The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1866, Page 6

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Its cir. eulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the eountry is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- gerted in the Weextr Henan will thus be seen by a large portion of the active and energetic people of the Unived Gatos. § EUROPE. By the arrival yesterday of the steamships Bremen, Bavaria, City of Boston and Merrimac, at this port, and Cuba, at Halifax, we received news from Europe, by mail and tolegraph, to the 24th of June, seven days later. The advices, which are of the highest importance, are Placed before our readers in dotall, accompanied with letters from our special correspondents in Vienna, Berlin and Paris. War had been fairly inaugurated in Germany, and by Italy against Austria, Tho Prussian troops, moved with the greatest celerity, had laid tho kingdoms of Hanover and Saxony at their feet, entored Dresden, Lelp- tic, Laneburg, Cassel and other towns, and, ft was said, had so completely isolated the Banovortan army from the Austrians that the surrender of the entire force was notimprobable, An Infantry regi- mont of Darmstadt was annihilated by them. Vast armios ‘Fore being concentrated around Dresden, and a sovere Dattlo was lookod for in the neighborhood of that city. The Austrians wore advancing slowly, bat it was thought with great cantion, thoir campaign plans and future eld Movements de ng kept as secret as poss.blo. The armies of the threeminor German kingdoms which joind the Austrians wore computed at one hundrod thousand men, Italy and Prussia formally and simultaneously declared war against Austria on the 18th of Juno, The Italians subsequently crossed the Mincio, the Aus. triaus offering no opposition, King Victor Emanuel was © headq sariers of the army. He bad received Kos- hatan interview. Garibaldi was at Como with a force of patriot volunteers, and the war which was in Progress on the Oder and Filbe was likely to sweep to tue Adriatic and the ocean. Diplomatic reiatiens between Prussia and Bavaria were Suspended on the 18th of June, It was said that Bava. a, with the other minor friends of Austria, hesitated cousiderably when required to take the feld. ‘The Hanoverian government had shipped the crown Jewels, with a large amount of specie, to England. Our Paris correspondent thinks that in waiting for “eventualtties Napoleon miscalculated, ts confused, and ‘will bo vastly damaged by the war issue. Rossin was looming up at soa and on the Austrian frontier. The Foglish Reform bill was defeated in the House of Commons Earl Russell's Cabinet outvoted, and a minis- terial “criais’’ initiated whion endured to the latest mo- mont. Queen Victoria was at Balmoral During the debate on the Reform bill, Mr. Jobn Bright warned the Commons of the absolute ne- coosity of admitting the people largely to the franchiee, as Germany wae evon then in a state which might terminate tn absolute revolution on the Continent. Mr, Bright asserted, on good authority, that the progress of the domocratic principio was so marked in Eugiand that American newspapers were more read in the mills and factories than the British Journals. Acommunication from Paris states that the United Mates Cabinet had made a positive non-intervention Agreement with Napoleon as regards Mexico, and that it fa in the faith of this understanding the French troops Oro to be withdrawn. The Liverpool cotton market was baoyant at an ad- ‘vance, ranging from one-half to three-fourths of a penny, ©n the 23d of June, The improvement took place under the tofluence of favorable advices from India, Bread. #0 ( wore inactive but firm. Provisions quiet, but with @stoel) market, ‘ closed in London, June 23, at 66\¢ & 86% for o nited States five-twenties were at 654 0 06. ! ‘ © Senate yesterday Mr, Harris introduced a bill id on act to establish the Jndiclary Courts of the ate. It provides that in cases in State courts fin whic’ the matter im dispute ia tye hundred dollars pivher party may show to the court tit the trtal will Im fvolve (he determination of righta of such party undor Pome act of Congress concerning the wr against Soon States, end such aotion may be rem if Valted States Court A bill was aleo intro in Arkansas, Mississippi and Lou'giana The Committee of Conference on the disa ;reoing votes of the two houses on the subject of the Paris Exhibition of 1867 made 6 re- port, and as thus amended the bill goss to the President. The bill to amend the organio acts of the Territories of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Montana, Washington, Ari- zona, Idaho, Utah aud New Mexioo, was thon taken up. ‘The quest.on was upon Mr, Buckalow's amendment to strike ont the section of the bili forbidding disorimias- tion on account of color in the bestowal of the elective franchise, Mr. Sauisbury in bis remarks favoring the amendment repudiated Mr, Seward as belonging to the democratic party, and