The New York Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1870, Page 6

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BAN FRANCIS BUOKLKY's Saxena’ CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, 7th av., between S%€h and 60th ats,—TaxovoRE Tuouas’ PoruLaR Conornre. NEW YORK M'SEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 — Gorrmoe ax Ant. baa DR. KASIN'’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Brondway.— Bours clit 2 chat TRIPLE oi asi vn New York, Tuesday, Angust 2, 1870. HEET. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. Advertisements. Adveriise;.enia, She Nathan Murder: Obsequies of the Late Nen- jamin Nathan; Pestponement of tho Corouer’s Ynguest; Significant Charge to the Grand dury by Judge Bediord; ‘Traces of the Murderer; A Startling Statement— ong Branch Races—Supposea Incendiarism— ne Newark Sewer Accident—Personal Invelli- ence—The Williamsburg Suicide ~Base all joies—Another Steambout Horror: Explosion O! the Bowlers of 9 Steamer on the Mississippi - -_River—lwenty Persons Killed. 4—The European Mail: War Despatches to the 20th of July; Vast Preparations and Movement for the Sirucg e; Speeches of King Wilham and Napo'eon; Earls Russolt ana Granville on the Crisis; Where the National Duel Will Le Fought; Napoleon’s Alleged Premeditation; Gertoany a Unit from Becln to Caicutta—An Ba cting seene in Court. 6—The Murder Term: Feartul Record of Blood in Towu and Country; the Kutte, the Bayonet, the Bulet and (ue Axe—New York City News— Buicklie of a Produce Dealer—Midsumner etreats: Diplomatic Conference at Long ranch; the Town of Greenwich and Ind/an la bor; Watcriig Place Notes—the Na.al Ditlce—The Deitnquent Volice—Contession of a Murderer—Real to Be Hanged—Additional Police Kul-s—now Long Shaii Rowdies Rui @—Ed: ovials: Lead ng article on the Latest. Phase of the War Movement— Brooklyn Uity News— dournuitsuc Notes—Amusement Announce- ments. %—The War: French Assault on the Prnssians at Saarbiuck; Sharp Skirmish and Repuise of the French; Vast and Extensive Muitary Move- ments iu Prussia; Germany Making Ready for Deience or an luyasion of Frauce; Two French Flets in _ Motton—Tele- Frapilc News: March of the French Troo 8 rom Kome; The Cavan Question in Madrid— Burning 0: @ Ferryboat—Uusiness Notices. o—tanadian, Annexailon: Progress of the Good Jookey Club aud Saratoga Assootation Entries— The Engiush Tarf—Aquatics—A Hearty Old an oe ‘lings tn the New York Vourts—Outdoor tary Reu The Reported Homicide at Sha- ayside, antic Yacit Club—The Pub- Uc De vement— Shipping Intelligence— Adver nents. orlis Ut—North Car: lina: The Game Between the Execu- Uve ani the Jadiclary—Ticket of Leave—Tur- key: Repairing Metropolitan Damag-s; Rela- tions to Egypt—Johu Chinaman Among the Bogar e~ The Crops in Northern Kausas— Advertise 13. AvorneER Mississippi: Exrioston.—The fre- quency of accidents on the Mississippi steam- ers calis to mind the old traditionary borrors when captains blew up their sieamers rather than be passed by another boat. The latest Incident of the kind is that of the steamer Silver Spray, which exploded a few wiles above Memphis, on Sunday night, killing at feast twenty-one persons, and injuring a large oumber. Russta Honors ARD.—It appears that the Russian government, on being apprised that Mr. W. H. Seward intends to visit China on the occasion of his next irip across the Conti- nent, has tendered for his accommodation the palace of the imperial Legation at Pekin for his residence while in the Chinese capital. A kind!y compliment from the Czar to a distin- guished American statesman; another evi- dence of sympathy between the great autocracy and the great republic. CANADIAN ANNEXATION.—Our correspon+ Gent in Otiawa, Canada, gives, in an important communication which we publish to-day, an eccount of the progress which the idea of annexation to the United States is making among our northern neighbors, according to which it would seem that tbe agitation for com- plete separation of Canada from the British empire is on the incroase. Its annexation to the United States would follow as 2 logical political consequence. In Conservative ‘‘Oxp Kenzock,” where they run up democratic majorities by the hundred thousand, Sambo voted for the first time yesterday. Strong efforts have been made to seoure his aggregate vote for the republicans, but the democratic papers of the State have offered him a fair show on their side, and it is likely that his vote will be Givided. In Louisville yesterday, although every darkey polled his vote, the democracy garried the city and county, and it is very probable that the unterrified still hold their Impregnable position in the State. Prerewent Grant, Secretary Fish and Min- ister Frelinghuysen are in close council at Long Branch. It is believed that Frelinghuysen NEW YORK UERALD, IVESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1870.