The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1870, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, NEW YORK HERALD |™ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. . All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume xD ~ AMUSEMENTS TO-AAORROW EVENING. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- wer Thirtieth st.—Matinee daily, Performance every evening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Eighth avenue and st. —TOR IWELVE TEMPTATIONS. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 23d Tux HuouRNoTs. BOWERY THEATRE, Bower Soupiew’s RETURN. sii WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th sireet.— Tue Rep Licur. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth s#t.—FrR- NANDE. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tur Virip OF THE CLoTH OF GoLD. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Crn- DERELLA—Tux ParRior's BRIDE, &C. St, between Sth and 6th avs. — Caper LE PeRiE—Toe MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S P. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.~ Bamvxr. THEATRE COMIQUE, 5M Broadway.—Comic Vocal. 16m, NRGRO AcTs, &c. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, No. 720 Beonderay. —My Spinir Stan—HONTING A PRINCE Down, & STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.-Guanp Con- oxnr. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between ae ent 9th ats, TUZOVORE THOMAS’ POPULAR CONOER rhea ZOEK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— TRIPLE ‘SHE E T. June 19, 1870, Timo ¥ orks covrears OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Pace. Mecranse von 1—Advertisements. ‘2—Advertisements. 3—Washington:—The Case of the new Attorney General; Probable Withdrawal of Mr. Acker- man’s mination; Whittemore’s “Cheek;'"' The tation of the Cadetship Trader's rede is Objected to in the Hovse; to be Decided on Tuesday; The Franking Bill—Personal Intelligence— A Jersey “Enoch Arden" Case—Art Notes and Sale of Pictures—Chess Matters—The Gates’ Will Case—A Thieving Servant Girl—Singular Dro Ling Case—Yachting—The Bureau of Vital ‘cs—More Railroad i A Murderous “Blue Nose. 4a—Furk Coercion in Ireland and a HERALD ate Writer in Trim: Landiordism, Tenant stions and Fenianism; The Infallibility Debate in the Roman Council; England, the United States, Canada and France as They Speak in the Vatican; M. Prévost-Paradol’s Mis- sion to Washington—Worid's Fairs; The In- dustrial Exhibition in St. Petersvurg; History of the National Efforts Since the LondonjFair— The Nesbitt Case in Newark. Pi hions : A Boudoir Dialogue ; American Maimonds and Ornaments—Fashions in Re Emigration—-Religious Intelligetice-— Cherry Valley and Sharon Railroad Opening— A Heartiess Boston Scamp Canght in Newark— New York City News—Criticism of New Books— Estate of the Late John A. Roebling. G—Eiitorials: Leading Article on Modern Civiliza- tion, Our Indebtedness to the Jews—Amuse ment Announcements, 9—Eitoriais—Telegraphic News from Ali Parts of the World: Infallibility as Reporied from the Vatican; Paris Opinion of the French Mission to Washington; Spanish Visitors to the French Border; General Prim in It Health; Th ration and Religious Questions im England; Dead of the tela of Solfertno— Close of the Beethoven Musical Festival— The Park Yesterday—Music tn Mount Morris Square—Music at the Brooklyn RinkK—Outrage ou the High Seas—Melancho'y Ac’ nt at Sing Sing—Keunion of Knickerbocker F, and A. M.—Accident at Hell Gate—Kerosene Oil Accident—Business Notices. S—Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Orientalism in New England: The Chinese atthe Lapstone—An I[ndignant Vir- ginia Lady—The National Game—Tommy Had- den’s Gang Let Loose—Real Esiate Transfers— Financial and Commercial Reports—The Lim- its and Sphere of Government—Death of Colone! Robert Garland, 9—Brooklyn City News—Marriages and Deaths— Advertisements. 10—Yrospect Park Fair Grounds: Two Capital Trots for Valuable Plate—The Mystic Park Races— Local Invelligence—The Long Island Farmers— Descent ona Faro Bank—Long Island City— Aquatic—Allezed Robbery in a Shoe Store— Alleged Letter Embezzlement at the Post Oftice—The a arance of Etzold—Re- ligion in Indi urder in Ulster Cow Probable bree r Hlunter’s Point—Fatal Railroad rident—Shipping — Intelligence— Adver A—Adverti 12—Advert A Catt For Prompr ANp Deoistvz Ac- trion—When roughs in our courts of justice attempt to enforce a settlement of their cases by knockdown arguments. This is carrying the rule of ‘the ring” (the P. R.) a little too far for the security of honest and law-abiding men. These roughs must be made to fear the law, if they cannot be taught to respect the courts. Was Ir a Specutation ?