an animated discussion ensusd bo tween him and Mr, Stewart, which, however, was on- livened by nothing more exciting than words. The bill was postponed until to day, The Committees of Conference on the disagreeng votes on the Freed- men’s Bureau bill made a report which was agreed to, It authorizes the Assistant Commissioners for South Carolina and Georgia to determine the validity of all titles of lands claimod undor General Sherman’s special & warrant on the direct Tax Commissioners for South Carolina for twenty acres of land, whioh will entitle him to a lease for six years, at the end of which time, on the payment of a sum not exo eding one dollar and fifty cupied under Genera! Saerman’s order. In the House the resolution recognising the Fenians as belligerents was rejected. The censidration of the Tariff bill was resumed, and leas than a page was dis- posed of, The investigating committee on ‘he recent nell, made two reports, the majority report recom- mending the expulsion of Rousseau and the reprt. manding of Grinnell. The minority roport reoom- mends the reprimanding of Rousseau without the ex- the British provinces to the Union, A proposiiion ts mado to assume the provincial debt, at five per cent in- terest, of $83,900,000, and pay the Hudson's Bay Com- ‘cuisine, General J. H. Lane, Gaited States Beeator Kan- sas, committed suicide by shooting himeclt im/ the head, The Canadian Parliament yesterday to Ottawa from the excursion up the Ottawa river! The session will be resumed this evening, and the wil be again taken up The increase of the on whiskey | from thirty to sixty cents a galion will the vast | Smuggling trade that has boen carried on between Canada i and the United States hitherto, and assist the American | distillers and the revenue, There ia dismay among the | smugylors along the border, a Tho fastest trotting time in harness om record was made on the Fashion Course, Long Island, yesterday, by | the bay gelding Dexter, in @ race for two thousand dol- | lars against General Butler an1 Commodore Vanderbilt, All the five heats were mado in the twenties, and the last two in $:243¢ cach, The Navat Academy flest sailed from Fortress Monroe on its summor eruise on Saturday. fold order, and togive each person having a valld claim | Stirring News from Hurope—Pfhe Open- ing of a Continental Convaision, The bniget of Baropean news which we publish this morning is of the very highest mo- couts per acre, a corifioate of land may be obtained. ment, whether considered in @ military, po- Upon the completion of transfers of these lands the | litical, financial or ecclesiastioul view; for the former ownors shall have restored to them the lands o- | fate of armies, kin ydoms, political and financial systems, Charch and State are all involved in the “irrepreasiblo conflict.” It is the begin- ning of @ continental convulsion, which in- volves a settlement among kings and peoples conduct of General Rousseau in caning Mr. Grin- | of their disputes, and wrongs ani grievances, of all sorts, great and emall, of fifty years ac- cumulation, Superficially it is a boundary quarrel between Prassia and Italy on the one pulsion. The reports were laid on the table, Abillwas | hand and Austria on the other; but behind Introduced establishing conditions for the admission of | these puppets stands the French imperial pro- pagandist, S »oleon, while bebind him stands the old Holy Alliance, and bohind them all pany $10,000,000. The bill was referred to the Com. | &tand the revolutionary masses of the people, mittee on Foreign Affairs, THE CITY. The Board of Supervisors met yesterday at noon, The waiting and watching for the opportunity to turn upon their masters and cast them ont, We have no intelligence of an actual engage- tax books were received from the Commissioners of | ment between the Austrians and Prussians Taxes and Assessinents and taken {nm oharge by the Board. A Communication submited by the Comptrollor showing the amount roquired to be ralsed by tax in the county for State, county and city purposes respectively for the current year was referred to the Commities on proper; but as tho States of the German Con- federation which sided with Ausirix in the Federal Diet are reckoned os her allies, the march into and occupation of two of these— Annual Taxos, A resolution to raise the salary of Assist- | Hanover and Saxony—by Prussia, is equivalent ant Dis'rict Attorney Gunning 8, Bodford from two thousand flve hundred to tyree tho sand dollars per an- num was referred to the Committe on Salaries. The Board of Aldormen met yosterday afternoon, Prostdent Brice in the chair. Tho Committe» on widen- to a hostile crossing of the Austrian frontier. The Prussians have thus, against Austria, gained a strong position in securing the im- portant olty of Dresden, the capital of Saxony; log Fifth avonue pressntod a roport recommending tat | and in other respects they have gained appa- tho property hoiders below Fifty-fi’th streot be allowed to