The New York Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1870, Page 6

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Advertisements. eriiseiients. ne French Army Reinforced and tn Motion ; Napoleon's lan ‘of Operation ; Skir- inishing, But No Battle ; French Fleet Of Gunboats for the and Out of Par- les and the Danes als; An English View of the Attitude ~of Ireland. 4—Miisummer Resorts: Long Rranch Sweltering oe the Sea—Musical and Theatrical, Notes— usic for the People—lectiedly Frenchy— Brooklyn City News—Kea! Fstate Matters—The Late Anson s#urlingame—Our Shipping Inter. ests--Tho Latest Tragic Mystery—New York Cty News—Death of an Optum Eater—-An Accomplished Sneak Thief--A Pest Hole at Hunter's Polnt. Z jonal Game—Personal Mtelligence—The tt—An Abandoned Corpse— Ends Weill’—Criticisms of Ne ly Frankiin—Meeting of the Board of Heaith—The City Lull Outrage—A G—Liitorials: Leadmg Article on the War Situa- thon in Furope, the ast Developments— Naval Inielilgeuce—Amusement Announce- mens. Telegraphic News From All Parts of the Woild: Premler Giadstone on the Alabama | Cistms: 1 in England; rhe L ida Cable Com- menced; Te s in Philadel- pila—News from Wasi A “Seventh’? aaquet—Serenading Co man CalKins— ‘The Ocean Kace : A Yacht Showing the Cam- pris’s Signals Seen Two linndred Milles from Santy Hooh—Business Notices. 8=Canad an Anuexation: the fHeRALD Demollshes ‘# Political Party; the Annexationists Coming out Openly—Long Branch Races—The Drown- fog Casualty at Halifax—The Lost Chiid - Found—A Dear Tooth. @—Proceedings in the New York Courts—Financlal and Commercial Reports—An Old Coin—Mar- riages and Deaths. 10—The Hartman Murder: Conclusion of the Trtal at Jersey City—A Klyn Tragedy—Fatal 3 from Europe—An The Intense Heat: Con- Term—A Newark tinuation of the He: \ all in the statement of the Times it shows very | clearly that the vultures are not yet extinct, Troy Klopement. } NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNES uv Tho War Situation in Europe=—Tho Latest Developments. Tho actual war news {s uninteresting. It speaks of skirmishes and surprises, but it leaves us in darkness as to the purposes and plans of either antagonist. That there is a powerful concentration of troops on both sides in the immediate nelghborhood of the border lines it is no longer poasible todoubt. It does seem as if each Power was afraid of the other, At all events it is uo longer possible to doubt that on both sides there is a strong desire to husband resources for some terrific tug of war. The real novelty in the situation bas been created by the publication of a treaty whose history must at least be as old as 1866, if not older. We are somewhat surprised by the excitement which the publication of this old story bas created. New to the public and to the nowspapers, we cannot regard it as at all new tothe world of diplomacy. We have not yet forgotten the famous Biarritz meeting of Napoleon and Bismarck. We have not for- gotten the excitement which that meeting degot In certain circles. We have a distinct recollection of the Prusso-Austrian cam- paign of 1866, and of the importance which was attached, at that particular time, to the meeting of the two great chess playera at Biarritz. It was a prevailing belief that Na- polcon was holding off because he had faith in Bismarck, and because France was, in some way unknown to the general public, to win with Prussia. The campaign of 1866 was brief and decisive beyond the expectations of either Bismarck or Napoleon. But it was so decisive as to make Bismarck the master of tho situa- tion, and to give him the happy opportunity which politicians and diplomatists love—an op- portunity to forget private conversations and treaties talked of but not ratified. The year following gave us the Luxemburg trouble, which for a time threatened war, but which was happily settled by the London conference. After Sadowa France was surprised and amazed, but she‘was not prepared to fight. Napoleon was all the more helpless that he had to face two failures—that of Mexico as well as that of Sadowa. Napoleon, not yet caring much for war, is better prepared than he was in 1866 and in 1867, and French feeling, as he himself has told us, being so emphatically pronounced, he has had no choice but to say, “Here I throw my gage.” It is possible that A Prefignte Congress. piques against naval officers of repute, fought The late Congress will ever be celebrated in | every naval item because those officers were history for three distinguishing features—their | kept {a employment, and was ready to see the masterly inactivity in everything retating