The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1857, Page 2

9 ~ AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Pans, April 9, 1867. Viet of Gon, Tolleten to the Emperor—Visit of the Grant Dude Conste of Russians—The Govern Galant ly Week and Holitays— Attempt Meat—The Crisis in » de, Don Was. pre 1 yesterday to the Em «| Count Kisseliff, the Russian ambassador. peror by Gene ‘The Fmperor took the opportunity of complimenting this distings ished ron the admirable talents be had dis- Now that the period approaches for the promised visit of the Grand Duke Constantine, acurious movement is per ceptible among the Russians at present residing in Paris. ‘One would fancy that the war in the East had again broken out, sad Gut the capital of France had t ceased to be a fitting abode for the subjects of the Czar, so scarce are they preparing to make themselves, It comes out that the Grand Duke is a person bien monté a la tite; some go <0 far as wo Say, So eccentric in his ways as not to be exactly accountable for them, and many Russians, fearing to be compromised, are consulting better part of valor which is said to lie in discretio + many of the Wags are speculating whether the Emperor will not recom: mend & sojourn at Fontainbleau as the most agreeable mode of visiting the Freuch metropolis. ‘The numismatic museum of the mint has just re- ceived several fine medals, connected with different mations! or dynastia facts. Two, engraved by M. Oudinot, represent the inauguration of the tontb | ‘ofthe Emperor Napoleon, at the Invalides, and the apothe- ofin Of the seme sovereign, copied from a work of M. Ingres «t the Hotel de Ville, M. Booz has executed one in Commeneration of the battle ofthe Alma;and M. Banjvelle, another in memory of Bomarsund. M. Gauther has repre- sented the ceremony of the baptism ofthe Prince Impe- ial. A medal commemorative of the taking of Sebastopol As preparing You will have seen the decree which refers to the ques- on of dhe liishop of Moulins, It will be perceived that it condemos #il the provincial conncils which haye admitted the synodical statute pronouncing excommunication ipso foco. ‘Thus the party which sought to place the Church ‘above the Stule—above the lws—has received a first les- fon, the more serious from its proceeding from a govern- rment which, since its accession, has done so much for the church and the clergy. Iv is interesting to observe the tone in which the semi- Official journals speak of this deeree; the modesty which they claim for the executive in this upon ecclesiastical ities—its paternal solicitude for the inferior clergy—its determination at a future period to see them better housed, fed and paid, &e., &.—evidently displaying a morbid dread of the power which might be exercised to the detri- moet of the powers that be 1the numerous army," says the Patrie, “which nerves Gi 1 the nation by its precepts and example, is not only the Lonor of our country but its great moral force, The day will come, and we trust is near at hand, when the incomes of the under clergy, particularly of the curés, will be placed on a footing with the wants and dignity of their rninent is aware, doubtless, how urgent is this increase of allowance, and we are a the financi This ts permit it."* ris is in all the amps. A’ little prarer, less penitence, y plumage in horse and harness and he way we puton sackcloth and ashes in this guy capital, The famous Abbaye de Longehamps in the Bois de Boulogne, founded in the thirteenth century by Isabeila of France, sister of Saint Louis, which, about the 1760, was suddenly found to be an object of such tion, in consequence of its melodious choir of Holy 1857—TRIPLE SHERT. respects dependent upon it, or in such a pesition as to be unwilling to lay themscives open to its resentment, This is especially the case with the merchants and manufictt rers who in this country are liable to be worried and badg cred in a thousand different ways by office chicanery, against which the laws afford no protection, and which is sometimes more harassing than whsolute persecution. It is true there are plenty of officehoiders in the First Cham. ber—old gencrals, ¢x-Ministers of State, &e.—but the great majority belong to the landed aristocracy, whose wealth and station enable them to set the bureaucracy at deflance, however suscepiible they may be to the personal influence of the King. Just now, both Chambers have adjourned for the Easter holidays, and during the recess not a stone will be left unturned to bring the malcontent nobles round to a proper sense of their duty. T mentioned in my last that the proceeds of the new taxes imposed by government would be partly devoted to the Prussian navy, & puny and sickly plant, which is being reared under great difficulties, and will take a great deal of nursing before it comes to anything. V'revious to the revolution of 1848 the whole naval force of Prussia con- sted of an armed sloop, called the Amavon, and # couple of gun boats, and during the Schleswig-Holstein war, » small Danish squadron sufliced to blockade all the Prussian ports, and stop the navigation entirely. The loss suffered by that occasion was calcnlated at noar eight million thalers, and the national pride was deeply mortified by a state of things which placed the whole maritime trade of Prussia at the mercy of even the most insignificant foe. Unfortunately, such enormous sums are swallowed up here by the ye arenes ie. De Sasa ne other purposes, and al- thongh it was decided that Prussia must have a fleet coule coute, nothing was done for several years except build- Ae fe roep lene sche ny appr: aed eons 3 ao ‘naval te) on the North Sea than on purchased in 1858 of the Duke of Oldenburg, at the mouth | of the river Inde, and the works ing a port and arsenal have been on there ever since with as much activity as the slender means at the disposal 1 of government allow of; but it is a great question whether | the water is deep enough to float tolerably large sized men- | of-war, and people acquainted with the locality are of opin- | ion that all the money and labor expended on’ this under- taking are thrown away. Another marine station is to be | erected at Jedmund, on the iskind of Rugen. At the be- ginning of this year the naval foree consisted of two frigates of 48 and 38 guns, one steam frigate of 12 guns and 400 horse power, (the Danzig, whose unfortunate brash with the Riff pirates made so much noise last summer,) one ditto, unserviceable, one sloop of 18 guns, one brig of six, three schooners, thirty-six gun boats and’ six cutters, the former of two, the latter of one gun each. This mighty armada boasts two admirals, three post-captains, five com- manders, 38 lieutenants, 15 ensigns, 30 midshipmen, 13 surgeons, 9 hospital assistants, 26 engineers, 649 seamen, and 300 oe not to mention the dockyard men and marines. It is evident from the above list, which is off- cial, that the deficiency in men is made up for by a super- abundance of officers, which accounts for the fact that there are never more than