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

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. egret JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Alt business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Huxra. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. =— = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and ‘98d wt.—LA GIsELLE—Tuk Nations. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and 19th street. gaits, Gus Gousm Gunnans BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vaniery ENTERTAIN: ‘BENT. Woops w "AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, cor- eer Thirtiouh at.—Petfarmances every afternoon sud of oon and evening COMIQU! 4 E 0 Vooal+ SRE SOREN FE ioe AN FRANCISOO MINSTREL HALL, $65 Bron:way.— ‘BVOKLEY's SBEENADERS. Third ave. TERRACE GARDEN, re street and ‘nue.—GRAND VOOAL AND oftgway ra CONCERT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 616 Broadway.— AND ART, gommyoR DB. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 145 Brondway.— SOLENOR AND ant, TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Tuesday, July 19, 1870, Fa CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?3 HzRALD. Fehtvertneuen ts. Overtisementa. The War: Onief Commands of the French and German Armios; News irom the Front and Po- ons of the Prussian Troops; Reported Bom- bardment of Saar-Louts by the French; Ger- many Well Prepared and France In ta Movement; Russia Said to Have Declared ‘for the pecan Bridsh Occupation or Belgium a Mt. 4—Cuha! Antagonism Towards Captain General De Rodas—A Jerseyman Amorg the Cann! bals—Real Estate Matiers—A Woman Drugged and Ruined—Meeting of the Commissioners of Docks—Blanche Butler's Coming araees ‘The Americus Club: A Gala Day at Indian Harbor—Brookiyn City News—Superintendent Jourdan’s Withdrawal of His Resignation— Lynch Law in Alavama—The Canadian Fish- erles—Ireland ; Tourists Under the Coercion Act—That Bloody Dnel on Bloody Island. G—The Scannel Homicide: Inquest on the Body— Westchester County Court—Fire in Jersey City—Singular Disaster—The Sunday Liquor Trafc—Fratricide in Belmont County, Ohio— Persnnal Intelligence—Schoo! Keceptior john Chinaman on the Pacific Slope—Singular Muti- lation—The National Game—Dowling as a Dentist—Boon Comparions—<*e :tence on Judge Whue, of Hoboken—Conseccration ‘at New- pe Bad Ld pated pec Wpet an — roccedings e New York Courfs— ler The Small Gin Mills at Trenton, N, J. @—Euditorials : Leading Article on the War Panic in Europe, Russia and Great Britain Coming to the Front—Amusement Announcements. %—Telegrayhic News from all Parts of the World: Russian Report of the Obristians’ Massacre in China—Steamboat Explosion in Louisigna— News from Washington—The Heated Term— ne Ocean Yacht Race—Heavy Bond Robbery—The Supposed Homicide by Drown- ing—The New Customs Oficials—Weary of the World—Long Island City—A Vamily Poisoned—Business Notices, 8—Balance of Power in Europe: The Congress of Vienna and the Reconstruction of Europe at the Close of the Napoleonic War; The Bonds by Which France is Bound to Keep the Peace; Those “Detestable” Treaties Under Whicir Napoleon UL, 18 Chafing; Past Facts for Pres- ent Consideration, * @—Balance of Powerin Europe (continued from Eighth Page)—Police Trials—Financial and Commercial Reports—Deatus. 10—The War scoulinnee from third page)—The Saratoga Races: Fourth Day’ of tle Summer Meeting ; Three Exciting Raecs—A “Cranky” Political Machine— An Orange (N. J.) Mystery— A Heavy Sell: The Third Avenue Ratlroed Capture the Upper End of the Is!and—Ship- -ping intelligence—Advertisementa, 11—/rench Prisons: The Female Prisou of St. La- zare, Paris: How the Inmates are Employed and Controlled—Voice of the People—the English Universities cricket Match—Oid World Items—A Long Island Centennarian— Advertisements. ¥2—Advertisements. Tar Hicn Actuorrries at Washington are all preparing for their summer vacation. The President goes to his villa at Long Branch on Thursday, and the Secretaries betake them- selves homeward. Ovr Summer TRAVELLERS To Evrore this season will, probably, from this war, be re- duced to one-half, or even as low as one-third of the number who went over for ‘“‘the grand tower,” beginning at Paris, last summer. We shall, perhaps, keep in the country ten or fifteen millions of money which otherwise would go to Europe to be sqnandered there. So the old maxim wiil still spply, ‘* It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” / GENERAL SHEPIDAN is to be sent to Europe by the President to watch the operations:of the contending armies. We do not think he is the most suitable man for the service. He is hardly acientific enough. Besides, he will find