—It is now denied in Paris that the Emperor Napoleon is ill. It is only certain, therefore, that prices on the Bourse were depressed by the story of bis illness, and that those who bought them made money by the rise that followed a better bulletin. Was his Majesty one of these, and does he thus coin the possibilities of his physica! condition ? A Genurive Bonaparte.—Nature in the very lineaments she gave to the son of Jerome Bonaparte and the Baltimore belle put a re- cognition of his descent that even the Emperor Napoleon could not nullify. Nature has done the same thing in the disease he died with, He died of cancer—the family disease, of which the first Napoleon himself was a vic- tim. A New ELeMent op Warrare.—A story isreported from Salt Lake to the effect that three hundred mounted Indians were crossing the Pacific Railroad track on the 15th inst., in front of a train, when the engineer thought they were going to attack, and, putting on all steam, he dashed the train through the crowd, killing thirteen of them. The story is some- what doubtful, If it is true, however, it seems likely to teach the redskins more thoroughly than any milder lesson could the folly of attempting to butt the locomotive off the track. Grav To Hear Ir—That plentiful rains still in season to do much good to the growing crops have fallen throughout England, and that the drought, which has been very serious in some parts over there, is ended in France. In Great Britain we are, however, sorry to learn the late rains have been attended with an extraordinary amount of lightning and thunder, resulting in destructive fires in various sections of the island. In truth, the seasons since last fall have been very remarkable in their heats and frosts and droughts and storms all over the world, and particularly north of the equator, and there is no telling exactly what perturbations in our atmos- pheric currents ard yet to come, though much might be learned by a proper use of the tele- graph for this iniportent purpose. big pond. and Christian. Judaism, We have all to confess that we owe much to Europe and a great deal to Chris- tianity. How many of us are willing to admit that we must go beyond European teaching, Modern § Civilizatiou—Our Indebteducas to the Jews. Modern civilization was, some years ago, one of those vague, indefinite forms of expres- sion which conveyed to the mind ideas large enough, no doubt, but still very nebulous, very indistinct. What modern civilization was very few could tell you, and to the mass of mankind the phrase suggested as much mystery as anciently surrounded the Grand Lama of Thibet or the Mikado of Japan. Our age is a mystery-dispelling age. Somehow during the last half century arcana have been becoming fewer and fewer; men have grown more daring; the torch of truth has become more penetrating, and mystery now is no- where. Men now begin to know what civili- zation is, separately and distinctively. The phrase conveys to the mind a distinct idea. It speaks of advanced thought, of privileged peoples, of social and domestic com- fort, of railroads, telegraphs, _print- ing presses, books, newspapers, clubs, reading rooms and many other things of that sort. It speaks of a power which is overrunning and transforming and beautifying the earth, but which is in the hands of only a limited number of the peoples, It speaks of the growth of the human brain, of the develop- ment of those rich physical resources by which man is surrounded, of the growth of liberty and happiness, of the good things of all the present and of the better things of all the future. In a sentence, it distinguishes the nations now known as civilized from the bar- barisin of all the past and from the barbarism of all the present. Time was when the Jews were a privileged people. At that time civilization, such as it was, was limited to them, Later the Greeks were a privileged people, and civilization, such as it was, was more or less coextensive with Greek authority. At a later date still the Romans were a privileged people, and Roman _ civiliza- tion, such as it was, overspread the then known world. In these times, however, civilization is a something higher and nobler, wields a greater power and covers a larger surface than Rome in her palmi- est days ever dreamed of, and is the property no longer of one nation or of one people, but of many nations and of many peoples. In this great city of the Western World modern civili- zation is a something of which we have just cause to be proud, It has often seemed to us, however, that those who most enjoyed the benefits of what is called modern civilization were painfully forgetful of the source from which all the blessings flow. We call it European civiliza- tion, and in so naming it we are not wrong; for so far as it is known even on this Con- tinent, if we make some small allowances, it is European. We think, however, that the time has come when America must be in- eluded. It is not difficult to prove