—TRIPLIE SHERT, ‘The Latest Phase of the War Movement. Our European telegrams speak of a sharp skirmish between French and Prusslan troops yesterday, a vizoroas action of the Prussians and a repulse of the French, As yet we wait for the first great tug of war. If we can regard the blowing up of the railroad viaduct at Bitsche as a success, then Prussia has won the first victory. It is difficult to regard the blowing up of the viaduct on French soil, the more especially as the effort had to be repeated and repeated, in any other light than as the first positive triumph in the war, In this war, more than in any war which has ever been waged, the railroad is to play an important part. We cannot conceive why Napoleon was not more careful of this viaduct. Its comparatively undefended condition must be regarded as a blunder. Napoleon, it is possible, makes little of this particular; but whatever plan he may be following out it ie undeniable that this railroad now destroyed might to an invading army have proved of the utmost value. It is now, we think, clear that France means to invade Prassia and that Prussia means, in the first instance at least, to act on the defensive, The destruction of this railroad, so far as Prussia is concerned, is on this point proof conclusive, The first fight is to take place on Prussian or German soil. A special cable despatch, which we print this morning, shows that the whole country between Coblentz and Mayence is being converted into ahuge entrenched camp. It is evident that from what Prussia has been able to learn of the movements of the French army she has come to the conclusion that her Rhenish pro- vince is most likely first to be attacked. The Prussian forces await the attack of the French in a triangle, formed by the Rhine, the Moselle and tho Saar. The loft wing rests upon the Rhine, near Sardau. The right stretches out from the Moselle, near Treves. Von Moltke, the great Prussian stra- tegist, is reported to have said that if Napo- leon had not marched upon the Rhine by the 21st July, he would never reach Mayence, Saarlouis, it is also said, has been recently fortified, and it is calculated that it will mate- rially hinder the progress of the French troops. France ls so strong and Prussia is so well prepared that expectation stands on tiptoe, looking out for the first general struggle. Un- til then it will be premature to say whose chances are best. Itis safe to say that the march of the French to Berlin will not be easy. The prospect is not such as to encourage us to say that another Jena is more likely than another Leipsic or another Waterloo. Tho general situation remains much as it was, Wo have no further news regarding Denmark. Ruasla is, if anything, more watoh- ful. Spain asks explanations from France. Austria, Italy and France seem all to be plot- ting the ruin of the Holy Father, while they endeavor to come to an understanding regard- ing their common duty in this war. Groat Britain is roused from one end to the other. Mr. Gladstone’s speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet oa Saturday shows that Groat Britain, much as sho loves peace, is neither unpro- pared nor unwilling to fight, if the necessity is laid upon her. The position of the British government is already besot with many dan- gers. Tho sentiment of the government and people, so far as it has been expressed, has been against France. If France should come out of this struggle victorious, France will not forget this. It is a curious fact that from the asces- sion of Louis Napoleon up until the Crimeon war the British people continuously trembled for and defied a French invasion. The aveng- ing of St. Helena was known to be a Napo- leonic idea. Sinco the Crimean war the eniente cordiale has been but seldom and never more than slightly interrupted. Another Bonaparte triumphant in Berlin, mizht not Boulogne recover something of its ancient importance, and might not another threatened invasion be the terror of the British Isles? Certain it is that the entente cordiale between the two empires has been disturbed. If Napoleon wins he may have something to say abont “‘perfidious Albion.” If he does not win it is not difficult to forecast the result. It is our conviction that Napoleon has no heart for this fight. He goos into it because he cannot help it. It is a necessity laid upon him. If he had not yielled to this impulse given him by the French people the French people would have turned against him and his family. If he wins the French people will bow to the fates, will call him savior and will give him a