thrce or four ships out of port at the same time. At the present moment the only ones at sea are the frigate Thetis (originally a British vessel ex- changed against two Prussian gunboats) and the schooner Hela, which are on a cruise in the South Aulantic, and were last heard of from the river Plate. According to the estimates voted by the Second Chamber on Saturday, the expenditure of the Naval Depart. ment will amount, in the ensuing year, to about 1,300,000 thalers, ‘of which upwards of 700,000 tha- Jers come under the denomination of “extraordinary expenses,” being required for carrying on the works just alluded to, Two new screw corvettes—the Gazelle and the Arcona—of 28 guns and $00 horse power each, are now building, and will be launched in the course of this summer. Tho “infant fleet,”’ as thé Prussians call it, is to be gradually increased till it numbers 9 screw ships of the line, 6 steain frigates, 3 sailing frigates, 12 steam schoou- ers, &c., which would be amply sufficient not only to pro- tect the coast against the Danes, but even to prevent them from entering the Baltic; but it’ will be a long tine before it attains such ambitious proportions, if it ever does. The ship building proceeds so slowly that half of the vessels will be rowan before the other half are ready’; and if they were, it would be difficult to man them. ‘There are lots of officers, doctors, clerks, pursers, &c., but very few sail NAW YORK HERALD, the wheels of a traim,as a gubstitate for the present ap plication of the pi break power to one point—a plan which stints your quantity of break powor, besides being much more injurious tothe “permanent way.” It may be added that a syetem of breaks connected throughout the train would facilitate the adoption of means of comma nication between the engine driver and the guard—an ad vantage which all the railways in the United Stes pos | Fess, Dul very few of our own, Another cause of accidents admits of a very remedy. Itis, that the signals are * set at dan alwered when no danger is apparent at the tins of train approaching. This Preeds an insensibility to the danger signal, the continuance of which is often not observed when, contrary to what usually happens, the signal i cm tinued. Indeed, an habitual disregard of caution signals is common, fm the case of an aceident at Welwyn, on the Great Northern Railway, the firemen stated that (hey were in the habit of passing the caution signal at a speed of thirty-five or forty miles an hour.’’ Another cause of aceidents hax a still simpler remedy, The watches of the railway servants age often what ancient vulgarity uscd to call “turnips,” and do not tell that most important thing for railwayr—time. The natural remedy for this i», that WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, suit of lucre, has not yet dreamt of modifying the semi- barbarous cloments of station broaght frem England. It would be idle to discuss judicial, philosophical or moral theories with regard to these feverish pioncers, who Lave for supreme law the dollar and the revolver. tho rllway should provide these articles, and secure this invaluable faculty. ‘The sumining up of the report is, that pure accident. a3 distinguished trom all remediable causes, reigus in but a small proportion of the disasters.on railways. But thi> is, after all, apoor }, unless we first know what is meant by remediable causes. is one great cause and root of railway disaster which cannot be called irre mediable, but which, as @ matter of fact, never will be re- movied—and that is individual carelessness, Do what you will, thero will always be a cortain amount of imprudeace in paasengers and railway servants, Though a better se lection, then, and a tigher discipline will give you a more prident and cautious claas of railway servants, you cannot look t this quarter for your principal source of improved safety, because you caunot alter the human maint ba you have power over nature, Chatean d'lssy, a Water Cure Estabishment in the Reyghborhood of Parks. [Translated frou the Berlin Foreign Literary Magazine, of ctober 21, 1456, for the New York Herald, } DE. WKRTHEIM'S COLY WATER CURB RSTABLISHMENT AT THIS CHATBAU D'1S5Y. ing Bellevue, where { remained come ‘id a visit te Dr. Leopo’d Wertheim's eater t Issy. This beantiful village st 8’ ping place or station of the railroad wrein to Versaites, on the left bank of tae on a former occasion, paid & flying visit t> the Castie of (say, which way formerly the Feaisiace of the Cag | Conté, any Spied, well suited for a roy welling pace. req: reat sacrifices and efforts on the part of Dr. Wer- fheim to obtain the ex:lusive leer of this msg: nificent estate, and to cocvert it to the purposes of @ great water cure establishment. Tuls be hay doné, however, with thit devotion to the c-u-e of human welfare for which he is so re uarkably characterized. Paria is wholly moniled with water from the crystal stream of the Seice. But on the estate of this establishment, where is 8 magn'- ficent park of one hunored and tweaty acres of land there are found a at number of sprivgs of the finest and most deliciuus water. These, which descerd trom the mountain heights of the oark are made to flow into the baths of the establishment, plying refreabing streams of bealchy water. Even ia our 0 va Gerwans, a lacd of pure — few warer cure and can improve monts. of | jied-in tia the A ‘freer and" tore ‘mas- . ii ant a ena mene poe, ad ‘ ia iment, FA be Cas le of ; We A teeta way in rains way. Catan Dou : ; cas’ ‘ou ener Gee erie whe let Sane ee noni oe mee, court yard, st one cxtremi that on American railways, to which we have more than the diktence the nobly once had to call attention, is against the attempt to govern | prondly rising to view at the south end, xnd on railtvays Dy legislative ats « Arailway ts 20. c0t0- T either side the wings of the building, of great ex- plicated an instrument “it is not probable accidents | ten, form a quadrangle open oc one side. rT) would be prevented by legislative cnactinents toadopt Pat’ | wings on both eides contain apartments tor pepe tesrtpg Aptana ey Srna arma bath houses, dwellings, de. ‘The ground floor to A $ argu ¥ rere! vou » . deprive the railway companies of their vitality as well as | Of the custeau is divided iate several _pub- relieve them of their responsibility as managing bodies, making them only the servile executors of specific plans, and therefore r , instead of advancing, the progress of improvement, Decline of Liberty and France —Her Position and asa Nation. tion Hopes (From the London Times, April 10.] People who moralize on history have never doubted that national greatness has its rise, its culmination and its setting. Assyria, Greece, Carthage, Rome, and the rest, have passed away; Spain’s boast of an empire on which the sun never set has been transferred to England, the ruins of whose @ popular writer has already figured a New jer as contemplating. Why, indeed, should not the great nations of the present time yield the supremacy to younger rivals? England and France