retain their wide courtyards and massive stoops upon paying a st/pend to the city for the privilege, but above Fifty-Aifth street they thought that the atreei should be rently every other point of advantage which Prompt action offored thom with the breaking up of the general council at Frankfort-on-the- widoned at all hazards, and recommonded that these | Main. At tho last accounts a battle was ex- courtyard privileges should be discontinued. The report | pooted between the Prussians and Austrians in was laid over and ordered to be printed, The Board of Counclimon mot yesterday and recvived large number of papers from the Aldermen, which wore lad over. A remonstrance, signed by two hua- Silesia, a valuable province captured from Austria by the great Frederick, and held by his successors since that day; and a fight was ded property holders m the Twelith ward, against | also believed to be imminent at Frankfort, granting to the Harlem Railroad the privilege of laying | where thirty thousand foderal troops (support- tracks for a railroad in 125th street, was rec‘lved. Tho Mayor sent in a copy of the presentment made by the Grand Jury, in which they request the Common Council to provide additional accommodations for the confine mont of prisoners in the Tombs. Major Genoral Sand- ing Austria) had assembled. While all Germany was thus in commotion from the movements and counter-movemonts of hostile German armies or detachments in ford tendered an invitation to the Common Council to every direction, Italy, it appears, had availed recoive the honors of a marching salute from the First Division National Guard on the Fourth of July, at half- past nine A. M., at Union square, which was accepted. the Comnmirsioners of Excise yesterday, being « larger number than has been served since the new law came in force, The receipts for licenses were about hundred doliars. Notwithstanding the flood of injunctions tnundating speaks well ‘or thelr disctpline, Twenty-two v olators of the law were arrested yesterday and held in $300, or Supreme Court, refused to grant fajunctions similar to those issued by Judgs Cardozo. Ho said that from the cursory examination he had been enabled to make of the law he believed it to be constitutional. Recorder Hackett rendered his decision yesterday in indictments for a violation of the Excise law. He sus- tains the demurrer and declares the law to be unconsti- tutional. The question will be submitted d rectly to the peliate tribanal. The July term of the Goneral Seasions commenced yesterday, Judge Russel presiding. The Grand Jury will be sworn in this morning. ‘The case of Jeremiah Driscoll vs, the Excise Commis- yesterday before Judge Cardozo, of the Court of Com- mon Pleas, Health yestorday, and the public bealth !s aald to be un- usually good. The annua! exhibition of St. Joseph's Academy took place yestertay inthe fomale department of the schoo! in Leroy stmet, xercises were excesdingly inter- to both parents and tutors, The graduating exercises at several of the public grammar schools of the city took place yestorday. aX, with m upward tendency. There wa) comparatively ttle doing in commercial circles yesterday, though prices ruled firm as @ general lowor, Cot closed steady. Oats dull and lower. firm atan divance. Beof steady. Lard dull Butter and theese quiet and nominal. Petro e Pork lower. nom!- under the averse tenor of the European advices holders wore generilly anxious to sell, and prices rulod lower. Sugar was deady, with a fair demand. Coffee was dull and droopiy. Dry goods were quiet, but unchanged the line ofthe Rio Grando, dated June 24, state that Matamoros Was surrendered to the liberal forces under Gonoral Camvajal on the 23d. Mejia and his army em- barked undr the protection of the American flag No pillage or rbting was evacted by either army. ing an elabirate statement of the losses suffered by all Parties, Specie ts abundant, Amorican gold is at a pre- minum, bot trafte on the United States for small amounts are cashed tollar for dollar in Chile currency. The Pres- June. Pervez and General Baines are to be the most pro- minent caatidates, An intepsting statement of the financial and com- mercial confition of the republic of Chile is given in this @xpendituta, Those date show that the commerce of that county le rapidiy increasing, and when ber mines and rich agicultural districts are developed by the rail. roads now Wuilding, there will be no limit to her wealth And program on the lth of June, says the colony bad again been thrown lito a fearful state of excitement by reports of Indian réds on ite northorn frontier; but that the facts wore gretly exaggerated. One COFSayomient (8 Ran Francine gives an interest. ing accomt of the dinner given to the . Anson Bar. Mngame,Minieter to China, and General R. B. Van Val. kenbung, Minister fo Japan, by the Chinose merchants of that ety, on June 1. Ip addition to the weual Ameri. can dishes the visitors were treated tom bill of fare In whith