splendid opportunity to retire in favor of his son. But if he does not win—if Prussian sol- diers or the soldiers of any coalition should again encamp in the gardens of tho Tuileries— the howl against the Bonapartes will be loud and long and merciless. We witness the opening scenes of a great drama. Every fresh scene, every fresh movement, is a sur- prise. What is to be the end no one can tell. While we write the first fight may have decided the campaign. But we wait for news. Marr ALLEN, who was recently sentenced tothe State Prison for five years, for panel thieving, bas been released on five thousand dollars bail, through the ingenuity of his coun- sel, A new trial ia to be granted him, one of the jurors confessing toa bins against him on the last one. Itisa pity that there are not more courts like Judge Dowling’s, where such weak inventions are unavailable for the benefit of old offenders like Mart Allen. There was no doubt of his guilt, aad the law is defective if he is allowed to escape through a techni- cality, As to a juror being biassed agninst him, it would speak better for our average jarymen if all of them were biassed against such men as Mart. Tue Evrorzan Matt of the 20th of July, to hand yesterday, supplies a very valuable and interesting history of the facta which preceded the great war straggle between France and Prussia, The exhibit is published in our columns to-day. It will be exceed- ingly useful for future reference on questions fatends to decline the mission to England. If wach fs the case it Is to be hoped that Motley will retarn home, and that no Minister will be appointed at all to the English Court. We do not need anybody there in that capacity, for there is no great question pending between ourselves and the English nation that can be settled by diplomacy. Discussion on the Alsbama claims is no longer allowable, and ooneular agents can do the necessary routine work of iv wisglony regarding tho motives and animus of great contestants, as woll as of tho relative posi- tions of the neutral Powers and peoples, Mrs. Lrxootn’s Penston.—Tho Philadel- phia Press says:—‘‘Of course it is not true that Mrs, Abraham Lincoln will refuse the pension voted to her by Conzress and #0 warmly advocated by Mrs, Grant.” Mrs. Lincoln would hardly set so singular an examnle. The Mysterious Plurder—Jndge Bedford's Charge to the Grand Jury. The present agitation of the public mind fn view of thelate terrible tragedy in Twenty- third street would naturally lend us to expect that the presiding Judge of the Court of Sessions would embody the facts of this horrl- ble murder in his message from the bench to the Grand Jury. Judge Bedford has done more than this, Without omitting the most important questions which will undoubledly come before the Grand Jury, he dwells upon the fact that this tragedy is not asolitary instance of the depraved condition of certain portions of the community, He ciles It very wisely as but an evidence of the demoralized atmosphere in which we live. He reminds the jury thatevery one of them ‘sworn as grand jurors should fully realize the condition of things in this city. The lawless class are becoming daily more daring and reckless. They must be checked in their mad career. ‘The protection of society and the future wel- fare of the metropolis depend in great measure upon the prompt award of punishment for crime; andthe poople look to the authorities for protection, Let them not lookin vain. Let every officialin these trying times prove him- self worthy of tho people's confidence,” The people look to the police and the courts of law for protection against lawlessness and violence. Whether they have put their trust in a delusion fs questionable; but there is much reason to believe theyhave from the criminal records of the past year or two, Mur- ders of the most fearful character have been perpetrated in the most populous portions of the metropolis, and no criminal has been brought to justice. The Burdell tragedy, with all the train of evidence elfcited at the inquest, fell through the hands of tho police like water through a sieve. The assassina-~ tion of Mr. Rogers in open day, at his own door, seemed to afford an ample opportunity for the exercise of detective skill; yet never was Rome—The Pope and His Intallibility— Dlovements of France and Avatria. In reference to tho perpetuation of the tem- poral power of the Holy Father of Rome the proclamation of the dogma of Infallibility was evidently a great mistake, We. have the news from Rome that orde:s have been there received for the concentration of the French troops of the Holy City at its seaport of Civita Vecchia, with a view to thelr embarkation for France at 8 moment's notice. We have the additional