that-we are all European and that all the good or evil that isin us comes immediately from across the But we have given modern civiliza- tion some peculiarities. We have made it our own after hard trial and severe experience. Not being in Europe, and claiming something for our nation and people that is native bora and peculiar, we think the time has come when modern civilization must be regarded as more than European, But call it European or call it Europo-American or America-Euro- pean, we have no choice but take a step nearer the fountainhead and call it Christian. Modern civilization, whatever it is, whatever it means, whatever it may do, is at least Christian. It has found its highest development in Europe and America because Christianity as a form of religious belief controls the European and American brain. at once conservative and aggressive. Modern civilization is In this for many ages it has differed from all existing civilizations, which have simply been conserva- tive. We look after not only our own selves and our own homes, but the persons and homes of all the rest of mankind. This aggressive peculiarity is purely Christian. Christianity breaks dowa all national barriers and tends to the unity of the race. In this it is consistent, for its Founder and His disciples taught that God made of one flesh all nations of men that dwell upon the earth, Modern civilization in its natural and ultimate development leaves no place for slavery; but as little does it leave any place for divided and obstinate nationalities. The tendency of events on this Continent and in Ewope shows that division is folly; it does more—it shows that division is doomed. On this Continent the union of the peoples has become a passion. The failure of our South- ern brothers to establish a separate republic was mainly due to this thought, which has taken » firm hold of the people of the United States. The impulses of the human heart to the north of us and to the south of us tend in the same direction. It is not otherwise on the Continent of Europe. Union is the passion of the hour. What means this growth of Germany into an empire? What means the disintegration of Austria? What means the desire of the Latin, the Scandinavian and the Slavic races? It is the spirit of modern civilization, the spirit of Christianity, which spurns national barriers and which will not know national divisions. In every man’s heart the feeling is more or less strong. ‘‘God hath made of one flesh all nations of men that dwell on the earth.” But our civilization is not merely European It finds its proper root only in beyond even Christianity, beyond the apostles and their Founder, and seek our proper fountain head in the prophets, in Moses, in Jacob, Isaac and Abraham. ‘‘In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,” is a promise as old as the Hebrew race; Hebrew race they have not yet seen it, tho fact stands and, although the would not, and although patent to all the world that through the Jewish people all nations have been blessed. Take away Christianity, and where is our modern civilization? Without Christianity what would America—what would Europe have been? But take away Judaism, and where should we have found Christianity. We must go back, therefore, not only to Calvary with all its agony and ajl its horrgr, not only to Beth- any with its sweet domestic joys, not only to the hallowed lake and the sacred mount with their simple teachings and cheering benedic- tion, not only to Bethlehem with the babe and the angels’ song and the worshipping wisdom of the East—we must go back to Jacob's toil for Rachel, to Rebecca at the well, to Abra- ham in Urr of the Chaldees, to find the fountain- head of our modern civilization. We are all Jews, because we are or profess to be all Chris- tians; and the time has come when we ought not to be unwilling to admit the fact. All the good that is in us is Christian; but Christianity is the offspring of Judaism. Search the wide world over, where is there aggressive force which is not Cheistian in {ts origin and in ite actual character? Rather we ought to have said search the wide world over and say where is the aggressive force which is not biblical in its origin and in its actual charac- ter? Modern civilization is not New Testament alone nor Old Testament aldne, but biblical, endorsing all the divine past. It listens to the sweet accents that fell from the Divine Teacher's lips on the Mount of Blessing. It trembles aiso—it exceedingly fears and quakes under the thunders of Sinai. This thing which we call modern civilization is divine. It connects the hopeful present with the bright spots of all the past. It connects earth with heaven. Its triumph will be the ‘‘new hea- vens and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness,” An American Continental Commercial Sys- tem. We have