The New York Herald Newspaper, July 24, 1870, Page 6

a NEW YORK H RALD Tho Wer cote -& acne oye BROADWAY AND ANN STRE1)T. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hexratp. —————— _eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEeEeE———— eee AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. GRAND OPERA HOUSK, Tram HOUSE. corner ot Eighth avenue and WALLACK’S THEATRE, oh Fait, OUR Cousin GEUNAn, MUTAy S24 Wh treat BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vagiety ENTERTAIN- WOOD'S MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Broadway, oor- ae AND Ma ‘every afternoon ant evening THEATRE COMIQUE, 614 ao v 18M, NxGR0 Poy iu Broadway.—Comto VOOAL- SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HALL, 686 Broa BUCKLEY's SEEN ADERS. ? ae TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Va- ‘BinLY ENTKRLAINMENT—Comi0 VOCALIOMS, 40. ‘CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between 68th and téth sta,—THxovoRE Tuomas’ PoruLae ConceRTs. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Art. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— BOLENOE AND Aut. TRIPLE SHEET. ¥ New York, Sunday, July 24, 1870. =— = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pack. 1—Advertisements. 2Q—Advertisements 3—The War: No Battle Yesterday; Prussian Explo- sion and an Alarm at Kehl; Napoleon’s Proola- mation to the French Nation; Bis Mmarck’s Reply to Grammont; The Brit- a War Foot- army 0 on fhe: A Powerful French Iron-clad in Motion; Russian and Austrian Notes on the Crisis—Aquatic—The Scannel Homictde—The Anti-Gambling Frauds—New York City News— Musical and trical—The Bogus Oates Actors. 4=—Our City Squares: The Stified Lungs of the Me- tropolis; Wretchea Condition of the Public Breathing Places and Their Rapid Improve- meat by the Department of Public Parks; What Has Been, What Is Doing ana What Should Be Done—Reunion Dinner of the Col- fege of the City of New York—Lager Heads in lariem—The Course of Empire—Another Bully Killed—Mariha Washington's Watch— Sad Accident on a Horse Car. §—The Pope of the East: The Grand Lama of Tibet—New York in 1870—The Annual Camp Mecting at Sing Sing—The Wedding of Blanche utler—Proceedli in the New York and ee Courts—Communtpaw Stock Yards— at Cranky Political Machine—Changes in ¢ Fire Department—The Hoboken Ferry -. ~ Masters’ Excursion. @—Editorials: Leading Article on The War Situa- tion in Europe, the Prospect—Amusement An- nouncementa. ‘7—Telegraphic News irom All Parts of the World: The Council Prelates from Rome; Chinese Diplomats Afraid of France; The Military Troubles in North Carolina; Colored Troops Attacked by the Ku Kilux— a from Washington—The Ocean Yacht : The Dauntless Eo Spoken—Prest- ent Grant at Long Branch—The Heated ‘eather—Personal Intelligence—A Little Life Drama—The Orange Firemen’s Troubles— Obituary—Business Noticea. S=Mile. Christine Nilsson: Memotr of the Greatest Vocailst the World Ever Produced; the Sweet- est Swedish N: 9—Parls Fashions: htingate—A Duel. fe by the Wayside from Paris; What a Migratory Beauty Wore; Country Totlets—Brooklyn Olty News—A Modern Medl- cine Woman—Financial Report—Musical Re- view—Sudden Deaths in Jersey City and Mor- risania—Marriages and Deaths, 10=Midsummer Resorts—Geelers’ Clubs vs, Red Hot Bars—The National Game—Oricket—The Riot at Trenton—One More Unfortunate— Shipping Intelligence—Advertise ments. 41—Red River: Lite at Fort Garry; What the Canadian Expedition Has to Encounter; An Indian War Impending—Religious Intell; gence—America’s Naval Defences: The Iron- Glad Fleet of the United States; Description of Their Armament—The Irish Riot—Olaims Against Venezeula—Religious Services Lnter- rupted by a Mad Dog. 92—News from Advertisements, Tox Vacant Caancettorsutr.—Dr. Ferris has resigned the position of Chancellor of the University. For the place of honorable dis- tinction thus made vacant few candidates are named, and we hear of none more worthy or likely to adorn the position than Dr. Howard Crosby. Fi Tar AmerioaN Bonaparte, Jerome Napo- leon, grandson of the old Jerome Napoleon and Madame Patterson Bonaparte, left our shores yesterday in the steamship Lafayette for France, and for the purpose of joining the French army of the Rhine. An American soldier, educated at West Point, he has done some active service in the army of the United States; but as a French soldier he distin- guished himself in the Crimean and Italian wars. Nor is there any telling to what high distinction he may rise in the vicissitudes likely to attend this European w: Boavs News in Watt Srrezr.