are old in comparison with the other greag Powers of the world. Even Austria is no longer the Ger man empire, and as for Russia, Prussia and the United States, they are but upstards of yesterday We cannot wonder that all the historians and philoso phers, all the theorizers about the progress of civiliza- tion and the march of empire, should abound in predictions of the decline which is to be the inevitable fate of the leading nations of Europe. There was some years ago a good deal of this tremulous foreboding in Eug- Sew had seen its day, had reached the apo- gee of , and soon. But, happily, the spirit of our people, has rejected all such discouraging suspicions. feel that a nation which is every day increasing in bul rs, in wealth, and also, we may say without pre- sumption, in morality and happiness, which is adding colo- ny to colony and conquest to conquest, cannot be in danger of decline, und that to look forward to an hour of collapse or an epoch of is as absurd as was the conduct of the Laputian rs, who made themselves mise. rable about the inevitable approach of the earth to the sun after a long period of revolutions. But if we feel ourselves young and vigorous, if weare establishing our colonial systemand possession of our Asiatic empire, if we are since passed away. But the procession | Ors; so that Count Schwerin the navy toa man | building new houses of Parliament and instituting national gave rise to has remained, The nuns | with an immense large head and very slim similie | collections in the fine arts, it is not the same with our ar forth their plous tmebro in the | that gave great offence to M. 1, who, in | nearest neighbor. France is very powerful, much richer a “draw gay people of the | addition to other offices, is also Fitst Lord ‘of | than she was; rhe hax acapital which is the resort of the pocorn ‘h the listening sound. but the long } the Admiralty. ever, the estimates were voted nem. | world, and 6 court which yields in magnificence to none. line of carriages still moves in the same direction, asa con.,and though Prussia will certainly never bea great naval But of late years, and em since the establishment special advertisement for commercial purposes. The pro- | power, she may at least have ships enough. to protect her | of the empire, there has @ strange dejection among menade de Longchamps takes place in the cannes Elysées | trade and to defend her own shores. the educated classes, and all those who think or fens tO and the Mois de Bovlogne alwayz on the Wednesday, ‘The tightness in the market, which commenced | think Political subjects. Railways, , n= “Thursday and Friday in Passion Week, and the bonnets, } a early as last autumn, ‘unabated; and not only | crease of trade, and increase of revenue, have failed to the dr@sex, the general toilet, and the new turn-onts are | Shows no mptoms of improvement, but veems Hkely to | restore to @ largo hmen. Amid chef daewrres of the different artiets bere, specially kept Drowns ncliveels di Nearly all kinds of railway {| tho feat of ty they have always seemed to seo a bork for this occasion. The early scenes wf the revolution | Shares are at a discount, and some of them are quite un- | rword a ate agg! KO all 1 sd for awhile this annual pageant until | ®aleable, There is one line, the Cosal-Oderberg (Silesia), | been sounding the praises of 6, France itself has naire, when the promenade was | whose shares were quoted, about m year since, at 250, | been unsatisfied. The De Profundis of the old political son IT., in recognition of the re Dut which, in consequence of Taismanagement, peculation, | world and the old literary ‘world has mingled with yy his unel ‘point | and losses of all sorts, have fallen to under 80, and are | the official Te Dewm of the rial retainers. All this ing it by resence. Yesterday | expected to go down still lower, as there is no prospect of | was to be expected. In France the liberty which was that of late they do | made their ap- | presumed will | —it is ob= vame carriage during the three i Friday, when the string of vehicles is so wh from the Arch of Triumph down to the istance of about three miles, The tm. livery servants, and all that rior ‘of wealth, is visible Toe Hote! de provement in Carriages, hor pertains to the luxurious every year, and the progress that has been made during hy last quarter of a century is positively prodigious, « of thove lumbering vehicles, cart bred, , half monk t models of Eng n upen him. The the old eit attempt was male npoa when paying a visit to | Napoleon wears a chi A life for period in 1856. pply, the qu ed an article in the Revue C nt Crivts in Parie,’* Tne aulbor « rent is not to be attrilat ed to thy rthe md empire, but | siinple habits of fort “ 4 gradual donet deprecates any but warns propric lative inter tors to hear th by surprice t. and might f air of Neuchatel M. Penjer, one of the delegw arrived at Perne from Tarts on the morning of the 4th. w with M. Fornerad, the Hid not ait nd | of Neuchatel, | | | } pment was atterwards M. Wainby k for the Grand Dak inado, the well known violinist, is about | & withdraw from playin miblic, on her marriage with | Oaytain, Parmention.« Engineers. ald-de-camp to Gene Fal Neil, and himself passionately fond of m The Fixt Kitchens in Pi ath pseqnence of at the end of are to be cle Our Berlin Correspondence. Benity, April 7, 1857 + Drcbabie Pte of the Salt Tax—The Way the Prussian Par rien! ts Organic —The Efforts of Prussia to Organize a Noy —Tighiness in the Money Market—Emigration w the Onited States, de, & | Cur First Chamber, or Honse of Lords, seems decidedly | ed to throw out the alt tax, which has just given | h trouble in the Lower House, and which is destined to meet with ano less strenu’ ove resistance in the more aristocratic branch of the Legis latare. Tix ial committee appointed to examine and | eeport on it, is Composed of members the majority of | whom are unfavorable to the measure, and who most | probaly commend ite rejection; but this would by | Be means by the opinion of the committee, and may be induced to je verdict, ‘The came thing happened in the Se. Chamber, and if the serew is properly applied, Idon’t not prove equally effectual in the Firet, ormined attitade assumed at pre: Tt must not be forgotten that tar of 1863 the Upper House rw le legielatora, teed chu ‘ elect bot eompowed of individuals selected by the from among the great landed proprietors of the Ovante vay be earily imagined that he took good care Bet to Chomse any whoee loyalty was doubtful and who Were likely to ofer any sus opposition to such mea. @uree a he thinks fit to propose, On the other hand, as Brey are mewtly men ¢ and their weats are here itary, with the exceptior for life, they may afford 1 ® cert number appointed ™ more independence than She Se Chamber, « large proportion of whose members ere et) the service Of the government, or in other Jies have got r Rallway Accidents in Ei | Jone D he decisive of ite fate, a the House tv not bound | the tine table, putting off the next train according