before us an elaborate and able paper on “An American Continental Com- mercial System,” written by Elijah Ward, in reply to a request for his views on this subject by a number of members of Con- gress. Mr. Ward, when a member of the House of Representatives, paid particular at- tention to this matter and made an exhaustive report upon it. After showing the vast trade that has been developed between the United States and the British American colonies and other colonies and States surrounding us, which is increasing all the time, he argues that it is to our interest to establish a continental commercial policy similar to that which exists under the Zollverein of Germany. He thinks that this would increase our trade greatly, and that while such a system would benefit the sur- rounding colonies and States the United States would obtain the greatest advantages. He believes, too, that this would lead to political union in the end; that it would be, in fact, the most effective way to make the Unifed States a continental empire by absorbing all the American possessions of European nations as well as the independent States of this Conti- nent. This is undoubtedly a very important sub- ject, and deserves the attention of our public men and government. The free trade princi- ple which underlies this scheme is gaining ground with the statesmen of all countries, and ia no doubt sound in theory. It is in accord- ance with the spirit and progress of the age. But has the time come for us to practically carry it out with regard to the British Ameri- can colonies, to Cuba and to the other posses- sions of European nations? Are there not exceptional circumstances which dictate for the present another policy? In the end such a Zollverein as is suggested would bring these neighboring countries into closer relations with us politically and socially, as well as commer- cially, but it might put off the day of annexa- tion. If the foreign colonists and people around us were to have all the commercial advantages of union they might prefer a sepa- rate political existence. This would always be an unsatisfactory state of things. Our aim should be to detach Europe and European forms of government from America—to make the institutions republican and in accord with our own throughout this hemisphere. The truth is, if the foreign populations around us desire the benefits of free commercial inter- course let them become American citizens, In a commercial point of view it is doubtful if. such a system could be advantageously estab- lished at present, if even England, Spain and the other nations holding American territory would consent to perfect reciprocity. We are compelied to raise a large revenue from im- posts, and this incidentally protects certain interests along the border. But, as was said, the principle General Ward lays down is sound in theory, and the world is coming to that more and more every day. Tho subject is worthy the serious consideration of our public men. SprciaL Desparones From Evrorr.—We publish to-day special letters from our writers in freland, Rome, France, Germany and Eng- land. The communications speak, conse- quently, of poverty and suffering, of man’s inhumanity to man, of religion and heavenly consolation, of continental politics and consti- tutionalism, and of the social system as it presents for reform in Great Britain, that insu- lar shelter of the seeds of the great Church reformation. One of our writers in Ireland dates in the town of Trim, the scene of a sub- sequent executive outrage against our foreign news enterprise. Our special news despatch exhibit is, from that point to the close, varied in topic, of elaborate treatment in detail, and quite entertaining and useful in its complete. nes3. A Farr Prospect FoR THE WATERING Piaces—The prospect, from the “heated term” of June, of an intensely hot summer. The seaside and inland Bonifaces are delighted; but suppose we have next a few weeks of cold Newfoundland drizzling rains, what then? Why, then, they tell us General Grant will be on his summer travels, and the watering places will still prosper, anyhow, and especially Long Branch, where horse racing, concerts and clambakes will be the order of the day from Monday till Saturday, and preaching on Sun- day. Bap Sieys ror Spaiy.—Marsbal Serrano, the head of the present government of Spain, and about the only man in Spain equal to the crisis, is reported ‘‘quite ill;” and itis also | reported that General Prim, the head of the army, is ‘‘quite ill,” and will spend a few weeks at Vichy. This means another con- ference with Napoleon and that the affairs of | Spain are getting worse and worse from day today. A French army may yet be required to settle the business for Spain. * . ec com A DatreatioN of THE Viretnia Leats- LATURE visited the President yesterday. They | feared that certain parties in that State intended to interfere in regard to certain federal appointments, and they concluded to , interfere first, SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1870.