—There is nothing very novel in the caption, but yet the gold brokers have seen fit to appoint a special committee, with power to spend five thousand dollars if necessary, in tracing out the authors pf bogus telegrams, recently circulated in Wall street, purporting to give the quotations of American securities in London. The commit- tee will not have to journey far to find those whom they are in quest of. The ‘authors of the bogus despatches are the unscrupulous gold gamblers who bought at the recent ad- Ma and are now striving to get out without oss. Tae Graxp Lama oF THIPET, THE Pore or tHE East.—The Grand Lama of Thibet, the Pope of the East, obtains a grand chance in the pages ofthe Hnratp to-day. Right after the de- claration of Papal infallibility in Rome comes theLama in his mysteries, his supreme epis- copacy, his infallibility and his hereditary claim of being nearer to heaven than other men—a visible interpreter of the Divine will. Heisthe Pope of the East. He rules over Red and Yellow Churches, and has reformers and non-progressists among his followers, This exposé of the religious system of the Grand Lama of Thibet is very opportune, and will at- tract great attention in the churches. Tae Nort Carona Dirricciries.—The arbitrament of the law has finally been demanded and conceded in relation to the anarchical state of affairs in North Carolina. The powerful writ of habeas corpus has been called into Play, and we had reason to expect that we should get the true, unvaroished story of the whole proceedings; but it would seem that even the judge was blind os well as justice, for he has rendered an opinion to the effect that Colonel Kirk's ressons for not obey- ing the writ of habeas corpus were sufficient, but that the writ must be obeyed by some other man. He hus, therefore, served the “writ upon the Marshal of the Supreme Court of the State, and, as he is not a militia officer, it is probable he will obey it, NEW YORK HEKALD, SUNDAY, Our news columns this morning do not reveal much that is new in the war situation. The Prussians have made, according to competent judges, a most skilful movement— & movement that baffles Napolegn’s calculations and betters Prussia’s chances in the event of a conflict taking place. Others think that the French Emperor is acting with judgment as well ‘6 caution. ‘The agitation of the surrounding countries intensifies. The English army is to go on a war footing. Great Britain is in active naval movement. Russia and Austria . have notes on the crisis, The French iron-clad frigate La Gloire is in motion and being manned. Napo- leon has issued a proclamation to the French nation in which he blends democracy and imperialism with a skilful hand. Couriers have been despatched from Paris to Copen- hagen. It is said that Denmark is thus ad- vised of coming changes in the Baltic. No battle had been fought, so far as our cable ‘reports received at an early hour this morning tell. The Prussians have blown up the abut- ments of the bridge at Kehl. It is quite clear from all this that Napoleon's great aim is, if possible, to make one battle decisive of the campaign. This was his purpose in his famous cam- paign against Austria in 1859, and his purpose was wonderfully carried out, Stun the enemy by a terrific blow and make terms with him before he has had timo to recover seems to be Napoleon’s idea of war. His Italian campaign was unquestionably a great success. It convinced the world that the author of the coup d'état, the hero of Strasburg and of Boulogne, the dreamer in Ham, was as practical as he was thoughtful; that he was a great general, in fact, as well as a great theorist. But the campaign which resulted in Magenta and Solferino was not more brilliant, was not a greater success than that which resulted in Sadowa. France trampled Austria down in 1859-60. Prussla laid Austria low in 1866. It has thus been proved that Austria is a match for neither Power; but it has yet to be proved which of the two victors is master of the other. Both armies are strong, well-equipped and well- disciplined—equipped and disciplined as no armies ever have been in the whole history of mankind, Both are well officered. _ If left alone it is really difficult to say which has the better chance. If it should happen that superior strategy or the accident of position should give France the first victory, what reagon is there to conclude that Prussia should consent to make peace with the invading foe? We know of none. If we have any conviction regarding this war it is this—that Prussia, or rather Germany, will fight it to the bitter end, One battle—no matter which is victor—is but little likely to settle the trouble between France and Prussia, ‘< It is impossible to speak too highly of the French army. In point of bravery it is second to no army in the world. That its chances are good we cannot deny. At the same time we cannot close our eyes to the fact that France