ws the a dividend this year, or perhaps for several years to come. Other securities have experienced @ similar 5 ‘one oF two of the new joint stock banks have had to wind ‘The grand day | up business, and {tis to be feared that not many of these | ests of free political hfe should in institutions will survive the general crash. e conse- quences of the speculative mania that began to rage immediately after the are becoming daily Tore apparent, and te “unforaiate dupes who were led away by the delusive promises gain hei out to "en, awake from their dream tw find themselves ruined. Of course this state of affairs reacts unfavorably on the more legitimate branches of trade; only government securities remain unaffected, many ple preferring to invest their earnings in the funds, which par a regular, though not a high rate of interest, while those who trust their money to the bubble companies that re lately eprung up have often to whistle for their pita Under se circumstances, it is not to be wondered at which bad suffered a check for the last is again on the increase, Numerous families, rs from the provinces of Pomerania, Posin, seed through this city a few days since, on their way to America. A party of 700 individuals ded to Hambarg, where they are to embark for New York; a second, numbering about 200 persons, took the arn and Magdeburg railroad to Bremen. Nearly all these fami. atives settled in the United States, who have invited them to follow their example, and t join them in their new homes, According to the statements of the-e emigrants, many of the inhabitants of the provinces © preparing to cross the Atlantic this on, and others are expected to follow them from and the United | ir Causes Modes of on. [From the London Times, April 10. ‘Tue report addressed to the Committee of Privy Council for trade, “upon accidents which have oecurred on rail- | ar 1856," commences with a sum tetal | «'in the year—via., 281 killed, ke the latier number to include, | y and die no long time | they have met with, this is at ath per day on the railway area of { remarks then, we ba ‘¥ announcement. It | , considering the great skill, and tnaterial, this t we ought not to be made much flower, It tx true, | the composition of this average, bt i< raised by foreign causes, and that called irrelevant. Trespass pon rail- | we | way that we find ite he part of it may be ware is only accidentally a railway cause of death, bec i# not wie 1a a railway in this case, but cv inst express rule, Still, so faras | led for want of more perfect ma on better drag, the railway shares with the spacser the fault of the death. A certain of the trespass deaths, in number 67, is an erage as against railways. We can ' « of another cause of deathe—level which have produced 28 deaths. Here there {= repase, and the cause of death is not foreign, but is ‘and properly « railway cause, belonging to a regu lar arrangement counected with the “permanent way.” 4 not, of course, say that the existence of so very awkward and, in the technical sense, ‘nasty’ an ar. rangement as level crossings, imposes on railways a very kerions respousibility wherever these crossing» admit of being looked after. A large proportion of them at nd, | wholly ont of contro! being only passages from one fleid 40 anether; but thove on public roads may be looked after | triet! ‘aga, the travelling world will, perhaps, be restored to a sense of security when it is informed that ont of the 281 railway denthe last year only 27 and of those 19 were owing to the wons themselves, though the numbers of injured, 208, will be some balance the other wey. Bot itm remew bered Uiat whatever reduces the fatality in the cave of pascengers raises it in the case of nnother section, the | clase of servants and employés of the railways, of whem 142 were killed last year, though of these, we are told, 112 | ithe were owing to “misconduct or want of caution’ on | part of the persons themselves. But now to turn to the question of remedies. The report before ua speaks hopefully about the prospect of reducing this lietof castulities. One great cause of railway acc! dents & the nomber of trains, and the con-equent: rap ity with which they succeed one another, “On some of the main lines of rallwey the traffic has grown #0 large ne to require from 20 to 25, of possibly more, trains in each di rection in M4 hours.” This rapid sucerssion would cane | little difficulty if the «peed of all the trains were the san | But the goods’ trains alternate with the passenger tre ond have therefore to be pasted by their pursuers. In this | design a treepa chinery , Airicate etate of things unpunctuality in one train is apt to put a whole succeeton of trains into disorder, and collkiona ¢ remedy for this, then, i* a third line of railk—an addition which, we are told, the | London and North Western contemplates making between | Bletehley and Londen, But such a remedy as this would | ovolve a large o tlay. One readier at hand ix the electric telegraph, which can act aa a continual reviser of lateness of the per coding one may want delay. This is the plin adopted on the New York and Erie Railway:="This line ia divided inte sections, and upon each section, in some convenient situation, is an officer called ® “train deapatcher,” to whom the time at which every train arrives at departs from or passes each station is tele. ¥ trains are thus reguinted by spane ay well w Ume, the “train despateher” having coustantly a map before him giving him the position of every train ou the Another great cause of accidents ic the inadequac renk. powe and heavy train im daily ws his question one of the firet importance n the « ‘ ia sometimes un to check a pursuing yore on fully aware that there ix an obstruc before it, but unable to stop driver the power of checking bi hundred yards © very large majority of oor accident ‘might, according to thié report, be Avoided : but our present reak ns not this power, or anything Nike it The opers ton of the “heavy break van" is slow, besides the weight hich it adds to the tain. Our high speed requires the application of & number Of breaks instantaneously Wo ai . ngine train within three or four ¢ to make ix, | Not | death battled for during 6Oyears ix extinct—certainly for a long . Can we wonder, then, that the who gained fame and tion amid the con- ir old age look with ‘anger on the destruction of all they had founded, and anti- cipate only “decay for the country which has betrayed itself and them! ‘The prevalent feeling which bas resulted from these au- aries of ill has been deepened by the publication of the censux, The increase of jon during the five years ending 1856 wax only 256,000 souls, while the cen hus of 1840 gave an increase of 1,170,000. Now, as the Frenchman i» not an emigrant, rarely quitting his country o cultivate the wildernesses of the New World or the An tipodes, this almost imperceptible increase of population is certainly a discouraging sign. Not more than 10,000 French emigrate yearly ;-it follows, therefore, that the stationary character which