ed's nest soups, bolled sharks’ fina, retndeer news, od other Coleesial delicacies held a prominent phioe, tar correspondent racher relished thes strange | continental wars in-“urated by the Gret | ing the whole question, he decides that the law ed | articles € food. and (ntimates that American cookery | French revolntior ‘We haveValparaiso correspoudenceto May 80, Trade | trian frontier, with the ominoxg is roviving briskly. The Minister of Finance is prepar. | out that his neutrality will ceass with that of Our corespondont in British Honduras, dated at Bolixe | Party over the govornment or liberal party, herself of the occasion for a formal deolara- tion of war against Austria, and was moving Upwards of two hundred injunctions were served on her regular army under King Victor Emanuel, as if to push through the famous quadrilateral, while Garibaldi, with his volunteers, was moving to flank it, by the northerly circuit among the Alps, above Lake Garda. It is the Board of Excise, they are still onergetle enough to | evident from these simultaneous movements of cause the arrest of rum-deaiers in some instances. The | the armies of Prussia and Italy, that the alli- police force engage in the holy crusade with a zeal that | anos hetwoen them is perfect and that their respective forces are acting as the two grand $100, or discharged, according to their luck in being | divisions of a common army operating against brought before an injunctionist, anti-Injunctionist ora | ® Common enemy. Austria, meanwhile, was neutral judgo or justice, A strong reinforcement was | moving with great caution in the North, and, Feported to the Board yesterday. Judge Clerke, of the | ag if in utter contempt of the power of Italy, was lying perfectly stillin the South. Old Field Marshal Benedek, however, we may safely assume, if beaten in these preliminary movements upon the neighboring German the General Soasions upon the demurrer to a number of States by Prussia, and especially in the march for Dresden, is only the more actively prepar- ing for larger game. His extreme caution is Court of Appeals, and no action will be taken by the | always suggestive of meditated mischief and’ District Attorney watil the act is roviewod by the ap- | of a heavy blow when and where least ox- pected. What is to be the fate of the Holy Father at Rome in this continental conflict, becomes here sioners, involving some nice potate of law, was argued | ®0 interesting question. It appears that the Italian Chamber of Deputies, by a vote of 179 to 45, had passed the bill for the suppression No cases of cholera were reported to the Board of | of the religious bodies (monasteries and con- vents) and that the Senate had approved the financial measures of the government—86 to 14, The “suppression of the religious bodies” is doubtless one of these financial measures, esting, ‘aud the manner of their performances gratifying involving the seizure by the State of immense amounts of property in houses, lands and movables, accumulated by the Church from The stock market was firm yesterday and closed | many generations of the faithful. It is the old strong. Governments wore firm. Gold closed at 153% | story of Henry the Eighth of England against the monasteries within bis grasp, and of Juarez and Maximilian in reference to the Church pro- thing in sympathy with gold, Domestic produce was | porty of Mexioo. It is only the old story of a generally fitm, and on 'Change a largo business was | rald by the States upon the estates of the done, In four the trailc was fair at an advance of 10c. | Church when the sinews of war are otherwise a Sc, per Wol., closing quiet. Wheat was nominally exhausted. From the estates to the States of the Church will probably be the next move of the Italians, and within the ensuing six months nal. Whistey heavy. In the cotton markot there was | the Pope may be shorn of his temporslities no dispositon for business on the part of buyers, while | ang may even be an exile, and with the con- sent of that most devoted son of the Church, Louis Napoleon. The Empress Eugénie had given a grand Jféte in the Elysée to the Grand Duchess Marie Official @spatches from General Getty, commanding | Of Russia. This signifies that Russia needs & little coaxing and that Nagoleon is very anxious to maintain his entente cordiale with the Crar. It seems, however, ttat the Crar is moving an army of observation ipon the Aus hint thrown France. At the same time the Prnce Napoleon, in “happy accord " again with the Emperor, had given at Paris «dinner to seme of the war idential evetion was to have taken place on the 2h of | journalists, par excellence, at which only two of the diplomatic corps were preseni—the Minister from Italy and the Minister from ?russia—a cir- cumstance which goes far to prove the exist- morning's fenauo, with am accoont of her revenue and | ece of @ perfect agreement and well defined programme between France, Prawsia and Italy. Next, we have a ministerial crbis