to the material interests of the country, their country swamped rather than vote for any measure by which they could be in the re- patronage of. jobs of all descriptions, aud | Motest degree benefited. Senator Spencer, of their squandering of the public lands. Local Alabama, although of no possible account, matters receive the undivided attention of the | cither for good or evil, put in his small note national legislature, but when the question of | With the rest, trying to bring odium upon the resuscitating the great commorcial interests of the country came up those. who took the sub- ject in hand showed themselves arrant bua- glars, devoid of all statesmanlike views, and, Navy Department, and in so doing bas con- ‘| signed himself to the tomb of ihe Capulets, In short, the very worst elements of the republi- can party seemed to be arrayed against every apparently, interested only in the success of effort to put our navy on a respectable footing. our transatlantic friends, since not a singlo step was taken to secure @ portion of that trade whioh is enriching foreigners to a degree unparalleled in history. Pergons of the most limited perceptions could have seen the storm lowering in Europe long before the adjournment of Congress, and the American people will not readily forget the precipitate haste in which the members of that body left Washington at the very moment when the golden opportunity. was offered to regain all that we had lost by the depredations of the English Alabamas, Who will forget the almost contemptuous manner in which the urgent message of President Grant, in which he showed Congress the necessity of taking steps to maintain our communications with Europe during the coming troubles, was laid upon the table? There are, indeed, but few men in Congress who concern themselves about the true interests of the country. Most of the members cannot see beyond the length of their noses, and know literally nothing about matters of trade, finance or national defence. They seem to think this great coun- try an object for all to prey upon, and as long as thoy can mnke large profits by lobbying through fat jobs the United States and all its best interests may take care of themselves. The people are tired of this, and there will be a terrible reckoning before many years pass away. They are becoming aware that the whole legislation of the country is in the hands of incompetent men—small politicians, whose only care is for their private ends; aod while all our industrial pursuits aro over- looked foreign interests are protected in so shameful a manner as to make it apparent that the time has come for political tricksters to give way to the brain and muscle of the too much has been made of this treaty. To our minds it is no more, no less, thana fair and somewhat full revelation of what took place at Biarritz in the spring of 1865. * At the same time it is possible that this revelation will very much complicate the present war situation. If the facts have not already been made known to the different governments—and it is very possible,that they have not officially been made known—every government in Europe must feel indjgnant, and the indignation must be equally directed against France and Prussia, That there is ground to criminate is not to be denied, nor is it possible to doubt that the parties criminated are equally guilty. If there be any truth at and that where the carcase is they will be found. If the report be true, then Napoleon and Bismarck did sit down day after day and make arrangements for the reconstruction of the map of Enrope—arrangements which implied a partilion more iniquitous than even that of Poland. So far as Napoleon and Bismarck are concerned, that ‘‘bloodiest pic- ture in the book of time” was about to be re- produced, and the intending spoliators are not to be held the less guilty that the wicked compact was a failure. We know what his- tory has said of the partition of Poland. We know what we thought of the French occu- pation of Mexico. If we have not had a fresh partition to the detriment of Holland and Belgium, if we havenot had another occupation as wicked as that of Mex- Foreman Fatally Kickea by a Horse—Shipping intelltgence—Advertisements. 11—Mexio: Robbery of American Merchants by the Mextcan Pirate Forward; Opposition to Prestdent Juarez—A Perilous Swing—Cuba: Spantsh Ideas Regarding Probable Raropean ‘ar; the Slavery Question—The Social Evil— Nows from Brazil—-One Woman’s Life—Ad- Verilselients. 12—Advertiscuents. Tar Cry 13 Sritx Tory Come.