population seems now t have assumed niust result from some deficiency in prolific power, the consequence of deterioration of race or material obs which tociety should remove. There does, indecd to have beeu Istely a rapid crease, until in the present day the increase has almost va- nizhed. But for more than half a century the French have not been a proliic people, In 1790 the population numbered 28,500,000; that is, it was almost equal to the population of the Britich islands at the present day. At that time Great Britain barely <¢ more than 10,000,000 wuls, w Ireland, with than a support which our rival bad » these days from her superior num. hers, and admire the courage with which our foref were always re % war with France, try whieh had an tive population of not far from three times own. But now things have idee 2 multiplied and reple exon Frenchm while their own honse tof it, but we have certainly the be within the last two generations we have been able not only to aseiet in populating America and colonizing Australia but we have actually raived our hore wlation to something ap proaching equality with the French. If ¢ find that the population fy led since the French revolau # hax searcely increased more thstanding Iri-h famines and Eng and short 4, the number of ¢ coutinuaily i r the deaths. natural or political in «& marked manner. births over deaths fell connt of th and this t of 1840, ‘Things grew wo influence of scarcity and we for the first the bir Jearn the astonishi the pr lation of France i< actually diminishin tion his almost entirely harvests. the grape blight, 91 are all wa share in prod ut feed tht thy 000 by the cholera er the double and 1866 the Thus we the popu in orem ‘of th tionate iner! ustily ning, aud the present time only wit change from increase to diminution. This is a fret which inay somewhat justify a Guizot or a Ie Tocqueville ia their men al tome France has certainly change revolution. Before that great French hat a food deal of what we consider now exclusively Anglo Suxon qualities. They colonized and conquered; they set ted Canada, whore they keep their round to the present ; they uted Lonieinna, and nearly succeeded in cheeking td © which are now the U or since her ntnally mw the Amet ie te a riean war, were equal to ours trength, and fonght against ue without diggrare. Their merchant marine was to & still later period t equal t ours in ton nage. Hut within the preseat century the two nations have gone different ways, How much we have changed it ik unnecessary to ray, but certainly Hr have lost much’ of the energy and tines, The excessive developement of ¢ ce seems itwlity of the old » military system in Furope, and the attention ya trictly continental concerns, haye turned the Fren ‘on which they wreetied with ut under the The: do not trade and colonize as they Manufactures, mostly of an artistic kind, and nitare, carried on ina comparatively primitive fiehion. are the ceenpation of the | people, and thexo do not give the enervy and epirit which more adventurous employments infi-e into a population if we add to thie the land ey-tem which the revolution lias established, and the parce mit of inheritances which are too’ xmall properly to remunerate labor, we may partly explain how it is the French, with all their tute and geniae, are smitten with inerinees and sterility, Yet we cannot believe in the decay of our brilliant and high spirited neighbors. France bax gone thromgh trials whieh might have deetroved a nation of lea witality. Revolutions, proseriptic which the youth of the country perished literally million, political ineeen rity, conununistic agitation, have all tended to miladirect her aims and cramp ler energics. When we consider all, the wondet is that the French should have achieved 80 much, It should be remembered that onr own paptilation quly began to inerpwe after our political troubles were over. We may, then, hope that «ith continued trangnility fa France the fulure numberings of the people will exbibit resulte more cheerful and reawnring Anglo-Saxon Laws t {From the Darts Cons ” Ps ah.. * * What we mise above all in Fogland is the adm bie institution of prblic ministry. ss the emerquence of a political centralization and of the predominance of the throne: ‘The public ministry represents the cye of power always open, and (ta arm Always raixed: it jo the sentinel watehing over sooiety—it is the guardian that nething ean eortupl, and the protector that is beyond intiridation, A leading article does not enffice to , tae honer of Francs, the eupertority of ber instit over thie of all other nations, ‘These inetite mark the rant occupies in the seale of civilized nations. We wi we the A Saxon laws, intemuch the t Statea are prned This ie a nation in ite fnfk oh, having ried away by Wie Ardor of lavor ahd by the pur lio apartments and reeption rooms. There is a magnificent hall, richly adorned qittt golden Cmamenta and costly marble after the fashion of the times of Louis XV. In this hall there are tab! covered with newspapers aud various lite ary works, while the view trom the windows iato the Park is of beauty. The rich and heavy gviden fur nitare of this saloon, its marble statues, the surpris ing height of ita richly painted ceiting—all combine to raise in the mind impressions of princely magui ficence. The rich furniture of the Bearbon princes stilt decorates toe mansi.n, aud smong al] the won ders which , the splendid marble mantel ces in the n style, rich ia scuiptare, are not least remarkable. Passing from saloon t> sa- loon, and from parlor to parlor, each room seems to exvel the last in rich decorations and spicndid mag- nificence. To all this is added the unequalled pros- seen from the spacious windows, out of which ris. may be seen, in the distance, on one side, and verdapt and sbady forests of the Park on the other. Dr. Wertheim, who is become celebrated among physicians by his work “ On Cola Water as Applied the Care of Disease” has added al that is neces- sary and complete tor the requirements of such an establishment. I have never seen ‘ing even ia Ger@any to equal this establish . Everythiag is here at hand for the comfort and the bealth of the boarders. There sre not only baths of all kinds, but also aa seme bed owen * byron Pap the park. is unsurpaseed ; good, and tentewerttiy is found at the table, while the attendance of the servants is all that can their the Summer Excursions of the Firemen. A number of our city Gre companies are making p rations to visit other cities during the coming summer, and there are rumors to the effect that a number of coun. try fire companies pufpose to visit this city, and will no doubt be well received. This practice of exchanging visits is becoming very frequent, and has an excellent influence ‘on the morale of the department; it begets an exprit de compe that bas a most beneficial effect, and affords an opportunity for an interchange of courtesies between the members of the several fire departments in the great cities throughout the Unica. ‘These excursions are comparatively