himself bothered to look on and observe opera- tions of this sort without taking a hand him- self. And then we need him on the Plains, where he will have the privilege of fighting with the rest if there is any fighting to be done, Tax Coat Moxorousrs have met with another reverse. The eight hour strike in the Scrantog coal region wag an entire failure. On the day appointed for the turnout the men were all found steadily at their work, and it is thonght that operations will be immediately resumed in the Schuylkill region. Every attempt this season to force up the price of coal by means of strikes has been unsnecess- ful, and consumers may rest satisfied that they will be able to secure their stock of fuel at reasonable prices. Tox Riont anp Tuc Lerr BANK oF A River.—As we shall have, for some time to come, in detailing the warlike» movements of the French and Prussians, to speak frequently of the right and the left bank of the Rhine, the Moselle, the Main, &c., and as the general reader is apt to confound the banks of a river with the movements of an army up or down the stream, let it be understood that the right bank of a river is always the bank which fg on the right hand as you look down the stream, and the left bank will never be placed on the wrong side, * Norta CAROLINA seems to be rapidly driving towards civil war. Citizens of Ala- mance county have been arrested without warrant, and confined without the charges against them being made known, and the ‘writ of habeas corpus is disregarded by Com- | NEW, YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JOLY 19, 1870,—TRIPLE The War Panic Great Britain Coming to the Front. Not yet can we announce the actual commencement of war. Our cable despatches from the different European centres are, how- ever, abundant and suggestive. The confla~ gration is not yet, but the conflagration is scarcely any longer to be doubted. On the part of Prussia and on the part of France preparations for war are carried on with amazing rapidity and on a scale of magnitude which revives the memory of the wars of the first Napoleon, and which reminds us all of our own doings in the hottest days of our late civil war. In both countries hundreds of thousands of men are moving towards the Rhine. At any moment we may learn that a great battle has been fought—a battle not decisive, but giving us a foretaste of the gigantic and deadly nature of the strife, Meanwhile the various European Powers are ranging themselves, sympathetically at least, on the side of one or the other of the intending combatants, Few haye had any anxiety about the possible course. which Spain or, Italy or Switserland or Belgium. or Holland would take. It has not been thought that any one of these Powers would, unless forced, take any active part.in the impending strag- gle. The question has been whether by any possibility Russia and Great Britain could or would be dragged into the conflict. Hither or both of those Powers becoming active parties in the strife, it has been universally admitted, the war must assume proportions not safe to limit. We cannot say that. either Great Britain or Russia ‘has actually taken sides ; but we are now no longer permitted to doubt thet in certain emergencies both will draw the sword. Yesterday immense excitement waa created in London and Liverpool, in other commercial centres in Europe, and even here, by the announcdmeat that Russla had pronounced in favor of Prussia, and that she was already. mobilizing her army. Later news confirms the announcement. In London and Liver- pool this news had a paralyzing effect. The London papers of yesterday leave us no room to doubt the sentiment of Great Britain. The Post tells us that “any violation of Belgian territory ends England’s neutrality.” Another cable despatch has it that Lord Lyons, the British Minister in Paris, has been in commu- nication with the Duke de Grammont, and that he has demanded that the soil of Holland be considered neutral. In another place we have shown how difficult it will be for the two con- testing parties to keep away from the Nether- lands, the time-honored battle ground between North and South, and how closely the honor of Great Britain will be. touched if the neu- trality'of either of the little kingdoms Is vio- lated. The London Zémes, which is always a safe index of the dominant British sentiment of the hour, very emphatically charges France with having, “without a shadow. of excuse, plunged Europe into a war of which no person living may see the end.” If these despatches prove to be correct it is no longer possible to doubt that the struggle already commenced may ultimately involve every nation in Europe and become the most general