has gore to lose than Ger- many—that Napoleon has more to lose than King William, It is not possible for any Power or combination of Powers to keep Ger- many disunited or throw her out of tho puth- way of progress: Eyon if Prussia were de- feated it wor!4 not be possible for France, or for France with all the Powers at hor back, to dismember the Fatherland. It is not possible to make South Germany French. A French victory might check the progress of German unity, but it would only be for a little, There is a gulf between the Germans and the French, between the Teutons and the Latins, that no French triumph or European artifice can bridge. It is too deep. It is too wide. Should Prussia win, should Prussia be suc- cessful in driving France back upon herself, hurling the legions of the second empire homeward demoralized, as after Leipsic and Waterloo, how heavy would be the blow to France, how ruinous to the House of Bona- parte! If Napoleon wins France will unques- tionably honor him and take more kindly than ever tc his house. It will be at least a less difficult matter for his son to succeed. Bunt if he should not win republicans, Orleanists, _legitimists and not a fow Bonapartists would unite against him. Itrequires no great effort of imagina- tion to picture to the mind another abdication, another exile, another restoration, The first fruit of an invasion of nee in such circum- stances as those we have described would most certainly be ‘‘Down with the Bonapartes !” There are conceivable circumstances in which this war might, nay, in which of neces- sity it would assume a European character. Let us suppose that France is successful, that in battle after battle she beats Prussia down, that she has firmly established herself in the very heart of Germany, is it conceivable that the neighboring Powers will look passively on? It is not conceivable. Russia could not. Great Britain would not. Austria might be tempted by some magnificent offer to take the side of France. France in such a case would be strong enough to compel the neutrality or the obedience of the populations of the South. It is not, however, to be denied that another coalition, sustained by English gold, would reduce the pride and restore the dimensions of France. There is nothing which the European nations so much dread as a@ conquering and triumphant France. Nor is there anything on which the European nations are more agreed than this—that no such France shall be allowed to exist. A European war, another grand con- gress at Vienua or Berlin or Paris or London, a fresh bundle of treaties, a reconstruction of the map of Europe, and possibly a patched up peace, to last for some ten years, Such are some of the possibilities which arise in the mind as one reflects on the present situation of things on the European Continent, While we write a cable despatch reaches us to the effect that the attitude of Russia is considered doubtful; that Austria is troubled by the course Bavaria has taken, and that Great Britain is putting both her army and navy on a war footing. Coming events cast their shadows before, We cannot conclude this article without once again expressing our regret that in this late age of the world such 9 war—a war that threatens to be gigantic and destructive be- yond any war in all the past—should be a possibility. Those who atill indulge the fond hope that better times are in store for hu- manity may gather some consolation from the thought that good sometimes grows out of evil. Itis not impossible that out of this ome, and that e tempest the » darkness an morning star may be seen—that morning star which shall never again go down upon the world’s sorrows. So may it be! Meanwhile we must regret that ambition and bad pas- sions rule, Christine Nilsson. Out of the dulness and darkness and clouds of weakly managed {talian opera we are about to be rejoiced with a glimmer of light. The second Swedish Nightingale, the counter- part in voice, in person, in power to impress the popular heart which Jenny Liod possessed, Mile. Christine Nilsson, is to make her first appearance here in the second week of September. After some managerial diplomacy and a fabulous outlay the enterprise of Mr. Max Strakosch has secured this happy result. The ogreer of Nilsson is not unknown to us. Her success in London saved the broken fortunes of Mapleson at Her Majesty's Theatre, just as Jenny Lind stepped in provi- dentially many years before to stand between Mr, Lumley and threatened ruin. The similarity in the career of Nilsson and Lind is not con- fined to the fact that they are the gifted chil- dren of the same nation and are both possessed of the most marvellous voices of our day. There is another point of contact in their history. They both rose