economical affairs. They cost the excursionista from $30 to $50 each, which covers all expenses. The railroad companies generally com. mute, and the company that receives them pays the hotel bills. following hose companies will make visite dur ing th summer:— United States Hose Company N | troit, Mich., on the Sth of July, w tand; they’ will take th will be received by I After staying over night Detroit, where the Wolve we them, The execu t thirty men w 25 will start for De mpanied by Shelton's affalo, where they 6, of that place. the lake Engine Company No. 3. will will be a pleasant one. carriage: 5. Benedict, ass S Whiting, repre AF norican Hose Company No, 19 starts for Buffalo, uh of June, by the Brie Railroad, They are t ylor Hose Company No. 1, of that city 1 will probably accompany the ear drew in drab uniforms, and will doubt lonians open their ¢ Samuel P. a W. W. Adams y No. 20 goes to Faston, Pa., on hf July, when the member th their Will be re : , ived by the imembere of th at ofthat place, The New York pany will participate ith the Pennsylvanians in the celebration of Independ ence day. ©. D. Wynkoop is foreman of this company , and J. A. Timpeon nesletant. George A. Bokkelen and H. HL. ppresentatives for Reston, Low. the « Company No, 11 start M Pall River route, mpany No. will probably master fifty men for the whom will be in man of this ¢ i Mooney are the representatives, Company No. 6 (Rig Six) goes on a nada on the Ist of September, Mon the forema: ant. Jewe 8. 8 tentatives Guardian Pogine Company No. Providence and Lowell, in October will start on the 12th of that month by the Fall River route. Over fity men will accompany the engiue. Eli Hates is foreman, aud Heory 1. Davis assistant of this company. Tady Waehington Engine Company No. 40. will take part Jn the annual parade of the Philadeiphia Fire Departinent, which takes place in the fall. This company will do no edit to the New York firemen, and will dountiess @ pleasant time in the City of Brotherly Love. New York Hove Company No. 6 will vieit Boston on the UMth of June, and will be present at the Hunker Hill parade, and Fmpire Hose Company No. 40 takes au excursion to Albany Fometme in August. From this it will be seen that the Now York firemen have ® proepect for a pleasant summer before them. + cotnpany, and Wm. Anspake, assist Kies and John J. Rielly are the repre: 29 will visit Boston, Interesting from the Rio Grande, We have Hrowneville papers of the 16th inst. The Flag of the 24 inst. xays:—Our town is filled with hore traders, eerking purchases in Mexico, and our levee ts leaded with packages and barrels of merchandise, seek. ing a market inthe same country. Brownsville is evi dently extending her trade into Mexico; and that country iteelf, profiting by the peace which it ‘is now happily en- ng, begins to show unmistakable signs of progress, We are pleased to note the difference in some of the im portations; we have seen boxes of maskets and belted fll. Dusters croge over: but now we observe, instead, many Jot: of machinery, destined for the mines and cotton ma. nufactories. Mexico has tried the former of these importa tions to hee sorrow. She will find the contrast in the workings of the latter a delightful ove. Mr. George Dye was re-olgeted Mayor of Rrowneville at Ue municipal election on the 9th inst. ‘The Flag of the 16th inst., has the following:—We are in receipt of a letter dated Carrizo, th inet., from a very reliable friend, who informs us that the’ Indians ace auing great havoc among the Mexicans on the oppo de, Carrizo it m thrwing American town in Webb connty, situated opposits the Mexican town of Guerrera, and between Laredo and Koma. Our friend writes ts;— “We bave nothing new on out side. In Mexico the In dians are committing depredations daily. A party of about fifty were as low down aw the San Jaan River, They are sn. ‘Yage, and Tam told more so than common; | suppose on aceount of Videurri's using them up in the eammer of 1866. They have burnt their prisoner hey are Masca leros, Camanches and Lipans, armed with rifles and six hooters." Iuvortaxce ov A Manniaca Prowrar i Viner sta.—Whenever a woman hae accepted an offer of mar riage in Virginia, he has or expecta to have, becomes virtually the property of the man thus accepted as a has hand; and no deed or gift executed by her between the acceptance an’! the raxrriage, is held to be valid; for were the permitted to give away or otherwise settle her proper ty might be disappointed in the wealth be locked to in Making the ofler will be ¥ before the members r: 6 ten will participate in the excur which will be a very fine affair. Richard Krimmone is | oat to | “too. highly | ton th regard to ineasure, Now Publications, BOOKS KECEIVED TO APRIL 28, Hart's Parish Chamber. Nebraska in 1867. ‘The Border Rover Hunter's Guide from Niagara to Quebec. Life Pictures from a Pastor's Note Book, Army Regulations, 1867. Byrne's Price Book and Ready Reckoner. Spencer's Iustrated History of the United States, parts 20 to 26, Cee ar Interitnear, Virgil Interlinear, New York Almanae, 1867 Cotton Planters’ Manual. Charles Swain's Poems Washington in Domestic Lite Catalogue of the New York Merosntile Library: First | Supplement. MAGAZINES FOR MAY.* Marper's. Putnam's. Knickerbocker. Harper's Child's Story Book. Emerson's United States Magazine Young People’s Muminsted Magariae. Dyetons FoR Parira Cuvrones in THe Tarke Sryi+s of Exguisa Cuceck Ancatrecturs. B J. Coleman Hast, Architect. Dana & Co. way. To Vola is got up in w étylo which is in itaelf a cari- csity. None but the literary societies abroad ever think of javiching the tums which have beermexpended upon it on any ‘but the rarest publications. In beauty of type, quality of paper and artistic excellence of the - plates Mrv Harte book ik renlly quifo a gem in ite way Of ite professional merits we cannot bpeak Jw object is to correct the. confusion of ideas which prevails amongst us a {0 the different atyles of gothic architecture. ‘Tho three great perlods— the early English, the decorated English and the perpen- dicular Englis “dup that it is impossible to recognise any astical struc- bh—are so istinet charac tures, Mr. Hart gives styles, and explains the variations in their details so clearly that it is impossible even for a non-professional reader to nistake them, His volume will be found of great asfis- tance fo clergymen and congregations, who, if remote parts of the country, have frequently to tke upon them- eelves the duties of the architect. Tur Boxper Roven. By Emerson Bennett. T. B. Pete:sor, P! iphia. Kansas has been hitherto so exclusively the dominion of the politician that the novelist has not been tempted to break ground in it. Mr, Bennett has at length made a venture in this new field, and has achieved quite a suc- cess. For variety of incident, thrilling adventure and hu- morons associations, the “Border Rover" is fully equal to any of the tales of the prairte and wilderness which have appeared since Cooper's inimitable stories. Henren’s Paxornawic Guipk rrom