The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1870, Page 6

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Paar. 1—Advertisements. ‘2— Advertisements 8—RKeligious: Political Parsons Piping Peace to France and Prussia; The Dark Side of Religion “and the Bright Side of the World; Joys of Heaven Contrasted with the Pleasures of Sin; The Beautiful as an Element of Morality, an Nature as an Instructor; Au Infurtated Local Prophet; Infallibiity of the Po} 4—Religious (continued from Thi ))—Mustcal and Theatrical—Old World Items—Fine Arts— Horrtbie Kerosene Casualt, ye G—Europe: Queen Isabella's Abdication of the Crown of Spain; Her ex-Majesty’s Mistake in Going to Paris; The Conspiracy to Explode the Gibraltar Magazine; An American on Trial and Sentenced in Germany—News from the Cape of Good Hope—India—Persia: The Russian Landing in Belkan Bay—The Tornado in Montreal. G—E litorials: Leading Article on the Warm Eu- rope, Opportanity of the United States—A Boat Capsized—Amusement Announcements, bd sy War: Rumors from the Front in Paris and Reports of @ Battle; the French Nation Unanimous; “Monarchical” and Myaterl- ous “Combination” Against France; Kin Wilitam’s Triumphal Reception; Unt Germany Demands an Invasion of France; Money Pouring into Paris; Movements of the Armies—lelgraphic News—The Heated ‘Term—Business Notices. S—TWork Neglected by Co : Measures that Fatied to Receive Actioa—Emigration to Colo- rado—New York City and Brooklyn News— Personal Intelligence—Musical Review—Critl- cisms of New Books—News from Honduras— The Day of Rest; City Excursionists on the “Briny Deep’’—Sunday at the Park—Obituary— An Escape from Fire—The Custom House : The New Ay tees to Assume the Duties of Their Onices To-Day—That “Old Theatrical Story.” @—Wells College Commencement: A Large Gather- ing of 1 pp, poe Fashion—Long Isiand Pest Holes—The Celestals in California—Financial and Commercial Reports—Statistics of Com- merce and Navigation—Court Calendars for —Mi and Deaths, ears IB 'To-Day- 10—Cruise of the Quinnebang: ‘Three $ Southern Waters—New York's Saturday Nig! —Tho Brokers’ Gauday Qut—Saratoga Springs —News from Washington—Auother Bloody Sabhath—Chess Matters—The Chila Abduo- tion in New Orleans—A Highly Colored Ro- wmance—Another East River Suicide—The Cricket Plague—Midnight Mission in Provi+ dence--Shipping Inteiligence-- Advertisements. Ai—dustralasia: Murder and Suicide; Floods in the Hunter River—Progress in Asia—The La- hor Question—A Mad Stone—Religion Among the Shakers—Buried Alive—News from the sandwich Islands—Strange Effects of a Kero- sene Accident—A Mild Aflair for @ Missouri fon tp Cause of Minister Motley'’s Re- moval. AQ~-Mexieo: The Smuggling Operations on the Rio Grande; Indignation of the eprometgh - y Z; Reyolu- tion of the Supreme Court Judge Swallowed Up ina Quicks and—Interesting His- torical Remintscenoes—Tie Poisoning Case in Indiana—Keal Estate Transiers—Advertise- ments, db sts Cor.eoroR Murpry and Naval Officer Grin- nell will enter on their new duties to-day, The “outs” are pressing forward hopefully, and the ‘‘ins” have the usual aitack of ner- vousness, Ovr Mexioan CorrEsronvEeNve, which will be found on another page, details in full the state of affairs in Mexico. It is hardly neces- sary to say that the country is in its usual condition—revdiutionary all over. No matter which way we look, we perceive those influences at work, hastening on to inevitable destruction what might be a happy and peace- fal nation. WAL Srreet AND THE War News.—The effort to get up a financial excitement over the war news has so far been discouraging to the Wall street speculators. The future has been already greatly discounted in that region, and the public show little disposition to join the “bulls” and ‘“‘bears.” Should the war he prolonged moiey ets worl ee fegft- mate channels of business than in stock and gold gambling. ee ai DowninG, THE OysTERMAN, has been shame- fully treated by the Congressional Co1mmittee on Public Buildings. Ho has been ordered to quit his restaurant in the Capitol within thirty days, and a nogro barber, who, probably, has no more political cast than he could have ob- tained by shaving Senatorial chine or crop- ping Congressional hair, is to be put in his place. Downtng has filled Congressional and even Presidential stomachs, and therefore has a closer connection with the radical body poli- tic than the haireroprer. He feels the insult deeply, and, being chairman of the National Republican General Committee of Colored Men, ho will most probably feed fat the gruige hé owes the party. Gay at Lona Braxou.