and the most disastrous in the whole history of mankind. So long as the other great Powers remained silent and inactive it was permitted us to con- template the approaching contest. ip the light of a great duel,, Now, however, it, seems we must look-less exclusively to France and Prus- sia, and enlarge our horizon'so as to include the whole of Europe. In what circumstances is Russia likely to interfere? Possibly if France attempts’ to force either Spain or Italy into active alliance. Certainly if Austria joins France. Certainly, too, if France comes out of the struggle suc- cessful and attempts to remodel the map of Europe. Russia gaye France full opportunity in Italy. She was not unwilling that the Hapsburgs should be driven from the penin- sula. She has not taken any interest in the affairs of Spain. South of a certain line France, so far as Russia was concerned, might do what she liked. But north of a cer- tain line France must be taught she may not meddle, Even in the event» of France win- ning the glories of another Jena Russia will not permit France to annex the Rhine provinces, at least not without the sanction of a European congress, and probably not at all without adequate compensation, As we have said already Great Britain cannot see Bel- gium and Holland overrun. She was a power- ful party to the treaty of Vienna which guaranteed the independence of ‘the kingdom of the Netherlands. Later, in 1831, she was a principal party to the division of the Nether- lands and the establishment of the little king- dom of Belgium. Should the rights of Belgium in any sense be trampled upon she must ‘draw the sword or lose her bonor. If her allies, because they are weak, are to be left to their fate, she must abrogate her right to rank with the great Powers, Besides this there vere) apber: vponaihilives :,mljeh could scarcely full to drag. Great Brilain into the strife,’ She will aim at doing the carrying trade of the world, and in doing this she must get into trouble with ono or other of the contending Powers, Great Britain and Russia in the conflict and on the same side, Fiance would find herself in a most awkward position, On herself alone she would be compelled to lean. The ofly possible allies in such a case would be Italy and Spain, But Italy at heart is opposed to France, and Spain is cold, if not absolutely powerless, The prospect is dark and perplexing. It is, indeed, difficult to see the end, It is clear that Germany is a unit as against France and that Napoleon will appeal to South Germany in vain. It is clear that witb the single excep- tion of Denmark, which unfortunately bears a grudge against Prussia, France goes into this war without the sympathy of the nations of the European Continent. But it is not clear that a victory over Prussia would do either France or Napoleon any good. Should France come out of this struggle only second best, what then would hinder the establishment of the German empire, with the King of Prussia at its head? What could save the Bonaparte dynasty? What would binder the Taljans | $nahder Kirk, of the State militia, who ar- | from occupying Rome? What would become ‘rébted them. What aim has Governor Holden | of the Pope? Then, again, Constantinople, jn view? What does he hope’ to gain by | narohizing the State, in which he holds the highest office? Is it possible that these out- But wherefore multiply questions ? Verily, the situation is perilous, We see tho beginning, but we cannot see the end, It is for us to be iu Gurope—Russia and | The Necessity for an Extra Sossion of Congress—Our Carrying Trade at Stake. Our stupid, benighted, unpatriotic Congress ran away home to their constituenctes to look after their next election and revel in the con- vivial receptions awaiting them, They had bought tickets for the railroad. Many of them had, porhaps, arranged for gerenades and suppers in the little towne and villages wherein they are the dié minores—the small big men, who are great only in proportion as their constituencies are narrow-minded. Thoy did not want to miss these festive scenes, These men, having no spark of patriotism in that portion of them where their souls are supposed to repose, and not possessing any conception of the dignity of the country for which they were elected to legislate, nor seeing its great interests in any intelligent light—this mean and motley crew of jobbers and peculators deserted their posta at a most important moment, when the Prosident, seeing that a serious crisis had arrived for American com- merce, that the shipping interest had » grand opening presented to it and the cerrying trade of the country might be revived, requested them respectfully, by special ‘message, | to