from the sweet humility of what is called lowly life, and they burst upon the world suddenly, like meteors, flashing their talents abroad, dazzling the world with their brilliancy, In purity of charac- ter, in the beauty of youthful womanhood, in the tenderness of charity and the simplicity of their young, fresh Northern natures, there is a wonderful likeness between the Jenny Lind at that time, when the whole world welcomed her with a storm of popular applause and crowned her with jewels of popular affec- tion, and the blonde, gentle, blue-eyed Scan- dinavian songstress, Nilsson, who to-day accepts, with all the meckness of a modest nature, the approbation which all Europe has bestowed upon her. Christine Nilsson is young, fair, beautiful in feature, delicate and graceful in form. Her physique is well calculated for the impersona- tion of those characters in which she has made her grandest impressions—Violetta and Mar- guerite. What a contrast between the lost one of Verdi’s lyric story and the simple maiden of Goethe and Gounod, beset by the wiles of manand demon! Yet Nilsson, they say, in the character of La Traviata, imparts @ grace, a dignity, an elegance to the imper- sonation of the fallen one that deprives the story of all the vulgarity and glare of vice which has so frequently invested the “Dame aux Camellias,” both on the dramatic and lyric stage, with a gross coloring not palatable to sensitive people. Mile. Nilsson avoids all this. Her own pure nature suggests that error must not necessarily be coupled with coarseness, and thus she intertwines the misery and despair of misguided love, with delicate fibres, inta the irretrievable mistake of an ill-traingd youthful nature. In Me guerite Nitsson has taken even tho most tardy critios by storm. She is admitted to be the most perfect embodiment of Goethe's, Gretchen on the stage. We judge, indeed, that she is the greatest lyric artiste of our day, and we expect to be able to pronounce that judgment when we have an opportunity of hearing her in this city not many weeks hence, Apart from her wonderful voice—the most wonderful now extant—and her exquisite dra- matic faculty to render each character she assumes with a captivating simplicity, there is a charm in the personal character of the young Swede that has endeared her in a re- markable degree to the public wherever she is known. Gentle, reserved, pure above all reproach, dignified and truly womanly, she is an honor to her profession, and sheds lustre upon the gifted sisterhood of song at whose head she probably stands to-day, notwith- standing the success ot some of her much flat- tered and much honored rivals. We regard the engagement of Mlle. Nilsson for an American season as something to con- gratulate the public upon. Nor can we fail to recognize the spirit of manager Strakosch, who embarked in an enterprise involving so large an expense and exhibiting so much managerial pluck. A Fussy Cask in Jzrszy.—Some time ago a-man was killed by a railway train over in Jersey—an occurrence so common that it has come to be regarded as impertinent for any one to take notice of it.. But the Coroner, who perceived 9 fee in the facts, disregarded the railway etiquette and started an inquiry. He went to the conductors, engineers, superin- tendents, everybody, and they individually and collectively told him to go to Jericho. The man waa dead, and what was the use of making afuss? But the Coroner kept at it, ond is at it still, and at last has suceeeded, after making many arrests, in finding out the name of the conductor of the train. This, however, is not very near to a verdict; but the Coroner will keep on. Would not this Jersey plan of burying men without verdicts apply in this city even better than the plan in use of finding verdicts of self-defence ? Ovr Sprcrau Fasurons letter from Paris tells of summer, the country, rural life and rustic toilets, The writer dates away from the French metropolis, at Chamettes, near Tours, and sup- plies quite a refreshing communication, describ- ing the living beauties who inhabit old cha- teaux, their style of dress and mode of life, The letter is quite agreeable, both in its variety of feature and gossip. The sub tegi- mine fagi vindicates itself in its natural beauty and well bred ease over the glitter, the whirl, and the heartlessness of the monde of Paris, Tux PatLapeLrata WiREMEN have engaged in another riot and brought their organization into greater disgrace than before. This riot’ occurred at a picnic near Trenton, N. J., where the Philadelphians were invited guests, and the Trenton firemen engaged deeply in the mélée. So long as Philadelphia or Trenton either maintains an organization of volunteer firemen, so long will they be subject to such disgraceful