—This week will in- augurate the gay season at Long Branch. The Presidentwill be there; Collector Murphy will be there; some of our city officials will be on hand; the Saratoga races will close, and Van- derbilt, Helmbold, Belmont and Barlow will all hurry to Long Branch to take part in the opening of the gay season, Fisk will ride up and down on his gay Plymouth Rock, Jay Gonld will leave Wall street at the close of bank hours and spend his evenings at tho Branch, Dan Drew will attend church there on Sundays, Mayor Hall will wrench himself away from his labors and give the beach a night or twoa week of his presence, and the small fry aristocracy and politicians will wake | up the crowd for six weeka lo come. unity of the United States, Our commerce should be just now the lead- ing subject of national attention. In the pre- sent juncture of the world’s affairs there appears the opportunity that, rightly improved, might not only restore to us the maritime strength that was swept away in our great war, but out of which also we might secure @ start that would easily enable us to distance within a few years every rival power. At this moment there are twenty-six German steamers carrying passengers between ports in Europe and the United States, All these must stop at the very mention of the presence outside of » French cruiser. Sailing from this port also are all the splendid steamers of the ‘‘Compagnie Générale Transatlantique,” and these must stop, for there is also a Prussian man-of-war not faraway. And this statement of the case with regard to the splendid passenger steamers, many of which also have a fine trade in first class freight, is the statement of the whole case with regard to Fronch and German com- merce. Each nation has naval power enough to drive the mercantile marine of the other from the seas. What shall become of the numerous trade thus done—and of the great number of ships engaged in it that are not fit for war, and ought not to rot in block- aded ports? England already has covetous eyes on this great trade, and in the assumption that ‘‘business will fall to neutral flags” the government is urged to remain neutral despite every possible complication that may arise. British neutrality in this war will no doubt result greatly to the advantage of the British shipping trade, and for this reason alone every nerve will be strained to keep Great Britain out of the Continental struggle. Will this effort be successful? It is doubt- ful. Already we hear that neutrality will be inconsistent with the honor of England if the Low Countries seem to be in danger, and this reference to the fact that England is one of the Powers that guarantee the independence of Belgium is too plain for misconception. Again, we hear the intimation that England morally stands behind Prussia, and that any sign of failure on the part of the latter Power will draw England into the struggle. The very fact that these things are canvassed ren- ders the neutrality of English ships uncertain, and so unsafe, and the probability is that the United States alone will have it within its power to reap all the harvest of this war. Indeed, this is a change that is justly due us in the whirligig of time; for as one war de- stroyed our commerce and built up the mari- time trade of some European ports at our ex- pense, it is but proper that another war should build up our trade again at the expense of the commerce of Europe. But it isnot only from the effects of our war that our commerce is prostrate. It was stricken down by the war, but it has been kept down by the inconceivable folly of cer- tain of our laws—laws like the compact with Shylock—framed to ‘‘protect’” certain interests, to give those interests their pound of flesh, though this could only be done at the expense of the whole body from which the flesh must be cut, Before, therefore, war in Europe can give us again that of which war in America deprived us, we must first set aside these most foolish, villanous, pocket-picking laws; these laws framed to enrich ten men and starve ten thousand; laws which declare that this great nation shall own no ships except it can wake terms with Mr, Kelley, of Pennsyl- vania, and afew more men of his kidney ; laws only second in atrocity to those slave laws that the nation has recently torn out of its lite at such frightful cosi; laws whose authors and supporters, if the slaveholder de- served all the opprobrium cast upon him, should be stoned in the streets of avery city of the republic, The world has not for many generations seen a more bewildering, confounding specta- cle of imbecility, of dowaright inability to comprehend and grasp a simple thought—than that shown by the United States Congress when its attention was properly called to this subject on Friday last. The President