—Two hun- dred and eighty-five embryo shoemakers ar- rived ct San Francisco on Monday from China. Make way for them. Pumwapetenia has had an unusually dis- | astrious fire even for her volunteer fire compa- nies. A sugar refinery and a woollen mill were destroyed yesterday and nine firemen lost their lives by the crusbing of a wall. Onty a Sorarou.—Wonderful are the ways of the mighty Board of Police. We fiad that it has just tricd a policeman on the charge of “scratching his back against a building”—a charge solemoly preferred, no doubt, by the police master of deportinent. The man was found guilty and “reprimanded.” If he shonld scratch his back again he will pro- bably be dismissed. It is lucky the Board of | Police has nothing else to do. One Prussrax Reason.—In a state of peace the South German countries have an inde- pendent oxistence, but during war they become practically a part of the Prussian Power. War, then, effectively joins South Germany to the North German Union. And this ts the reason why war may be regarded without Gispleasure at Berlin; for when war has once added these Sonth German States to Prussia we may trust Bismarck that they will never be free again. Tne Savacns wi TEXAS are on a marauding | expedition, and recently eucountered a body of troops and defeated them. It was discov- ered that the savages were armed with Spencer rifles and six shooters, and that they manau- yred with better skill than usual. If all the Indians would accept our own way of fighting, moving according to specific tuctics and carry- ing plenty of bunglesomo traps with them, wo could finish them in a very fow battles, ~~ Anornzr CABLeE.—An_ocean cable is now io working order, connecting Penzance, in Wales, with tho Scilly (siands, thus giving earlier telegraphic communication with ships eailing to any part of Great Britain than has before been had. Tho completion of this cable has given rise to the proposition to make St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, a port of call for ships bound out of, or into English ports, and the proposition seems likely to commond itself to the maritime public. ico, wo have, at least, had a revelation of the spirit which accomplished the one and the other. This secret treaty, if it be found to be true, will redound to the disgrace of both Napoleon and Bismarck, but particularly Na- poleon. The excitement in the British isles, and par- ticularly in the British Parliament, reveals a sentiment which is European in its range. Great Brilain feels insulted. So must Russia. So certainly must Austria, who is the only suf- feror in the premises. If this rumored treaty be founded ia fact, what can the nations think of either of the intending combatants? Are they not scoundrels both? Bismarck got the better of Napoleon, but is he the less to be blamed that he was the more successful? Can Europe trust eiiher of these men? Can Great Britain and Russia any longer look on as mere spectators? Can the smaller Powers of Europe regard either of the vultures as a friend? If it be as is said is it not time for Europe to re- gard both France and Prussia, at least Napo- leon and Bismarck, as common enemies? The hurried visit of the Prince of Wales to Den- mark is an alarming sign of the times. A gen- eral European war or no war begins to seem as much a probability as a war between France and Prussia. The London Times, we fear, has burst the wind bags, and both France and Prussia will suffer. The sweet words of a villain caught in the act do not avail much. In all this we discover but one more powerful reason for the government of the people by the people. Tue Dog Days in Watt Strezt.—The relative prospects of war in Europe were almost ignored yesterday in the apathy pro- duced in the Gold Room by the upward move- ment of the mercury, ‘‘Bulls” and ‘‘bears” were ready to proclaim a truce for the balance of the heated term, and only that the Stock Exchange got up some little excitement over a decline in prices in that department of business Wall street would have dropped off into a sum- mer doze, ending only with the return of the bracing weather of the fall months, BE has Re res erage EST e Iv nas Resi#p Witt tite Caines to teach us not only a lesson of gratitude to our dead but also a lesson of regard for the families of our dead statesmen. Minister Burlingame died tn the service of the Colestial Empire, andthe Emperor has conferred the highest ‘rank upon him, posthumously—a rank which is exceeded only by the royal famity, and country, The industrial classes are the real sources of the woalth of the vast domain which Providence has given us, and in which we should find a larger share of happiness than in any other country on