—TRIPLE SHKET. 4 ae esteem Death of an American Prince=Jerome Na+ | Congress—Land Grabs—The Frauking Privi+ poleon Bonaparte Retires from the Scene. Another distinguished personage, whose history has been a stirring and even touching romance of our time, has joined ‘the innume- rable caravan” and passed away from earth. Mr. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of Jerome, King of Westphalia, and, conge- quently, the nephew of the first Napoleon and cousin of Napoleon III., the reigning Emperor of France, died on Friday at his residence in Baltimore, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. The circumstances surrounding his birth in- vested him throughout life with peculiar in- terest, which was heightened by his remark- able personal resemblance to the great impe- rial head of the Napoleonic dynasty, and there are few persons familiar with the history of the generation now in the vigor of life who have not heard with some emotion of the mis- fortunes ofethe once beautiful and aspiring American lady who united her fate to his father in the first bright flush of her youthful charms, When Jerome Bonaparte, the elder, then in command of the French armed brig L'Epervier, escaped the vigilance of the British cruisers, who had hemmed in the French naval expedi- tion that he had accompanied to St. Domingo, and sought refuge in the port of Norfolk, his high connection, distinguished address and amiable qualities made him a welcome guest at Baltimore and Washington. At the capital he was presented to President Jefferson and received with great consideration. This launched him into American society, and it was not long ere the loveliness of the American ladies, whose presence adorned the saloons of the old régime in a day when stately cour- tesy and courtly grace made them de- lightful to people of refinement, no matter whence they came, had captivated him. The brilliant young officer laid his homage at the feet of the beautiful Miss Elizabeth Patterson, the charming daughter of a distin- guished Baltimore merchant, and was gladly accepted. The lady was well worthy of so eminent an alliance, uniting, as she did, the native dignity of a free born race to all the mental and personal attributes of a su- perior organization, heightened by the most refined culture and the winning graces of youth and perfect health. The marriage was one of mutual affection, although, not unpar- donably, the heart of the American girl beat high with fond anticipations ofa dazzling future. But who has not heard the sad story of her disappointment, her rejection by the imperial family at home, her exile from France, her forced separation from her husband, whom she never saw but once again, and then only to be passed coldly by as a mere acquaintance, and her long, long years of lonely and futile anticipation while she reared her more than orphaned son, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, or Mr. Patterson, as the proud mother of the first Emperor required him to call himself, while in France, was the fruit of this anhappy union—for unhappy it most surely was in the life-long torture which it inflicted upon at least one of the parties. Educated with care, con- scious of his high origin, endowed with emi- nent gifts of intellect and temperament and wondrously resembling the great Napoleoa, he was a man of mark from the outset of his career, Still, he was never officially recog- nized by his imperial relatives in the rank to which his birth really entitled him, although received with kindness at the French Court in successive reigns. Nevertheless, he enjoyed in his own right a higher sove\™gnty than any that sceptres can bestow, for he was by birth, in character, by education and in opinion an American citizen. His first attempt to render valid his claims to imperial rank, just after the death of his father, the ex-King of Westphalia, in 1861, was his last. Happy in the affection of an American wife, Miss Williams, of Mas- sachusetts, and residing in an elegant home at Baltimore, which was the favorite resort of a refined and distinguished circle, his life glided pleasantly and peacefully by, while the storms of fate swept away all the pomp and power of the elder family in France, who had sacrificed the ties of their early plighted faith to the allurements of a throne. Madame Bonaparte shared with Josephine the sympathies and the regard of all true hearts, and it is to the eternal honor of his Holiness Pius VII. that he refused to sanction the cruel mandate that tore her husband from her side. The present ruler of France also has added an unfading laurel to his imperial wreath by the delicate