by special message pointed out the oppor- tunity, and hinted at the way we could improve it, but his words fell on minds preoccupied with another thought. What was this grand thought that left no room even for the proposition to erase the last great disadvantage left by the war? It was the reflection of every member that he had his ticket in his pocket, that he had made up his mind to go home, that he did not want to be delayed and stop for the bother of any more legislation, however imperatively necessary for the interests of the nation; and in this pitiful haste to get away, and for this puerile reason, the Congress of the United States turned a deaf ear to one of the most important measages that ever came to it from the Execu- tiye. Some members there were who proposed fa tieadure that mizit havé Govéted the case: but Mr, Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was there, standing, as one might suppose, bludgeon in hand, determined that the nearly lifeless body of American commeres should not rise while he could strike, and in the criminal indifference \ of the mass of members to their duty he was | able to kill the proposition that was made. | Such, then, is the patriotisra of the republican | party, aud such is the contrast between its | conduct in the presence of s real national emergency and the ready attention it once i gave to the nigger and now gives to every | form of corrupt jobbery. Shall our oppor- tunity pass because of a recreant and imbecile Congress, or must the government study means to evade the operation of oppr: 2 laws? The Polive DiMoulty The determination not to accept the resig- nation of Superiutendent Jourdan should he ouly the first step of police reform. Com- missioner Brennan is an experienced police tactician. He is soon, it is said, to be made Sheriff of the county. Let him inaugurate ia the meantime a new era of police discipline; for it must be evident to every observer that the excellent intentions of Messrs, Hull and Sweeny at the outset of the charter imbroglio will at the next trial, be suecesaful, | If the Commissioners won't expressly give Superintendent Jourdan the power that he | needs as commandor-in-chief, can he not as far | as possible impliedly exercise it? Then, if the Commissioners dispute any of his actions as an executive, the publicand the politicians of uext winter ia the Legislature will be broughs face to face with a very palpable but man- ageable mischief, The community gencrally hold the Superintendent responsible for the disastrous beginning of the recent riot, while they award him credit for dealing with the exizenoy promptly and efficlently when he had sole responsibility. But generals in all new armies have suffered great or little disasters, which only served to instigate them to fresh exertions, Suropean War Nows—lrance and (ere many Enthusiastic for Battle=Tue Poo- ples Agitated. A series of cable telograms, received from the Old World during yesterday and last night, which we publish this morning, report to the American people the development of the war furor which prevails between France and Germany. Tbere were “rumors from the front” of a severe battle having been fought between the contending armies at a point of territorial border contact. It was said that thousands bad been killed on either side. Of this we had no confirmation at an early hour this morning. The prevalence of such rumors, should they prove to be merely rumors, at such an early date of the struggle proves con- clusively that the “reliable gentleman” is not exactly indigenous to American soil in war. The cable despatches go to show that France is a unit for war; that Germany is united and a unit for war. In sucha crisis somebody will be very seriously hurt. It is like the schoolboy proposition in science—“If a body which cannot give way meets another body which won't give way, what will be the result?” The agitation of the peoples of France and North Germany is extreme. Napoleon is supported by the nation, The French Legislature presented an address to the Emperor, couched in words of the most devoted loyalty. The members hint at the previous existence of a ‘‘monarchical combina- tion” conducted in a ‘‘mysterious” manner, but with @ Prussian connivance against the empire. Money ‘‘pours” in for war purposes by voluntary subscription, and a new loan, to Paris. Changarnier is to command the French reserves as a Marshal of Franca; a graceful and well timed compliment by Bonaparte to the the democracy. The Empress Eugenie is called on by the Legislative Body to as- sume the chief control of the State during the absence of the Head of the Army. Her Majesty is now in Paris. The Prince Im- perial