earth. Tho people can no longer put faith in party politiclans. If they trugt them again they deserve the shackles which their tyrants. are forging for them. For nearly a hundred years the politicians have been running the machine in a manner to suit themselves, and while constantly prating of the necessity of, relieving the people of the burden of taxation they havo been loading their subjects with a weight which has taken all the spirit of resistance out of them. Like | an old horse that for years. has been tied to + tho plough the oppressed have becomes too feeble to kick and find their only hope of peace and security Is in quietly dragging their weary load without a murmur. Talk of Russian des- potism, what is it compared to the tyranny of Washington politicians? After a con- tury of this despotism the country finds itaelf burdened with a debt of twenty- four hundred million dollars, with little hope of any abatement of taxes during the lifetime of the present generation. Qn the contrary, every effort seems to be made to increase alill further the load thatthe people must carry, and the chances of increasing our resources, that, ifimproved, would in a few years relieve us from our difficulties, are thrown recklessly away. We find that in Congress the worst men take the lead and do all in their power to foment strife among a people already divided, instead of encouraging, by generous legisla- tion, the return of the disaffected portion to their allegiance. The American people will not readily forget the injustice done them by Great Britain, and yet they see in nearly every movement that is made to resuscitate our commerce that the feeling for British interest crops out in Con- gress, a quarter where we have the least right to expect it. On occasions when discussions take place concerning our great commercial in- terests British agents are as thick in the lobbies of Congress as jackals in the wilds of Africa. Who can behold the decay of our commerce and not condemn tho men who do nothing to bring it to life again? Inactivity, when so much is at stake, would be disgraceful, but to be lifting up the commerce of a nation that struck our own its most deadly blow is the worst treachery that could be inflicted on a trusting people. There are very few persons who realize the extent of the injury inflicted upon our commerce by Great Britain. We will tell them that 104,606 tons of shipping were captured or destroyed by vessels fitted out in England ; 801,301 tons were transferred to foreign flags to prevent their falling into the hands of our enemies; 215,978 tons were pur- chased by the Navy Department and worn out in the war, making a total of 1,121,884 tons decrease in our commerce at one fell swoop. This statement does not indicate the decadence since the war, caused by the ignorant legisla- tion of the Washburna, the Daweses, the Logans and the Stevenses, who have trifled with the vital interests of the nation and assisted our enemies to rise upon the ruins of our com- merce. Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, but these members of Congress have acted worse than the Roman and by indulging in private animosities have helped to bring the country to the verge of destruction. What a humiliating position in regard to naval defence has this country been left by these legislators! Here we are with a few old gunboats to protect our commérce in a European war, a conflict in which every nationality may become involved. Who will trouble themselves to respect the flag or com- merce of a nation that seems too mean to maintain a navy equal to that of the smallest European Power? Nocongregation of sinners ever had their backslidings dianed more per- sistently Into their ears than have our legisla- tors the necessities of the navy, yet the Com- mittee on Appropriations in the House, with a which will perpetuate in the royal archives his memory and his name, In addition to that: he bas ordered that ten thousand taels be be- stowed, poo lis family. majority of republicans, have ignored all the requisitions which @ republican administra- tion made upon them. Mr, Washburn, intent The entire legislation of these politiclans ap- peared to be of a bargain and sale kind and a surrender of the best interests: entrusted to their keeping. It is high time that the people should de- mand a surrender of the powers so long abused, and in the coming elections the voters should say, ‘‘We want you no more forever.” There are hundreds of men in this country who are identified with the industrial classes, men ofthe people, who are far more worthy to be trusted with the task of reconstructing