news from Paria that Austria has given her sanction to the taking possession of Rome by the kingdom of Italy; and we have the nows from Vienna that ‘the official gov- ernment journal of that capital announces the abrogation of the concordat between Austria and Rome, and that the Papal government has been notified of this decisive proceeding on the part of Austria, Finally, as if fully aware of the ‘manifest destiny” of Rome, as fore- shadowed in these significant movements, it Is reported that the Holy Father, anticipating the necessity of a retirement from the Hternal City, contemplates a retreat to the British island of Malta, In these simultaneous acts on the part of Austria and France in regard to the Pope, it is apparent that he is as @ temporal ruler to be abandoned or only to be used as a make- weight with the kingdom of Italy. Tho old concordat between Austria and the Pope, with the numerous reforms established in the Aus- trian government under the administration of Von Beust, bas become practically a dead let- ter. Asit was, the authority of the Pope over the Austrian dominions, in matters of religion, education, marriages, &c., was supreme; as it is, the government of the Church is in all things subordinate to the State. The for- mal abrogation of the concordat, however, in consequence of the dogma of infallibility, is equivalent to a complete abandonment of the Holy Father as a temporal dependent upon the protection of Austria without the addition of her consent to the occupation of Rome by there so hopeless a blunder, and, in fact, a succession of blunders, as in that case. Judge Bedford, in his allusion to the terrible tragedy which now convulses the entire com- munity, congratulates the Grand Jury that the case is in the hands of a most worthy citizon and fearless official—Superintendent John Jourdan—who will use every effort to arrest and punish the cowardly murderers of Mr. Nathan, The whole community look now to Mr. Jourdan, and we trust that he will not prove unworthy of the good opinion expressed by the City Judge. The perpetrator of this brutal murder must be hunted up and brought to justice. The blood of the excellent and unoffending gentleman go cruelly slain must be avenged through the channels of justice and the law. No temporizing, no consideration for private feelings; no daw- dling with vague olues and theories, come from what source they may, should be allowed to stand in the path of the detoctive’s inflexible duty, Oaptain Jourdan has the machinery at work. That he is competent to reach a successful issue in. the detection of the real criminal few will doubt. Let us be patient. Let us watch events and not anticipate them, accepting, meantime, the assurance of the City Judge, that every nerve will be strained in this terrible case “until the majesty of the law shall bs vindicated.” French Immigration to the Uaited States. It is probable that statistics would show a greater French immigration to the United States on the part of representatives of skilled labor and mercantile experience than to Algeria since the conclusion of our recent civil war. In New York alone the number of French signboards, announcing every kind of industry and trade, has of late surprisingly increased, Even since the declaration of war between France and Prussia—an event which must temporarily check French as well as German immigration—it is curious to learn that one of the most extensive schemes of immigration from France is still being success- fully carried out. Thus a despatca from St. Louis, which was originally a centre of French colonization, informed us yesterday of the arrival ia that city of the agent of the Human- itarian Society of France, on his way to south- west Missouri in search of a location for two thousand French families, After the termina- tion of the impending war in Europe we may expect that Frenchmen, Germans, Swedes, Norwegians, Irish, Scotch and English ; in fine, Europeans of every nation, will gwell the flood of immigration to an unprecedented height, With our present comparatively sparse population and our vast ares of terri- tory we can heartily welcome all, whether from Europe or from Asia, who shall seek homes in free America and aid in the develop- ment of its incalculable resources of wealth and prosperity. iniebsata Mr. Sewarp has given the negroes who celebrated one of their emancipation days yes- terday at Auburn some sound advice, He ad- vised them to keep themselves free by edu- cating themselves up to the requirements of freemen and to compass the freedom of thelr brothers in the West Indies, South America and Africa in the same way. ‘The latter part of Mr. Seward’s advice we think was super- fluous. The emancipation of the negroes in tho West Indies, in South America and in Africa is being worked out by a sharper and prompter method than education, In the West Indies it is being carved out by the sword as it was carved out here, and in South America and Africa it is being brought about by the ruling example and influence of the United States. Wat Srrert aNp tHe NATHAN MuRDER.