will accompany his father to the field, This is French; of and for France, with a good deal of other exciting matter beside, Germany is equally enthusiastic. It is in the German fashion—exact, practical and with few words, King William of Prussia enjoyed a most enthusiastic reception at Cologne. His people demanded to be marched into France immediately. They will give money; give their lives. Germany knows no North, no South. The nation remains one against insult or territorial violation. The seriousness, the imminent gravity of this Franco- German crisis, can be estimated more accurately by paying attention to the great official care and diplomatic caution which are observed and exercised by the surrounding Powers to escape if possible from participation in the hurly-burly. From Brussels to Madrid and from London to Vienna come either actual declarations or evident symptoms of neutrality. After the fashion of Eolus, they will endeavor to confine the conflicting and combative blasts of demo- cracy within their caves and cabins of woe and plaint, well knowing that if the popular whirlwind should rush forth—the Una Hurus, Notusque ruunt et Afrious, of Virgil—crowns and thrones would he in danger; settle over perhaps to such a de- gree of insecurity that we should soon hear of many noble young men becoming quite as disinterested in their declension of the tender of such baubles as is Prince Leopold of Hohen- zollern in regard to those of Spain. The democracy is indeed in motion. It is taking sides, and is being used as a power for or against, The Italians ia Vlorence made a de- monstration against France yesterday. They went unequivocally, on the streets at least, for Germany, but appeared to prefer neutrality to active work for either. The Italian movement is significant, however. Prim is about to visit Vichy again. Hungary has found her tongue. She has, as we are assured from London, cast her political voice for France. The Hungarian leaders think they can perceive the sheen of true democracy from the tricolor. If this news should prove to be exactly correct Austria will have received a warning; the black eagle be alarmed by the clear chirp of the fledgling of the plains. Hanover is becoming excited. Her Prussian military guardian is on the qui vive. Den- mark and the Northern Duchies have assumed an attitude of expression. That attitude pleases France, The Danes wigh to rally round the fing of Napoleon, They, us we hear from Paris, threaten revolution should their rulers act contrary to their wishes. Revolution! It fs an ominous word just now in Europe. The British Chan- nel fleet appeared off the coast of Belgium yesterday, where it joined the United States squadron, This iadicates something serious, Vas Great Britain heard a popular murmur from Brussels? Does she think of the men of the “‘ramparts of Antwerp” or of the spades and shovels of the lines of Torres Vedras? Which? Perhaps she will inform our naval commanders abroad, and that they will assure {us of “no entangling alliances” for foroign | war purposes. A Party ¢ ‘our Presona, two of them ladies, in a carriage, attempted to drive across | the Camden and Cape May Railroad track on | Saturday in front of a moving train. They {| were ran over; three of them were killed out- | right and the fourth was fatally injured, Such ‘an accident as this is of strangely frequent ; occurrence, though none of late has been so | disastrous in its consequences. Why is it | that persons will attempt such dangerous feuts, when very little time would be lost and ; no danger would be incurred by allowing the train to pass first? There must be something | of that strange infatuation or fascination in it that is said to beset men when ona fearful height to jump off, or when swift rushing | engines are passing to throw themselves under | the wheels, and which oftener than we think can alone account for what coroners’ juries | cull “acoideutal death” or “suivide without » | olive,” NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEER The Franco-Prussian War and Infanibiity im the Churches Yesterday. Yesterday several of our clergymen referred in their sermons to the Franco-Prussian war. Of course, this was to have been expected. It was really refreshing to hear them denounce the contest. Brother Beecher thought there was no moral principle animating either nation, although he believed there was naturally a strong sym- pathy for Prussia, which was at the head ofa democratic and liberal minded people. Rev. Mr. Jones, at the Water street dogpit, almost regretted that France had not obeyed the divine injunction and, when Prussia smote her with Prince Leopold on one cheek, turned her the other (Alsace