Temain in session long enough to pass such | laws as would restore to our merchant marine the etatus it had unfortunately lost during our war. A law permitting foreign vessels to hoist the American flag would have covered the seas with ships bearing the Stars and Stripes so long almost banished. Ameri- oan companies would become proprietors of foreign lines then protected by our flag, and the carrying trade of Europe and America, which is now blocked up by the war in various ports, would be opened at once to vessels carrying the American flag. Butthis Congress of ours—surely the stupidest body that ever attempted to legislate for a great nation in a oriais like the present—did not see the wisdom of Prosident Grant's suggestion, They did not realize what he sagaciously observed, that the opportunity of all opportunities to retrieve pest errors of legislation, and place our shipping interests in @ finer condition than they ever were, had grrived, and that Congress should not adjourn without securing the result. There is nothing left for the President now but to call an extra session of Congress. He may give the members thirty days’ grace to visit their homes and set the logs rolling for another election; but the whole country demands of President Grant, almost with one voioe, that he shall call Congress together for the purpose of enacting such laws, in view of the extraordinary state of affairs in Europe, as will give American shipping and the Ameri- can flag an opportunity to resume their former position on the seas. The indications are that Great Brita will soon cease to be a neutral Power. In this event the United States will have the broad margin of ‘the ocean for the carrying trade to herself, It {sa lamentable fact that we are not in'a posi- tion to assume that place. Our merchant marine is miserably small. It has been allowed by infamons laws to dwindte down almost to nothing. We'cannot carry our own commerce in American bottoms; and yet now the splendid opportunity offers to carry the commerce of all Europe as well as our own. Let us have a law enabling foreign ships to carry the American flag, and in one week after its promulgation the ocean will be dotted with iron steamers ‘carrying the Stars and Stripes at their peak. Let us look at the list of foreign iron built steamers now afloat. Let us glance at their locations and their ton- nage, a8 we will group them in the accompany- ing table, and we shall see what. a splendid fleet we would have on the ocean, carrying the products of the two continents in spite of war and turmoil and hostile alliances. Every one of them—twenty-eight fine iron vessels, mea- suring a total tonnage of 72,135 tons—would be topping the waves of the Atlantic under the American flag as soon as the news reached them that Congress had authorized them to carry the ensign of the republic and guaran- teed them security under it :— Location. At Hamburg...... oe At sea for New York. At sea for Hamburg. |At Southampton..... At sea for Bremen. Twenty-eight vessels—total tonnage. srgnee 72,185 These vessels are all ready to proceed to sea as soon as the war. congitions in Europe 9g. the action of Congress will unlock ‘them. At present they are port bound, in kind of moral blockade. ts These are points touching the great inter- ests of the country that the members of Con- gress, filled with their petty local schemes and hopes, could not see, or would not see, in their eagerness to get home and shuffle off their responsibility, and hence they dis- regarded the admonition of President Grant to prolong the session for a brief time. We presume that the country will remember this infamous haste to every member who urged an immediate adjournment while such momen- tous interests were pending, Nothing, of course, as we said, remains for the President but to obey the will of the country, and call an extra session of Con- gress if possible within thirty days, in order to have such laws enacted as will restore our maritime status and enable us to take advan- tage of the present opportunity to reconstruct our lost merchant marine. Tuere WsRe SEVERAL Triats before Judge Barnard yesterday of alleged ‘‘repeat- ers” for fraudulent voting at the last elections. One fellow pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year in the State Prison. It is extremely refreshing to see an example being made of these rascals. With a few severer ones than the one just made, and with the new uniform Naturalization law in full force, tt will soon be rages are merely the playful gambols of a } grateful that we ara tappily ont of the con- | possible to have a fair olection even in New Wpgdernized edition of ‘Kirk's Lamba?” ict ‘T Yorks