recognition that he has ever extended to the bereaved lady and to her son, whose decease we this day record. Her grandson, Jerome Napoleon, an American officer by birth and training, now holds a dis- tioguished rank in the Emperor's service, and stands in a line of succession which, in the mysterious providence of God, may yet com- pensate him for the disappointments that had fallen to his father’s lot. Mrs. Williams, the mother-in-law of the de- ceased, who was fondly attached to him, died a few hours later, her departure having un- doubtedly been hastened by fatigue and grief; but Mrs, Pattergon, the mother of Prince Jerome, survives in hale and vigorous health, at the extreme age of ninety-four, and without rancor to the reigning dynasty, persists in the belief that her grandson, now in the service of Napoleon III., will yet succeed to the im- perial throne of France. While no royal cortége will follow the remains of the elder Jerome Bonaparte to his last resting place, and no sculptured coronet will mark his tomb, the remem- brance of his many virtues, his exalted char- acter, his rare attainments and his life of quiet usefulness will more sweetly consecrate the spot than any pompous inscription that re- cords the ‘‘treasons, stratagems and spoils” that dog the footsteps and haunt the pillows of the anointed monarchs of the world. Joux MironeL, an impecunious patriot, oher vision, fuller of comfort to his soul per- haps than even that of a plantation worked by fat niggers, near the Alabama river. He hopes to get fifty thousand dollars out of Gene- ral Dix for an imprisonment in Fort Lafayette. Such an imprisonment would pay. Hope and pursuit are better than possession, and John may enjoy them fully in this case; for his vision will never be spoiled by the success of ' hia pursuit. fonder of Ireland than of Australia, has an- | lege and Whittemore. The Senate yesterday luxuriated in land grabbing bills. Three of them came before it, one of which was bolted at once, without any seasoning, while the other two were dis- cussed and rolled under the tongue as a sweet morsel for a time and then laid away for future and early consideration, The great success achieved of late in its grabs for land has given the Senate arare zest for the game. The Franking bill came up again in its new posi- tion of an amendment to the Post Office Ap- propriation bill, where its enemies have engi- neered it in order that they may kill it de- cently, smothering it under such a load of mysterious Parliamentary technicalities that the average constituency will never he certain whether it has become a law or not, This “little game” has been played in the Senate at least once before, when the Soldiers’ Extra Bounty bill was passed, with a provision tacked thereto increasing the salaries of Congressmen from three to five thousand dollars yearly. This occurred a session or two ago, in Andy Johngon’s time, when it would have been con- sidered disloyal to have voted against giving the poor soldier an extra hundred dollars (after his claim agent had sifted it), and therefore the conscientious patriots were com- pelled, as it were, to increase their own salaries or defeat the bill, Some of their constituencies were mystified, of course, ag their representatives wished them to be. The Franking bill, as tacked to the Post Office Appropriation bill, was discussed on all sides, and finally an amendment, proposed by Mr. Morrill, was adopted, continuing the franking privilege to certain persons, but taking it away from Senators and members. The bill is not passed, however, and the final disposi- tion of the franking privilege is yet to come. Whittemore was the especial attraction in the House yesterday. He came with an assurance which probably no one but Whittemore has ever exhibited, and presented his new credentials as a true and eligible Representative from the First district of South Carolina, it being naturally inferred that his cadetsbip selling disabilities were all removed by the hardship he had undergone in canvass - ing for a new election. Mr. Logan, who ori- ginally had Whittemore put out, was prompt to stop his coming in again. He objected to the oath being administered, and wanted the House to settle the question without submitting the matter toa committee. This was finally agreed to, and Mr. Whittemore’s case was con- tinued until next Tuesday, when the House will decide whether its unanimous vote declaring Whittemore unworthy of a seat still holds good or whether a resignation cunningly sprung upon the House serves as full absolu- tion and remission of all Congressional sins, Government Flourens, By our latest despatches per telegraph from Europe it will be perceived that the Imperial government of France is annoyed at the reported appearance of the red republican agitator, Gustave Flourens, in Greece. At first