the deranged machinery of government than those now in power. If these were installed in high places they would honestly work in the interest of our long suffering people. We have seen our country disgraced by violations of treaties made with our best friends. We have seen how incapable are the present race of politi- cians to retrieve our disasters, We find our- selves incapable of protecting our commerce at home or abroad owing to the indifference of Congress, and we must fall back on the only remedy that we have—7. ¢., turn out those who have been found wanting and put better men in. their places. Certain it is worse ones can- not be found. A Good Doctrine of Blockade, r It is said that official instructions have been | given to our hew Minister to England, Mr. Frelinghuysen, as to the course which he may take in reference to all the fine points of in- ternational law yet to be settled, and he is especially advised that the question of block- ade shall be definitely and satisfactorily dis- posed of. Heretofore, notwithstanding treaties and conventions, this law has been imperfectly understood, or was pretended to be misunder- stood, by nations which had an object in loosely interpreting it, as we know to our cost. During our war British “neutral” vossels ran the blockade of the Southern ports most audaciously, from Nassau and Bermuda, and British merchants made immense fortunes out of our difficulty under cover of a sneaking neutrality, This is a matter of very un- pleasant history for England. The question of blockade, above all others, except the safety of cargoes and mails in strictly neutral ships, should be so rigidly defined that there can be no room for dispute as to what blockade means. The Paris Congress of 1856 declared that a blockade, to be regarded as such, “must be effective.” This is somewhat vague. The instructions given by our government to Mr. Frelinghuysen, and sent to all our Minis- isters in Europe, give a new view of the sub- ject. They are that a blockade shall not be regarded as a restriction upon trade, but shall be a siricily military operation, and shall not in any sense app!y to merchant vessels. This idea, if adopted, will define exactly what blockade means, but probably, in view of the exigencies of war, not what it ought to mean. He Parts His Hair im the Middle. At last we know tho real cause of tho re- moval of Mr. Motley, and we feel relieved to be assured that he is not withdrawn for having written his own instructions, It seems he parts his hair in the middle; and old Zach Chandler, who went ail the way to London to make this discovery, had no sooner become aware of this astounding weakness on the part of our Minister than he rushed to Wash- ington from London brimful of good old Michigan indignation and demanded the head whose covering was thus divided in defiance of every American sentiment of man- hood and propriety. What could the Presi- dent say? Could he hope to make anybody believe that a man who parted his hair in the middle could correctly represent the American people inan argument on the Alabama claims ? Did not thia very fashion of parting the hair at once and forever acknowledge the supre- macy of England in matters great and little, and by inference yield the point in dispute? No man could soberly argue against this view, and the Preaideat gave way, and Motley’s head falls to the prowess of old Zach. But if aman who parts his hair in the middle is prejudiced toward English thought is not one who paris his hair in aay other way pre- judiced against them? And will not England make this objection? Then we shall have to send a bald-headed man, and Ben Butler will come in the foreground as probably the bald- est headed man in the republican parity, Tne Last or Att Tuer Joss.—And now there is a job in hand to furnish public tomb- stones to all the dead Congressmen that have accumulated in the public graveyard since the war began. It is wonderful how jobbery fol- lows a man who has once been guilty of silting in Congress. John Randolph in his time said that that whole graveyard was a job, and when asked on his deathbed if he would be buried there he said, “It is not according to the constitution ; don’t bury me in violation of the constitution.” But Congressmen have gone to the graveyard ever since, notwith- standing the constitution—mainly, perhaps, because these representatives of States and parts of States had no homes outside the national capital—and now that they are dead many of them, it seems, have no friends to put mementoes over their graves, and their names and honors are to be perpetuated in stone only