—~ It must be some slight mitigation of the great grief of Mr. Nathan's family to leara of the profound respect which was paid his memory in Wall street yesterday, The Stock Exchango was hermetically closed throughout the funeral services, and even the frivolous curbstone dealers were awed into silence by the quiet which reigned in Broad street. The remains consigned to the tomb, the Stock Exchange opened at one o'clock in the afternoon, Tak GovERNoR has Gaally decided against commuting the sentence of John Real, who will in all probability be hanged next Friday. Considerable sympathy has been excited by the courageous bearing of Real since his sentence ; but sympathies have little to do with law, and in this case, whatever one may think of Real personally, the course of the law ls as just as ib is storm. King Victor Emanuel. On the part of Napoleon, ‘the eldest son of the Church,” the recall of his troops from Rome signifies the same thing. Nor can the Holy Father justly complain of this proceed- ing after all the remonstrances and warnings given bim, from Paris concerning this dogma of infallibility. But even if the dogma had been rejected by the Council, through the in- structions of the Pope and in deference to the wishes of France, we can hardly suppose it would have made any difference in tho policy of Napoleon at this crisis. He evidently counts upon asevore struggle with Prussia, armed, as she is, for the fight, and strengthened, as she is, by all the German family of States up to the Austrian frontiers. Hence to Napoleon the necessity of a clear understandiag, not only be- tween France and Austria, but between France, Austria and Iialy, on the basis of Italian and Austrian neutrality, if not of active co-opera- tion with France in the war. Austria clearly sympathizes with France, but has her misgiv- ings of the sympathios of Italy. Venice was the gift to Italy from Prussia, and the Italians, while grateful to Bismarck, have become dis- trustful of Napoleon; for they remember, too, the loss of Savoy and the expulsion by Napo- leon’s Ohassepots of Garibaldi from the gates of Rome. Hence Austria consents to the occupation of Rome by Victor Emmanuel, while proclaiming the abrogation of the con- cordant. Hence, in any event, the issues of this war, already clearly foreshadowed, are the abolition of the States of the Church, their annexation to the kingdom of Italy, the temporary retire- ment of the Pope of Rome, and his return simply as the head of the Church, under the protection of the high contracting parties in the treaty of peace. What the compensations to France may be from Italy, and what the equivalents to Austria, are not yet hinted at; but that they will involve some changes in the southern political map of Europe, from the island of Sardinia to the Danube, is almost certain, It will suffice for the present that with France and Austria the dogma of Papal infallibility has virtually settled the transfer of the Papal States to the kingdom of Italy. The Holy Father, in select- ing Malta as his retreat, in view of the necessity of his retirement, doubtless expects an early return to Rome under some new arrangement, or otherwise we should again recommend him the advantages of a permanent removal to the United States, where he would be permanently seoure against all European intrigues, compli- cations, coalitions and chances of war, and where his infallibility as the head of the Church would excite no dangerous jealousies and could do no harm. As it is Papal infallibility, though a great hit as a religious dogma, is manifestly a political mistake, whereby Gari- baldi is waiting for a call to Rome. What Senaton Hartan Says Axovr Geserat Grant.—Senator Harlan, of Iowa, has written a letter to a gentleman in Florida in reply to certain inquiries respecting General Grant and his administration. he Senator says that, although some of the acts of the administration do not meet the cordial approval of a number of republicans—tho recall of Mr. Motley, for instance—yet, as a whole, it meets the support of the party. The Senator might have spared himself the trouble of gratifying the curiosity of his Florida correspondent; for no doubt the dreams of General Grant at his cool retreat on Long Branch will not be disturbed at the present time about whatever politicians may write or think about himself or his adminis- tration. A Morperr wy A Ficut ror Breap is a new phase taken by the murder mania in at least one instance in the city. A party of roughs demanded bread of a baker on E.st Fourteenth street, but refused to pay for it, whena fight ensued and the baker fatally stabbed one of the party, named Fingleton, with a bayonet. The party were not starving or unable to buy bread, but they had been drinking and were bent ona fight. Rum usually has something todo with cases of this kind, and bread very seldom. Let THE Daap Rest.