glance this susceptibility appears a little overstrained ; but when we remember that the island of Sicily and the extreme districts of Calabria at the southernmost point of the Italian peninsula have of late years been the favorite rallying places of republican insurgent bands, moving at one time against the autho- rity of the new Italian kingdom, and at another against the security of the Pope, whom Napoleon III. is bound to defend, the cause of anxiety becomes a little more apparent. Moreover, it is quite evident that, were the reds to succeed in overthrowing Victor Emanuel, and thereby obtain control of the regular Italian army, they would immediately apply its strength and discipline to the expul- sion of Pius IX. from Rome. Greece, therefore, is too convenient a pivotal point for the leaders of the red republican party to be allowed to harbor them, so long as their manceuvres are likely to embroil France and her allies. The French authorities have at this moment paramount influence with the Greek government, and,in addition to the possibility of fresh disorders, of which Flou- rens may be the authorized instigator, that in- dividual is actually under the ban of the law for having been an alleged accomplice in the recently discovered conspiracy against the Emperor Napoleon’s life. He has fled from England, and the potentate against whom he conspired is pursning him with the intent to secure his arrest, if possible. The pretext for direct intervention in Greece is plausible enough, and may lead to political complica- tions of a very important character. Russia still maintains the attitude of a ready friend and protector to the Greeks, and the Czar is even now in close and somewhat mysterious conference with his powerful neighbor and relative, the King of Prussia, who, after hav- ing entertained him royally at Berlin, is visit- ing him at the baths of Ems. Great conflicts have sprung from foundations more slender even than this; but, at all events, in one way or another, the Eastern question seems to be hurried towards a solution by almost every political breeze that blows. The French and Gustave RATHER D.—Some of the papers are nding fault because General Grant has signed a call for the assembling of an All- the-World Christain Alliance Conference in this city next fall, These faultfinders are altogether too thin-skinned. General Grant has as much right, as an American citizen, to approve the meeting of a congress of Christians as he has to send a message to the Congress of heathen—‘‘at the other end of the avenue,” Tue NoMINATION OF MR. ACKERMAN as Attorney General, it is now stated, will be withdrawn, in deference to the wishes of a number of radical members, who fear that he is not fully reconstructed. Some of these gentlemen ought to let us know just how much reconstruction is necessary to admit the South to representation in the Cabinet, The stand- ard required in the Senate and in the House does not seem to be very high, but probably Senators comprehend that the Cabinet is a more respectable body than Congress. Tue WasHERWOMEN oF Panis have Just | joined in the trade “‘strike” movement which is extending in that city and all over France. | ful service! And “thereby hangs a talo”—spelling of last 1 word optional, Dress Fashions and “Life in Europes) From the brilliant capital of France to Rome, the city of Romulus and Remus, the Eternal City, the centre of consolation of the “orphans of the soul,” comes our special fashions correspondence published in the Heratp to-day. Our writers show how the rulers of the ¢on live, move and have their boudoir ‘“‘being” in these European metropoli, Fashion was slightly out of sorts in Paris, demoralized for the masses, to some extent, by the costly splendor of imperialism, Tha goddess would have been, perhaps, shown to the uninitiated as being really fallible, so far as France is concerned, were it not that ber standard was taken up and vindicated by soma few American belles, fresh, blooming, artless and beautiful, who came to her timely rescue and ‘‘crowned the edifice’ from the tip of the toe to the top of the head with the most ‘‘cunning little ducks” of new and faultless hats and the neatest, prettiest shoes. Their toilets were faultless and of the very richest manufacture, as were, in the words of a former great Irish agitator, ‘“‘the girls that’s in them, too,” There was a grand struggle in Rome, as has been pretty much ever since the days of Peter. Lay “‘life” was in opposition to the Church. British beauty was very powerful and the shade of St. Antony was on the alert, The sun—which will keep ‘‘baking, boiling, burn- ing on our helpless clay’—was in direct eonflict with the idea of human infallibility, so that we are assured by our writer that the Council was voted a ‘‘bore” in some of the most refined circles outside the Vatican. Admiration of art and the prevalence of Catholic fervor tended to prevent any serious tapsus in morals so far, and Northern piety, aided by seasonable declines in the register of the thermometer, afforded hope that the Council would be dissolved not only in ‘‘peace and harmony,” but in “‘bliss,” and with the result of tending to a propagandism of the most seasonable styles of dress and the latest fashions, The Peace of Standing Armies—The Tax of Blood, When rumor after rumor comes to us of war and revolution in Europe; when nearly evory telegram and every mail brings us some fresh account of wrong and outrage, until —The ear is pained, the soul ts sick With every day’s report!’ of struggling nationalities, protesting bonds- men, toilers driven to the last extremity of desperation by bitter, grinding poverty, the most natural question that springs to every lip is, ‘‘Why such wretchedness among so many races? What causes all this fearful trouble ?” Eighteen hundred and twenty-three thousand able-bodied men now actually in array in time of peace ; and, in case of general warfare, five millions of the very flower of the youth of France, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Turkey in Europe, not to mention the British Islands, not merely withdrawa from the productive, softening and humaniz- ing arts of peace, but drilled, trained and incited by everything that can inflame their greed and their ambition for the ferocious, soul-hardening deviltries of war. What won- der that humanity groans and writhes beneath so frightful a burden! Let us take France, essentially, in fact and by tradition the most military nation on the globe, as an example of the workings of this organized anarchy, which has so revolted her present Emperor—a blood relative of the greatest warrior of modern times, and the in- heritor of his glory—that he has repeatedly proposed a general disarmament to his great military neighbors. What do we find there? A peace establishment of nearly half a million men, a framework requiring a field force of 647,271, and a grand total of 1,350,000 soldiers liable to be summoned into service at any momeat. The cost of maintaining the peace quota is 846,000,000 francs, or nearly $70,000,000 per annum, while the war budget is almost $130,000,000 per annum. Of 822,000 young men who every twelvemonth reach the age of twenty, no less than 60,000 are taken for the Garde Mobile alone. Look at the figures: In five years $359,009,000, with interest, drained from the effective capital of the nation, and 300,000 pairs of sturdy arms and sets of active brains withdrawn from its laboring strength. Now, it is the merest folly to point to the consumption made by these uniformed idlers at nome. The soldier is the minimum consumer in the useful direction. As an artisan, or even as an agricultural toiler, he would use more commodities in quantity and better in quality by far than he does ag the slave of routine and discipline, while at the same time he would be beautifying the country and multiplying its material wealth, Moreover, such use of goods as the poor nameless private in the ranks can make is simply waste, resulting in absolutely nothing, but additional impoverishment to himself and his compatriots. Of the total of 100,000 men required annually to keep the army ranks full, 80,000 belong to the agricultural class and poor families in the cities. Of these 40,000 at least are farmer boys. This, in the sevon years’ term of service imposed by law, amounts to 280,000 men, or seventy-three apiece for every commune in France for that whole lapse of time. Thus, as the ablest French statisticians estimate, an average of 200,000 families have to look elsewhere for the aid in their field work which would have been rendered by the son of the house. The substitute has not only to be fed, but paid, and there is another drain upon the feeble resources of the poor farmer. What misery, what deprivation, what ‘“‘hope de- ferred that maketh the heart sick” must these wretched people endure in all the long period of their boys' absence! Why, it ia again computed that one hundred thousand families are kept in positive penury by this terrible burden. At last the son returns, ex- pecting, it may be, to find the old hearthstone, the little field and garden plot, the lowly cabin, endeared amid all their humbleness to his childhood. In too many instances, alas! he finds them in other hands; toil, infirmity, despair, too well seconded by the tax-gatherer and the bailiff, have swept away his home and consigned his parents, if they still survive, to the tender mercies, the straw pallet, the black bread and gruel of the parish. And this is the gallant soldier's reward for seven years’ faith- This is the nation’s and the jadi- vidual’s glory! How much more sad the story { when the returning soldier comes totterias ry