because some shrewd jobber can Two Ports Gatsep ALREADY BY THE War—The fusion of all parties in France in support of the Emperor and gloire and victoire, on the one hand, and the unity and consolidation of Germany on the other hand. The point gained by Napoleon was the thing he aimed at in resolving to throw down the gauntlet of war, and the point gained by Bis~ marck was his temptation to take up the chal- lenge. France is united, Germany is consoli- dated. But now “comes the tug of war” and France in the outset was never so nearly matched before in her struggles with the Gor, “| only upon the gratification of his private | mans, DAY, JULY 27, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET, War Nonsense by Telegraph. There is a ailver liniug to every cloud, although, by the way, we have had no oppor- tunity of testing the truth of that aphorism lately, since the clouds seem to have fled away from before the blazing face of the sun for- ever, andeven our anticipations of a horrible war in Europe have something to relieve them in the facetis of the telegraphic and Special despatches now ticking in from the Old World to our press. The “Tastar horseman” of the Crimean strug- gle and ‘‘the reliable contraband” of our own clvil war have both become splendidly historic, and will be recollected and chuckled over long after the memory of many a noted warrior shall have “gone glimmering through the mist of things that were ;” but even their high fame is likely to be eclipsed by the Mun- chausenisms and platitudes that attend the opening of the French campaign along the Rhine. Not far from’the quaint old town of Oberwesel, on that lyric river, there is a re- markable echo between the environing hills, . and as the steamer spceds by the spot some roguish student on the upper deck will fre- quently shout, ‘Who is the Burgomaster of Oberwesel?” The answer comes rat- tling back in three or four successive vol- loys :—‘Esel! sel! esel!” which, being pure German for the title of that useful but much derided quadruped the donkey, is more amusing to the passengers than complimentary to the burgomaster. From what we are re- galed with daily in some of the telographic items offered us for mental digestion we should conclude that the informants either lived near this Rhenish echo and got their news from it or were entitled to the real honors of Oberwe- sel as the echo understands'them. One day the French are over the Rhine and far away; on the next they are a long, long joutney on this side of it. They survey moun- tains where there are wide plains, and man tromendous ‘fortresses which are not yet con- structed, But the battles that they fight are stupendous:—‘“‘Another sharp engagement,” says an extra, ‘“‘and two men killed.” “‘We have 4 million of men between Thionville and Metz,” one of Napoleon’s officers is made to boast, anq in the next line we read the refreshing in- teligence that ‘‘the French have thus far taken forty prisoners,” at which rate they will as- suredly catch the whole Prussian army in less than thirty thousand years, The Emperor, too, never “came out” so ‘‘strong” as he does just now. On one and the same day he is ill at St Cloud and addressing and dining the Senate at Paris. He has been going down to the headquarters of the army “in two or three days” for nearly that many weeks, and the astonishing manner in which he is made, in one and the same breath, to ‘‘extend his empire to the Rhine” and ‘consolidate his imperial dynasty,” yet “declare all Europe a republic,” carries us away with enthusiasm. The French army, too, has its headquarters in tho most numer- ous and impossible places, and in any number of them at a time—at Thionville, at Metz, at Strasburg, and, most appropriately of all for the itemizer, at Nancy, and no miss this time by any means. Here the fable of the | hydra is utterly surpassed, for these heads keep growing in size and number without one of them having yet been cut off. But ah! those {‘Prooshians,” those terrible “Prooshians.” The prostidigitation’ of the Fakir of Ava, the ‘‘amusing illusions” of Hel- ler and the Wizard of the North, and the agility of the Man-Fly become mere weak im- positions when contrasted for a moment with their bewildering performances, Wore their horses all winged steeds and their ponderous Hessian boots the pinions of Mercury and delicate Ariel they could not skip about at a more amazing rate than they now do. From Switzerland to the Belgian frontier, and from the ‘banks of the blue Moselle” to the borders of Bohe- mia, they whisk over mountains, ‘pour through” forests and bestride rivers In a style that