embroilments. | JULY 24, 1870 -TRIPLE Our Watering Places. Before the declaration of war between France and Prussia the prospects of our American watering places were as gloomy as the extortionate charges of sbort-sighted landlords had made them every summer for feveral years past. Each steamer that left New York for Liverpool, Havre or Breme was I! of passengers, eager to enjoy the first impres- sions or to revive them, which Ewerson, Washington Irving and N. P. Willis used to describe as flinging a certain romance over the European tour of a cultivated American. But the prospects of our watering places have brightened since the declaration of war. Many a family which had intended to make a transatlantic tour has decided to pass the summer at the old haunts of fashion in New port, Saratoga, Lake George, Long Branch and Cape May, or in the multitudinous new resorts which the railway locomotive and the steamboat have made easily, accessible. The glowing descriptions of Adirondack scenery by Murray and Street and Kate Field have not, perhaps, tempted so many tourists a8 usual to indulge in the dubious delights of camping out in the woods. The scorching heats of summer have prevented not a few from crossing the Plains and testing for themselves the eulogies of Col- fax and Bowles on the Rocky Moun- tain views which Bierstadt has trans- ferred to his ample canvas. But for several years there has not been such a sudden and overwhelming rush of visitors to the various watering places in the Atlantic States. The commendable reduction of hotel prices has augmented the number of those who gladly escape for a few weeks, or a few days, from “the populous city pent.” Moreover, many of the places of popular resort during the sum- mer season have become something more than gathering places for the mere butterflies of fashion, for match-making mothers and daugh- tera, and for the idlers of our jeunesse dorée, Long Branch, as well as Saratoga, will now be a favorite ‘‘meet” for the whole sporting fraternity of higher and lower degree. At theso and at other summer resorts the politicians are now accustomed to assemble for confer- ence upon the most complicated and far- reaching plans. Foreign politics and domestic politics are discussed in the barrooms and dining rooms and parlors, and even the ball- rooms, of watering place hotels. The diplo- matic corps at Washington migrates not un- willingly from the broad, shadeless avenues of the national capital, which a fiercer sun than that of the tropics now floods with light and feverish heat, to sheltered retreats in the White Mountaina, picturesque balconies on the Hudson or breezy beaches on the Atlantic coast. President Grant is, with his family, at Long Branch, where all the hotels are crowded, not only with hungry office-seekers, but with thousands of citizens bent upon quiet personal enjoyment, unalloyed by the anxieties of petty ambition. Not only at Long Branch, but at the Navesink Highlands and a dozen other favorite resorts, as well as at Cape May, which Philadelphians particularly affect, the usual number of visitors has been quintupled by the extraordinary facilities of reaching those points afforded by the public-spirited éaterprlse of Admiral Fisk. Thus fiye trips a day are regularly made by that floating palace of a hotel, the splendid steamer Ply- mouth Rock. Even the New Yorker whose business. engagements leave him but 9 few hours of daily relaxation may stgrt in the morning and make the round trip without landing anywhere, and yet enjoy on board the refreshing, invigorating sea air; the luxury of abath, the satisfaction of a well-cooked dinner and the picturesqueness of a bay finer than that of Naples, returning to his duties on the same day with redoubled energy. The notables of our New York society avail themselves frecly of the opportunity of moving at will from one to the other of our fashionable watering places. The Belmonts and tho Bar- lows, the Helmbolds, the Vanderbilts, the Fisks and the Lum Ling Waus—in fine, all the magnates of the period, may be seen driving their four-in-hands to-day at Saratoga, to-mor- row at Newport and the next day at Long Branch, While Mrs. Fisk, Jr., like Mrs. George Francis Train, is contented with a four-in-hand at Newport, Fisk, Jr., himself drives a six-in- hand at Long Branch. Thero is no end to the display of wealth atall the prosperous watering places of the season. The visit of our Seventh regiment to Cape May is to be followed this week by the visit of the Fifth Maryland Con- federate regiment ; and these visits of the crack regiment of New York and one of the bravest regiments in Lee's army to the same place are suggestive of the facts that the “‘cruel war” of 1861-5 is over and that ‘‘reunion” is