in England, Trosulting from a victory in Parlament on the Reform bill of the tory or ult aristocratic most remarkable and significam ceent under all the circumstances, What tha be the con- eenences we cannot foresee; st it is appa rent that England fs in danger 0 being drawn into another Holy Alliance for the maintenance of “the divine rights of kings’ Ins word, a continental war has commentd which will probably be more effective in -evolutioniaing and reconstructing the map md the govern. ments of Europe than the (wery-five years of »| ‘appropriating $1,600,000 for the reconstructing tho lev des * might be tmproved by borrowing from the Ohincse | Infamous Legislation of Congress—Th Teri Bill—The President's Veto De- manded. The crowning act of infamous legislation, corruption and imbocility of the present Con- gress is about to be consummated in the pas- sage of the Tariff bill reported by the Com- mittee of Ways and Means. This bill, if rightly named, should be called a bill to enrich a few New England and Pennsylvania manufacturers aod a few rich merchants who have large stocks of goods on hand, at the expense of the rest of the community, Every one knows there is no necessity for such a tariff for revenue. In face of the fact that the income from cus- toms reached last year the enormous sum of a hundred and seventy millions of dollars, no one will be hardy snough to ssy the tariff is not high enough for revenue purposes. It wos estimated that the tariff in operation last year would produce seventy millions, That is what the people were told, and it has yielded » handred and seventy millions, Did our radical protectionist legislators not know better, or did they intentionally deceive the people? If they did not know better they were too ignorant and imbeotie to be in Con- gress, and if they practised euch a fraud upon the country knowingly they are too corrupt to be trusted any longer. Reootleot they are the same men in Congress now—the same radical destructives who are now at work upon a new tariff, With the surprising result of a hundred and seventy millions from customs they hardly dare assume that tho duties are not high enough for revenue; hence they preténd to regulate rather than to inorease them. But this is all protence, and intended to cheat the people. The duties are increased, and that with a viow to protect and benefit a few manufacturers and rich men. A glance at the bill and the proceedings of Cungress will show this, Theeudden rise in prices proves it. There never was such 4 corrupt and in- capable Congress before. In all their procecd- ings the design to deceive and humbug the people is transparent; and in this last job of the tariff they pursue the same course of de- ception. Some suppose that the high tariff before Congress will prove prohibitory or nearly eo, to a great extent, and that the revenue will not be inoressed by it. Be that as it may, the object of these radicals will be attained. The mannfacturers will get a higher price for their goods, almost anything they may choose to ask, and the rich merchants, with large stocks on hand, will be made much richer. The manufacturers have been and are making divi- dends on their capital of twenty to a hundred per cent, and in some cases higher. Every- where their business, under the fostering hand of Congress, is exceedingly prosperous. Yet their profits will be greatly increased by the tariff. It is estimated—and we think the esti- mate is moderate—that if this tariff should become law it would put at once five hundred millions into the pockets of those who hold stocks of goods, and into the hands of the forestallers. Can we wonder, then, at the corruption in Washington, when so much is at stake? But who pays for allthis? The farmers of the West and North, the planters, the mechanics, laborers, and all the industrious classes. They pay for it In enormous high prices, and all to enrich a bloated monopoly. The masses are taxed for the benefit of a few; and this railcal republican and most corrupt Congress is the sole cause of such an infamous state of things. The radicals have had and still have the sole power of legislation ; the feeble voice of the conservative minority cannot be heard egainst the overwhelming radical majority. For four or five years this party has been the nuling power of the republic. It has squan- dered away probably a thousand millions of the public money in that time, and is still pur- suing the same reckless course, While the public mind was absorbed by the war, by the idoa of preserving the Union, which overruled everything else, the people lost sight of such evils; but the time has come when a change is imperatively demanded. To go on in this course will soon bring ruin, universal bank- ruptcy, repudiation, aad frighi‘ul demoraliza- tion everywhere. By all means, then, the President should veto the infamous Tariff bill when it comes be- fore him. The radical and protectionist press is evidently afraid he will, for it