and Lorraine, no doubt), Rev. Mr. Powers, at the Elm place Congregational church, sincerely hoped that the Christian nations would interfere and stop the war, which was one waged without cause. Ina word it was charming to hear these preachers plead elo- quently for peace. How changed their views have become since 1859 and 1860! How Christian! Do we not recall how these same gentlemen, in both sections of the country, preached red hot sermons? Was there nota skirmish in each sentence, a heavy bombard- ment in each paragraph and a general engage- ment in each discourse? But then our cause was holy, and the Southern preachers said their cause was holy. The idea that the Ger- mans and French associate holiness with their respective causes evidently did not strike Mr. Beecher. Rev. Mr. Smyth, of the American Free Church, was the only preacher on this war topic who deduced from it a Christian lesson, And even he dealt more on its gen- eral than on its specific features. After all, these pious arguments against bloodshed, if even a trifle Pecksniffian, serve a good purpose. If we pull out the mote that is in our brother's eye, the operation ought to benefit him; though what good it does us poor creatures, half-blinded by the beam that is in our own eyes, we shall not even venture to sug- gest. Still, it was somewhat inconsistent, after preaching peace and good will to all in the morning to pitch into the Pope in the evening, as was done by Mr. Powers. This clergyman predicted that at uo distant day the sword would be drawn in this land to establish absolutism in the Church. In fact he sniffed “*blud, ha, ba! dam—ned vilyun!” Heaven forbid that his prediction should ever be real- ized. The most unholy of all wars is a religious one. Rev. Mr. Tunison, at the Hoboken Methodist Church, b2- lieved that the Romish church was ‘‘dead] and damned.” Rev. John Love, of the Antioch Baptist church, declared the dogma of infallibility to be blasphemy. Thus do some preachers set an example of Christian love and charity to the world! The other sermons were on various interest- {og topics. We must refer the reader to our reports of them, published elsewhere, for a knowledge of their contents, Rev. Mr. Mayo, of Cincinnati, preached at the Church of the Saviour, in Brooklyn, and volunteored the information that ‘hell is only a reform school for heaven.” Five persons assembled at the Murray Hill Baptist chapel to listen to an interesting discourse on baptism. The reverend speaker favored public immersion, and so doubtless did his congregation, which had evidently gone to Long Branch and other watering places where they could be publicly immersed. The frightfully hot weather kept all the churches almost empty. Prayers at church on such a day as yesterday demanded an exercise of will few persons are capable of, and we trust, therefore, that they prayed at home with due gravity and devotion. Interesta=Tho Blunder Congress. The agent of the North German Lloyd’s steamers is at present in Washington, where he is canvassing the probabilities of reversing the negative action of Congress on the propo- sition to transfer his vessels to the American flag. Ho presents the case in such a light that the penny wise and pound foolish Congress- men, who preferred that the country should lose all the advantages of the transfer rather than that they should lose their free passages on the railways homeward, will be able to see their folly in a clear light. The Prussian governmeut offered us the first choice, and if we persist in our refusal they will offer the same proposition to the English government, which will be quick enough to accept it. Thus by the blunder “of Congress we not only de- cline a free increase of our own mercantile marine, but we make ourselves accessory to an increase in the same proportion of the mercantile marine of our nearest rival. Secretary Fish, with an eye to the pro- tection of our mails, has, itis reported, in- structed Minister Washburne to request the Em- peror Napoleon not to interfere with Prussian sigamere carrying our malls, ‘This je gn ox- traordinary reqiiést fo make to the Emperdt when he is so palpably bent on a decisive and unrelenting war. He may probably feel kindly towards us for that blunder which Con- gress made (and Prussia, by the way, may feel correspondingly bitter), but he is too shrewd to forego such immense prizes merely through a kindly feeling. The only way in which we can protect our foreign mails is to hoist the American flag over them, and that Congress has lost the opportunity of doing. Our Shipping of ‘The Kesalt of a Firemawa Fight. A very stziking example of the want of discipline in the fire departments of our neigh- bor