would reduce Gulliver's Brobdingnagians to the most pitlable pigmies, and take the wind out of Pegasus and the shine from the Colossus of Rhodes. But there are favorites of misinformation, as of all other things—grave, solemn, pompous fellows, who get all the tit-bits and throw all the scraps to the little shoo-flies (as they would have it) of the press—portentous humbugs who are always right, of course, and who, therefore, are scarcely ever right at all. They give us delicious jambles of hashed geography, broken grammar and the stale pariags of for- gotten tactics, with an olla-podrida of princes and generals with uopronounceable namos and of impossible exploits, until, suddenly, they burst upon us ia plans of manceuvres and maps of localities of ‘‘a form that is art's despair and a face that no pen could paint.” How shall we settle the matter in our minds? Have the French Emperor and King William come to the relief of poor humanity in this sweltering hour that tries us all and made half the papers published more comical than Punch or Oharivari, Kladderadatsch or the Fischietto by the maneuvres of their troops, or are we to wait and gnash our teeth in advance over the printed violation of innocent frontiers, under aggravated circumstances, and the topographical massacre of whole ptovinces, executed with all that cold-blooded ferocity which distinguishes the items-maker on the war-path? Tu Boarp or Hearn has taken the most stringent measures to protect us from being in- fected by ships coming from Perth Amboy, N. J., that young and ambitious port of entry having signalized its admission to that dignity by sending to our porta number of infected vessels which could never otherwise have passed the searching eye of Dr. Carnochan. A resolution has been adopted that such ves- seals cannot unload without the usual certificate from the Health Officer of the port of New York. This proceeding will! probably close up Perth Amboy, for that hopeful young port de- pended mainly for business in its ability to ship infection tato New York despite Dr. Car- nochan. Over Forty More Casrs.—On Monday vover forty persons were prosirated with the v At. Dowingo and Haytt Agnin on the Rampage. France and Prussia, Spain and Cuba, Mexico and the “God and liberty” pronouncers are not going to have the fighting all to them- © selves, After days, possibly weeks, of pro- found peace the Prospects are that the rival republics of St, Domingo and Hayti are pre- paring for war—a fierce and bloody war. Already the preparations are making, and President Baez {is arming two hundred Domini- cans to make @ rafd on the Haytien frontier. In a contest so great as that now about being waged in the Antilles the eyes of the world will for the moment be diverted from the petty bickerings now going on between Louls Napoleon and Bismarck the Great about the German Prince Leopold, who, after waiting for long years, like Mr. Mioawhor, for something to turn up, suddenly finds himself enchred. It is true that Haytl and 8t, Domingo have tried conclusions more thao once before; but what of that? Have they not been at peace for months? But there ts nothing like creating an excitement. I you don’t make a noise in the world no persos will ever know anything about you. Irish- men, It is said, fight for the love of fighting, and why should not the Haytiens possess tht same privilege? If France goes to war be- cause Mr. Benedetti was told by King William of Prussia “‘don’t bodder me,” has not St. Domingo an equal right to have a set-to with Hayti when Saget contemptuously sneers “Shoo, fly,” at Baez? In old-fashioned times nations had, as a rule, some pretext for war; but it must be remembered that this is a pro- greasive age, and countries can now go to war, and, as the fight progresses, findany number of pretexts which suit the most exacting. One of the features of modern warfare is that both sides are right; but non-combatants are so perverse in their way of looking at things that they almost invariably take one side or the other, and each regard the side they favor as being correct. As yet hostilities have not commenced between the armies of the two re- publica. We know, however, they are eager for the fray and are anxious to commence operations, Newspaper correspondents, diplo- mats and foreign officers will not be allowed to accompany the armies. Itisnottrue that an alliance, offensive and defensive, has been made between China and Hayti, as in that case Russia, who is the friend and ally of St. Domingo because of Dominican friendliness to the United States, would most assuredly make demonstration along the northern