begins to eound the alarm in advance. Mr. Johnson was always noted for his economy. He used to be called, when in Congress, the Cerberus at the door of the Treasury. Let him follow his own instincts of right, his own convictions of honesty and economy, and fearlessly stop the corruption and extravagance of Congress, He ought to give us an able voto message reviewing our whole financial system, our dangerous departure from the good old economical practice of the government in former times, and the necessity of retracing our steps. What « field of cor- ruption and malpractices he has to review! He has won the esteem of the country by his ve4o of thy Fr¢sdmen’s Bureau job, the Montana Sob, and of other iniquitons jobs; lethiv; row this up by vetoing the Tarig pill and be will tise an issue that must annibilate the radicals at the coming elections and send a better and wiser clasa of men to Congress. Reconpen Hackert's Dectstox.—We pub- lish this morning the decision of Recorder Hackett upon the new Excise law. After care- fally, comprehensively and elaborately review- la unconstitutional. We oresume that a case will now be made up and carried before the Court of Appeals as soon as possible, in order that the present conflict of jurisdiction between the courts and commissioners may cease. The Military Strength of the European Belligerents. We published yesterday gome interesting statistics, collated from official sources, show- ing the military strength of the present Eu- ropean belligerents, From these figures it would appear that vast armies are in the ficld, and that the clash of arms, when it comes in earnest, will be tremendous and rock Europe to the centre, It is a well established fact, but one not generally noted, that the numerical strength of armies in actual and active service is greatly exaggerated, The immense armies of the ancients, numbering in some instances, accord- ing to eacred and profane history, millions of men, were undoubtedly composed more of camp followers and other non-combatants than men oapable of bearing the rude and cumber- some arms of the period, The fabled myriads included in the armies of the anciont Persians, Tartars, Egyptians, Assyrians and the other warlike powers of the early ages, were no doubt impeded in their marches and battles by the great number of useless and unserviceable oharaoters that hung upon the rear and flanks of the main armies. It 1s ourious circum- stance that while ancient historians men- ffon the interminable numbers of those ancient hosts they neglect to state how the mom were supported; how the commissa- rlat was supplied while traversing through un- known and desert regions; where the quarter- master replenished his stores tor his famishing horses, elephants, oamels and other beasts of burden and transportation. They had no rail- roads in those days, They had no magnetic telegraph then. They could not talk from point to point and transmit orders with the regularity and despatch of personal communi- cation. They had no light artillery then. They had no spherical shot or five-hundred-pounder shells; no torpedoes, no two mile rifles, no sub- marine batteries, no iron-clad war ships, no electric fuses, no ganpowder—except the Chi- nese—no gun cotton, no nitro-glycerine and other explosive material, They had huge bat- tering rams, weighing some tons; immense bow guns, mounted on carriages and throwing very heavy arrows; stone slings, javeiins and all those articles of warfare the carefal student of ancient military history is familiar with. But although it would require a great physical force to manage these implemonts, we doubt very much whether history is vorrect in placing the numbers of these anciont armies at the large figures it does, for the simple reason that the hordes could not be fed in the hostile coun- tries they traversed, We presume the extent and condition of the armies in the United States during the rebel- lion were larger in number and better equipped, better fed and clothed and better disciplined than any armics of half the number in ancient or modern times. In April, 1865, the Union armies had on their rolls one million three hundred thousand mea, At the same time the rebels had on their rolls seven hundred thousand men—making together two millions of troops. Of this num- ber at least one-third were not in the field at any one time, but were engaged in doing gar- rison duty, occupying fortified places, protect- ing six thousand miles of posts, lying sick in hospitals, and otherwise not in the flold, All the great battles of the rebellion were fought with less than seventy-five thousand men on each side, except the battle of the Wilderness, when Grant had about one hundred thousand, |: and Lee about the same number. This was the greatest and most stubborn battle of the war, the men not being out of the hearing of musketry for ten days. The other battles, like most of those of the Grecians, Romans, Cartha- ginians and the First Napoleon, were fought