cities was that furnished at the terrible conflagration in Meriden, Conn., on Saturday, While the fire companies were fighting among themselves about precedence at a hydrant the fire gained such headway in the splendid silver-plating factory of the Meriden Britannic Compaay that it was burned up, thus throwing six hundred people out of employment and de- stroying a quarter of a million dollars worth of prope.ty. This was a very unfortunate and a very disgraceful affair, Nothing of that kind could occur in this city under our paid Fire Department. Everything here is done with the promptness and regularity of military dis- cipline. It is doubtful whether these Counecti- cut firemen are not amenable to the law, and should not be held penally responsible for the disaster. It is true they are merely votun- teers; but then they have taken an obligation to perform certain public duties, and thus, in ® measure, they prevent others from doing them. When the volunteer fireman neglecls these duties to indulge in a quarrel with another company, in presence of a terrible conflagration, he is certainly not free from responsibility. However, the only way to get rid of evils like these in all the country towns is to adopt the model of the New York paid Fire Department. The French Budget. Were it possible to regulate finance py military mandate or to control the rise and fall of values by the passwords of the bivouac, those men and nations who revel in war, keeping up standing armies in order to be pre- pared for conflicta, and then rushing into con- flicts in order to employ the standing armies, would have an easy time of it, But practical experience teaches all what Canute had sense enough to discover for himself, that the billows of the sea, moral or physical, roll not back at any mortal’s command. The great ebb and flow of monetary values follow a law of their own, which is measured healthily and normally by the good works of peace only. France has just plunged into a tremendous and uncertain war. But the other day her legislators were most anxiously debating the budget. They disclosed the fact that the round product of all the French taxes and revenues is 1,511,709,190 francs, of which total it is impossible to expend less than 554,088,726 and pay all charges, pensions, &c., or a good deal more than one-third of the whole disposable sum. There remain, then, but 957,029,764 to pay the army and navy and the civil demands, including the judiciary, the church endowments, the various govern- mental departments, &c. These calls amount to about 848,000,000. The remainder is transferred to the credit of the extra budget, and is applied chiefly to the public works. In referenco to these charges there is no hope of improvement unless there be a searching reform and curtailment of the army. On the contrary they increase every year, and at every session for the past dozen years there has been a large party to complain bitterly over the declining prosperity of the country staggering beneath the weight of auch bur- dens. The various fixed taxes rated per head weigh very heavily, and impera- tively demand modification, Yet they make up the great. bulk of the revenue. The manorial revenue that comes into the State yields but 178,000,000 francs, while the indirect contributions on sugar and tobacco, salt, beverages, &c., yield 626,747,000 francs. One authoritative writer sets down all the indirect returns at four-fifths of the whole resources of the country, and were these large returns absolutely certain and not liable to fluctuations and changes they would form the right arm of the treasury. But it is often at the very time when they are most needed that they do not yield fruitfully. As matters have been recently, the floating debt of France has risen to nearly eight hundred millions, and overshadows the government with a continual menace of necessity for a new loan, and, if we are to believe the recent report of M. Chesnelong on the subject, the savings funds are more likely to exhibit deficits than a surplus. The city of Paris ran up enormous liabilities, and, as though following her exam- ple, very many of the smaller towns and com- munes have done likewise. Now, therefore, pushing aside tho chicanery and make-believe of those who try to confase the question and draw distinctions where there are no differences, all these burdens rest upon the same shoulders, The individual who pays his share of the town or commune debt also pays to the general government his part of the general taxes. With the outbreak of war all these charges aro increased, at the very mo- ment when the cost of all the necessaries of life is enhanced and the working force diminished. In the