—Quite a controversy has sprung up between A. H. Stephens and E. Barksdale, of the Jackson (Mississippi) Cla- rion, in regard to whether, as alleged by Mr. Stephens, Jefferson Davis prevented the advance of the Confederate army on Washing- ton immediately after the first battle of Manas- gas. Those controversies only lead to heart- L buratogs and recriminations among those who engaged and suffered in the “Lost Oause,” and they had better be abandoned first as last; the sooner the better. Let the dead reat. The Freuch Cordem of Powor Around the World, Most people, even the well-informed, when casually speaking of ‘‘France” or the ‘French Empire,” forget the ‘full significance of that expreasion, Glancing at a map of tho globe, we discover in France proper a territory so small, in comparison with our own vast con- tinental domain, that we are forcibly remiaded of Mr. Marcy’s famous phrase, when he spok of Austria as ‘a more patch on tho carth’s surface.” Her European limits are hardly equal to the combined superficies of two or three of our larger States at the North, while, at the South, Texas alone exceods them by about sixty-nine thousand square miles, Yet, within those boundaries France bas a popula- tion of thirty-eight million souls. But if we set forth upon a geographical tour of her out- side posts and military and naval possessions we are soon struck by, not merely their number and extent, but by the strategic con- tinuity that can bo distinctly traced in their arrangement and their relations to each other. It was the boast of British orators and statesmen not long since, when extolling the power of thelr own country, that “‘its morning drum beat is heard around the world,” the allusion referring to her chain of colonies in every zone and in every quarter of the earth. In truth, her nominal possessions in America, Asia and Africa, including the Canadas, Australia, India and the Cape of Good Hope, are immense. But it must be re- membered that thse regions hang so loosely to the mother'country as to be almost inde- pendent, and their actual severance from the central control is but the question of another generation. The home power is of too limited proportions, too closely hedged in by rival and menacing States, and ‘too greatly exhausted of physical resources, in comparison with the rapidly growing strength of its colonies, to hold its direct sway over them much longer, In view of this fact the idea was broached, a few years since, of making India the cehtre of control, and thereby acquiring a conti- nental status in the East. But the cli- mate and soil of India are the very reverse of those of England, and the sugges- tion has been little heard of in later years. With France the case is totally different. While itis tru that she has lost the magni- ficent domain which was once co-extensive with the present United States and the Canadas taken together, when her flag was carried by water, not only to all the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but into the very heart of the wilderness on land, a shrewd and far-seeing policy has dotted the surface of the globe with outposts that have become, and of choice remain, intensely French. Let us see! Setting out eastward, wo find her firmly established in Algeria, the finest part of the north of Africa, and with the Suez Canal under her influence, lying directly athwart the great highway of Oriental traffic. Holding Nice as her own, and garrisoning Rome and Civita Vecchia, as an indispensable occupant, she clasps the Mediterranean Sea in her em- brace, while from Suez she looks out upon the Red Sea, and from the Red Sea hitherward upon Egypt, and thitherward upon Syria and Arabia, Thus, upon the north of the African continent she is encamped with 38,000,000 of population, Following her down the western coast and thence around the capes, we find her with 1,000,000 in Senegambia, a province of untold fature wealth and importance; oa the Céte d’Or (also called Porto-Noyo); at Ga- boon with 200,000; at Ile de la Reunion with 225,000; at the Tes Mayotte and Nossi-Bé with #1,000, and at Ile Ste. Marie with 10,000 sub- jects. Mauritius, the [le de France and her alliances in Madagascar, make her strong in the Mozambique Channel, as she