with between fifty and sixty thousand men, except the battle of Waterloo, when probably two bundred thousand men were engaged on both sides in deciding the final throw in the game of settling the destinies of Europe. It will be thus in the present European war. For, although Austria will have an army esti- mated ata million and a quarters Prussia and its allies, exclusive of Italy, some eight hun- dred thousand, and with the army of that Power nearly a million and « half, we shall be very much surprised if we hear of a batile numbering over one hundred thousand on each side at any time while the war lasts, be that period brief or protracted. The So-Called Spiritualists in a Very Bad Box. Since the Davenport brothers have subsided and Home has transferred his talents to the theatrical stage there has been rather « lull in spiritualistic exhibitions. A lower class of miracle-mongers have attempied to wear the discarded mantles of these great gentuses, but have, on the whole, dismally failed. The latest instance of these ‘failures occurred in the case of » medium nomed Ella Van Wie, who las recently given e¢ances in this elty for sue beuvefit of a so-called “Colonel” Goodwin. This medium undertook to improve upon the feats of her predecessors and to give & more practical turn to spiritualism. She had a box, or cabinet, like the Davenports, in which she allowed herself to be tied; but she was not satisfied with untylng herself, rattling tamborines, ringing bells and displaying ghostly hands. On the contrary, she endeav- ored to cap the climax of these manifestations by producing ribbons, feathers, flowers, laces and articles of jewelry, which, as she asserted, ‘wore presented to her by the spirits. Very naturally, the séances of Miss Van Wie caused quite a seneation among a large number of people. Spiritualism began to find new voteries, especially among the women. When feathers, laces and jewelry could be pro- cured so easily from the other world it was | quite extravagant t think of paying hard: | earned money for them in this world, Ifa skepticg} dressmaker, named Mrs. Bodley, had ngs interfered with the proceedings the | cheap millinery and jewelry stores might + soon have lost all their customers, 5, | Bodley seems to have been acted in | her researches partly by feminine cur¥ sity and | partly by an idea that spiriie who ould make | flowers and ribbons could slso aynke dresses, | and that her own trade was censeqnentty in danger. At any rate, having bees appoiated | upon the committ ce to examing Miee Van Wie, she was nol content to rem yye the medium's outer clothing alone, 7% reduced the friend of on spirits to the Formal condition of mother ive, Then, WF Mrs, Bodiey alleges, sho dit. covered a bracelet and some ribbons hiddes upon Miss Van Wie—where ahe dvclinvs, “ae a lady,” to state—and rushing out to the aud ence she exhibited these articles, told her story and ended the séance amid great excitement, “Colonel” Goodwin, the manager of the medium, whom he terms “ the child of God,” was rash enough to give currency to this new spiritual scandal by bringing tho matter before the courts, Hoe had Mrs. Bodley arrested apom the charge of stealing the bracelet which ghe had found. Mrs. Bodley repeaved her ciroum- stantial account of the affair to the Justice and was at once discharged, the spirits, as in the Colchester oase, not appearing {n court to give any evidence in their own favor. If Mre, Bodley had taken the bracelot the spirits were the only parties who could have claimed the Property and brought an accusation against her. Miss Van Wie, the medium, denied having any jewelry concealed upon her; ao the brace let could not belong to her. “Colonel” Goods win was loud in his declarations that all ¢he jewelry was supplied by the spirits, and by no other parties; so that the brace let could not belong to him, The Jus tlee decided, therefore, that as no com plaint had been made by the spirits, and as no one else had any jewelry to lose, Mra, Bodley had done nothing wrong. Popular opinion endorsed the Justice’s judgment, On Sunday a numerous audience assembled to fol- low up what was generally regarded as an om posure of a spiritualisttrick. “Colonel” Good win made a long, rambling, and as reported, am indecent speech. Miss Van Wie was tied in her box andimmodiately fainted. Thore was great excitement and finally Goodwin was kicked, bonneted and otherwise maltreated by the crowd and led off to the station house by the police, Of course the respectable, religious spirit ualists like our old friond Judge Edmonds: will disown the whole of this business. They always do disown those modiums who are de- tected, and we really cannot blame thom for thisprudenoé. There have been true miracles and false miracles, truco prophets and false prophets, and it is not necessary to have faith in those who are exposed because one happens to believe in those who are unimpeached. That some spiritualists accomplish many won- derful