boundary of the Chinese empire. This might or might not prove serious. At any rate it is worthy of consideration. What course Japan will take in the struggle it is not possible yet to conjec- ture. As for Hindostan, we can express no opinion. Taking into consideration the vast number of immigrants now coming in this direction, and the great numbers of Chinamen and Japanese who have courted and won fortune in the islands of the West Indies, the question of war, in Dominica is entitled to grave consideration. All the nations of Asia may be brought into collision with each other. What safoty is there for any immigrant to leave the shores of Asia for America while war rages in the An- tilles ?. With Enrope and Asia and St. Do- mingo and Hayti engaged in war what asplen- did prospect fortho United States. But Con- gress has adjourned. Were the American people as smart as they get credit for they could now make a stroke that would astonish mankind by reviving American commerce on the seas and annexing not merely St. Do- mingo but Hayti as well. Toe Canapian Union Leacues which favor an independent confederation as opposed to annexation or British allegiance, have finally succumbed to the greater pressure in favor of annexation. Our correspondence from Ottawa, in another column, details the dreadful fight which these mongrel organizations have made © against the sentiment of the people and the influence of the Hezatp, and also thelr con- sequent discomfiture. It is no use for Canada to kick against the pricks. To the American Union she naturally belongs, and there she will certainly drift. Tuz French AND THE Ikish.—The French and the Irish Americans are frater- nizing for France as in a common cause in their meetings of sympathy in this country. The drift of our two great parties is already apparent—the republicans siding with the Ger- mans, a8 far as they have spoken, and the democrats with the French. Should the war bo prolonged we may thus expect some curious political complications and an interest- ing reshaping of parties in the Tnited States. Green Froir anp tHE Crovers.—Simul- taneously with rumors of the cholera the city is being deluged with green fruit, from which, with the intense heat of the weather, if cholera be not produced it will be something extraordi- nary in the record of causes and effects. INTELLIGENCE, Reports from Our Europenu and Asiatic Squadrons. WASHINGTON, July 26, 1870. ‘The Navy Department has.received the following advices:— Rear Admiral Radfora arrived at Flashing, Hol- land, in his flagship, the Franklin, on the 8th of July last, trom the Downs. Commander 8, P. Garter, commanding the prac- tice squadron, reports his arrival at Plymouth on. the 12th of July, twenty-vbree days and a half from, the Capes of Virginta, All well, except Midshipman Franels a Veazie, win was condemned by medical. survey and orde: OIA. ‘The Juninta, Goneienast Luce, was in the Eng- lsh Channe! on Ju fea Antara Roa ie Delaware, aaongre Jaly 11, says P, theve on the oth of that. bionth, Commander Eng- sh nas orders to prepare ine ship for home, and leave benind stores of “The ‘Ashuelot, the English tron-clad frigate: ae and Vice-Admiral Kelletto’s flagship are also there, together with two twin screw gunboats and the: smaller ones of the “Bautery” class. There wera two Chinese gunboats in port, The Admiral hoped to be in Singapore oy the 4tn of Zaly. ‘The health-of the Asiatic squadrou was. excellent. Admiral Rowan, at Yokohama, May 23, ina letter to the Secretary of the Navy, says he would leqve Japan, en, route for home, tie uext day. The coun try 19 at pes and wie new governmens to worl well and ts rapidiy in- the important, Improvements of west- ern civliation, Tie “coast surrounding the treaty ports 4s lighted, “ith second and third class lensea, visibie from twelve totweanty miles. A dry dock, with extensive machinery for constructiom and will bo ready for service in Cetoper in. the harbor of Yokohama. A lina of tslograbe is, baeend between/the pubiic offices in Yeado ant he BLVAL heat in this city—the large majority of cases “proving fatal. Such a succession of terrible Alays has perhaps never beforg. been known to our people, and their cont;sued fatality is cer- tainly without parallel, -“ v4 Custom Houge in Yokohama, which ts open ¥ foreigners for a small charge, ‘The Admiral say8s— + shall leave the Idaho and the Monocacy here, OF foreign Shipa there are the French :rugave, Venus, Rear Admiral Mandet, and tue Sapleig, and the Eng- Ugh corvette Barrosa,”” |. Commander Walter W. Queen has been eer tothe command of the bavaa rendonvous at Phi delphi, ms, |