is strong in the Mediterranean and the Red seas. In Asia she protects in the usual way the brilliant little kingdom of Cambodia, and holds six provinces of Cochin China, and the fins old settlement of Pondicherry and its dependencies. In Oceania she has New Caledonia and the Loyalty and Marquesas islands, with nearly 2,000,000 in- habitants, and protects the Tahiti group and the Gambier islands as well as tho Touamatoa and Toubouai isles. ‘These proteclorates give her 1,000,000 of people. In America she has French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martiaique, St, Pierre and Miquelon, with 2,800,000 inhabit- ants. Then she has fishing richts and settle- ments of some importance at Capa Breton and many minor points dotted over the Western hemisphere. In fino, it will be safe io com- pute that, scattered about thus, she has de- votedly attached to her fully 12,000,000 of people, partly natives of the respective coun- tries and partly of French origin. Then she has her “factories” ia China and Japan, and, quite oddly to relate, a sympathetic population in Eastern Russia, the descendants of French- men who found their way by fortune of war to Siberia. It will be seon, by comparing the survey wo have taken with the map, that France thus literally encompasses the globe with a series of strong positions so skilfully pitched near continents, straits, narrow sess and the mouths of great rivers, that, in case of any disabling misfortune occurring to her great English rival, sho would but have to tighten her reins, so to speak, in order to crush almost any other antagonist. The United States would soon have felt this boa constrictor clasp had French domination realized its recent droams in Mexico and on the Isthmus of uantepec. As it is, with Cuba in Spanish hands to-day, in French hands, possibly, ere long, there re- mains a mighty fulcrum close to our own doors for a lever, one end of which might be grasped avd pressed in Paris and the other be prying away the foundations of independent strongth in either North or South America. It is well that France is, indeed, our firm and fast friend, and that the coup d'éiat a Vextérieur or outside State-stroke which was, to follow the one achieved on the 94 of December, 1851, has never been directed against us, elso might we, too, have had sore reason to feel the strangling pressure of tho great cordon which cumulative genius has drawn, for the iutended France of the future, completely around the planet. As it is, we may escape the lasso for all time if we have statesmen who “know a hawk from @ hernshaw when tha wind’s southerly.” —~ Seventesn Millions More Reduction of che Debt. Mr, Boutwell’s debt statement for the last month makes out a reduction of something over seventeen millions in the national debt for that period. Tho Sveretary ia golng on better and ‘otter all the time, Eight or nino millions surplus @ month te bo applied to the liquidation of the debt was a considerable sum; ten millions wae better still; but seventeen millions, which is at the rate of a hundred and efghty millions year, is glorious, and shows that the debt is a bagatelle to this rioh and prasperous coun- try. The reduction in Juno was over twenty millions, which makes within he last two months over thirty-five millions, «Of course, we cannot expect the debt to be liqul- dated so rapidly hereafter when the laws of Congreas reducing taxation come inte ppera- tion; but we have no doubt there will bo still a large surplus to be applied to the payment of the debt. The United States can pay the whole offin fifteen years. Never before im thie history of nations did any country show suck resources and wealth, There ought to be ne difficulty in funding the debt at a lower rate of interest, and there is no reason why the credit of the republic should not stand higbestin the’ markets of the world. Tampering with the Switch. On Saturday night a freigut train, om the Susquehanna division of the Erie Railroad, going west, was thrown off the track, The forward cars were smashed to pleces and 9 number of horses in the ears were more or leas injured, while two men were instantly killed, The conductor and engineer declared that the accident was caused by some person having “tampered with the switeh.” Doubtless many railway accidests have been caused by persons “tampering with the switch;” but if publig opinion were as keenly alive as it ought to be to the vital importance of detecting and severely punishing these diabolical ‘‘‘amperera with the switch” their occupation would soon be gone, Moreover, tho guilt to be justly laid to their charge is but a molehill to the moun- tain of responsibility that weighs upon railway corporations themselves for the vast majority of