things for which we cannot reasonably account it would be useless to deny, but whether these phenomena form a sufficient foundation for a new religion is yet a disputed question. About the impostares of other me- diums, however, there can be no possible doubt. When they attempt to start a spiritual opposition to the dollar jewelry stores it fe quite proper that they should come to grief and jail, and when they charge for admission to their séances and refuse to pay the internal revenue tax it is right that they should be suod. We have also remarked that the major- ity of this lower class of mediums cannot get the spirits up without pouring a quantity of spirits down. In fact, the kind of spirits with which they commune are distilled. They can do nothing unless they summon to their aid the spirits of cham- pagne, of brandy, of whiskey or of gin Against all of these second class or bogus mediums, we believe, the genuine religious spiritualiste set their faces with holy horror and pious reproof ; but the difficulty is to tell one class from the other before they perform After they perform the task is easy; for those who are detected are pronounced impostors and those who are not detected are accepted as true prophets. This, however, prevents spir itualism from ever being brought to » publie test, since it leaves the spiritualists at liberty to disown and denounce any medium who falls, The best way would be for Judge Edmonds and other respectable believers to appoint a committee to examine the credentials of alt performing mediums and issue certificates to those who are worthy. Then the public would not waste its patronage upon impostors; spir itualism might gain numerous votaries if the euthorized mediums played their pranks sue- cesstully, and if a medium with a certificate should happen to be found out, even so enthue siastic a convert as Judge Edmonds might be disenchanted and convinced of his illusions. The Board of Health. NO CHOLERA—THR PUBLIC HEALTH GoOD—com- PLAINTS, BTC. No cases of cholera were reported tothe Board of Health yesterday, and the public health is known te be unusually good. A bulletin in accordance with theabeve facts was issued by Dr. Dalton, the Sanitary Inspecton, at two o'clock yesterday. COMPLAINTS. Among the complaints sent to the office of Major Bow worth yesterday were none of unusual importance. All had reference to sunken lots, garbage heaps, offensive Privies and other matters of a similar nature. AFFAIRS AT QUARANTINE AND STATEN IBLAND, Pleasant and poasive asa May morn docs continue on this beautifal island. it has remained ig this condition 80 long that its denizens begin to believe that all is right, and that the slumbering lion has made up ite mind to take things easy, while others, more versed in the latent cunning of human naturo—and 1 must be said they belong to the polico—say that this te only the calm before the storm. Still, it is to be hoped that the sober second thought will prevail, and that nothing prejudicial to law and order will be attempted on the part of the citizens of Staren Island. At feguine’s Point, on Sunday, Captain Faunce, whe netion case, on board of Teporta no more serious cases no deaths Matters in fact, take a now hoped that noth! is is once exciting affair. It is believed ET sides that no extremities. will be used by the folanae era anti! a decision is arrived at about Seguine’s Point op landing of passengers there. Then, ft ts some, tat a demonstration might be et City Entelligence. ‘Tae Tammasy Soctetr.—A regular monthly meeting ef the ancient organization was held inst night at Tam- many Hall, the Grand Bachem, Mr. John T. Hoffman oe oupying the chair, A large amount . the usual roatiae business was transacted, and Mr. “alward Pierrepont wag, elected Bachem, to Oll the ‘vacancy occasioned by the jous election of a Sachem. Messrs, chai were intaiet va r Prominent meu wore wious Kavward Miller pa Se ° y, rned Y, twel ioe Fonrth of Jake YW, twelve o'viouk at nog on the Seacne OF D* oy Wineeer.—No farther developments were Mey yesterday shout the whiskey distitfories TW”, nad boon seized by the revenue offcors of thie city. Tt is known that several other establishments are mak! ara without a license, and Mr. Lewis baa a large force of officers watching their operations, Proonem oF the Ayti-Rawnoad Wan at Hancem,. Am adjourned meeting of t'* citizens of Harlem and vicinity opposed to the constr of Asieam railroad thrang® 125th and Manhattan streets, sry other street in Mar. Jom, wae hold last might at the orner of 125th street and Kighth avenue, Mr. Reading in the chair. The several Committers appointed reporied progress, Noth- | mg definite can be done antil sfier 0 man on y Boards of Councilmen aad Aldermen pects of the measure before there Hoards were roughly canvaseet. Two members of the Cogneiimen give almost an asaurence (hat tee veto of the orjer granting the franchise | Company wily be enstained by that body; hu) not en mygd hove from the Adermem > =