now our watchword. General Lee, who was errone- ously reported as having arrived at Saratoga, is at the White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia. Many Northerners are among the nearly two thousand guests who are admiring the extra- ordinary beauties of nature and breathing the delicious mountain air at the White Sulphur: Springs. Those of us whom neither the moun- tains of Virginia nor those of New Hampshire can tempt from our daily tasks, and who must forego the pleasures of Saratoga, Lake George, Newport, Long Branch and Cape May, can still console ourselves with the cool night breezes and the delightful Park drives which remdier New York city, after all, one of the most agreeable summer resorfs in the United States. Movements or Senator Fenton.—After jumping into the water and saving a little child from drowning the other day at Babylon, on Long Island, Senator Fenton came up to the city; thence, on Friday afternoon, by the steamer Plymouth Rock (Collector Murphy on board, too), he went down to Long Branch, and returned by the early Sandy Hook train Saturday morning. It was supposed that his mission to ‘the Branch” was to ‘“‘see” General Grant and Murphy, and talk it all over with them about the Custom House business ; but we understand that the Senator did not go down for this purpose, and did not see Grant or Murphy, and did not and does not want to see them or either of them. From this we appre- hend that the Senator, like Sempronius, ‘is atill for war,” though we think his true course is to make it up with General Grant and with Murphy, and to bury the hatchet and smoke the ‘“‘pipe of peace.” Pisces ror Conougne-Old graveyards. The Drought in France and the War. We have heretofore referred to the disas- trous drought from which France is suffering, as probably having its influence upon the mind of Napoleon in pushing his jealousy of the growing power of Prussia to the featful ultimatum of war. We are not weakened, but strengthened, in~this opinion as the details of the losses of the French people from this terrible drought are communicated to us. It appears that this year’s products of France in the staples of subsistence will hardly be .half the annual average yield; and France, even with bountiful crops, exports no provisions. Her forty millions of bread consumers require all that her soil can be made to produce, economical as are the French people and experienced as they are in making, through their skill in cookery, a little go a long way. But what are the effects already resulting from this summer's blighting drought over all the fair land of France? Her large rivers, during the present century, were never before 80 dwindled as now; her smaller streams were never to so great an extent dried up; and never, since her first and most terrible revo- lution, bave so many of her springs apd wells become exhausted. Her flelds, gardens and vineyards have suffered in proportion. Her farmers, from the consequent deficiency in grass, roots and forage of every kind, are selling off their horses, cattle, sheep, swine, &c,, in many cases for one-tenth of their value @ year or even six months ago, The immedi- ate advantages thus offered to the government in cheap horses for the cavalry, artillery and commissariat services, and in cheap beef, mut- ton and pork, are thus apparent, It will be perceived, too, that in the extraordinary pur- chases which are required for a great army moving to war, the government, in money, will be furnishing a general relief to the farmers of the country, which under a state of peace would not reach them. In short, we may assume that, but for the extraordinary demands of the govern- ment, resulting from a state of war, many thousands of horses, cattle, &c., would in dying from starvation become a dead loss to the owners, compared with which even the small cash price paid by the government is so much clear gain and a contribution of so much to meet the coming necessities of the peasantry. So far, then, we may consider this war an advantage to Napoleon in these war contribu- tions to the French people. Again, it is doubtless the design of Napoleon with two or three hundred thousand men and the neces- sary horses to invade Prussia, and not only to subsist them upon the products of the invaded provinces, but to draw from those provinces all the extra supplies within their reach for French home consumption. Instead of the usual destruction by fire of the subsistence of the hostile country not needed by the invader this surplus will, or ought to be as e war measure, saved for his army held in reserve on his own soil. Thus, with 9 firm foothold in the enemy's territories Napoleon may draw from them sup- plies equal to the subsistende of two oF @ millions