accidents directly or indirectly occasioned by their culpable Indifference to buman life. A full and accurate statistical record of such accidents during the last ten years would reveal an aggregate of horrible results too dreadful to contemplate. The statement which the late Mr. Nathan made to an Amori- can railway king, that atthe Mount Sinai Hos- pital alone, “in the course of two years, nearly forty persons, more or less seriously injured along the line of his railroad in the city, had been brought in and treated, without the expense of a cent either to the railroad or to the injured parties,” gives but a faint idea of the accidents which occur along the thou- sands of miles of railway in the United States, The usual verdict in each of these cases is, “Nobody to blame.” But the timo will surely come when no such verdict can be accepted, and when tampering with human life on the part of railway corporations shall excite os deep indignation and bo-as summarily puu- ished as any aileged “tamperiog with the switch” by individuals. Lirg iN THE Lanp of Sreavy Hasirs.—~ They have a very ‘‘promiscuous” way of doing vgly things in Connecticut. For instance, a dead body is picked up on a beach, and, although the case is evidently one of human slaughter, the Coroner's invesiigation ceases with the retention of a pair of old shoes be longing to the victim. On another occasion a colored barber becomes enamored of a sere vant girl, and because she does not recipro~ cate his ardor he biazes away with a revolver at an unoffending hackman, who has « couple of slugs lodged in his brain by the infuriated tonsorialist, and who, of course, escapes, Bet- ter revive the Blue laws than havesuch crimes, go unpunished. BROOKLYN CITY News. ‘There were 84,000 visitors a% Prospect Park lass’ week. There are 747 remaining inmates tn the Kings County Almshouse, Tne colored folks assembled yesterday at Naufve Myrile Avenue Park, and in a Jestive manner cele brated the anniversary of the emancipation of negrves in thy Weat Indies, Acase of small pox was reported to the Health Oficer yesterday. Tho patient, a boy of fourteen yeurs, resides in Bergen street, near Rochester uve nue, He was removed to the hospital at Flatbush. Judge Pratt, of the Supreme Court, yesterday. issued @ mandamus directing the Common Council to pass a resolution instructing the Corporation, Counsel to apply ior the appointment of couse siouers for the opening of Pratt street, R. D. Patrick Higgins and Joun Chail entered Wink gizer’s saloon, No. 243 Atlantio street, and after artaking of lager, which they refused to Pamed ane: Willer with & caulkiog chieel ona the lefteye. They were arrested and lock up Lu tie Firat precinct station house. Bridget Farrell was beaten severely avout the head with a heavy caue by her “botter half, ‘Thomas Farrell, on Sunday night, at cheir plage of abode, No. 64 Balite street. The unhappy rectptens of the “striking proofs” of ‘Thomas’ auectlon was conveyed to tue hospital for surgical care, Ti brutal feliow was locked up to await the result Ler iajuries, The Brooklyn Rink 1s still well patronized,; and the well known manager, Mr. Chichoster, H ig exerting himself to keep up ery rg and la coastantly in atiendance. One of the numerous at fractions 18 the singing of Mile. Fredricka Raxant, who is always welt éncored. Next week, it 13 61 Miss Saivador will make her dsout, eveut was the tifty-ihira concert, alld the attendance wi an excelent proof of the appreciation of the pas trons. Michael Armstrong was stabbed tp the right breast and cut about the head with @ knife in the hands of Jobn O’Hern, residing in Tenth avenue, near Six en) t, Gowanus, on Sunday night. O’Ho! ber prion mm the 1anocent Occupation of wi beating when Armsiroug iuterfered in her defence, and was thus sanguinariy disposed of Sergeant , Maher, of toe Bighih precinst. arrested the O'ierm to await the result of the myjuries tofloved by him, which are of @ serious characier, JOURNALISTIC NOTES. ‘The Aberdeen (Miss.) Examtner alates that the’ Meridian Chronicle has died of the Governor's veto of the District Printing bill. Its publisher held half of the State, county, city and national offices in tae locality. The verdict in the case of that publishor should be—Died of too much ofice.” Some of the North Carolina papers are printe¢ m bine ink, Things general!y inthe old North Stato seem to have taken that hue lately. The Greensburg Tribune 1s tho name of » new county paper in Pennsylvania, It has a high opiue jon of Senator Cameron. A Georgia paper thinks that ranning a nowspay fo the suinmer time ts very much like @ tw f: and fifty pound female gomg through * a M Musery,” in the Mammoth Cave. They goi i) 4 but can’t tell how. e 1 a bi | a ‘