oily. The Situation and It Complications. France's demand that the South German States should declare forthwith their relations to the belligerent Powers seems to be fully answered by the fact that a son of the King of Prussia has gone to Munich to take command of the forces of the South German States. These States havegbitherto agreed to such relations with Prussia that, while they have an independent exisi co during peace, they fiekk scala her armies in case of war, arrangement was one of the first facts following the triumph of Prussia in 1866, which opened the eyes of France to the folly of which she had been guilty in standing still while Prussia destroyed the Germanic cha- racter of Austria. Now this arrangement comes into the foreground as a point of primary importance, since it presents all Ger- many 96 opposed to France, and converts from neutral territory the whole line of the Rhine | from Bale to the Main, From observations made in Paris it would also appear that there is no satisfactory certainty about the neutrality at the other extremity of the frontier. It is noted that the mon ‘in ‘conimand of the sonally inimical to the French government, and.that one of them is nota stranger to the influence of the anti-French intrigues of Prus- sia. They aro therefore the sort of men who might not be slow to take any step that would compel France to invade Belgian territory ; ‘and if France should do this behold the decla- ration from England—‘‘Any violation of Bel- gian territory ends England's neutrality.” Now such a declaration {s likely to inaure in Belgium conduct that will compel England to come into the struggle ; for the anti-Napoleonio sentiment is very earnest among the Belgians, ‘and they would rejoice to see England once more arrayed among the armed opponents of Frange, Thug it a of he a fee ee ae a Pas gi frontier to that narrow gone ip which Fi agh either PoWer beipg covered by neutral terri- tory, the thepire of operations may include both the Black Forest and the Low Countries, The movements of troops already indicate the extension of the theatre ot war, Hitherto attention has been confined to the irregular triangle formed by the Moselle, the Saar and the line of railroad from Metz, nearly east to Manheim, which passes the frontier at Saar- brack, Nearly the whole Franco-Prussian frontier is within this triangle, and if Prus- sia had secured her ‘‘wait till the 20th of July” before any movements had been made she would probably have met France here, and we should have had a battle on the Saar, perhaps not far from Saar-Louis, But Prussia was not ready, and thence, indeed, the only operation yet reported—that, namely, at Forbach, also within the above triangle, For- bach is the first atation from Saarbruck, on the line of rail between Saarbruck and Metz, and because Prussia was not ready to meet France. in force, and because it was apprehended that France might at once, using the rail, occupy the Rhine, a small force was sent forward to destroy the road at Forbach, on French soil. Thus the Prussians really delivered the first blow, and this or the unreadiness of France has enabled them to occupy Saarbruck before the advance of the French even to the fron- tier. The despatch which informs us of the occupation of Saarbruck by the Prussian troops gives no intimation of their force; but from the fact that the movement of three bodies is reported—two on the frontier and one behind, in Hesse Darmstadt—it seems safe to infer that there is to be a considerable con- centration of Prussian troops where France directly threatens by her concentration at Metz. The next Sadowa may lie, therefore, in the space included between the Rhine and Mo- selle and a line from Metz to Strasburg. Rae- tadt, where the troops furnished by Baden are now in camp, is on the Rhine, @ hundred miles below Strasburg; and doubtless the other parts of the South German contingent, of which the Prussian Prince Frederick Charles takes command, are in motion towards a point not far distant from that. With all this concen- tration towards the same district a battle there becomes hourly imminent, for a battle seems just here a necessary preliminary to any other operation, since no French army could invade Prussia on a line within this theatre and leave an unwhipped Prussian army in its rear, nor a Prussian army invade France and leave the French forces inits rear, But a great battle— one involving a large proportion of the armies of either Power—fought to a decisive result in this theatre of war, leaves the territory of the vanquished open, and may, therefore, decide the war. And this, at least in Europe, seems to be the tendency of the modern system of warfare—to