present year these difi- culties are enormously augmented by various causes, foremost among which are the terrible drought and the failure of crops, the complaint of manufacturers in all directions, aud the widespread trade strikes, now ruoning into such dangerous demonstrations as those most recently made by bakers, gardeners, butchers, &c. Behind the scenes there is, after all, vory little sentimontalism in war, and while the superficial observer may simply be amusing his fancy, if it be truculent enongh to care nothing for the heaped up dead, the ghastly wounds, the trampled, blood-polluted fields, and the tears and desolation, and poverty and vice, with the body and soul ruin that follows in a thousand homes, the statesman is gravely—oh, most gravely !—and anxiously pondering how all this isto be paid for from the scanty store at home, France, for instance, begins with a large loan and a muster of her reserves. How shall she end with that haunting monstrum hor- rendum, the budget of 18717 The Railway, the Telegraph, and the Fing Arts, The railway aud the telegraph have been ignorantly deorled by some vorsifiers as pro- ducts and exponents of a merely mechanical age—an age in which matter has usurped the throne of mind. Eveg so true a poet ag Wordsworth dreaded the intrusion of the rail- way upon the beantiful repose of English rural scenery. He thought that the shrill steam whistle would scare away forever from his fa- vorite haunts tho genius loci which had in- spired his muse. But more recent poets, with greater knowledge of the harmony between science and nature, and with clearer insight into the spiritual significance as well as ma- terial power of steam and electricity as special agents of modern life and civilization, have discovered and celebrated the poetry of the railway and the telegraph. These marvel- lous instruments of human will are bringing us swiftly to ‘the time of the end” predicted by the prophet Daniel, when ‘‘ many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased.” At length steam and electricity have been recog- nized and idealized within the domain of the fine arts, Signor Antonio Rosetti, 9 dis- tinguished and wealthy sculptor, who is a Milanese by birth, but who has successfally pursued his profession for thirty years at Rome, has lately completed two remarkable statues, ono of which he entitles La Via er- rata, the Railway, and the other, JI Zelegrafo, the Telegraph, The former is insoribed with the name of Stephensoa, the inventor of the lo- comotive, and tha latter with that of Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. The fact that Mr. Morso, the ex-President of the Amerioan | Academy of Design, is himself an artiat, ‘makos NE rt tener PR ft the more appropriate that art should thus commemorate his great invention, The two statues might have evinced more originality if the sculptor had not relied chiefly upon the traditional means of distinguishing them by symbolic accessories, But the fine photographs of thera which have been sent to us show that they are admirably executed, They can readily be multiplied by copies of any dimen- sions in marble or in bronze, and they would be suitable ornaments for railway and tele- graph stations throughout the world. Rosettl, the sculptor, is described as “a live man, an ardent patriot anda believer in the modern age.” It is singularly suggestive that these statues in honor of two prime movers in this age of progress should have been completed in Rome at the very mo- ment when the majority of the Ecumencial Council is generally supposed to be trying in the same city to clog the wheels of modern progress, to turn back the course of time, and, like Joshua of old, to make sun and moon stand still. It recalls to mind the famous pro- test of Galileo as he rose from his knees after having been forced to retract his theory of the motion of the earth—H pur si muove! France and the North German Confedera- tton—Their Numerical Forces Not an Infallible Test of Their Relative Supe- riority. France has a population of thirty-eight mil- lions. That of the North German Confedera- tion, consisting of Prussia, with the annexed States of Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Schleswig- Holstein, Nassau and Frankfort, and the Ger- man States north of the river Main, amounts to nearly thirty-one millions. The South Ger- man States, excluding Austria, may possibly aid Prussia in its resistance to French aggres- sion, aud they number nine millions, Thus the balance in point of population is slightly in favorof Germany. The French navy, with its fifty-five iron-clads and their 1,032 guns, against the Prussian navy, with but four auch vessels and their fifty