated and not 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