NiaGara TO Qvenrc. Jewott & Co., Acbarmingly illustrated ant most useful little guide book. Itis onthe plan of the “Panoramic Guide the Hudson,” and indiestes all the most celebrated and pic turesque spols on the St. Lawrence, Nesraska ty 1857. By James L. Woolworth, attor- bok rh law. Woolworth, publisher, Omaha, Ne- ‘The emigrant to Nebraska will find this volume of great nesistance to him. It is a complete resumé of the history, resources and present condition of the Territory. Itseems to be carefully compilel, and it pestesses the additional advantage of having all its information condensed into the smallest possible compass. My Last Cruise. Where we Went and What We Baw. oe es ne ee Lip , In this volume we have a lively and well written narra. tive of the adventures and observations of = United States officer during a late scientific voyage of the United States North Pacific surveying and exploring expedition to the Malay and Loo Choo Islands, the coasts of Chink, Formosa, Japan, Kamechatka and the mouth of the Amoor river. Lieutenant Habersham is @ man of an accomplished and intelligent mind, and the wide Geld of observation which his professional position opened to him in this expedition has enabled him to come before the public with creditable claims as an author, His book will be read with the interest which the record of freeh impressions in lands whose people and habits are strange to us is always sure to excite. ‘This interest will be enhanced by tie agreeable and off- hand style in which the volume ia written, giving the ide rather of rattling oral description than of a carefully ela- Dorated narrative. Reoviations or THR vor 1857. Harper This publication presents in a complete form and with a carefully prepared index the whole of the rules and regu- lations approved of by the President for the government of the army for the present year, It will be an indispensable hand book for every military man, a nothing contrary to the tenor of those regulations will be enjoined by any com- imander whatoover. Byexr’s Prick Boox, Reapy Recxonen anp Mea” svnex. Cozens, Nassan street. ‘This little price beok will be found indtepensable for the purposes of daily reference, It contains ali the Informa- quantities and prices which is required fur use ip the ordinary transactions of life, Books Iv Preranatio Appleton & Co, have in th 8 & Rew novel by the ag thor of the “Heir of Redeliff,” called “Dynevor Torrace; of, ‘The Chub of Life.” Lacas Hirst, Req. & member of the Philatelfia bar, who has recently returned frou a voyage t Australia, the Fast, Egypt, the Mediterranean, eat Britain, &e., is preparing for the prove a volume of notes of his travels and observations, It ix paid to be highly original, racy aud full of humor, and quite out of the urdinary fun of puch books Axwy ov rie Uxrrep Srares & Brothers. ‘ance, LITERARY ITKMS. ‘The Handel MSS. lately discovered by Mr. Schowichor, and which are eaid to he the «une from which the great composer conducted his oratorios and operas, are to be used at the Handel Festival, at the Orystal Palwe, igyvon don, in June next. Thia celebration wae to have taken place in May lat, but has been postponed in conmequence of the Queen's expected acconchement, ‘The author of “Tit for Tat,” the sinart nowel weitten as a counterblast to Mra. Stowe'* “Dred, Levert, of Mobile, a writer who hax xequired great popa- larity in the South by the fervor of her patriotian An edition of Christ of Alatory,"" by the Rew. John Young, LLD., (a work in hich fevor with the Prechytorian clergy of America.) is being published in Leipsic, as an antidote to the pantheiem of Germany Speetal Term. Lf 18 THE BALANCE PRY DOCK A NUISANER? Avuit 2j.—-Richard 8. Roberts es. The New York Balances Dry Dock Company.—The plaintit is a merchant doing busines in South street, and complains that the defond- orporation, own a large floating structare known, as the New York Ralance Dry Dock, which ist purpose of lifting, sustaining and re the Ralance Dock ie abe Uff goods and merchandive are unload ing dock will ocenpy the greater part of the basin and bulkheads adjacent, which will be an obetrnetion to the public highway and become a public nuisance; it will pre- vent vessels and «loops coming into that basin, and from unloading and diecharging of merchandive tothe plain Uff, by which he will sustain great low and pecuniary we, as he will be obliged to pay additional sums for cartage of his goods from more remote piers. Plaintiff claims special damages; but no particular amount is named. For the defence, it ts contended thet the Balance Dock is a patented and ueefal construction for raves vessels; that pier 41 is the property. of the Corporation the city’ of New York, and the defendant is the lessee from the Corporation of the right to collect wharfage from that jaw that pier No. 42 ie private property, of which the de- fondant has the right of wharfaee of the south half; that the defendant pays a large rent for thoes piers, and haa Intely expended large sums of money for the cleaning and dredging ont of the basin, and that the nee and occu. pation of said basin by the Halance Dock is the lawful and segitimate commercial use thereof. The case is still on. United States Commissioner's Court. Refore Richard K. Stillwell, Raq, CHARGE OF CRURLTY ON BOARD HTP. Avett, 2.—The United States ve. Russell, Gordon, Burke and Huttard..Wm. Thomas, examined by Mr. Jowch- imesen for the prosecution, deprsed :—am a seaman, and know the ship Cultivator; Rassell t4 Captain, Gordon chief mate, Burke second officer, and Hubbard, believe, third officer; T Was ® seaman on board and came on board in Liverpool a month ago to-day for n voyage to New Yor! we laid two days in the river before we went to were fourteen men in eaoh wateh; one Jobn Fla seaman, MeCoy and George Palmer aud n; 1 saw tho second mate strike 3 on the head; it was something nead breaker ‘ and third mates knock Jackson down senseless John Whalen depored that he was seaman on the ume el; Capt, Rosell struck me one day; and L waa «track the chief mate on the Ist Apri nad my eye wae © aad blackened; che third meaty strack Jackson with & hatchet and knoexed him down; we had pretty good food, William Smith + ko depowed to seoing the ascanit on Jack: fon, and that he saw John Flavin iil used by the chief and third mates; Jackson beaten with a bucket; the thi beat Flavio with a belaying pin; the second mate told Jackson to swing the bowline ; they sana oat; the fret mate hove the bucket at drekson veroes the hteh, ‘= him on the back; the second mate took it up and hit him across the shoalders, and the third mate lifted the bucket ‘and hit bim on the head and kaocked him down senaclows, ‘The Indian ‘Troubles in Minnesota, lowa women. - But they did not commit any taurders uations, reached Spirit Lake, in Dickinson county, where the get; tlers numbered forty, not one of whom, it is said, is loft te. tell the le, From Spirit Lake the Indians crossed State line and attacked Springfield, in Minnesota, where nine settlers were murdered and