make the issue of a single great battle conclusive of national differences. War News ve. The Authentic Reports. The war between France and Prussia will be fruitful of spurious reports of army move- i meer ett Mecca Seah do not patronize the Atlantic cable will be tempted to publish sensational guesses and inventions in their vain efforts to anticipate or keep up with the telegraph. The readers of the Heratp, itis hardly necessary to assure them, will be supplied, as usual, from day to day, with the latest and most reliable despatches from France, Prussia and all parts of Europe, subject, so far as France may be directly concerned, to a little French coloring, more or less, in passing over the French wires, We expect, however, to make such arrange- ments for early authentic news on the other side, in addition to our regular European peace establishment, as will enable us to give to our readers the passing events of the war simulta- neously with, if not before, their publication in Paris and London. It is in such important periods in history as this of a great war that the forces and resources, the experience, means and enterprise of the Hegatp bring it out into the boldest relief as the leading-news- paper of modern times. Spurious Herald's Our Havana Letrer speaks of the increasing hostility evinced towards Captain General de Rodas. His campaign in the eastern part of the island has proven a failure, and the volunteers are greatly dissatisfied in consequence, has done his best to crush the revolution, and hae failed, We auestion vory much aur The Captain Goneral, no doubt, ' has in her service could have sccomplished more than de Rodas, This, however, goes for naught with a class who are influenced by passion, bigotry and cruelty rather than by calm reasoning and thoughtful reflection, ‘The Approaching Presidentin! Campaign iu Mexico. In addition to the many excitements now prevailing in Mexico we will shortly have to add the contest for the Presidency. If present rumors prove correct Juarez will decline the honor ofa nomination. Not that he is tired of serving his country in the elevated position of Chief Magistrate, but he finds that fighting against ‘‘God and liberty” is too much for him. Juarez made the best stand he could against heavy odds, but he has had uphill work during his term of office so far. General Escobedo, however, is willing to become & martyr for his country, and is anxious to fil the Presidential chair when Juares vacates it. Jadging from the tll favor with whlch Escobedo is regarded in the Northern States, that dis- remarkably good. But Mexico, it should be remembered, is a free and an enlight- ened and intelligent and up te the progressive ways of the times, and must, consequently, be posted in the laudable practice of repeating and ballot-box stuffing which have been found to work with good effect in more intelligent countries. Under these circumstances the prospect for Escobedo's chances are not so bad. There is another candidate spoken of in the person of Porfirio Diaz, Diaz is of the Tommy Dodd order of men, He goes into win. If he is not Presi- dent of Mexico he may be President of a republic comprising a portion of the Southern Mextos with tho republic of Guate- mais thrown in, Porfirio, who has a clear head revol appetite, is now near fomenting the troubles in that direction. Pos- sibly if the Presidency were secured to him he might agree to settle present difficulties South and appease the Guatemalans, and then “oall the thing square.” Lerdo de Tejada is also an aspirant to the high honor of being abused, calumniated and otherwise d in that delicate and refined manner in which dis- appointed Mexican politicians act towards successful opponents. The Minster of Foreign Relations, looking at the mailer from a patriotic as well as a philosophic standpoint, has no doubt come to the conclusion that if to die for one’s country is sweet to suffer for the same object cannot be very disagree- able. He is willing, at all events, to try if report speaks traly. So far there are three Richmonds in tie field who have already shown their hands; but we cannot lose sight of the fact that open revolu+ tion existe in almost every State throughout the republic. The leaders of each and every one of these are willing to become martyrs and presidents, Nay, more; they fight for these honors. For this they murder and rob and burn and destroy. These means they adopt to secure their ends, It is needless to say that sach men would be unfit to wield the powers of government. The first duty of a citizen is compliance with his country’s laws. These fellows know no laws but their own ungovern- able passions and lust for power and the