guns, and a similar dis- parity in other classes of war steamers, is indisputably superior. But although since the unexpected victory of Prussia in 1866 tha efficiency of the French army a8 well as that of the French navy has been steadily increased and the effective force of the army with the reserve has been brought up to eight hundred thousand, a number larger by two hundred and sixty-three thousand than it had at the commencement of the Crimean war, yet the Prussian army has also been steadily in- creased, until it contains six hundred and fif- teen thousand, of whom four hundred and fifty thousand are in active service; while the, reserve of Prussia, consisting of the entire male population of suitable age, will enable her to bring into the field, fora defensive campaign, a fall million of thoroughly drilled soldiers. Thus, ina military point of view, France and the North German Confederacy seem to be not very unequally matched. But this apparent equilibrium of their nu- merical forces is not an infallible test of the relative superiority of the two nations. For it cannot be forgotten that the new German Confederacy is composed of the most hetero- geneous elements to which the homogeneous- ness of the French population must bo a for- midable and solid barrier. German unity has long been an unrealized dream, The unity which Prussia enforced in 1866 is but a tod- dling babe four years of age, and it must be an infant Hercules indeed, if it can success- fully strive against the mature strength of French unity. It would seem as if all the sharply cut distinctions betweou Imperialist, Orleanist, Bourbonist and republican parties in France were about to be obliterated, at least temporarily, in the universal passionate desire of all Frenchmen to make the Rhine their natural and acknowledged boundary line. When it is remembered how reluctantly some of the lesser German States submitted tothe revision of the map of Prussia, which her successes in 1866 rendered possible, and how impatient they still must secretly be under the yoke of Bismarck aad William, it can bo imagined that if a French army were lo occupy Dresden, for instance, its presence might revive old animositities to Prussia, whereas the occupation of Lyons by » Prussian army could not awaken, even among therevolu- tionary classes in that busy town any corres- ponding hostility to the Emperor of the French, so long as that sovereign rides, with his son, at the head ofa French army, strug- gling against invaders of French territory. On both sides the enthusiasm for war appeara to be almost equal. As we have intimated, the uv- merical forces of the opponents are not very unequal. But it will not be safe to predlot the ultimate result of the contest between France and Prussia without a careful estimate of other olemenis in tho problem than their respective numerical forces. : ne News rrom te Anriropes,—From Austenl- asia we have newspaper mail reports of the progress of affairs at the Antipodes, dated to, the 28th of May. The news details, which are quito interesting, are published to-day. The territory in the vicinity of the Hunter river was again visited by disastrous floods, Jolin Chinaman made his first appoarance as convict on the gallows for murder, and diod like ‘‘any other man.” _ Like a great many other men under similar circumstances, his last words were ‘No, no,” with regard to his guilt, Romance, crime, murder and suicide meet the eye pretty much on every pago of oue exchanges, Civilization is yet in its grand struggle with the ferw natura of Australia, but civilization is gaiuing tho mastory rapidly. tae Pe Over Srzorat Lerrers rRoM Evrorx which appear In the Hgraup to-day present an attractive exhibit of the Old World situatior as it prevailed on the 2d of July, Our writer in Madrid draws attention to the mistake which the ex-Queen Isabella committed in going to Paris at any time previous to her abdication of the throne pof Spain, £ Stal A BOAT CAPSIZEO—WAS THERE A BUADER. Last evening as the ferrybort Mridicton of the Staten Isiand line was proceeding down the bay sie spted two men chung! to & saliboat that had heen capsized. They” were rescued and gave the names of Will Butior, of 181 Chariton street, and George Glenville, of Greenwich st near Hubert. Glehville stated that during @ a between Butler and John Williams, resid ia King street, near Hudson, the boxt bbe capsusod, and Williams was drowned, Butior, dented the statement declares he and Glenyiliq Wore (pe only ersons on board, and no quarrel o¢ourred. Bergean' ii erty, of the Fifth Precinct, who Was on tha Middleton, arrested Batler on suspicion of murder, aud locked hun we ln the Moroer alroet slalom 4 House, “ &&