four women taken’ ers. ‘Twelve of the settlers around the lakes that ier foe ae four from Big Island iE Minnesota are missing, Grove, on the Upper Des ‘The volunteers under. Major Williams dians”as far as the State line, where. they'were: nfesasd that « company of soldiers from Fort Ridgley, on the Mim- nesota river, had attacked the Indians, and Killed Sier arkholaer, of Port Dotge rare eine ir. holder, mi feured have fallen into the hands of the rm Mala ‘ol & Correspondent Dubuque Express Joarn that the “atiack of the Indiana ‘on, Springheld id § place on the 20th ult., and that all the inhabitants of that Village were murdered except two men and several women. and children. Nine Indians were killed in the attack, The names of those known to have been killed at. wife and child; ‘sinall children; Harshman, of Lake aro:—A. Noble, BE. Rian; W. W. tock, wife. and two Robert Rowland terloo: T. H. Harriett, J. The wimost minds of our people. y labger, and the peaple continue ‘to flock Every house is full, and still they come. Every effort has been and is made to Mankato, tine to say that the last and most reliable news seat of war is that a battle had taken place yesterday day) morning on the Bluo Earth, and some six or Tudians were killed—no whites. Our boys passed through Mankato at four o’ terday. "Another company leaves Traverse Red Iron is in this My: Pe part of his bands. mittee of three—stone, Catlin and Andrews, with for interpreter—has gone to hold council with him, see what he is doing. It is said that these Indians are out against the whites are. part of Sleepy Eyes? part of Red Iron’s bands, Now, if the government has made no move to send us help, we must help ourselves, and “extermination” is the watchword. The most I fear FF ra fe > LHe fuch are sent without de! a boat. Urge the matter, for God's sake. I feel safe here, but others do not, and have not felt as I Sond up a boat. Your wife is well. I have just her. Weare all doing everything we can to quiet the people, Dodd has gone to the seat of war in supreme command, OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE MASSACRE BY THE INDIANS IN NORTHERN 10WA—-SIXTY KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSING, Fort Dovax, Ia. April 12, 1867. , GOVERNOR OF m= To ms Exomiescy James W. Grins, Stark oF lowa:— Sir—Heing called upon by the frontier settlers for aid in checking the horrible ou committed upon the citizens living of the Little Sioux river, in Clay county, im and in Emmet county, about exhausted, and the pursuing them. Had not our scouts discovered reported, there can be no doubt but bave beep murdered that dewttute of everything like clothing night. iniverable condition, we of and food, three of them badly wounded and women without bonnets or shoes, them but what they had the night women wading breast deop through snow carrying Weir crying children. We halted at a’small lake that furnished sufficient to make fires and warm them—furnished them with Visions and gaye them blankets to shield them from revere weather, and gave them all the relief in our Gur surgeon dressed the wounds of the wounded, | Wounds were tn a bad condition, We encamped there With them that night, posting sentinels and pickets, ex- peeting to be attacked. Next morning we sent them oa with our scout to what is known a the Irish settlement, to remain until we returned, the settlers above that pela hay a ye rages ba if bomes aud embodied ad oe, where wero engaged in buil a block house. "We ak a nous mareh, Pate I in advance some thirty sconts, reconnoitering and ¢xam- ining every point where the’ enemy might possibly be found—every point of timber, lake and stream was clase- ly examined, and found very fresh traces of the Indiana throughout the day. From these tracks and trails they had all taken their course for Spirit Lake, or ia that directiom, By forced ‘hes we reached the State line, near Spring- field, and encamped about sundown on the’ margin of @ grove, detailed sixty men, armed with riftes aad rix shooters, with orders t cook their suppers and supply themselves with cold rations, ¢ company their own, aud be ready to marel all night, in two divisions of thirty men each, and surprise the Indians before day! next morning, Furnished them with guides, as the mation wo bad just received was that the Indians were embodied at or near the trading house of # half{-breed by the name of Cxboo. Wo proceeded, with great of overtaking and giv- ing a Seed poncut of thems, bet, to ner ae we found they ha od Wy . roach regu: lars from Fort Ridgoley. Woods and Caboo, caters, gave. them the fnformation that the troops were and whose movements they sent their runners to watch. Had they not sent to Ridgeley for troops we would most cer- tainly have overtaken them. Tue conduct of tho troops from Fort Ridgelay ie hard to be accounted for. Un Thursday, the 27th of neigh. at i March, the ludians attacked Springtield and - borhood, The citizens defended themselves ax well as they could. The battle and pillaging lasted unsil nightfall, when the Indians withdrew. On Friday, in | the afternoon, the troops from Ridgeley arrived,” all weil mounted on mules. These troops lay at Spring- field all day Saturday, and assisted in burying some of the dead. Their officers counseled with the half breed Caboo, who was the only one unharmed, and known to be acting with, and identitied with the Indians, and whose squew he is married to a equaw) was at the time wearing the awl of Mre. Church, with other articles taken from the citizens. Said officers lay over from Friday evening wil Sunday morning, without parsuing or making any eifort to overtake the Indians, who, they mast have known bad taken off four white women as prisoners, ‘On Sunday morning he set out on their trail and followed them half the day, finding their camp fires—overtaking three of four strageling squaws, let them go—and all kinds of goods thrown and streamed slong thy to lighten their oad and expedite their fight. When he stopped and retarned the same evening (Sunday) to fielt. When he ordered the men to return, they “ wish to follow on, and said they would pat up with half rations if he would allow it His reply was that he had mo orders to follow them. On Monday he set ont to Spirit lake to bury the ko. He went to the first house, Ad the dead body, buried it, and retus certain such troops, or rather our i ii i ik to inter the dead as an net of humanity, Guides were procured, and they set ont under the com mand of Captain Jobnaon and Lieutenant Maxwell, of com- pany ©. They conld find no Indians, hele om Pampment, and a dreadful destrnctic performed the sad duty of interring the dead so far aa nid and buried twenty-nine bodiee—found the skulls and bones of those who were tarned In the ruins of a house, which, with the one buried by the troops from Ridgeley, marie ti nll 32 dead found at init Inke——nine killed at Springfield, and tweive mis 8, certainly A is SupPHEed the Ata distance, killel in attempting to exrane cae teat Abree were fuuud Who Lad beon suot in auompling to ee