of the French peasantry, men, women and children. In the event of another field of Jena, upon which he may be Calculating, Napoleon may exact among his conditions of peace an amount of breadatuffs which will re- lieve France by impoverishlag Prussia ; for Prussia, too, feels materially the pressure of this season’s general European drought. There is still another consideration in this question of bread which may have entered into the estimate of Napoleon in favor of this war. The popular cry for ‘‘bread” in the streets of Paris was one of the first and most significant manifestations of the great French revolution of 1789. Napoleon may be in danger of a renewal of this revolutionary cry this coming winter. But the “‘gloire” and “victoire” of France in a war with Prussia will stop all complaints of hunger in Paris, and so Napoleon need not be in a particular hurry to begin the war or to bring it to a close. In brief, we cannot resist the conclu- sion from the facts and views suggested that the drought in France has had its full weight in determining the mind of Napoleon in favor of this last resort of war. Solomon of Perth Amboy. Since the time of Solomon Grundy, who was born on Sunday and died on Monday,, we have not heard of any gentleman so conse- quential and startling as Solomon Andrews, who signs himself ‘‘Health Officer at Perth Amboy.” ‘This person wants ever so much information; he wants to be told so many things that it is astonishing how little he must know. He wants to be informed why the Health Officer of this port boards ships in the lower bay. Poor Solomon—so old, and he never yet heard of the yellow fever! He wants to know, also, by what authority that illustrious blunderbuss who calls himself the Health Officer of Brooklyn ventures to examine any samples of coffee that he, Solomon of Perth Amboy, has declared to be perfectly healthy. Well, this thing puzzles us also, justly celebrated as we are for the wide range and accurate character of our knowledge. Can anybody tell how any ship came to Brooklyn by way of the port of Perth Amboy ? Brooklyn is part of the port of New York, and ships landing cargo there are supposed to have passed through the hands of the Health Officer of this port, What, then, has Solomon of Perth Amboy to do with any of them? ANoTHER MurpEr Casz has been disposed of in a manner fully as satisfactory as hang- ing. Abully named Farrell, whose dangerous character is proven by the crowd that assem- bled in advocacy of the prosecution at the inquest yesterday, was killed while beating, with ten or twelve others, an honest, sober fireman named Hamilton, The jury promptly rendered a verdict of justifiable shooting, and Hamilton was discharged. A disorderly crowd of Farrell’s friends were in the court room trying to influence the jury by their threat- ening demonstrations, and itis probable they succeeded only in inducing the jury to render their. verdict more promptly than it might otherwise have been rendered. If killing is to be done, such bullies as Farrell are the best subjects upon whom to do it, and if a jury is to be influenced, such influence as these disor- derly gangs exercised ig the most salutary and equitable, Horse Hacing. The marked revival of racing within the past ten years is an ovidence of that growing clvili- zation which refines popular enjoymente, and, in so doing, incites the enterprise of the expert and tho enthusiasm of the capitalist. It would be an interesting study to measure in the his- tory of popular diversions and public passions the influence of the individual upon the many. A John ©. Stevens, displeased with the unfair means resorted to by a racing competitor to save his money, forsakes the turf and goes into yacht building. The turf proper declines at the North, and the ‘Olympic dust of the Cur- ricle” of Rome—where horses are still only run on Mardi-gras, without riders—takes the place of Eclipse and Henry, of Black Maria and Trifle, of John Bascombe and Post Boy, of Fashion and Boston, The trotter usurps the Hippodrome, and breeders and buyers rush into the trotting lottery, from which have been drawn a Lady Suffolk, a Flora Temple, a Patchen, an Ethan Allen, a Dexter, a Lady Thorne, and others of fame. We have said that racing disappeared from the catalogue of Northern enjoyments when Stevens loft the turf for the ocean—Apollo for Neptune. Many of us remember the succes~ sive stages of his developmentin his new voca- tion, through the Gimerack, the On-ka-hy-e, the Maria to the America, and her marvellous triumph over the mariners of England, with their inheritance of amphibiousness and naval selence. Years elapse, Commodore Stevens was gathered to the tomb, and we have had, as an emanation of the American Yacht Club he