emoluments it brings with it. There are three aspirants in the field already. How many more there may be before the campaign is fairly inaugurated it is impossible tu say. The Vegas, the Cadenas, the Aguirres, the Martinezes and other free and independent revolution- ists have each their claim for honor, place and power. The present is a most proper time for them to awake, arise and put their claims:for- ward, or forever aftor hold their peace. Europe may be even at this moment on the verge of a general war and cannot waste even 4 thought on Mexico, and the United States feels disposed to address the land of the Mon- tezumas in the Congressional language of “Shoo, Fly.” Tho Mexicans, therefore, will have the field all to themselves, They can adopt their own tactics and follow them up. Such another chance they may not have in a long time. With a dozen or so rebellions, two or three volcanio eruptions, an earthquake or two, pirates on the coast and robbers in the interior, an invasion in the North by Texan buffaloes and an invasion in the South by Guatemalan Indians, with these and other similar blessings so prized by Mexicans that they cannot live without them, all at one time, and the name of Mexico, with its volca- noes and rebellions, its earthquakes and rob- beries, its soldier statesmen and statesmen soldiers, will claim a degree of attention which she has never yet realized, Great things have come to pass, and it is not too much to expect that this should occur in so erratic a land as Mexico. Ssrious ACOIDENT AT Paterson, —An inao- cent but somewhat Br style of amuse- ment which eae has adopted resulted in a very serious accident at Paterson yesterday. This style of amusement coitalsts of a series of burlesqité boat and fub races, the contest- ants pulling blindfolded in some instances, and whenever a chance occurs varying the fun by upsetting any outsider who ventures in their neighborhood in aboat, These games were going on at Lake Dundee yesterday, and in order to see one of the prominent men of Paterson upset a crowd of two hundred persons, mostly ladies and children, rushed to the balcony overhanging the water. The balcony gave way and all of them were precipitated into the water, which was, luckily, only a foot or two deep. They were all rescued, but many of them wero in- jured by the fall and the splinters, and one lit- tle boy will probably die of his injuries, Tae Paris Prison or St. Lazare.—The French Prison of St. Lazare, Paris, an institu- tion which is used for the correction and reformation of fallen women, is described by one of our special writers in the French capi- tal. The communication appears in our | columns to-day. Its contents convey a very j sad picture of the social condition as it pre- vails in Paris, tinted pleasingly, however, by ‘the relation of the generous, fervent and | unselfish Christian efforts which are made for | the reclamation of its victims. Our special { letter will attract the attention of the clergy and lay humanitarians of America, It sup- plies also a great amount of interasting ~ matteg for the cenexal reedex, Tho Neutrality of Belgtam. The peculiar geographical position of Bel~ gium, the very general use of the French language in that country and the strong French sympathies of a portion of the Belgian popula- tion, have induced some political soothsayers to predict that in the course of the actual war it may once more become, a8 it haa so often been, the battle fleld of Europe, and that as Belgium has already formed a part of the French empire so it may again be absorbed by France if the latter triumphs over Prussia. Meanwhile both belligerents are strictly bound to respect the neutrality of Belgium. Never- theless this little kingdom is profoundly affected by the perturbations of the war be- tween its powerful neighbors, Troops are concentrating at Antwerp and at other strate- gic points. The specie in the National, Bank at Antwerp has been removed to the: citadel. emission of paper money ig announced. The interruption of commercial advices from abrond in consequence of the war excitement, paralyzes tho markets at Antwerp. Similar Indiéations of ‘the ‘direct ‘pressure of tho’ war are witnessed at every other business centre in Belgium, As for. the majority of the Belgians selves, their sentiments have not changed since 1866, when the King, in opening the new Chambers on November 18, made the following declaration: —‘‘In. the midst of the great events which bave disturbed 4 great part of Europe Belgium has remained calm and confident, deeply impressed with the rights and duties of neutrality, This nea- trality she will continue to preserve in the future as she has done in the past—with aio- cerlty, loyalty and strength.” Belgium cam certainly count on the aid of one mighty ally in carrying out her resolution. The deolara- tion of war by France against Prussia had scarcely been announced in London whea extra-official expresniang on the pee of) mom- here of the Sritish Cabinet incited the’ beliet that England bas percmptorily prohibited by protest any military oocupation of Bolgiam by France, If gither of the bellige Powers” should violate thé ncwtrality of Belgium the British government cannot Spree i Boge, land is under the weighties! rations to defend and preserve it. Nor is she less Ukely' to fulfilthose obligations to Belgium than she was to send promptly to Abyssinia an army for the relief of a few persecuted missionarios and travellers, if England isto be involved in the war no stronger motive need be sought than in her duty to protect the neutrality of Belgium. The Gold Excitement in Wall Street. The Gold Room was yesterday the econe of an excitement only surpassed in the daya of our late war and during the culmination of the famous gold corner of last September. The apartment was wedged tight with the brokers, who, in the midst of the sweltering heat, frantically bid gold up to 1230n the reports which came second-handed from London’that Russia had joined Prussia in hostility to France. The immediate cause of the advance was the fear that this alliance would stimulate a*fur- ther decline of our securities in the foreign market. While there is no doubt that in the derangement of European finances which will follow the war our bonds will be thé best investment for foreign capital, and that a reaction will certainly ensue, in their favor, the market is rondered extremely sensitive by some of the speculative foreign bankers, who bought gold and sold our bonds at the first sign of war last week, They purposely exaggerate the situation abroad as against our securities, in hopes of buying back large quantities of bonds which they sold on speculation and also to enhance their profit on the gold which they bought so profusely on the outbreak of hostilities. War in Europe means a profitable market for everything we can ship there. When we have overcome the first and very natural depression in our securi- ties abroad, arising out of the shifting of capital in such a crisis, we shall be the creditor country with Europe, and require settlement of the balance of trade by shipments of gold this way. A Word to the Farmers of tho Uaited States, There is a prospect of a terrible war in Europe, involving the destruction of millions of dollars’ worth of subsistence which in peace would be saved, At the same time a wasting drought in France has shortened her cropa one-half and reduced the price of her live stock to almost nothing, owing to the scarcity of forage; and the same drought, more or less disastrous in its effects, has been felt, and still prevails, from the Baltic to the Black: Sea. From these facts it is apparent that there will be an extraordinary demand all over Europe for the next twelve, months for our surpic breadstuffs and provisions of all descriptions.” We have had a splendid wheat harvest, which | ineindes a good harvest of rye, barley and oals, _Ouy Indian corn crop, the it jmpor- tant crop’ of ihe United Tae inaee ing itseif, and the general promise {s_yery good. We would say, however, to every far; mer concerged, North and South, make aod save as imuch of this crop aé possible, for by next wioter the product of an acre in corn may be worth more in cash than an acre's yield in cotton. At the same time, in order to guard as far as possible against unscrupulous speculators, the Agricultural Bureau at Washington may render an important service to the couniry in ascertaining the amount of our products this year in wheat, corn, pota- toes, &e., from reliable sources, All parties concerned, and especially consumers, will know better what to doin the work of harmoniz- ing demand and supply in knowing upon what we have to depend in the way of a surplus of breadstufts for exportation. Tae Evropfan BaLaNck oF Power.—We publish this morning an interesting réswme of the manner in which Europe was divided by j the allied Powers in 1815. This division of | the Continent, known as the treaty of Paris, has since been broken up by the separation of Belgium from Holland, tho establishment of the Italian monarchy and the virtual abserp- tion of North Germany by Prussia, But while other nations have altered their boun- dary lines France has tailed to recover hee Rhine frontier, and that is wiat the French most ardently desice, Our 7éswmé oxploiue just what it is that Napoleon aims to destroy by his yeegqut war agalant Reusaia. s .