founded, the matchless race of the Hen- rietta, the Fleetwing and the Vesta, cleaving the Atlantic in time of which steamers need not be ashamed. Though its Northern patrons left the turf, its horses remained, and the South still remained faithful to its traditions. New Orleans, with the enormous stakes contended for succes- sively by Gray Medoo, Sarah Bladen, Reel, Miss Foote, George Martin, Fanny King, Peytona, Verifier, Revenue, Brown Dick, Lecomte and the king of the turf, Lexington, and the marvellous race of the latter against time, began to revive the turf feeling in New York, The Fashion Course inaugurated a new era; Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Alabama came to the post and resurrected awhile the glories of Eclipse and Fashion. Then came Paterson—a brief success because inaccessible to the masses—and then Jerome Park, a brilliant and public-spirited inspira- tion. While it was being shaped and fashioned the Saratoga Course had grown into favor as @ refined resort for the fashionable multi- tudes of that time-honored watering place. Jerome Park became a success, and by its inauguration may be said to have established racing under the guidance of a club of great numbers and of irreproachable respectability, and marks the culmination of the new era into -an institution, There is an old proverb, “‘the more the merrier,” which holds good of racing. The attractions of yachting are limited in the scope of their enjoyment. The victory of the Sappho hd the tempered infaenge npon polls feeling &f & Derby day or any other distant sporting event, But the race is like the popular drama—for the many and not the few. As Horace says, “black care sits behind the rider,” while joy and excitement are the attendants of the spectators. “=... The siceéas of the Saratoga races proved the possibility of a triumph of the turf at Long Branch, and the liberality and splendor of the purses, the variety of the events, with the ad- mirable arrangements for the accommodation of the public, and last, not least, the accessi- bility of the course by two palatial steamers, cannot fail to make the enterprise a complete victory. One feature of the meeting is looked for with great anxiety, and will, beyond doubt, give unqualified pleasure—the restoration of races at heats, of which there will be one each day, in which the powers of endurance as well as speed are developed. The race, four-mile heats, on Saturday, August 6, will doubtless be the crowning glory of the meeting. For this purse of six thousand fiye hundred dol- lars there are fifteen entries. Nearly all of them are in active preparation, and report speaks in praise of their excellent condition. Should one-third of this number start in the race the steamboat, railroad and carriage intee rests would do well to be on the alert for extra conveyances. Tue Position oF THE UNITED STATES IN THE WAr.—According to Mr. Fish our posi- dion inthe war that threatens to unsettle the order of the world is that of a suppliant to one of the Powers for a small favor, which, ofcourse, as it was a ridiculous thing to ask, that Power could only refuse. Mr. Fish, speaking on behalf of the government and people of the United States, puts them on their knees to beg from France that, out of consid- eration’ for their necessities, she may be pleased to spare the North German line of steamers, that the American people and gov- ernment “depend” upon for postal communi- cation with Europe. We doubt if ever before a great people was made quite so contemptible as this. “Tux Herawp IN Lonpoy.—In another place ‘in this day’s HgRatp will be found a most readable article from the London Bélgravia. Its views of New York and New York life are spicy and suggestive. The New Yorke HeRaxp is singled out as a special feature of the great metropolis of the Western Con~ tinent. Our Sunday and Monday issues are marvellous in the eyes of the people of the modern Babylon, The HeRatp,.in the great réle as a preacher of righteousness, is some- thing so startlingly novel that they cannot comprehend it. Its ‘‘truly cosmical or plane- tary sweep and character” are bettor under- stood here. Itis gratifying to know that we have not labored in vain. We are not without the hope that the merits of the Hzraxp will yet be more fully recognized even in London. Lavy Frangtin is in Cincinnati, and wilt probably be among us next Tuesday. She is still seeking for some information of the long lost Sir Jonn Franklin; and her visit here is to consult with Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, on the result of his later explorations. Where else in modern life will we find such an embodiment of unselfish devotion, unwearying patience, and sanguine hopefulneas as this venerable woman presents? wre